Comparison

LumaClock vs Anywhen

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

Anywhen

Features
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Anywhen is a world clock and time zone converter for people who work, travel and stay in touch across time zones. Compare the current time in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney and 100 zones at a glance, plan meetings with remote teams, and check the time difference before you call. No network, no account, no ads. Anywhen is a time zone app that stops asking you to type a time. The cursor in the middle of the screen never moves. The timeline does. Drag it sideways, like winding film, and every place you added moves at once. "When it is 9:00 in London, what time is it in Tokyo and in San Francisco?" becomes something you read instead of something you calculate. ■ Drag the time axis Let go and it keeps gliding, then settles on 15-minute steps. One tap brings you back to now. A calendar takes you to another day, keeping the time of day you were looking at. ■ See day and night Every row is painted with a day and night band computed from sunrise and sunset, so you can tell it is the middle of the night over there without reading a single number. Business hours are marked along the bottom. ■ Never miss a date change The thing people get wrong is not the hour, it is the day. Every row carries a +1 / -1 badge measured from the zone at the top of the list. ■ It never goes online Anywhen makes no network requests and has no accounts. The IANA time zone database ships inside the app, so it behaves the same in airplane mode or three floors underground. It collects nothing about you. ■ Built for VoiceOver A row is read as one sentence rather than five fragments. If dragging sideways is not an option, swipe up and down on the time in the header to move in 15-minute steps. Text size settings are followed throughout. ■ Made for • Scheduling calls and meetings with colleagues in other time zones • Business trips and travel planning in local time • Checking whether family or friends abroad are awake • Remote teams working across several time zones • Looking up the offset from UTC or GMT 100 time zones. 16 languages. No ads, no in-app purchases, no network access.

Screenshots

LumaClock4 screens
Anywhen3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anywhen at none against LumaClock's 1. Anywhen also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LumaClock ships an update every 3 days, Anywhen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
LumaClock versus Anywhen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLumaClockAnywhen
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer修武 许Roku, K.K.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LumaClock

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Access$1.99
None

Anywhen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LumaClock free?
LumaClock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Anywhen free?
Anywhen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LumaClock or Anywhen have ads?
Neither LumaClock nor Anywhen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LumaClock or Anywhen?
LumaClock ships an update every 3 days, and Anywhen every 2 days. Most recently, LumaClock was updated on October 18, 2026 and Anywhen on October 3, 2026.

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