Widgets for Home Assistant vs TrueNTP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Widgets for Home Assistant
Enhance your smart home control with custom widgets for Home Assistant. Monitor and manage devices directly from your home screen for ultimate convenience and connectivity.
- Create custom home screen widgets
- Monitor Home Assistant devices
- Control smart home devices
- Check device status (e.g., temperature)
- Streamlined smart home management
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The ultimate companion for Home Assistant users! This iOS app is designed to elevate your smart home experience. You can create widgets that allow you to effortlessly monitor and manage your Home Assistant devices directly from your home screen. Whether you're controlling devices, or just checking the temperature, this app streamlines the process for unparalleled convenience. Stay connected and in control.
TrueNTP
This app precisely measures your phone's clock against true time by querying multiple servers and calculating a corrected time with millisecond accuracy. It displays the corrected time, your device's drift, and an uncertainty figure, making it useful for network verification and anyone needing accurate time.
- Precise time measurement
- Cross-checks multiple time servers
- Displays device clock drift
- Shows measurement uncertainty
- Customizable server presets
- Offset timeline visualization
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TrueNTP measures how far your phone's clock is from true time. It queries multiple independent time servers, cross-checks their answers, and computes a corrected time with millisecond precision. You see the corrected time, your device clock's drift, and an uncertainty figure so you know how much to trust the number. WHO IT'S FOR Network admins verifying NTP infrastructure. Cell techs checking tower timing. Sysadmins chasing certificate and Kerberos clock-skew errors. IT teams resyncing air-gapped and offline systems: hold the phone next to the console and set the clock from a known-good reference. And anyone curious what time it actually is. HOW IT MEASURES • Bursts of SNTP samples to every active server, weighted by network quality (1/RTT) • Per-server offset, round-trip time, and stratum at a glance • Optional outlier rejection against the cross-server median • Six curated presets (Apple, Cloudflare, NIST, Google, Microsoft, Amazon). Enable any of them or add your own • An uncertainty readout alongside every measurement WHAT YOU SEE • A large clock showing corrected time, ticking smoothly, unaffected by OS clock changes • Turn your phone on its side for a full-screen clock face that stays awake, ready to prop up as a reference • On iPhone Duo: a larger clock when open, and the clock above the fold with the servers below when it stands half folded • Device clock card: your clock's drift, labeled plainly as DEVICE AHEAD, DEVICE BEHIND, or IN SYNC • Server list with per-server detail sheets: refid, root delay, root dispersion, per-sample scatter • 30-minute offset timeline showing your clock's behavior PRIVACY No accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Settings and history stay on your device. The privacy policy is one page. A short, plain-language NTP guide is included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TrueNTP at 100% against Widgets for Home Assistant's 36%. TrueNTP also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Widgets for Home Assistant's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Widgets for Home Assistant sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and TrueNTP sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TrueNTP holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Widgets for Home Assistant has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Widgets for Home Assistant's written reviews are positive against 100% of TrueNTP's.
Widgets for Home Assistant ships an update every 2 weeks, TrueNTP every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Widgets for Home Assistant | TrueNTP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 35.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AP-TC Services Ltd | Brett Herman |
Customer experience
Widgets for Home Assistant
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In-app purchases
Widgets for Home Assistant
- Monthly Plan$3.991 Month
- Lifetime Plan$19.99
TrueNTP
- Pro Unlock$3.99
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