Comparison

Tempus World Clock vs Wristmate

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 people and places. Convert times instantly, find optimal meeting slots across different regions, and view city details including weather and sunrise/sunset.

Highlights
  • Customizable clocks with names and colors
  • Instant time conversion across zones
  • Meeting time finder with working hours
  • City detail view with weather and sunrise/sunset
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Home Screen widgets
  • iCloud sync across devices
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 show who is awake. 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. 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 AND SYNC Home Screen widgets keep your clocks in view. 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

Wristmate

Personalize your Apple Watch face with custom photo complications and one-tap shortcuts for frequently used actions. Turn photos into interactive buttons to launch workouts, call contacts, or create notes instantly.

Highlights
  • Custom photo complications
  • One-tap Quick Actions
  • Automatic photo rotation
  • Customizable tint colors
  • iCloud syncing
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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Make your Apple Watch yours - with custom photo complications and a one-tap launcher for the things you do most. Wristmate turns your watch face into something personal and useful. Build photo complications from your own pictures, then wire them to instant actions. Tap your dog's photo to start a walk. Tap your kid's photo to call the sitter. It's your watch, your way. PHOTO COMPLICATION SETS • Build complications from your own photos - circular, rectangular, and corner slots. • Crop, zoom, and rotate each photo to fit the slot perfectly. • Rotate through a set automatically - every 15 minutes, every 30, hourly, daily, or when you open the app. • Add a custom color border to make a complication pop. A LAUNCHER FOR EVERYTHING YOU REACH FOR Fill your watch with one-tap Quick Actions - pick from ten and arrange them your way: • Start Workout - jump straight into the Apple Watch Workout app for your chosen activity. • Call Contact - call someone in a single tap. • Message Contact - fire off a pre-filled message. • Search Maps - launch a saved Maps search. • Quick Note - dictate a note from your wrist. • Quick Reminder - dictate a reminder straight to your iPhone's Reminders. • Tally Counter - count anything: laps, reps, coffees, scores. • Coin Flip - heads or tails, settled. • Dice Roll - roll the dice (your choice of sides). • Ask The Orb - ask, shake, get your answer. TAP-THROUGH MAGIC Wire any photo complication to a Quick Action. Tap the photo on your watch face and the action runs instantly - no menus, no digging. MADE TO BE YOURS • Custom tint colors for every shortcut, shared with the set border picker. • Pick a color once, use it anywhere. • Everything syncs across your devices with iCloud. PRIVACY Workout actions use Apple HealthKit only to launch the Workout app - Wristmate never reads or stores your health data. Quick Note and Quick Reminder save to your own Notes and Reminders. Your photos stay yours. Download Wristmate and make your wrist work for you.

Screenshots

Tempus World Clock4 screens
Wristmate3 screens

Verdict

The call

Tempus World Clock and Wristmate both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tempus World Clock's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wristmate's. Tempus World Clock also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Wristmate's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Tempus World Clock costs $1.99 and Wristmate $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tempus World Clock against 5.0 for Wristmate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wristmate has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Tempus World Clock's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wristmate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tempus World Clock ships an update fortnightly, Wristmate weekly. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tempus World Clock versus Wristmate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTempus World ClockWristmate
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperViktor GamovMinorbits LLC

Customer experience

Tempus World Clock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wristmate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Tempus World Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Wristmate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tempus World Clock free?
Tempus World Clock costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wristmate free?
Wristmate costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tempus World Clock or Wristmate?
Tempus World Clock and Wristmate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Tempus World Clock or Wristmate have ads?
Neither Tempus World Clock nor Wristmate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tempus World Clock or Wristmate?
Tempus World Clock ships an update fortnightly, and Wristmate weekly. Most recently, Tempus World Clock was updated on October 21, 2026 and Wristmate on October 21, 2026.

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