Comparison

Device Specs vs Ambient Time

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

Head to head
About

Device Specs

Gain in-depth knowledge of your device's hardware. This application provides comprehensive details about your phone's internal components and specifications.

Highlights
  • Detailed hardware information
  • Device specifications
  • Internal component details
  • Comprehensive data
Features
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Know your device inside and out with Device Specs! Discover detailed information about your device’s hardware

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Ambient Time

Features
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Put time where it belongs: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or the biggest display in the room. Ambient Time is a native collection of clocks and useful glances. Explore 47 ways to read the moment on iPhone and iPad—from precise word grids and binary displays to astronomy, weather, mathematics, and generative art. ONE HOME FOR EVERY SCREEN The destination-first control center organizes Widgets, Apple Watch, TV & Displays, Clocks, and Instruments. Browse what fits each surface, preview it live, and choose starting defaults without pretending to control system-owned placement. CLOCKS WITH A POINT OF VIEW • Word Clock spells out time in nine languages plus IPA. • Cosmic brings the sun, moon, horizon, and zodiac into one quiet astrolabe. • Tide follows local predictions and highlights the next high or low. • ASCII World Clock wraps global hours around a text-art globe. • Moon Track follows the live lunar phase. • About Time turns optimistic phrases into the hands of a clock. • Inkwell Ledger lets the day unfold as a handwritten journal. • Mandaza draws a generative clock that never repeats exactly. WIDGETS MADE FOR THEIR SPACE Ambient Time groups Home Screen clocks and information widgets by size, so every layout stays clear and useful. Because the Lock Screen already shows Apple's clock, Ambient Time adds context instead: moon phase, golden hour, rain, tides, and poetry in Inline, Circular, and Rectangular forms. A CALMER GLANCE ON APPLE WATCH Choose from six legible clocks in the Watch app. Add nine Smart Stack widgets and complications for tides, rain, forecasts, golden hour, moon phase, world moments, words, compliments, and poetry. MADE FOR THE ROOM—AND THE MAC Apple TV offers a remote-first gallery of Ambient clocks and fixed dashboards. Mac brings the same destination control center to the desktop, including fullscreen Ambient Mode, dashboards, and Desktop or Notification Center widgets. Five global color themes are available where a clock supports them. Weather, sun, moon, and tide features use coarse location only with permission. There are no accounts, ads, subscriptions, or purchases, and location is never used for tracking. Built natively in SwiftUI with Reduce Motion support. Made by Luke Steuber.

Screenshots

Device Specs1 screens
Ambient Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

Device Specs and Ambient Time are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Device Specs ships an update weekly, Ambient Time every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Device Specs versus Ambient Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDevice SpecsAmbient Time
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch
Requires iOS1717.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergei SaliukovLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

None

Device Specs

No in-app purchases

None

Ambient Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Device Specs free?
Device Specs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ambient Time free?
Ambient Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Device Specs or Ambient Time have ads?
Neither Device Specs nor Ambient Time shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Device Specs or Ambient Time?
Device Specs ships an update weekly, and Ambient Time every 6 days. Most recently, Device Specs was updated on September 17, 2026 and Ambient Time on September 20, 2026.

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