Comparison

LumaClock vs Binary Clock

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

Head to head
About

LumaClock

Features
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LumaClock turns your iPhone or iPad into an immersive full-screen digital clock. Explore 30 carefully crafted visual styles, from clean graphic faces and animated particles to aurora-inspired scenes and star fields. Create a clock that fits your space: • Choose 12-hour or 24-hour time • Show hours and minutes, or include seconds • Show or hide the date and battery level • Switch color palettes on supported styles • Use portrait or landscape orientation on iPhone and iPad • Keep the display awake for desk, bedside, studio, or ambient use • Turn the optional ticking sound on or off • Use the app in English or Simplified Chinese Tap the clock face to hide the controls and enjoy an unobstructed display. Your selected style, color choices, and display preferences are saved on your device. Privacy by design: • No account or sign-in • No advertising or third-party analytics • Clock rendering and preferences stay on your device • An internet connection is not required for normal clock display A selection of clock styles is available without purchasing Pro. Lifetime Pro is available as a one-time, non-consumable in-app purchase that unlocks all Pro styles, additional color choices, and future Pro style releases. There is no subscription or recurring charge.

About

Binary Clock

Features
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Binary Clock turns your iPhone into a beautiful binary timepiece for your desk, nightstand, or a charging dock in landscape. Read the time the elegant way. Six columns of glowing dots show the hours, minutes, and seconds in binary, floating on a pane of Liquid Glass over slow, living artwork. LIVING BACKGROUNDS Swipe through a gallery of hand-built backgrounds that drift, glow, and breathe: - Aurora, a living color gradient - Cosmos, deep nebula with a twinkling starfield - Borealis, northern lights over a starry sky - Horizon, a cinematic sunset - Ridges, misty layered mountains - Mercury, flowing liquid metal - Artwork, an editorial sun over hills - Contemporary, minimal drifting light - Pattern, a pulsing halftone wave MADE FOR STANDBY Leave it running while charging and the screen stays awake with a calm, always-on display. A matching widget brings the binary clock to StandBy and your Lock Screen. BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN - A Liquid Glass clock face with refractive, glassy dots - Live local weather and the date - Clean controls that fade away on their own - Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad NEW TO BINARY? It is easy. Each column is one digit. A lit dot counts, from top to bottom, as 8, 4, 2, and 1. Add the lit dots in a column and you get the number. You will be reading it in a day. PRO One simple, one-time purchase unlocks every background, color themes, and the always-on standby display. No subscription, ever. Tell the time in binary. Make it art. Terms of Use (EULA): https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/binary-clock/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/binary-clock/privacy

Screenshots

LumaClock4 screens
Binary Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: LumaClock at 18.0 against Binary Clock's 26.0. On price, 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

Both are free to download. LumaClock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Binary Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LumaClock ships an update every 3 days, Binary Clock daily. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
LumaClock versus Binary Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLumaClockBinary Clock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer修武 许Super, Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LumaClock

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Access$1.99
1 purchases

Binary Clock

One-time1
  • Binary Clock Pro$2.99

Questions

Is LumaClock free?
LumaClock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Binary Clock free?
Binary Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LumaClock or Binary Clock have ads?
Neither LumaClock nor Binary Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LumaClock or Binary Clock?
LumaClock ships an update every 3 days, and Binary Clock daily. Most recently, LumaClock was updated on November 5, 2026 and Binary Clock on October 31, 2026.

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