NiceClock Analog Pro vs AlwaysOn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NiceClock Analog Pro
Display a beautiful analog clock on your iOS device with customizable themes and a night mode. Keep the app open while docked with the auto-lock disable function.
- Beautiful analog clock display
- Customizable themes
- Night mode for dimmed viewing
- Disable auto-lock function
- Supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod
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NiceClock Analogue is one of the most beautiful analog clocks for your iOS device. Put your iPhone into the docking station and let NiceClock Analog do its magic. With the function "Disable Auto-Lock" the app stays open. Enjoy the nice view of the time with the beautiful design. You can chose between many nice themes. Thanks to the new night mode you can use NiceClock Analog with a dimmed screen during night.
AlwaysOn
Transform a plugged-in iPhone into a convenient desk display. View the time, date, calendar, and weather at a glance. Features a sleep mode for nighttime use and custom display hours.
- Large digital clock display
- Current date and calendar
- Upcoming calendar events
- Local weather forecast
- Customizable display hours
- Low-brightness sleep mode
- Burn-in protection
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful desk and nightstand clock. Free, with no ads and no subscriptions. AlwaysOn shows the time, your calendar, weather and more on a screen you leave docked or propped up, and on your Home Screen and Lock Screen too. START WITH A FINISHED DESIGN • Ready-made layouts, each with its own background • Swipe between layouts, and the background moves with your widgets • Change any of them, or make your own WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN • Clock, with seven faces including Eclipse: the time inside a glowing ring • Time Together, Daylight, Word Clock, Card Clock, Tube Clock, Countdown, Green Room, Moon Phase and Horizon • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Tap ▶ to watch a whole day go by in seconds CLOCKS AND BACKGROUNDS • Digital clocks in eleven styles, including big iPhone-style digits • Clock backgrounds: Lens, Card (split-flap), Tube, Prism, Stone, Shadow and Green Room • Space backgrounds: Tonight's Sky shows the real stars over your city, plus Earthrise, Saturn and Jupiter • Animated and still backgrounds: Earth, Horizon, Moon Phase, Catnap, Soft Flow, Tide and more • Seasonal backgrounds for holidays and festivals MADE FOR NIGHT • Darker nights with a soft amber clock • Day Mode hours, Smart Dimming and burn-in protection • A sunrise alarm that wakes you with light YOUR LAYOUT • Arrange the clock with Calendar, Up Next, Weather, World Clock, Countdown, a Focus timer, Photos and Battery • Separate layouts for portrait and landscape, made for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no data collected • Available in English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese AlwaysOn turns a screen you're not using into something calm and useful.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: AlwaysOn at Free against NiceClock Analog Pro's $0.99. AlwaysOn also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). NiceClock Analog Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.6). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
AlwaysOn is free to download; NiceClock Analog Pro costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for NiceClock Analog Pro against 4.7 for AlwaysOn. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlwaysOn has 26 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of NiceClock Analog Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of AlwaysOn's.
NiceClock Analog Pro ships an update every 7 months, AlwaysOn every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | NiceClock Analog Pro | AlwaysOn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | 4.7 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NiceApps GmbH | Weijin Wang |
Customer experience
NiceClock Analog Pro
AlwaysOn
In-app purchases
NiceClock Analog Pro
No in-app purchases
AlwaysOn
No in-app purchases
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