Backend widget vs Meridian Time Zones
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Backend widget
Display crucial data and information directly on your home screen using customizable widgets. Track SaaS revenue, sports scores, deliveries, or build your own micro-apps by connecting to various API data sources.
- Custom HTTPs API requests (GET/POST)
- JSON parsing
- Multiple widget layouts
- Widget customization
- Dark theme support
- No account required
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Observe important data and information right from your home screen: track you SAAS revenue, follow sport team score, trace you delivery package, build your own micro-applications with your own backend * This app helps you organise important information from API data source and provide you a simple way for fast analytics. Backend Widget can display any value from API on the phone home screen with widgets. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Just download Backend Widget and start creating you widgets. FEATURES: - Custom HTTPs API requests with GET/POST support - Parse JSON by providing parsing path - 2 widget layouts - Widget customisation - Dark theme support MADE IN UKRAINE * You need to use your own API or any available API provider to get actual data and render it inside widgets.
Meridian Time Zones
Easily monitor global time differences with a clean, fast world clock. See current time, date, and GMT offsets for multiple cities simultaneously. Plan ahead with an interactive day/night timeline and explore future times by dragging a marker.
- Track multiple time zones
- Interactive day/night timeline
- Explore future times
- Customizable zone labels
- No account required
- Data stays on device
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Meridian is a clean, fast world clock that helps you keep track of time across the globe. Add cities from a curated list of 60+ locations, search by name or alias, and see all your time zones side by side. Each zone shows the current time, date, GMT offset, and whether it's ahead or behind your reference zone — color-coded for quick scanning. A unique day/night bar gives you an at-a-glance view of each location's 24-hour cycle. Drag the marker to explore future times across all zones — perfect for planning meetings and calls. Features: - Track multiple time zones simultaneously - Interactive day/night timeline for each zone - Set any zone as your reference to compare time differences - Drag to explore different times of day - Jump to a specific date to plan ahead - Rename zones with custom labels - Reorder with drag and drop - No account required, no data collected — everything stays on your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Meridian Time Zones at Free against Backend widget's $0.99. Meridian Time Zones also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Backend widget's advantage is rating (4.1 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Meridian Time Zones is free to download; Backend widget costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backend widget holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backend widget has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Backend widget ships an update every 6 months, Meridian Time Zones every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Backend widget | Meridian Time Zones |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleksii Oliinyk | ImprovMX Incorporated |
In-app purchases
Backend widget
No in-app purchases
Meridian Time Zones
No in-app purchases
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