StandBy Hub vs Clock Stand
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StandBy Hub
Enhance your iPhone's StandBy mode with a customizable nightstand display. Add clocks, calendars, weather, countdowns, and more to create a personalized dashboard. Supports various widget sizes and Lock Screen integration.
- Customizable nightstand display for StandBy mode
- Eleven widget types including clocks, calendar, weather, and battery
- Multiple clock styles: digital, analog, pixel art, flip clock
- Calendar views: date block, agenda, timeline, up next, cards
- Countdown timer for events and anniversaries
- Smart dashboard combining multiple widgets
- Thirteen font options for personalization
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StandBy Hub turns your iPhone's StandBy mode into a real nightstand display. Clocks, calendar, weather, countdowns and more — on their own or combined into a custom dashboard. For StandBy (iPhone on its side while charging) and the Home Screen — in small, medium, large and extra large portrait (4 × 6) on iOS 27. Six widgets also work on the Lock Screen. ELEVEN WIDGETS • Clock — digital, analog, pixel art, flip clock, binary • Calendar — your next events, in five views • Weather — temperature with the daily high and low • Battery — charge level in six styles: percent, ring, glyph, segments, level, column • Moon Phase — the current phase, in real time • Countdown — the days until, or the days since • Water — tap the glasses right in the widget, in nine shapes • Mood — one tap a day, with history and streak, in eight styles • Year Progress — eight styles: bar, percent, ring, dots, months, level, column, days left • Photo — your own images • Dashboard — several of the above in a single widget NINE CLOCKS Pick the style that fits you: • Digital — Clean, modern, easy to read • Analog — Timeless round clock face • Pixel Art — 12 playful scenes, free • Stacked — Hour over minute, readable across the room • Flip Clock — Retro split-flap charm (Pro) • Binary — For the geeks among us (Pro) • Word Clock — the time as a sentence in a letter grid (Pro) • Dot Matrix — dot-matrix face like a travel clock (Pro) • Ticker — scrolling band with a progress bar (Pro) CALENDAR — FIVE VIEWS • Date Block — tear-off date on the left, agenda on the right (free) • Agenda — time column and titles, grouped by day (free) • Timeline — vertical time axis with a colored dot per event (Pro) • Up Next — the next event up front, plus relative time (Pro) • Cards — each event as a card in its calendar color (Pro) COUNTDOWN Count down the days to the big moment — or count up the days since. • Events with date and time • "Days since" mode for anniversaries • Yearly repeat for birthdays & holidays • Live timer on the final day, down to the second • Nine styles: number, units (d/h/min), ring and dots free — tally, hero, triple ring, timeline and stamp (Pro) • Multiple events with their own background and color (Pro) SMART DASHBOARD Why settle for one widget? Combine clock, calendar, weather, battery, moon phase, photo, countdown, year progress, water and mood into a single one — up to 6 tiles, up to 10 on extra large portrait and up to 8 on iPad. • Live builder with drag-and-drop reordering • Save your favorite layouts • Custom design per slot (Pro) • Water and mood stay tappable as tiles (Pro) THIRTEEN FONTS System, Space Grotesk, Fredoka and Orbitron are free. Pro adds Cinzel, Fraunces, Silkscreen, DotGothic16, Monoton, Bungee, Kanit, Sixtyfour and Codystar — from travel-clock dot matrix to neon tube. The font is set per widget, not app-wide. STANDBY PREVIEW Try any widget right inside the app in a landscape nightstand preview — including night mode. MAKE IT YOURS • 47 backgrounds in seven families: gradients, animated effects, calm, mesh, texture, craft and 12 pixel scenes — 21 of them free, plus a custom color and your own image • Per-widget accent colors (Pro) • Colors that shift with the time of day (Pro) • Light & dark theme • English, German & Spanish • Celsius or Fahrenheit PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION One purchase unlocks everything: every clock style, every countdown style, the three Pro calendar views, the nine Pro fonts, all backgrounds, the battery styles, custom slot designs, time-of-day colors and as many widgets per type as you like. Pay once, keep it forever. No subscription, no renewal. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your events, moods and photos stay on the device — only the coordinates go to Open-Meteo for the weather. Requires iOS 17 or later.
Clock Stand
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Clock Stand turns your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful, always-on clock for your desk or nightstand — and it's completely free. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account. No catch. Just a gorgeous clock. A DOZEN GORGEOUS THEMES Make it yours and match any room — switch live, day or night: • Digital faces — Midnight, Paper, Sunset, Forest, retro Nixie, soft Ambient, and a split-flap Departures board • Artistic analog faces — Bauhaus, Aurora, Eclipse, Porcelain, and Helios • Subtle gradients and lighting: refined and modern, never garish • Big, legible time in portrait or landscape WAKE TO THE WEATHER Our signature feature: don't just wake at a set time — wake to the sky. Create a custom weather alarm that goes off when the weather turns to rain, snow, fog, thunderstorms, wind and more. Pick the condition, and Clock Stand watches the sky for you. You won't find this on your stock clock. ALARMS THAT WORK • Dependable alarms that ring even when the screen sleeps • Snooze and repeat, with in-app Stop and Snooze • See your next 24 hours of alarms right on the clock • Suggest a wake-up time from your Health sleep ALWAYS-ON, YOUR WAY • Keeps the screen awake while it's on its stand • Battery-aware: let it sleep below a set level, or stay on only while charging • Brightness slider — or just swipe left/right to dim • Auto-dim when a Focus such as Sleep is active WEATHER AT A GLANCE • Current conditions and temperature from Apple Weather • Completely optional — turn it off anytime WIDGETS • Home Screen, Lock Screen, and a Control Center toggle • Themed to match your clock MADE FOR EVERYONE • iPhone and iPad, portrait or landscape • Available in 9 languages Free, forever. No ads, no in-app purchases, no sign-up — just a beautiful clock for your space. Weather data provided by Weather.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clock Stand at none against StandBy Hub's 1. StandBy Hub's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. StandBy Hub sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clock Stand asks for nothing beyond the download.
StandBy Hub ships an update every 5 days, Clock Stand every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StandBy Hub | Clock Stand |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tom Maier | Aleksandar Pecanov |
In-app purchases
StandBy Hub
- StandBy Hub Pro$2.99
Clock Stand
No in-app purchases









