Relume Clock vs Needless Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Relume Clock
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Relume Clock(レリュームクロック)は、レトロなドット絵スタイルのデジタル時計アプリです。 使わなくなったスマホを、デスクやベッドサイドのおしゃれなインテリアとして再利用しませんか? 【主な機能】 懐かしいドットマトリクスデザイン 月間カレンダー表示 気分で選べる豊富なカラーテーマ 視認性の高いデジタル表示 集中力を高めるポモドーロタイマー シンプルで使いやすい通常タイマー あなたのデスク周りを、少しだけ特別な空間にします。 【無料でお使いいただけます】 時計、ポモドーロ、タイマーなどの基本機能はすべて無料で利用可能です。 広告は「設定画面」にのみ表示されるため、時計として使っている間はデザインを損なうことなく快適にお使いいただけます。
Needless Clock
Experience 14 unique, animated clock worlds that transform time into captivating motion. These living clocks offer a tranquil visual experience for your desk or bedside, with interactive elements and customizable displays.
- 14 living, animated clock worlds
- Interactive elements within clock scenes
- Customizable display options
- Night dimming schedule
- Cross-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV)
- No account, ads, or tracking
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14 living, animated clock worlds for your desk and bedside. Fish, birds, ants, cars, calligraphy and more turn real time into motion. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. No account, no ads and no third-party tracking. The clocks run on your device. People do not open Needless Clock merely to find out the time. More often, they want the glowing screen beside them to grow quiet without becoming empty: something to glance at between tasks, a little light at night, time passing without hurrying anyone along. Needless Clock is a collection of living, animated clocks. They all keep the same real time, but each inhabits a world of its own. Fish turn through water, birds arrive from far away, ants hurry under the weight of a treat, cars follow the painted lines of a car park, and a brush writes numerals in water. At the turn of a minute the picture wakes; once everything has found its place, only small movements, wings, shadows and breathing remain. TIME HAS FOURTEEN PLACES TO GO Fish gather into figures. Touch the water and those nearby scatter, then swim home along their own curved paths. Birds perch on five wires. Some leave at the next minute, others find a new place, and now and then a distant bird crosses the clouds. Tap once and the sky sinks beneath the sea, the flock becoming fish of different forms. Ants carry biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish, winter-melon candy and leaves. Cars pull into bays. Metal blocks fall one by one. These digits are not displayed; they are made. Lotus Pond, Starry Night and Auspicious Cranes share one frame: brushstrokes paint the time across the water, and cranes fly out of the painting to form the figures. White sand crabs climb out of their burrows and line up as figures, while a few red crabs wander the beach, slipping into a burrow or strolling past. Water runs from a brush onto stone and disappears first from the finest ends of the strokes. Oracle bone, bronze, seal and clerical scripts sit beside the hands of Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Huang Tingjian, letting one numeral travel through centuries. A gnomon casts its shadow among the twelve Earthly Branches, its length changing through the twenty-four solar terms. There is also a wall of cooperating clock faces, a luminous word clock, figures revealed by paper and shadow, and mechanical flaps that fall like those once heard in stations and airports. GOOD JUST LEFT THERE Swipe to move between clocks. Tap to change a material, colour or world. Or choose a few favourites and let them rotate by themselves, from every minute to every hour. At night the display can dim on your schedule. Keep the screen awake, or hide the title, date and time zone until only time remains. It belongs on an iPhone stand, across an iPad, beside a Mac workspace, or spread quietly over the television in a living room. A MOMENT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU On supported devices, Share waits for the next minute. It keeps the stillness before the change and stops after the movement has come to rest, making a short clock film to save or send. No account, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The clocks and their calculations stay on the device. Location is off by default and, if enabled, is used only to let the car park grow dark near your own sunset. Supports Reduce Motion and VoiceOver. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. All clocks now support portrait and landscape on iPhone and iPad, including upside-down portrait. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while. New: a staircase clock with three architectural designs. Home Screen widgets offer 10 clock styles, with a design and time zone for each widget. Update timing is managed by the system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Needless Clock at none against Relume Clock's 1. Needless Clock also leads on ads (none vs shown). Relume Clock's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Relume Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Needless Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Relume Clock | Needless Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daisuke Oide | 路 林 |
In-app purchases
Relume Clock
- プレミアムプラン$5.99
Needless Clock
No in-app purchases
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