Comparison

Tempus World Clock vs Timezone Grid

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

Head to head
About

Tempus World Clock

Easily track multiple time zones with customizable clocks for cities and people. Convert times instantly, find meeting windows, and set location-specific reminders. View city details including weather and sunrise/sunset.

Highlights
  • Customizable clocks with names, emojis, and color tags
  • Instant time conversion with a draggable scrubber
  • Meeting finder with overlapping availability windows
  • Location-specific reminders
  • City detail view with weather and daylight arc
  • Profile grouping for clocks
  • Lock screen and Dynamic Island integration
Features
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Tempus is a world clock and time zone converter built for people who work, travel, and stay in touch across time zones. It is at home on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. NAME YOUR CLOCKS Add clocks for cities or for the people you talk to. Give each one a custom name, an emoji, and a color tag so "Mum in Sydney" or "Design team, Berlin" is readable at a glance. Choose emoji from a searchable catalog with recents and suggestions for the city. Pick analog or digital faces, 12 or 24 hour time, and see the time difference from wherever you are. CONVERT TIMES INSTANTLY Pick any time in any zone and see it in all your clocks at once. Drag the time scrubber to slide through the day and watch every clock move together. Day and night indicators follow the working hours you set for each city, so you can see at a glance who is reachable. PROFILES Group your clocks into profiles such as Work or Family and switch between them from the title on iPhone or the sidebar on iPad. A city can be in several profiles, and the active profile syncs to your other devices and Apple Watch. REMINDERS IN ANOTHER CITY'S TIME Set a reminder for 9:00 in Tokyo and Tempus alerts you when it is 9:00 there, whatever time it is where you are. Anchor a reminder to the city or to your own time, repeat it every day or on the weekdays you choose, or set it for a single date. Label it, pause it without deleting it, and turn alerts off on a device you would rather keep quiet. ON THE LOCK SCREEN Keep a reference city in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, with its current time and how far ahead or behind you it is. A countdown appears there before a reminder is due. FIND A MEETING TIME THAT WORKS Select two or more clocks, set working hours for each, and Tempus shows the overlapping windows where everyone is available. Add the meeting to your calendar in one tap or share it as an .ics invite. CITY DETAIL Tap any clock for a full city view: a skyline illustration that changes with the time of day, sunrise and sunset on a daylight arc, and current weather conditions. IPAD On iPad, Tempus uses a native split layout: browse your clocks in a sidebar while City Detail stays open beside them. Time Converter and Meeting Finder open in the detail column with room for a full-width overlap timeline. Keyboard shortcuts and pointer hover are supported throughout. APPLE WATCH Tempus on Apple Watch shows your clocks on your wrist, lets you convert times with the Digital Crown, and offers complications for your favorite clocks. Clocks sync instantly between iPhone and Apple Watch. WIDGETS A city widget shows one city drawn as its skyline, lit for the time of day, with an optional weekday and date. The World Clocks widget shows the cities you choose on the Home Screen or the Lock Screen. Your clocks sync across all your devices with iCloud. PRIVACY FIRST Tempus has no account, no ads, and no tracking. Your clocks are stored on your device and in your private iCloud database. Weather is provided by Apple Weather for the cities you add, never for your own location.

About

Timezone Grid

Features
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Plan global meetings and track time zones at a glance. [City Grid] Add cities from around the world and see all their local times updated live. Each card shows the local time, UTC offset, date, and a day/night indicator — everything you need at a glance. [Time Scrubber] Drag the slider up to ±24 hours to instantly see what time it will be in every city. Snap to 15-minute steps for precision. Tap Now to jump back to live time. [City Detail] Tap any city card to see full details: large time display, UTC offset badge, DST status, and day/night info. [DST & Day/Night] Daylight saving time is handled automatically. A sun or moon icon shows whether it's daytime or night at a glance. [Reorder & Customize] Long-press cards to drag them into your preferred order. Swipe left to delete a city. Pin a home city for easy reference. [Presets] Save city combinations as presets and switch between them instantly. Perfect for teams spread across multiple time zones. [Share] Share the current time across all your cities as a formatted text snapshot — great for team stand-ups or travel planning. Free to use. No subscription required.

Screenshots

Tempus World Clock4 screens
Timezone Grid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Timezone Grid at Free against Tempus World Clock's $1.99. Timezone Grid also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Timezone Grid is free to download; Tempus World Clock costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tempus World Clock versus Timezone Grid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempus World ClockTimezone Grid
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperViktor Gamovpilyeong heo

In-app purchases

None

Tempus World Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Timezone Grid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tempus World Clock free?
Tempus World Clock costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timezone Grid free?
Timezone Grid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tempus World Clock or Timezone Grid have ads?
Neither Tempus World Clock nor Timezone Grid shows ads.

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