Comparison

Clock Buddy vs UTC Face

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

Head to head
About

Clock Buddy

Easily track multiple world times directly on your Apple Watch. Customize city labels, abbreviations, and colors for quick identification. Choose between compact or dense complications for your watch face.

Highlights
  • Display multiple world times
  • Customizable city labels and colors
  • Rectangular watch face complications
  • Compact and dense complication options
  • Minute-by-minute time updates
Features
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World Clock Buddy keeps the times you care about right on your Apple Watch. Add up to six cities, then check them from the watch app or from a rectangular complication on your watch face. Each city gets a clear label, airport-style abbreviation, and color, so you can spot London, New York, Tokyo, or home without doing the usual mental math. Choose the compact complication for a cleaner glance, or the dense one when you want more cities visible at once. Times update by the minute and stay easy to read, even when your wrist is only up for a second. Built for travelers, remote teams, long-distance friends, and anyone who just wants world time without opening a full app.

About

UTC Face

Display city times and UTC offsets on your Apple Watch face with large, readable text. Manage your city list on your iPhone, with offline support for 50 built-in cities and online search for others. Automatic daylight saving updates ensure accuracy.

Highlights
  • Large, readable city times on watch face
  • Displays city code and UTC offset
  • Supports large rectangular complication slots
  • Manage city list via iPhone app
  • Offline support for 50 built-in cities
  • Automatic daylight saving updates
  • No ads, analytics, or accounts
Features
Currently charting
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UTC Face: World Clock puts a city's time on your Apple Watch face in type large enough to read at a glance. The built-in world clock complication is small. This one uses the whole slot: the city's three-letter code, its UTC offset, and the time — in the same large, rounded, monospaced face as your watch's own clock. HOW IT WORKS • Edit your watch face and add UTC Face to a large rectangular complication slot — Modular Duo, Modular, Infograph Modular, or any face with one. • Tap the slot again to choose which city it shows. • Put a second one in the other slot for a different city. YOUR CITY LIST • Manage your cities in the iPhone app: add, remove, reorder. • Changes sync to your watch automatically. • 50 built-in cities covering every major time zone, available offline. • Unlimited online search for anywhere else. • UTC is always there. ACCURATE • Updates on the minute, aligned to the minute boundary — no drift. • Daylight saving changes are handled automatically for every city. PRIVATE • No accounts, no analytics, no ads. • Your city list stays on your devices. There is no server. Requires iOS 26 and watchOS 26.

Screenshots

UTC Face4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clock Buddy at Free against UTC Face's $0.99. UTC Face's advantage is chart position (#196 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Clock Buddy is free to download; UTC Face costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clock Buddy against 5.0 for UTC Face. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clock Buddy ships an update every 4 days, UTC Face every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Clock Buddy versus UTC Face: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClock BuddyUTC Face
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#196 — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartian Code OyIbrahim Poyraz

Customer experience

Clock Buddy

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

UTC Face

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Clock Buddy

No in-app purchases

None

UTC Face

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clock Buddy free?
Clock Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is UTC Face free?
UTC Face costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clock Buddy or UTC Face?
Clock Buddy and UTC Face are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Clock Buddy or UTC Face have ads?
Neither Clock Buddy nor UTC Face shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clock Buddy or UTC Face?
Clock Buddy ships an update every 4 days, and UTC Face every 6 days. Most recently, Clock Buddy was updated on October 19, 2026 and UTC Face on October 26, 2026.

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