Comparison

Horzono World Clock & Daylight vs Clockwise

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

Head to head
About

Horzono World Clock & Daylight

This app provides local times for over 25,000 cities globally, functioning even without an internet connection. Its intuitive slider simplifies planning across different time zones, offering a privacy-focused, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Global time without internet
  • Time offset slider for planning
  • Reference city selection
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • Ad-free and privacy-focused
Features
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Know when to call anyone, anywhere — without doing time-zone math. Add the people you work with and the people you love. Horzono shows the time where each of them is, and whether it's day or night there, so you can see at a glance who's starting their morning, who's wrapping up work and who's asleep. Planning a call? Drag the time slider and every clock moves together. Find the hour that works for the whole team before you send the invite. Your calendar sits right beside them, with a Join button for your next call. Type a city, not a time zone. Horzono knows more than 25,000 cities, works completely offline, and runs on iPhone, iPad, iPhone Duo, the Mac menu bar and Apple Vision Pro — with widgets on each. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. FEATURES • Day or night at a glance — for every person you track • Time slider — scrub up to 24 hours forward or back across everyone at once • Type a city, get its time — no country or time zone to know • Widgets — on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Mac desktop • Your calendar beside your people, with a busy-day heat map and one-tap Join • Group by time zone — everyone in the same zone in one row, labeled CET, EST and so on • Reference point — compare everyone against one person you choose, or UTC • Make it personal — a name, an emoji, a photo or a contact for each person, and several people on one city • 12- or 24-hour clock, or follow the system • Made for iPad and iPhone Duo — your calendar on one side, your people on the other • Mac menu bar app with a global hotkey and a join-call shortcut • MCP server on Mac — let AI assistants read your people's local time and plan a meeting across them • iCloud sync — your people and settings on all your devices HORZONO PLUS One in-app purchase — no subscription, ever. Plus unlocks iCloud sync, the reference point and UTC, the time slider, calendar events and the busy-day heat map, time-zone grouping, attached people, customization, and — on Mac — the global hotkey, join-call and the MCP server. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Horzono has no ads, never tracks you, and keeps your data on your devices. Questions or ideas? We'd love to hear from you at micropixels.software/horzono.

About

Clockwise

Easily track time zones for friends, family, and colleagues worldwide. Features dynamic backgrounds, personalized photos, and home-screen widgets for at-a-glance updates. Supports over 200k locations, even offline, and syncs across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Automatic time zone detection
  • Time scrubbing for planning
  • Dynamic sky backgrounds
  • Personalized contact photos
  • Home-screen widgets
  • Daylight Saving Time alerts
  • Offline location database
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Tired of calculating time zone differences? Meet Clockwise, the ultimate app for tracking the time of friends, family, and colleagues around the world! • Simple Setup Just enter someone’s name (or select from your contacts), choose their location, and we’ll automatically detect their time zone! • Time Scrubbing Easily shift the time forwards or backwards to plan and coordinate across time zones. • Dynamic Sky Backgrounds Watch the sky come to life with beautiful colors that change in real-time, reflecting the actual sunrise and sunset of each person’s location. • Personalized Photos Add a personal touch by uploading photos of your loved ones. You can scale and crop images to get the perfect fit! • Widgets Stay connected at a glance with home-screen widgets that display the local time of your friends and family without even opening the app! • Daylight Saving Time Never miss a time change again! Stay informed of upcoming daylight saving time changes around the world. • Contact Linking Import your contacts and call or text them directly from the app. Getting in touch with your friends and family abroad has never been easier! • Clock Customization Select from a variety of clock display options, including both analog and 24-hour formats. • Extensive Location Database Choose from over 200k locations worldwide, even offline. Whether it’s a big city or a small town, we’ve got you covered. • iCloud Sync Sync your contacts and their time zones across all your devices via iCloud. Clockwise is available on both iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Horzono World Clock & Daylight4 screens
Clockwise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Clockwise at 4.8 against Horzono World Clock & Daylight's 4.2. Clockwise also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (18 vs 6). Horzono World Clock & Daylight's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Horzono World Clock & Daylight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clockwise asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clockwise holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Horzono World Clock & Daylight's written reviews are positive against 93% of Clockwise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Horzono World Clock & Daylight versus Clockwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHorzono World Clock & DaylightClockwise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (6 ratings)4.8 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews92.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings618 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdam RozynskiBrittany Petrova

Customer experience

Horzono World Clock & Daylight

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.6%

Clockwise

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Horzono World Clock & Daylight

One-time1
  • Horzono Plus$8.99
None

Clockwise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Horzono World Clock & Daylight free?
Horzono World Clock & Daylight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clockwise free?
Clockwise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Horzono World Clock & Daylight or Clockwise?
Clockwise is rated higher. Horzono World Clock & Daylight averages 4.2 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Clockwise averages 4.8 from 18 ratings.
Do Horzono World Clock & Daylight or Clockwise have ads?
Neither Horzono World Clock & Daylight nor Clockwise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Horzono World Clock & Daylight or Clockwise?
Horzono World Clock & Daylight ships an update every 6 weeks, and Clockwise every 6 weeks. Most recently, Horzono World Clock & Daylight was updated on November 3, 2026 and Clockwise on November 3, 2026.

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