Comparison

NiteTime Clock vs Present

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

Present

This app transforms your phone into a calm, glanceable display showing time, date, weather, and upcoming calendar events. It minimizes distractions by offering no interactive elements, focusing on providing information at a glance. The dynamic sky display reflects real-time dusk and dawn, offering a visual sense of the day's progression.

Highlights
  • Glanceable time, date, and weather
  • Ambient calendar display
  • Dynamic real-time sky visualization
  • Offline functionality
  • Minimalist, distraction-free interface
  • On-device data processing
Features
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Enough things already ask for your attention. Present is not one of them. Set your phone on a stand and it becomes a calm, glanceable display: the time, the date, the weather, and a quick look at what is coming up. What matters right now, and nothing else. NOTHING TO TAP There are no controls on the readout. No settings screen. No feed, no badge, and no notification it can ever send you. Present is built to reduce what your phone asks of you, not to collect your attention — it slips into the background and is simply there when you look up. A GLANCE, NOT A SESSION The time and date, the current conditions, and the next few hours of your calendar scrolling under a fixed now-marker. You read it in a second from across the room and get back to whatever you were doing. TIME YOU CAN SEE WITHOUT READING Behind it all, a sky that dims through the real dusk where you actually are. Sunrise and sunset are computed on the device from your own coordinates. The sun climbs the edge of the screen and sets at the bottom right; the moon takes over at nightfall, drawn at tonight's true phase. Look up and you know roughly where you are in the day before you have read a single number. BUILT TO BE LEFT RUNNING The screen dims after a minute untouched and clears the moment you reach for the phone. The now-marker breathes and the clock's separator blinks — small movements that keep a bright, static screen from settling into one position all night. YOUR CALENDAR STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Events are read on the device, read-only, one day at a time. No title, location, attendee or time ever leaves it. Location is requested at kilometre accuracy and rounded before it reaches the weather service, which is the only thing the app talks to. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. The clock, the sky and the moon need no network at all, so they keep working offline. This is Present — A Simple Clock Here & Now. Free. Nothing to buy, no ads, no subscription. Weather data from MET Norway. Requires iOS 17 or later. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

NiteTime Clock3 screens
Present3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Present at 5.0 against NiteTime Clock's 3.0. Present also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 19 months). NiteTime Clock's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Present holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NiteTime Clock ships an update every 19 months, Present every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NiteTime Clock versus Present: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNiteTime ClockPresent
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPatrick OShaughnessyViable Labs LLC

Customer experience

NiteTime Clock

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

Present

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NiteTime Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Present

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NiteTime Clock free?
NiteTime Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Present free?
Present is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NiteTime Clock or Present?
Present is rated higher. NiteTime Clock averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Present averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do NiteTime Clock or Present have ads?
Neither NiteTime Clock nor Present shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NiteTime Clock or Present?
NiteTime Clock ships an update every 19 months, and Present every 3 days. Most recently, NiteTime Clock was updated on October 7, 2026 and Present on October 3, 2026.

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