Comparison

Simple Date & Time Widget vs PaperTrail

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

Head to head
About

Simple Date & Time Widget

Features
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Transform your iPhone or iPad home screen with Date & Time, a beautifully designed widget that displays the current date and time in elegant, customizable layouts. **Key Features:** **Multiple Widget Sizes** - Small widget: Perfect for quick glances at the time and date - Medium widget: More detailed view with additional information **Smart Progress Bar** - Visual progress indicator for your daily schedule - Customizable start and end times - Select specific days of the week - Perfect for tracking work hours **Easy Customization** - Intuitive settings interface - Real-time preview of your widget - Changes apply immediately - Portrait-locked settings for comfortable configuration **Perfect For:** - Professionals tracking work hours - Students monitoring study time - Anyone who wants a beautiful, functional clock widget - Users who prefer customizable home screen widgets

About

PaperTrail

Features
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Give your paperwork a place. PaperTrail brings receipts, warranties, reference documents and the details behind them into a private workspace for iPhone and iPad. Build a Trail around a purchase, a project or a part of your life, then keep its documents, notes and next actions together. CAPTURE AND FIND Scan multiple pages with your camera, choose photos, import files or use Save to PaperTrail from another app. Keep original PDFs and images intact, then search their text with on-device text recognition. REVIEW THE DETAILS Check suggested merchants, dates, totals and currencies against the original. Suggestions stay unconfirmed until you review them, and extracted dates never create reminders automatically. CONNECT YOUR PAPERWORK Organize Trails into collections, add tags and notes, and link one document to several Trails without duplicating its original. Use Inbox to find documents that need attention and Upcoming to see your next actions. REMEMBER WHAT COMES NEXT Add your own deadlines and enable optional local reminders. Notification details are private by default. Actions remain available in the app if you decline notification permission. MAKE A USEFUL PDF PACKET Select documents, arrange their order and add an optional cover and summary. Preview the finished PDF, then share it when you need to send a repair history, purchase record or project packet. KEEP CONTROL OF YOUR LIBRARY Use optional Face ID, Touch ID or device-passcode authentication. PaperTrail hides document content when inactive and preserves deleted documents in Trash until you choose permanent deletion. Your library is stored on this device, with no PaperTrail account, advertising, analytics SDK or cloud AI. PaperTrail is free, with no subscriptions or in-app purchases. BACK UP AND MOVE DELIBERATELY Export a manual backup to keep a recovery copy or transfer your library to another device. Library files are excluded from automatic device backups, including iCloud Backup, so keep a manual backup somewhere safe. There is no automatic sync between iPhone and iPad. Manual backups are not password-protected. Shared files and copies saved to cloud providers are outside PaperTrail's app lock. Restore validates a backup before replacing the current library; it does not merge libraries. Start with your own documents or explore the optional, clearly labeled sample library in Settings. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. Camera scanning requires a supported device. Supports PDF, JPEG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF and TIFF originals up to 100 MB each. Manual backups support libraries up to 1 GB.

Screenshots

Simple Date & Time Widget3 screens
PaperTrail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PaperTrail at Free against Simple Date & Time Widget's $0.99. On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

PaperTrail is free to download; Simple Date & Time Widget costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Simple Date & Time Widget versus PaperTrail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Date & Time WidgetPaperTrail
Price$0.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyMonthlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.518.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPedro CassianChristopher Kirkland

In-app purchases

None

Simple Date & Time Widget

No in-app purchases

None

PaperTrail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Date & Time Widget free?
Simple Date & Time Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaperTrail free?
PaperTrail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Date & Time Widget or PaperTrail have ads?
Neither Simple Date & Time Widget nor PaperTrail shows ads.

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