Comparison

FFXI PDA XA vs PianetaClock

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

FFXI PDA XA

This app helps Final Fantasy XI players by providing customizable timers for job abilities, recast times, and in-game events. It also includes a Vana'diel clock and timetables for crafting and transportation.

Highlights
  • Customizable job ability timers
  • Recast and duration tracking
  • Vana'diel clock with moon phases
  • Crafting and transportation timetables
  • Optional alert sounds
  • Japan time timetable
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Create groups of customized job ability timers to aid gameplay in Final Fantasy XI Online. A Vana'diel clock and common timetables for transportation and crafting are also included. How FFXI PDA works: Tap a timer after using an ability in-game and FFXI PDA will provide you at-a-glance status to aid you in battle. FFXI PDA tracks and displays readiness, duration and recharge times for any combination of main and subjob abilities. Features: - Beautiful analogue clock shows current Vana'diel time, day and moon phase. - Recast timers provide an at-a-glance status check of your most important job abilities. - Dancer "Steps" timer, tracks daze level and remaining duration. - You can modify existing timers or create your own. - Optional alert sounds and message when a timer recharges. - Timetables for airships, ferries and crafting guild shops. - Times for upcoming full, new, and waxing crescent moon phases. - Timetables for days of Vana'diel week, RSE quest. - City information for the lost chocobo delivery quest. - Crafting Helper with crystal, day and moon information. - New! Japan time timetable to track quests which reset at midnight in Japan - New! Added job timers through level 99 & May 2012 update. - Option to disable device dimming while in dock. --- Not affiliated with Square Enix or the Final Fantasy XI MMO. Final Fantasy is a trademark of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.

About

PianetaClock

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Pianeta Clock tells you what time it is on the other seven planets, worked out the way a mission does it. Not an offset from a clock on Earth. Every reading comes from the same published constants a spacecraft navigator uses: the IAU Working Group's rotation elements for how each world turns, and JPL's orbital elements for where it is. The Mars readings are checked against NASA GISS's Mars24, the reference implementation of Mars solar time. WHAT IT SHOWS • Local mean solar time, the uniform clock that never stalls or runs backwards • True solar time, where noon is the moment the Sun actually crosses the meridian, and the equation of time between the two • The day count each world's own convention uses: Mars Sol Date, Modified Julian Day, and mission sols counted from a lander's own clock epoch, so the number matches the one NASA publishes • Solar longitude and the season it marks • How far the planet is right now, how long a radio signal takes to cross that, and when it next lines up with Earth and the Sun THE ORBIT A top-down drawing of both orbits with the angle between Earth and the planet as it stands. Eccentricity is drawn as it really is, so Mercury's orbit sits visibly off-centre from the Sun, which is the same 0.206 that makes its Sun reverse direction near perihelion. Drag along the row of planets and the diagram follows your finger, world by world. TWO KINDS OF HOUR Every mission divides its day into 24 hours however long that day lasts, which makes a Martian second 1.0275 of ours and a Jovian second 0.414. You can have that, or you can keep the second and let the day run to however many hours it actually takes. Mars ends at 24:39. Mercury ends at 4222:28. PIANETA TIMER A focus session counted in another world's minutes. Twenty-five of them is ten Earth minutes on Jupiter, twenty-six on Mars, and three Earth days on Mercury, and every figure is shown with its Earth equivalent beside it so nothing surprises you. It runs on the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island, and when it ends it says which world it was counting. While it runs, a pulse shows how far light launched at the start has travelled toward the planet, and bounces when the session outlasts the crossing. WIDGETS A dial or an orbit on the Home Screen, in whatever configuration you choose, and timers with a start button you can press without opening anything. DRAWN, NOT PHOTOGRAPHED Every world is drawn from shapes rather than an image, so it stays sharp at any size, and it is drawn from what is actually there. Jupiter's belts at their own widths, with the Great Red Spot on the one it has sat on for as long as anyone has looked. Mars's dark swath and cratered highlands. Saturn's rings with the Cassini Division left as the gap it is. Where there is more than one honest answer you choose. Venus has no visible surface at all, so you pick between the cloud deck an eye sees and the radar map Magellan made through it. Earth has three faces, and whose coastline shows is yours to decide. Saturn's globe can match the other planets or its rings can. PRIVACY It collects nothing, sends nothing, and never reaches the network. Your settings live in the app's own storage on your device.

Screenshots

FFXI PDA XA4 screens
PianetaClock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: FFXI PDA XA at 8.0 against PianetaClock's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FFXI PDA XA versus PianetaClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFFXI PDA XAPianetaClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 70 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDuodyne Studios, LLCRUOMENG XU

In-app purchases

None

FFXI PDA XA

No in-app purchases

None

PianetaClock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FFXI PDA XA free?
FFXI PDA XA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PianetaClock free?
PianetaClock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FFXI PDA XA or PianetaClock have ads?
Neither FFXI PDA XA nor PianetaClock shows ads.

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