Alt Time vs WidgetBlocks
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
WidgetBlocks
Create custom widgets for your device with extensive customization options. Add elements like time, date, photos, and calendar events. Everything is free to use.
- Create custom widgets
- Move, recolor, and resize elements
- Add time and date components
- Include photos and calendar events
- Support for notes and countdowns
- Free to use
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With WidgetBlocks, you can make your own widgets! And not just in a preset matter, ACTUALLY make your own widgets with the ability to move, recolor, resize, and make your widgets, YOUR widgets! (btw, EVERYTHING is free) Supported components: Time Date Photo Calendar events Reminders Shape Drawing Note Countdown/up Links ...and more coming soon! Try WidgetBlocks today! - Noah :) Follow @nonosthings on Instagram for updates!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: WidgetBlocks at Free against Alt Time's $1.99. WidgetBlocks also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Alt Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#66 vs unranked). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
WidgetBlocks is free to download; Alt Time costs $1.99 up front. WidgetBlocks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Alt Time asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Alt Time against 5.0 for WidgetBlocks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Alt Time ships an update every 3 weeks, WidgetBlocks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Alt Time | WidgetBlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #66 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MMH Adventures LLC | Noah Novak |
Customer experience
Alt Time
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In-app purchases
Alt Time
No in-app purchases
WidgetBlocks
- Extra Small Tip$0.49
- Small Tip$1.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
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- Large Tip$10.00
- Extra Large Tip$25.00





