Comparison

Twinkle Clock vs Daily Canvas

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

Head to head
About

Twinkle Clock

Features
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Twinkle Clock turns your screen into a night sky — a clock face made of twinkling stars and constellations. FREE • 12 zodiac constellations, swipe to switch • A twinkling starfield with the time overlaid on constellation lines PRO (one-time purchase) • All 88 official constellations • ~8,900 naked-eye stars across the whole sky • The Milky Way and the Moon & planets (Mercury–Saturn) • Nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies • Tap any star, the Moon, or a planet to read about it • Time Travel — pick any date and time to see what the sky looked like (or will look like) • Major meteor shower activity windows Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.

About

Daily Canvas

Discover a new masterpiece from world museums daily, displayed on your devices. Explore art history and save favorites without ads or tracking. Upgrade for advanced features like unlimited shuffles and custom cropping.

Highlights
  • Daily curated artwork
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Artist biographies and context
  • Favorites and history browsing
  • Family-friendly filter
  • Wallpaper and widget integration
  • Ad-free and private
Features
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A new masterpiece, every morning. Daily Canvas brings one hand-picked painting from the world's great museums to your devices each day, framed for your Lock Screen, Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch face, Mac desktop and Apple TV. No feeds, no noise. Just one quietly extraordinary work of art to start your day. Every painting comes from the open-access collections of institutions like the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Statens Museum for Kunst: more than 2,700 masterpieces, each with the story behind it. ONE PAINTING A DAY • A curated work every morning, chosen to be worth looking at • The same painting on all your devices, in sync • Artist biographies, dates and context with every piece • Browse your history and save your favorites • A family-friendly filter, on by default EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK • iPhone and iPad: set the daily art as your wallpaper with a one-time Shortcuts automation • Widgets: the day's painting on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Apple Watch: today's art on your wrist, and a Photos watch face that changes daily • Mac: the painting becomes your desktop, refreshed automatically, with a menu bar view • Apple TV: a full-screen gallery that turns your TV into fine art QUIETLY PRIVATE • No account and no sign-up • Your favorites and history live in your own iCloud; we never see them • No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold DAILY CANVAS PRO Daily art, wallpaper setup, widgets, favorites, history and cross-device sync are free. Pro adds unlimited shuffles, search across the full collection and the custom crop editor. Choose monthly or yearly; new subscribers get a one-week free trial. Subscription terms: Daily Canvas Pro renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renewals are charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://dailycanvasapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://dailycanvasapp.com/terms

Screenshots

Twinkle Clock4 screens
Daily Canvas4 screens

Verdict

The call

Twinkle Clock and Daily Canvas are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Twinkle Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daily Canvas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Twinkle Clock versus Daily Canvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTwinkle ClockDaily Canvas
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB49 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHiroyasu HiraiJoseph Lint

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Twinkle Clock

One-time1
  • Twinkle Clock Pro$24.99
2 purchases

Daily Canvas

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Twinkle Clock free?
Twinkle Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Canvas free?
Daily Canvas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Twinkle Clock or Daily Canvas have ads?
Neither Twinkle Clock nor Daily Canvas shows ads.

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