Comparison

Clockwise vs Owl

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

Head to head
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.

About

Owl

Easily manage time zones for global connections. This app helps remote teams, international clients, and friends find overlapping working hours and see local times at a glance. Plan meetings and understand global schedules without complex calculations.

Highlights
  • Multiple cities on one screen
  • Instant local time and date
  • Working hours status
  • Find overlapping work hours
  • Shared timeline exploration
  • Customizable working hours
Features
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Know when it’s a good time. Owl-Time is a people-first world clock for remote teams, international clients, friends, and family. See local times and working status at a glance, explore any moment on a shared timeline, and find overlapping working hours without doing timezone math. WORLD CLOCK AT A GLANCE • See multiple cities on one screen • Check local time and date instantly • Recognize working, off-hours, and sleeping status FIND BETTER MEETING TIMES • Discover hours that overlap across locations • Adjust how many locations need to be working • Jump directly to a matching time on the timeline EXPLORE THE DAY • Slide through the day in 15-minute steps • Compare every location at the same moment • Return to the current time with one tap MAKE IT YOURS • Set working hours for each city • Search major cities and time zones worldwide • Reorder locations and copy a timezone summary Owl-Time stores your selected cities and settings on your device. No account is required.

Screenshots

Clockwise4 screens
Owl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Owl at every 2 days against Clockwise's every 6 weeks. Owl also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Clockwise's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Owl holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clockwise has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clockwise ships an update every 6 weeks, Owl every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clockwise versus Owl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClockwiseOwl
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrittany Petrova少杰 陈

Customer experience

Clockwise

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

Owl

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clockwise

No in-app purchases

None

Owl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clockwise free?
Clockwise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Owl free?
Owl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clockwise or Owl?
Owl is rated higher. Clockwise averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Owl averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clockwise or Owl have ads?
Neither Clockwise nor Owl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clockwise or Owl?
Clockwise ships an update every 6 weeks, and Owl every 2 days. Most recently, Clockwise was updated on October 8, 2026 and Owl on October 4, 2026.

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