DateSmith vs timZones World Clock & Widgets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DateSmith
Enhance your iPhone's lock screen with a beautifully formatted date display. This app specializes in the premium space above your clock, offering customizable formats and reliable midnight updates. Track important events with a countdown mode and enjoy a minimalist, privacy-focused design.
- Custom date widget for above lock screen clock
- Multiple widget formats
- Personalized date formats
- Countdown mode for events
- Automatic midnight updates
- Privacy-focused design
- Battery efficient
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Your date, above the clock. DateSmith puts a clearer, fuller date in the line above your Lock Screen clock, or a countdown to the day you are looking forward to. Now with bold Home Screen widgets you can make your own. YOUR FORMAT, YOUR WAY Pick any two of month, date, weekday and year, each in the style you like. See it live in a Lock Screen preview that changes with every tap. COUNTDOWNS Name it and pick the day. DateSmith shows the days left until a trip, a birthday or a big day. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Small, medium and large widgets show your date or countdown in big, clear type, with a week strip on the medium size, a month calendar on the large size and a date page on medium countdowns. - Themes: Dawn, Ocean, Aurora, Graphite and System - Your own photo, framed for the square and wide widget shapes - A different photo for Dark Mode if you like - Liquid Glass style text with a soft highlight and depth, or crisp solid text UPDATES ON ITS OWN DateSmith prepares the week ahead, so your widgets change each day, even when the app is closed. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads and no analytics. Your widgets need no internet connection. DateSmith never uploads your photo. SIMPLE SETUP 1. Touch and hold your Lock Screen 2. Tap Customize 3. Tap the date above the time 4. Choose DateSmith 5. Tap Done For the Home Screen, touch and hold an empty area of your Home Screen, tap Edit, tap Add Widget, then choose DateSmith. PLANS Try every format, countdown, theme, photo and text style free for 7 days. When the preview ends, your widgets show Preview Ended in place of your date or countdown until you subscribe. DateSmith Monthly or DateSmith Yearly keeps your widgets working. DateSmith Monthly includes a one-week free trial for eligible new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ben637482548.github.io/datesmith/#privacy
timZones World Clock & Widgets
This app helps you manage multiple time zones with a clean, customizable interface. Easily view local times, avoid mental calculations, and explore future or past times across different locations. It syncs seamlessly across your Apple devices.
- Multiple city list
- Local time at a glance
- Time Explorer for scheduling
- Five customizable clock faces
- Color styles reflecting time of day
- iCloud sync across devices
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timZones is a simple, elegant world clock for people who work across time zones. Keep the cities you care about in one clean list, see local time at a glance, and avoid the mental math when coordinating across locations. Make timZones your own with a variety of beautifully designed clock faces, themes, and display options. Bring your world clocks to your Home Screen with customizable widgets. Each widget can have its own clock face, theme, and settings, so you can create different layouts and looks for the cities that matter most. With Time Explorer, you can slide to a time in one location and instantly see the corresponding time everywhere else—perfect for scheduling, planning travel, and staying in sync with people around the world. timZones is a universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync to keep your cities and settings up to date across all your devices. Beautiful enough to enjoy, practical enough to rely on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: timZones World Clock & Widgets at monthly against DateSmith's every 9 months. DateSmith's advantage is iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. DateSmith sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and timZones World Clock & Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DateSmith against 5.0 for timZones World Clock & Widgets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
DateSmith ships an update every 9 months, timZones World Clock & Widgets monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DateSmith | timZones World Clock & Widgets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Staab | SwiftKick Mobile LLC |
Customer experience
DateSmith
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In-app purchases
DateSmith
- DateSmith Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- DateSmith Yearly$4.991 Year
timZones World Clock & Widgets
- Full Version$3.99
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