Daylight BASIC vs Daylight Saving Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daylight BASIC
This app displays daily and future sunshine hours, along with sunrise and sunset times for your current location. It also tracks changes in sunshine duration over various periods, including comparisons to solstices.
- Sunshine hours display
- Sunrise and sunset times
- Future time projections
- Sunshine hour difference tracking
- Location-based data
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Shows you the sunshine hours as well as the sunrise and sunset times of your current location. Wherever you are. ・sunshine hours for today, tomorrow, in a week and in a month ・sunrise and sunset times for today, tomorrow, in a week and in a month ・difference of sunshine hours for yesterday, today, tomorrow, in a week, in a month and in relation to solstices
Daylight Saving Time
Easily track daylight saving time changes worldwide. This app provides accurate switching dates for DST and standard time across various time zones.
- Check DST switching dates
- View standard time dates
- Supports global time zones
- Simple and intuitive interface
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You can check the switching date of daylight saving time and standard time. Support for time zone of the world.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Daylight Saving Time at 5.0 against Daylight BASIC's 2.0. Daylight Saving Time also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Daylight BASIC's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and review sentiment (80% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daylight Saving Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Daylight BASIC's written reviews are positive against 67% of Daylight Saving Time's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Daylight BASIC ships an update every 2 months, Daylight Saving Time every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylight BASIC | Daylight Saving Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | factsoft ag | hideko ogawa |
Customer experience
Daylight BASIC
Daylight Saving Time
In-app purchases
Daylight BASIC
No in-app purchases
Daylight Saving Time
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Daylight BASIC free?
Is Daylight Saving Time free?
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Do Daylight BASIC or Daylight Saving Time have ads?
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