Comparison

NiteTime Clock vs AlwaysOn

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

Head to head
About

NiteTime Clock

This app transforms your device into a customizable bedside digital clock. It offers a clear view of the time with adjustable brightness, multiple color themes, and font options. Keep your screen active for constant visibility throughout the night.

Highlights
  • Portrait and landscape modes
  • 12 color themes
  • Customizable fonts
  • Optional date display
  • Adjustable brightness
  • Keep screen active
Features
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NiteTime Clock: Your Bedside Companion NiteTime Clock fills your screen with a large, glanceable time display — built for the nightstand, the desk, or anywhere you want the time visible from across the room without the glow of a full phone screen. **Customize it your way** — Choose from a curated set of system and classic fonts, in five weights — Pick any color with the full hue and brightness wheel, or use one of eleven presets — Show or hide the date — Switch between 12-hour and 24-hour time, with an optional AM/PM marker — Dim the display down to a soft glow — never fully dark, never distracting **Built for all-night use** — Reduce Burn-in mode gently drifts the clock around the screen over time, protecting OLED displays during long nightly use — Prevent Screen Sleep keeps the display on for as long as you need it — Landscape and portrait layouts, both optimized for edge-to-edge visibility **Simple, gesture-driven controls** Swipe to change color, drag to adjust brightness, tap to reveal settings — then tap away and the controls disappear, leaving just the time. No accounts. No ads. No data collected. Just a clock. Features: * Versatile Display: Use in portrait or landscape mode * 12 Elegant Color Themes: Find your perfect night-time aesthetic * Customizable Typography: Choose from multiple fonts and styles * Optional Date Display: Keep track of the day at a glance * Adjustable Brightness: Comfortable viewing from dim to bright * Keep Active: Option to keep clock displayed and not sleep Ideal for nightstands, bedrooms, and anyone who wants a clean, reliable clock display. No complicated settings—just pure, practical timekeeping. Download NiteTime Clock and bring sleek, personalized timekeeping to your nightstand.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Large digital clock display
  • Current date and calendar
  • Upcoming calendar events
  • Local weather forecast
  • Customizable display hours
  • Low-brightness sleep mode
  • Burn-in protection
Features
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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.

Screenshots

NiteTime Clock3 screens
AlwaysOn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: AlwaysOn at 100% against NiteTime Clock's 0%. AlwaysOn also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 19 months). 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

AlwaysOn holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlwaysOn has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of NiteTime Clock's written reviews are positive against 100% of AlwaysOn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NiteTime Clock ships an update every 19 months, AlwaysOn every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
NiteTime Clock versus AlwaysOn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNiteTime ClockAlwaysOn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.8 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings222 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.117.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick OShaughnessyWeijin Wang

Customer experience

NiteTime Clock

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

AlwaysOn

All ratings22 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NiteTime Clock

No in-app purchases

None

AlwaysOn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NiteTime Clock free?
NiteTime Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AlwaysOn free?
AlwaysOn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NiteTime Clock or AlwaysOn?
AlwaysOn is rated higher. NiteTime Clock averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while AlwaysOn averages 4.8 from 22 ratings.
Do NiteTime Clock or AlwaysOn have ads?
Neither NiteTime Clock nor AlwaysOn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NiteTime Clock or AlwaysOn?
NiteTime Clock ships an update every 19 months, and AlwaysOn every 4 days. Most recently, NiteTime Clock was updated on October 30, 2026 and AlwaysOn on November 5, 2026.

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