Comparison

TDash vs Needless Clock

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

Head to head
About

TDash

This app provides a focused driving information dashboard for Tesla owners, displaying speed, range, charging status, and vehicle condition directly from your car via Bluetooth. It prioritizes privacy with no account login or cloud relay, offering a cleaner alternative to the standard vehicle interface.

Highlights
  • Local Bluetooth connection
  • Focused driving display
  • Comprehensive vehicle data
  • Vehicle status at a glance
  • Customizable themes
  • No account required
Features
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TDash is a driving information dashboard built for Tesla owners. It connects to your vehicle over Bluetooth — locally, on your device — and displays speed, range, charging status, and vehicle condition at a glance. No Tesla account login required. No cloud relay. No sign-up. If you have ever wished for a cleaner, lighter, more focused instrument cluster on your phone, that is exactly what TDash is for. CORE FEATURES • Local Bluetooth Connection Pairs directly with your vehicle via Bluetooth. Authorization, key storage, and data display all happen on your device — no account system or remote server in the loop. GPS speed measurement serves as a fallback when Bluetooth is unstable, ensuring speed is always displayed for users. • Focused Dashboard Experience A single, purpose-built driving display. See your speed, power output, range, and charging state without navigating through menus. • Comprehensive Vehicle Data View speed, gear, drive power, regen braking, battery level, usable battery, estimated range, charging power, voltage, current, and time to full charge — all on one screen. • Vehicle Status at a Glance Check lock state, doors, frunk, trunk, charge port, cabin and outside temperature, climate controls, defrosters, and tire pressure. • Customizable Themes Adjust accent colors and font styles to match your preference. Make the dashboard yours. PRIVACY & SECURITY • No account registration. No Tesla credentials required. • Pairing keys are generated on-device and stored in the iOS Keychain. • Current version processes data locally — no advertising trackers, no user profiling. • Permissions are limited to what Bluetooth scanning, connection, and pairing require. • Location permission is used solely to obtain speed via GPS as a fallback display during Bluetooth instability. No user data is collected. WHO IT IS FOR • Owners who want a cleaner, more direct way to view driving data. • Drivers who care about speed, range, charging, and vehicle condition — not complex cloud-based remote controls. • Anyone who prefers to keep vehicle credentials off third-party servers. COMPATIBILITY • Communicates with Tesla vehicles equipped with Bluetooth (BLE). • Some features may vary by model, vehicle software version, region, or system configuration. IMPORTANT • This is an independent third-party app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Tesla, Inc. • Tesla® is a registered trademark of Tesla, Inc. • Bluetooth access is required for vehicle scanning, connection, pairing, and data reading. Support: xudehui_work@163.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://githubxdh.github.io/tdash-legal/tdash-privacy-policy.html

About

Needless Clock

This app offers a collection of living, animated clocks that display time through unique visual narratives. Interact with the scenes to alter elements and enjoy a calming visual experience that goes beyond simple timekeeping.

Highlights
  • Living, animated clock designs
  • Interactive visual elements
  • Customizable clock scenes
  • Scheduled display dimming
  • Short clock film creation
  • No ads or third-party tracking
Features
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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 TWELVE 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. 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. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while.

Screenshots

TDash4 screens
Needless Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Needless Clock at Free against TDash's $3.99. Needless Clock also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and device support (4 vs 1). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Needless Clock is free to download; TDash costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Needless Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TDash ships an update every 6 days, Needless Clock every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TDash versus Needless Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTDashNeedless Clock
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDehui Xu路 林

Customer experience

TDash

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Needless Clock

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TDash

No in-app purchases

None

Needless Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TDash free?
TDash costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Needless Clock free?
Needless Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TDash or Needless Clock?
Needless Clock is rated higher. TDash averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Needless Clock averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do TDash or Needless Clock have ads?
Neither TDash nor Needless Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TDash or Needless Clock?
TDash ships an update every 6 days, and Needless Clock every 3 days. Most recently, TDash was updated on October 11, 2026 and Needless Clock on October 10, 2026.

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