Daylight BASIC vs sanetime
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
sanetime
This app offers an intuitive way to visualize and manage time zones with a unique rotating clock interface. It simplifies understanding global time differences, helping users avoid scheduling confusion and plan international meetings effortlessly.
- Interactive multi-wheel time zone visualization
- Smart 'tomorrow' and 'yesterday' indicators
- Haptic feedback for precise time selection
- Automatic local time and preference saving
- Global city search for any time zone
- Light and dark modes
- Visual time planning for meetings
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Sanetime reimagines how we view and visualise time across different zones. With its innovative rotating clock interface, understanding and relating to global time zones becomes intuitive and effortless. For all those times you find yourself asking: "What time is it over there tomorrow morning my time?" "Is that today or yesterday your time?" "I will be half an hour late to a Zoom with someone in Ulaanbaatar, will asking them to start later push them outside of their office hours? Sanetime makes global time management simple, beautiful, and dare we say... sane. No more mental math or confusion about "what time is it there?" – just rotate, visualise, and know instantly. Forget complicated time zone schedulers with boring tables and unintuitive charts. Feel the time zones with interactive visuals and the comfort of a familiar clock face design, making it easy to grasp time differences at a glance. Key features: • Interactive multi-wheel design - Rotate concentric wheels to visualise time relationships across up to three different time zones simultaneously • Smart time indicators - Clear "tomorrow" and "yesterday" markers help prevent scheduling confusion across date lines • Haptic feedback - Subtle vibrations as you rotate through hours help you find precise times • Automatic local time - Starts with your current time zone and remembers your preferences • Global city search - Quickly find any major city or time zone with smart search • Light/dark modes - Comfortable viewing any time of day • Visual time planning - Perfect for scheduling international meetings or keeping track of family and friends worldwide Perfect for: • Remote workers coordinating with global team members • Families staying connected across continents • Business professionals managing international clients • Travellers planning calls back home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: sanetime at 5.0 against Daylight BASIC's 2.0. sanetime also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Daylight BASIC's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
sanetime holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daylight BASIC has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Daylight BASIC's written reviews are positive against 100% of sanetime's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daylight BASIC | sanetime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | factsoft ag | Taogi Limited |
Customer experience
Daylight BASIC
sanetime
In-app purchases
Daylight BASIC
No in-app purchases
sanetime
No in-app purchases
Questions
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