Comparison

NanoLuna vs nGeneTime

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

Head to head
About

NanoLuna

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NanoLuna undergoes a massive V2 evolution! NanoLuna is a smart calendar app designed for users with complex holiday schedules. Say goodbye to the daily struggle of deciding whether to set an alarm for tomorrow. 【What's New: Flexible Groups & Visual Timeline】 • Group Alarms: Break free from single-alarm limits. Setup custom alarms automatically categorized by "Workday", "Weekend", and "Holiday" groups. Support for up to 5 alarms per group. • Innovative Timeline View: A new dedicated rule management page. Swipe the timeline to visually review and organize all your alarm schedules. • Smart Wake Now Free: Our premium "Smart Alarm" waking strategy is completely unlocked and permanently free for all users! • UI/UX Overhaul: Modern visual redesign for smoother and better interaction. 【Smart Holiday Alarms】 • Automatically recognizes workdays, statutory holidays, weekends, and make-up days. • Rings on workdays, silences on holidays, and rings as usual on make-up workdays. • Supports Siri Shortcuts to voice-control native system alarms. • Custom ringtones supported (up to 30 seconds). 【Night Clock】 • Night Clock: a fullscreen landscape clock designed for bedside viewing. 【Beautiful Desktop Widgets】 • 3 Sizes: Small (Today Glance), Medium (Month View + Holidays), Large (Comprehensive info). • Real-time lunar calendar, solar terms, and holiday countdowns. • iOS frosted glass design blending seamlessly onto your home screen. 【Lunar & Traditional Calendars】 • Precise Gregorian-Lunar conversion (1900-2100). • Exact dates for 24 Solar Terms. • Traditional Almanac dos and don'ts. • Countdown to the next holiday for easy tracking. 【Multi-Region Support】 • China: Complete statutory holidays + adjusted make-up workdays. • Japan: Public holiday calendar. • Korea: Public holiday calendar. • Auto-detects device region with smart recommendations. Download NanoLuna and make every morning anxiety-free.

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nGeneTime

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nGeneTime combines a kinetic desk clock, weather, a monthly calendar watermark, a solar-term calendar with Four Pillars, and line casting for The Book of Change. IPHONE DESK CLOCK Rotate to landscape for magnetic motion and hourglass-style disappearance effects. - Choose 12-hour or 24-hour time, optional seconds, and compact or full dates. - View local weather in Celsius or Fahrenheit. - Drag and pinch the title, date, weather, and optional pillar display to move and resize them. - Use Date Size, Weather Size, and Pillar Size sliders in Clock Settings. - Show or hide the header and double-tap the visible title to edit it. Defaults are 12-hour time, hidden seconds, compact dates, Celsius, and a hidden header. MONTH, DAY, AND HOUR PILLARS Optionally display the current month, day, and hour pillars in Chinese characters on one compact line, separated by colons with no labels or spaces. - Off by default; enable in Clock Settings. - Drag to move, pinch to resize, or use Pillar Size. - Position and size are saved, with an independent reset. - Uses the portrait calendar's saved time zone and calculation mode. MONTHLY CALENDAR WATERMARK Optionally display the full current Gregorian month behind the clock. - Drag to move, pinch to resize, or use Calendar Size. - Adjust opacity and choose today's highlight color. - Start weeks on Sunday or Monday. - Lock against accidental movement and resizing. - Reset position and size independently. The watermark follows the device's local date and time zone. Today's colored marker remains visible as the calendar fades. Preferences and layout are saved automatically. PORTRAIT CALENDAR Rotate to portrait for lunar dates, day pillars, current Four Pillars, solar-term transitions, and date-selectable hour-pillar tables. Live Four Pillars shows the current time. Selecting a date changes the selected-date hour-pillar table. LONGITUDE-TO-TIME GLOBE Rotate, tilt, and zoom. View latitude and longitude, compare the selected time-zone reference meridian with the longitude used for correction, and follow five one-hour longitude guides with corresponding clocks. Simplified civil time-zone boundaries are optional. CALCULATION BASIS Choose Time-zone or Longitude-corrected time. Time-zone uses the selected civil time zone for all four pillars. With usable location, Longitude-corrected time applies a longitude adjustment from the selected time-zone reference meridian to all four. Without usable location, the selected time-zone basis is used. Latitude positions the globe marker; longitude determines the correction. The year pillar changes at the Beginning of Spring, not January 1. The month pillar changes at its solar-term boundary, not the start of the Gregorian month. Boundary times use the selected time zone. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS - Calendar: Month, lunar dates, day pillars, and solar-term boundary - Four Pillars: Current hour, day, month, and year pillars - Hour Pillars: Twelve intervals with the current interval highlighted THE BOOK OF CHANGE Cast lines from a running timer's hundredth-second value: odd creates a whole line, even a broken line. Six lines form a set; multiple sets can be reviewed. Line casting and visual review are provided, without a complete digital edition, translation, commentary, or interpretation. APPLE WATCH - Current time and Four Pillars - Solar-term-based year and month pillars - Optional longitude-corrected pillar time - Monthly calendar and selected-date hour pillars - Timer presets, custom durations of 1-180 minutes, progress, and vibration patterns - Circular and corner day/hour-pillar complications with active timer countdowns PRIVACY Location is optional. Weather sends coordinates to Apple Weather or Open-Meteo. The calendar may use IP-based approximate location when Core Location is unavailable. Calendar and pillar calculations run on-device. No account is required. Information is not used for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Screenshots

NanoLuna4 screens
nGeneTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: nGeneTime at none against NanoLuna's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. NanoLuna sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. nGeneTime asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NanoLuna ships an update every 2 weeks, nGeneTime every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
NanoLuna versus nGeneTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNanoLunanGeneTime
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer恒俭 董Hyunsuk Roh

In-app purchases

1 purchases

NanoLuna

One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$0.99
None

nGeneTime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NanoLuna free?
NanoLuna is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is nGeneTime free?
nGeneTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NanoLuna or nGeneTime have ads?
Neither NanoLuna nor nGeneTime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NanoLuna or nGeneTime?
NanoLuna ships an update every 2 weeks, and nGeneTime every 10 days. Most recently, NanoLuna was updated on October 31, 2026 and nGeneTime on November 5, 2026.

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