Comparison

Night Clock + Weather vs Ambient Time

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

Head to head
About

Night Clock + Weather

Features
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Turn your iPhone into a clean, full-screen night clock you can actually read. Night Clock + Weather puts the time front and centre with a simple dark design that looks great on a bedside table, desk, or while charging. Features Big, readable clock with a minimalist full-screen layout Weather + location at a glance Dark, distraction-free design that’s easy on the eyes Simple and fast β€” open the app and the clock is ready Notes Weather and location display may require location permission. The app works without location access. If you want a clock that stays out of the way and looks good doing it, this is it.

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Ambient Time

Features
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Put time where it belongs: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or the biggest display in the room. Ambient Time is a native collection of clocks and useful glances. Explore 47 ways to read the moment on iPhone and iPadβ€”from precise word grids and binary displays to astronomy, weather, mathematics, and generative art. ONE HOME FOR EVERY SCREEN The destination-first control center organizes Widgets, Apple Watch, TV & Displays, Clocks, and Instruments. Browse what fits each surface, preview it live, and choose starting defaults without pretending to control system-owned placement. CLOCKS WITH A POINT OF VIEW β€’ Word Clock spells out time in nine languages plus IPA. β€’ Cosmic brings the sun, moon, horizon, and zodiac into one quiet astrolabe. β€’ Tide follows local predictions and highlights the next high or low. β€’ ASCII World Clock wraps global hours around a text-art globe. β€’ Moon Track follows the live lunar phase. β€’ About Time turns optimistic phrases into the hands of a clock. β€’ Inkwell Ledger lets the day unfold as a handwritten journal. β€’ Mandaza draws a generative clock that never repeats exactly. WIDGETS MADE FOR THEIR SPACE Ambient Time groups Home Screen clocks and information widgets by size, so every layout stays clear and useful. Because the Lock Screen already shows Apple's clock, Ambient Time adds context instead: moon phase, golden hour, rain, tides, and poetry in Inline, Circular, and Rectangular forms. A CALMER GLANCE ON APPLE WATCH Choose from six legible clocks in the Watch app. Add nine Smart Stack widgets and complications for tides, rain, forecasts, golden hour, moon phase, world moments, words, compliments, and poetry. MADE FOR THE ROOMβ€”AND THE MAC Apple TV offers a remote-first gallery of Ambient clocks and fixed dashboards. Mac brings the same destination control center to the desktop, including fullscreen Ambient Mode, dashboards, and Desktop or Notification Center widgets. Five global color themes are available where a clock supports them. Weather, sun, moon, and tide features use coarse location only with permission. There are no accounts, ads, subscriptions, or purchases, and location is never used for tracking. Built natively in SwiftUI with Reduce Motion support. Made by Luke Steuber.

Screenshots

Night Clock + Weather1 screens
Ambient Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ambient Time at Free against Night Clock + Weather's $0.99. Ambient Time also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Night Clock + Weather's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Ambient Time is free to download; Night Clock + Weather costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Night Clock + Weather versus Ambient Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNight Clock + WeatherAmbient Time
Price$0.99Free β€” better
Update frequencyβ€”Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size117 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacob DaleyLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

None

Night Clock + Weather

No in-app purchases

None

Ambient Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Night Clock + Weather free?
Night Clock + Weather costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ambient Time free?
Ambient Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Night Clock + Weather or Ambient Time have ads?
Neither Night Clock + Weather nor Ambient Time shows ads.

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