StandBy Clock vs Light Clipboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StandBy Clock
Transform your iPhone into a personalized bedside display with over 100 customizable widgets. Show time, calendar, battery, photos, and more. Simple to use, just choose, customize, and add to your StandBy screen.
- 100+ customizable widgets
- Analog and digital clock options
- Calendar and dual time zone display
- Countdown timers for events
- Photo and GIF widgets
- Customizable theme colors and styles
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StandBy Clock — Make Your iPhone StandBy Screen Your Own Turn your charging iPhone into a bedside display that feels personal. Explore 240+ widget styles, including 125+ Premium designs, with flip clocks, GIF animations, photos, countdowns, calendars, battery displays and multi-time-zone layouts. Start with free designs, then unlock everything with weekly, annual or lifetime options. CLOCK WIDGETS • Analog Clock — Classic and modern faces with distinctive hands, markers and layouts. • Digital Clock — Bold, easy-to-read time displays made for desks and nightstands. • Calendar — See the date and day at a glance in a range of visual styles. • Single Time Zone — Focus on one city with rich, expressive layouts. • Dual Time Zone — Keep two cities visible for travel, remote work or someone far away. • Triple Time Zone — Follow three cities at once with flip boards, dashboards, neon styles and more. MORE THAN A CLOCK • Countdown — Count down to birthdays, anniversaries, trips and important moments. • Info Card — Put your own message or useful information on the StandBy screen. • Battery — Check the current charge level at a glance. • Photo Widget — Turn a favorite image into part of your bedside display. • GIF Widget — Add motion and personality with animated GIF designs. MAKE IT YOURS Customize colors, fonts, time formats, cities, labels, messages and photos. Save multiple named widgets for different moods and situations, then choose the design you want from the iOS widget picker. BUILT FOR iOS STANDBY StandBy Clock is designed for the landscape charging experience introduced in iOS 17. Place your iPhone on its side while charging to enter StandBy. Always-On Display is supported on compatible Pro iPhone models. HOW TO GET STARTED 1. Choose a free or Premium design. 2. Customize it and save it with a name. 3. Add StandBy Clock from the widget picker. 4. Select your saved design and enjoy your new StandBy screen. FREE AND PREMIUM A selection of designs is free to use. Premium unlocks 125+ additional designs and the complete customization library. Choose the option that suits you: weekly, annual or lifetime access. Available products and local prices are shown in the app before purchase. Download StandBy Clock and make every charging moment look like yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Light Clipboard
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Light Clipboard holds the text you retype all the time and gives you a keyboard that types it anywhere. Your email address. A phone number. The reply you send twenty times a week. An address, an account number, a block of hashtags. Save it once, then tap it into any app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Save a snippet in the app. 2. Add the Light Clipboard keyboard in Settings and switch to it with the globe key. 3. Tap a snippet. It is typed straight into whatever you are writing. No copying. No switching to another app and back. Whatever is already on your clipboard stays there. BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY The keyboard shows your snippets as tiles, two to a row, with backspace and return where you expect them. Tap a tile and the text appears. That is the whole interaction. In the app, snippets sit in a grid you can reorder by dragging. Tap one to edit it. One button pastes whatever you just copied, so saving is quick. SHORTCUTS AND SIRI Copy a snippet, or save a new one, from the Shortcuts app or by asking Siri — so a snippet can go into a message, an email or any automation you build. YOUR TEXT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Snippets are stored on your device and shared with the keyboard through a private app group. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account and no analytics. FREE AND PREMIUM Three snippets are free, with no time limit and no ads. If you need more: - Unlimited Monthly and Unlimited Yearly lift the limit while active, and both start with a free one-week trial - Lifetime Unlock lifts it permanently with a single payment - Slot packs add 3, 5, 10 or 20 slots, and they stack THIRTY-ONE LANGUAGES The app follows your system language and is translated into 31 of them. NO FULL ACCESS The keyboard never asks for Full Access. It runs in the restricted sandbox iOS gives a keyboard by default, where it can read the snippets you saved and nothing else. It cannot reach the network, and it never sees what you type. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Unlimited Monthly and Unlimited Yearly are auto-renewable subscriptions, running for one month or one year and renewing automatically at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Each begins with a free trial of one week; the subscription starts, and payment is charged to your Apple Account, when the trial ends unless it is cancelled before then. Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled in Settings. Prices for your region are shown on this page and on the Premium screen in the app. Lifetime Unlock and the slot packs are one-off purchases. They do not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zhafiarov.github.io/light-clipboard-site/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Light Clipboard at none against StandBy Clock's shown. StandBy Clock's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, 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
Both are free to download. StandBy Clock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Light Clipboard sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StandBy Clock ships an update every 6 days, Light Clipboard every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StandBy Clock | Light Clipboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 逸文 周 | Ruslan Zhafiarov |
In-app purchases
StandBy Clock
- Weekly Pro$1.997 Days
- Annual Pro7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- StandBy Clock Lifetime$14.99
Light Clipboard
- Unlimited Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Unlimited Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- 3 Extra Slots$0.99
- 5 Extra Slots$1.99
- 10 Extra Slots$2.99
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- 20 Extra Slots$4.99
- Lifetime Unlock$19.99
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