Alt Time vs TesseraClock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Alt Time
This app provides lock screen widgets for iPhones, displaying both 12-hour and 24-hour time formats simultaneously. It offers five distinct widget styles and automatically adapts to your system's time settings for a seamless experience.
- Dual 12h/24h time display
- Five lock screen widget styles
- Automatic system time format detection
- Real-time updates
- One-tap setup
- No data collection or tracking
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Alt Time puts the times you actually need on your lock screen and home screen. See the opposite of your iPhone's clock format at a glance. If your phone shows 12-hour, the widget shows 24-hour — and the other way round. It follows your system setting automatically, so there is nothing to keep in sync. WHAT YOU GET Dial — a home screen clock face with two rings of numbers: 1–12 outside, 13–24 inside. The hour hand points at both at once, and the centre shows the time both ways, like 5:57 PM and 17:57. Small, medium or large, in ten finishes including parchment and black enamel. Show your own time or any city from your world clock. Travel Mode — your home time and the time where you are, side by side on your lock screen and in the Dynamic Island while you travel, with how far ahead or behind home you are. In 12-hour, 24-hour, or both. Start and stop it from Shortcuts or Siri. Requires iOS 18. AM / PM — the lock screen clock never shows AM or PM. Three widgets do: just AM or PM, the time of day (Morning, Afternoon, Evening or Night), or both together, with no numbers to read. Put one beside the date or below the clock. World clock — a home screen widget in small, medium or large, showing as many cities as you like in eight color finishes, with a sun and moon day-night glance. Looks right in StandBy. Alternate 12h/24h time — always the opposite of your system setting, updated automatically. Second time zone — search about 69,000 cities, not just capitals, and see that city's time labeled with its name. UTC / military time — 24-hour Zulu time for pilots, sailors, and anyone working across zones. Dual-time widget — two times side by side in a single lock screen slot, sized to match. Lock screen and home screen widgets, in circular and rectangular slots, tinted or clean, on iPhone and iPad. Every setting sits in one short menu that leads with your times, live. COMPLETELY OFFLINE The city database is built into the app. Searching it needs no network, so Alt Time works in Airplane Mode, on a plane, or with no signal at all. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere for it to go. NO SUBSCRIPTION One purchase. No subscription, no ads, no account, and no data collected, stored or transmitted — ever. Requires iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later. Travel Mode requires iOS 18 or later. See every widget and how it works at mmhadventures.com/alttime
TesseraClock
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TesseraClock is a clock widget app that perfectly combines simplicity with total customization freedom. With fully customizable background and text colors, you can design the perfect widget to match your home screen's aesthetic. 【A Wide Variety of Widget Sizes】 Supports Small, Medium, and Large widgets for your Home Screen, as well as Circular, Rectangular, and Inline widgets for your Lock Screen. It is also fully compatible with iOS StandBy mode, allowing you to check the time across all your displays. 【Complete Customization Freedom】 ・Choose any background and text color using the color picker. ・Search and set time zones from all around the world. ・Toggle between 24-hour and AM/PM formats. ・Show or hide seconds to fit your style. 【Battery-Friendly Design】 By utilizing native system mechanisms for updating seconds, this app reduces power consumption compared to traditional timer-driven methods, making it friendly to your battery life. 【Instant Theme Changes】 ・Choose from a variety of pre-set themes to quickly find your favorite design. ・Switch between minimalist, vibrant, or dark-mode optimized themes with a single tap. ・Save your own custom color combinations to build a personal theme library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TesseraClock at Free against Alt Time's $1.99. TesseraClock also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Alt Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#63 vs unranked). On ads 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
TesseraClock is free to download; Alt Time costs $1.99 up front. TesseraClock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Alt Time asks for nothing beyond the download.
Alt Time ships an update every 3 weeks, TesseraClock every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alt Time | TesseraClock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #63 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MMH Adventures LLC | Takashi Nomura |
In-app purchases
Alt Time
No in-app purchases
TesseraClock
- TesseraClock$4.99









