Comparison

Inventory Scanner vs Ambient Time

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

Head to head
About

Inventory Scanner

Features
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Inventory Scanner helps you capture barcodes into clean, organized sessions so you can stop juggling notes, screenshots, and spreadsheets. Create a group for each box, shelf, order, delivery, audit, or stock count, then scan items as you work. Switch groups any time, review your session in one place, export a structured CSV, or save sessions to your private iCloud archive for automatic sync across your devices. Use Inventory Scanner to: β€’ Scan barcodes quickly with your iPhone camera β€’ Organize scans by group name β€’ Prevent duplicate captures β€’ Export results as CSV with one tap β€’ Save sessions privately to iCloud β€’ Reopen archived sessions and export them later Perfect for inventory counts, warehouse workflows, receiving, shelf checks, order packing, asset tracking, and field audits.

About

Ambient Time

Features
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Put time where it belongs: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or the biggest display in the room. Ambient Time is a native collection of clocks and useful glances. Explore 47 ways to read the moment on iPhone and iPadβ€”from precise word grids and binary displays to astronomy, weather, mathematics, and generative art. ONE HOME FOR EVERY SCREEN The destination-first control center organizes Widgets, Apple Watch, TV & Displays, Clocks, and Instruments. Browse what fits each surface, preview it live, and choose starting defaults without pretending to control system-owned placement. CLOCKS WITH A POINT OF VIEW β€’ Word Clock spells out time in nine languages plus IPA. β€’ Cosmic brings the sun, moon, horizon, and zodiac into one quiet astrolabe. β€’ Tide follows local predictions and highlights the next high or low. β€’ ASCII World Clock wraps global hours around a text-art globe. β€’ Moon Track follows the live lunar phase. β€’ About Time turns optimistic phrases into the hands of a clock. β€’ Inkwell Ledger lets the day unfold as a handwritten journal. β€’ Mandaza draws a generative clock that never repeats exactly. WIDGETS MADE FOR THEIR SPACE Ambient Time groups Home Screen clocks and information widgets by size, so every layout stays clear and useful. Because the Lock Screen already shows Apple's clock, Ambient Time adds context instead: moon phase, golden hour, rain, tides, and poetry in Inline, Circular, and Rectangular forms. A CALMER GLANCE ON APPLE WATCH Choose from six legible clocks in the Watch app. Add nine Smart Stack widgets and complications for tides, rain, forecasts, golden hour, moon phase, world moments, words, compliments, and poetry. MADE FOR THE ROOMβ€”AND THE MAC Apple TV offers a remote-first gallery of Ambient clocks and fixed dashboards. Mac brings the same destination control center to the desktop, including fullscreen Ambient Mode, dashboards, and Desktop or Notification Center widgets. Five global color themes are available where a clock supports them. Weather, sun, moon, and tide features use coarse location only with permission. There are no accounts, ads, subscriptions, or purchases, and location is never used for tracking. Built natively in SwiftUI with Reduce Motion support. Made by Luke Steuber.

Screenshots

Inventory Scanner4 screens
Ambient Time4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ambient Time at none against Inventory Scanner's 1. Ambient Time also leads on device support (5 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Inventory Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ambient Time asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Inventory Scanner versus Ambient Time: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInventory ScannerAmbient Time
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS18.617.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size5 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaaDoTaaLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Inventory Scanner

One-time1
  • Full Unlock$4.99
None

Ambient Time

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inventory Scanner free?
Inventory Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ambient Time free?
Ambient Time is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Inventory Scanner or Ambient Time have ads?
Neither Inventory Scanner nor Ambient Time shows ads.

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