Comparison

Bedside Alarm Clock vs Clock Simplicity

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

Head to head
About

Bedside Alarm Clock

Design your ideal clock with AI-generated faces and backgrounds. Enjoy a dimmable bedside mode, reliable alarms with voice control, and glanceable weather. Customize your experience with various styles and save your favorites.

Highlights
  • AI-generated clock face design
  • Dimmable bedside mode
  • Customizable alarms with voice control
  • Glanceable weather and next alarm
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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Describe the clock you want. Nightside designs it. Type a sentence — "Japanese neon numbers", "a vintage brass dial with Roman numerals", or just "I'm a peaceful person who loves the sea" — and Nightside designs a complete clock for it: the dial, hands, numerals and colours, with a background picture painted to match. Preview it on your real Home screen, change it in words ("remove the second hand", "make it warmer"), and keep the ones you love. No other clock app on the App Store does this. A CLOCK YOU CAN READ FROM BED • Large time, adjustable to the size you want, in 12- or 24-hour format, with optional seconds • Bedside mode: a quiet, dimmable clock with a brightness dial, black or warm red low-light colours, and controls that fade until you tap • Keep the screen on while it stands on your nightstand or dock, with the next alarm and today's weather at a glance • Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad, and layouts for foldable iPhone ALARMS YOU CAN TRUST • Repeat on any days, pick a tone, choose snooze of 5, 10 or 15 minutes, and see exactly when the next alarm rings before you save • Skip just the next occurrence of a repeating alarm without turning it off • On iOS 26 and later, alarms are system alarms that can ring through Silent mode and Focus once you allow them • Say "Stop" or "Snooze" to the ringing clock, hands-free (English) • Clear status on every alarm: active, snoozing, skipped, or needs permission — never a switch that looks on while nothing is scheduled MAKE IT YOURS • 33 clock faces: 13 digital (flip, segment, LED-style, mono, stacked and more) and 20 analog dials • 14 curated looks such as Moderno, Station, Night Garden, Starlight and Sun Path • Use your own photo as the background, or let Nightside paint one from your description • Save as many styles as you like and switch in a tap WEATHER, WITHOUT THE FUSS • Current temperature and conditions for your location or a city you choose, in °C or °F • Works without location permission when you pick a city • Honest freshness: you always see when the weather was last updated ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND WRIST • Clock widget with the time, next alarm and weather, plus a one-tap Bedside launcher • Apple Watch: see the next alarm, switch alarms on and off, and stop or snooze from your wrist FREE AND PREMIUM Nightside is free to download with one alarm, Bedside mode, voice Stop and Snooze, the Moderno look and a small ad banner that never appears on the clock, in Bedside mode or while an alarm rings. Nightside Premium removes ads and unlocks described (AI) styles, every face and look, photo backgrounds, weather and additional alarms. Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription that renews until cancelled; the price is shown in the app before you subscribe. If you bought ClockIT when it was a paid app, Premium is included for life — just open the app on the same Apple ID. Alarms need notification or alarm permission and depend on your device's sound settings. Weather data by Apple Weather. Described styles send only your description to Nightside's server to design the clock; nothing else leaves your device. Questions or ideas? Reach us at info@creoit.com — we read everything. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Clock Simplicity

A clean and straightforward weather clock app that displays the time and current weather conditions. It offers simple controls for changing color schemes and screen brightness, and prevents your screen from locking while in use.

Highlights
  • Displays time and current weather
  • Adjustable color schemes (dark/light)
  • Screen brightness control
  • Prevents screen lock
  • Clean and straightforward interface
Features
Currently charting
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Finally, a simple weather clock that is clean and straightforward. No ads, no accounts, no setup. Same promise kept since 2018. Launch it and you have the time, the date, and what the weather is doing right now. Set the device down on a nightstand, a desk or a kitchen counter and leave it there — the screen won't lock while the app is open. THE TIME, AS BIG AS YOU WANT IT Pinch out and the time fills the entire screen, edge to edge, so you can read it from across the room or from the doorway. Pinch in to bring it back to its usual size. In landscape the digits run on a single line; in portrait the hours stack over the minutes. SIX COLOR THEMES Black & White, Ocean, Cyan, Lime, Coral and Fuchsia — each with a light side and a dark side. Swipe two fingers left or right to move through them, or pick one in Settings. Double-tap anywhere to flip between light and dark. Every pairing is chosen to stay legible in a dark room, and the light themes lift as you dim the screen so they hold up at night. WEATHER FROM APPLE WEATHER The current temperature on an arc gauge that shows the day's full range at a glance, with a marker pointing the way the temperature is heading. Conditions, humidity, and severe weather alerts when there are any. Double-tap the temperature to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Lose signal and your last reading stays right where it was. GESTURES THAT STAY OUT OF THE WAY Swipe two fingers up or down to set the screen brightness — two fingers rather than one, so picking the phone up or putting it down doesn't dim it by accident. A "?" in the corner opens a page that explains every gesture, and nothing here is gesture-only: everything can be done from Settings too. Works on iPhone and iPad. Available in English and Hebrew.

Screenshots

Bedside Alarm Clock4 screens
Clock Simplicity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clock Simplicity at 100% against Bedside Alarm Clock's 53%. Clock Simplicity also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Bedside Alarm Clock's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months). On 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

Bedside Alarm Clock is free to download; Clock Simplicity costs $0.99 up front. Bedside Alarm Clock sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Clock Simplicity asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clock Simplicity holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bedside Alarm Clock has 120 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Bedside Alarm Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of Clock Simplicity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bedside Alarm Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, Clock Simplicity every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Bedside Alarm Clock versus Clock Simplicity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBedside Alarm ClockClock Simplicity
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.0 (120 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#139 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCreoRaz Yalov

Customer experience

Bedside Alarm Clock

All ratings118 ratings
Positive72.9%
Neutral3.4%
Negative23.7%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive52.7%
Neutral13.0%
Negative34.4%

Clock Simplicity

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Bedside Alarm Clock

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • Weather data fails to load or displays 'null'
  • Alarm doesn't sound when phone is muted
  • App crashes when weather updates
  • Brightness setting doesn't uniformly dim display
  • Deleted alarms continue to trigger
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  • Music alarm feature doesn't work - plays default sound instead
  • App won't stay in foreground or closes during night
  • Snooze button doesn't function properly
  • Alarm goes off at wrong time
  • App brightness setting changes device brightness
  • Weather icons don't display
  • Music library files won't select as alarm sounds
  • 24-hour mode doesn't apply to alarm settings
  • App incompatible with iOS 9+ and newer devices
  • Support page returns error or is unavailable

Requested features

16 requests
  • Variable clock size adjustment
  • Brightness adjustment for white bottom line/bezel
  • Multiple font choices
  • Display next alarm time on screen
  • Show alarm on/off status on display
Show 11 more
  • Seconds display in addition to hours/minutes
  • Battery level indicator
  • More alarm sound options
  • Ability to upload custom music
  • Override mute button for alarms
  • Home time display while traveling
  • Calendar integration
  • Screen burn-in prevention with number movement
  • Persistent brightness setting between sessions
  • 24-hour format for alarm settings
  • Fade-out effect for swipe-up bar

Clock Simplicity

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bedside Alarm Clock

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly3 Days trial$0.491 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$3.991 Year
None

Clock Simplicity

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bedside Alarm Clock free?
Bedside Alarm Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clock Simplicity free?
Clock Simplicity costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bedside Alarm Clock or Clock Simplicity?
Clock Simplicity is rated higher. Bedside Alarm Clock averages 4.0 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while Clock Simplicity averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Bedside Alarm Clock or Clock Simplicity have ads?
Bedside Alarm Clock shows ads; Clock Simplicity does not.
Which is updated more often, Bedside Alarm Clock or Clock Simplicity?
Bedside Alarm Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, and Clock Simplicity every 9 months. Most recently, Bedside Alarm Clock was updated on November 10, 2026 and Clock Simplicity on November 6, 2026.

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