Timezone World Clock vs PianetaClock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Timezone World Clock
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Timebase is a calmer way to keep time across the world. Add the cities you care about, scrub through the day to see what time it is everywhere at once, and plan meetings that actually land at humane hours. Watch your upcoming calendar events count down on the lock screen. Glance at every city from a widget on your home screen. Designed for people who live and work across timezones ā distributed teams, remote workers, families abroad, frequent travelers, and anyone who just wants to know what time it is somewhere else right now. ā FEATURES ā WORLD CLOCK ⢠Up to 8 cities, automatically ordered by timezone offset ⢠Time-of-day gradients that flow with the hour, anywhere on Earth ⢠Fluid parallax gradients that respond to how you hold your phone ⢠Scrub vertically through the day ā every clock moves together ⢠Tap any city for daylight and the local date MEETING PLANNER ⢠Pick participants by city, find a time that works for everyone ⢠Anchor the meeting to anyone's timezone ā your home or theirs ⢠Save straight to your calendar with one tap UP NEXT ⢠Native Apple Calendar integration ā no signup required ⢠See countdowns to your upcoming events ⢠Pull to refresh for the latest changes WIDGETS (HOME & LOCK SCREEN) ⢠Small, medium, large home screen widgets ⢠Lock screen accessory widgets (circular, rectangular, inline) ⢠Up Next countdown widgets in every size LIVE ACTIVITIES + DYNAMIC ISLAND ⢠Lock screen card for your next event with a live ticking countdown ⢠Branded gradient design that matches your event's time-of-day ⢠Glance the time-to-next-meeting from the Dynamic Island SIRI + SHORTCUTS + SPOTLIGHT ⢠"Hey Siri, what time is it in Tokyo?" ⢠Spotlight indexed ā search any of your cities from anywhere on iOS ⢠Quick actions on app icon long-press CONTROL CENTER ⢠One-tap Timebase tile (iOS 18+) ALSO ⢠Auto-rotating app icon that changes through the day ⢠Multiple alternate app icons ⢠Full iCloud sync across your devices ⢠No accounts, no signup, no tracking PRIVACY Timebase does not collect, store, or sell your data. Cities, settings, and calendar access stay on your device or sync via your own iCloud account. Crafted by @amrith.
PianetaClock
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Pianeta Clock tells you what time it is on the other seven planets, worked out the way a mission does it. Not an offset from a clock on Earth. Every reading comes from the same published constants a spacecraft navigator uses: the IAU Working Group's rotation elements for how each world turns, and JPL's orbital elements for where it is. The Mars readings are checked against NASA GISS's Mars24, the reference implementation of Mars solar time. WHAT IT SHOWS ⢠Local mean solar time, the uniform clock that never stalls or runs backwards ⢠True solar time, where noon is the moment the Sun actually crosses the meridian, and the equation of time between the two ⢠The day count each world's own convention uses: Mars Sol Date, Modified Julian Day, and mission sols counted from a lander's own clock epoch, so the number matches the one NASA publishes ⢠Solar longitude and the season it marks ⢠How far the planet is right now, how long a radio signal takes to cross that, and when it next lines up with Earth and the Sun THE ORBIT A top-down drawing of both orbits with the angle between Earth and the planet as it stands. Eccentricity is drawn as it really is, so Mercury's orbit sits visibly off-centre from the Sun, which is the same 0.206 that makes its Sun reverse direction near perihelion. Drag along the row of planets and the diagram follows your finger, world by world. TWO KINDS OF HOUR Every mission divides its day into 24 hours however long that day lasts, which makes a Martian second 1.0275 of ours and a Jovian second 0.414. You can have that, or you can keep the second and let the day run to however many hours it actually takes. Mars ends at 24:39. Mercury ends at 4222:28. PIANETA TIMER A focus session counted in another world's minutes. Twenty-five of them is ten Earth minutes on Jupiter, twenty-six on Mars, and three Earth days on Mercury, and every figure is shown with its Earth equivalent beside it so nothing surprises you. It runs on the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island, and when it ends it says which world it was counting. While it runs, a pulse shows how far light launched at the start has travelled toward the planet, and bounces when the session outlasts the crossing. WIDGETS A dial or an orbit on the Home Screen, in whatever configuration you choose, and timers with a start button you can press without opening anything. DRAWN, NOT PHOTOGRAPHED Every world is drawn from shapes rather than an image, so it stays sharp at any size, and it is drawn from what is actually there. Jupiter's belts at their own widths, with the Great Red Spot on the one it has sat on for as long as anyone has looked. Mars's dark swath and cratered highlands. Saturn's rings with the Cassini Division left as the gap it is. Where there is more than one honest answer you choose. Venus has no visible surface at all, so you pick between the cloud deck an eye sees and the radar map Magellan made through it. Earth has three faces, and whose coastline shows is yours to decide. Saturn's globe can match the other planets or its rings can. PRIVACY It collects nothing, sends nothing, and never reaches the network. Your settings live in the app's own storage on your device.
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Verdict
Timezone World Clock and PianetaClock are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Timezone World Clock | PianetaClock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amrith Shanbhag | RUOMENG XU |
In-app purchases
Timezone World Clock
No in-app purchases
PianetaClock
No in-app purchases
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