Comparison

Dock vs Roomlight

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

Head to head
About

Dock

Transform your iPhone into a beautiful charging display with elegant clocks and an animated planetary system. Enjoy a distraction-free design perfect for your desk or nightstand, with automatic launch via shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Animated planetary system with real rotation
  • Six distinct clock styles
  • Live moon phase rendering
  • Automatic launch via Apple Shortcuts
  • Distraction-free, dark-first design
  • Screen saver timing options
Features
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The only StandBy-style dock with a living planetary system — watch the Moon, Mars and Saturn spin while your iPhone charges on your desk or nightstand. Dock transforms your iPhone into a beautiful display while charging. Inspired by StandBy mode, it brings elegant clocks, animated planets, and immersive visuals to your desk, nightstand, or workspace. SIX CLOCK STYLES • Minimal Analog, Analog, Digital, Compact Analog, Word clock, and Slider • Digital clock digits can float subtly, StandBy-style • Charging style: your battery level fills the screen behind a bold two-tone clock • Every clock works beautifully in landscape A LIVING SKY • Animated planetary system with the Moon, planets and real rotation • Live moon phase rendered on the Moon itself • Date, location and weather at a glance MADE FOR YOUR NIGHTSTAND • Clean, distraction-free, dark-first design • Screen saver timing options for overnight use • Launches automatically when you start charging, via Apple Shortcuts • Keep-screen-on while charging Whether your phone is on your desk during work or beside your bed at night, Dock turns it into a display you'll actually want to look at. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.alicorak.com/dock/privacy-policy

About

Roomlight

Features
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Roomlight turns any screen into a window. A fire actually burning. Snow actually falling on a mountainside. The Milky Way actually wheeling over a ridge line. Every scene in Roomlight is real filmed footage, chosen and cut to loop seamlessly, so what you get is a window onto somewhere calm rather than a cartoon of one. Leave it running on your phone or iPad, or send it to a TV or projector and let it fill the room. SCENES Fireplace — eight real fires: a classic hearth, a bright campfire, burnt-down coals still glowing, a Yule log, an open hearth in brick, close logs over a deep bed of coals, and a glass-fronted wood stove. Most are filmed from a fixed tripod, so nothing in the room moves at all and only the flame does — which is what you want from a fire left burning in the corner of a room. The classic hearth is free; the other seven need Full Access. Snow — six winter landscapes: a snow-laden mountain range, pine forest, a cabin in the woods, a frozen lake, country fields and a city under snowfall, with snow drifting past in the foreground. The mountain range is free; the other five need Full Access. Outdoors — thirteen scenes: a campfire at night, rain running down a window, the sea at dusk, fireflies in a forest, the northern lights over a lake, a desert sky thick with stars, a thunderstorm, rain off a roof, rain spreading in rings on a pond, rain running off pine needles, waves surging into a rock cove, bright daylight waves on pale sand, and golden-hour waves running up a beach. Campfire Night is free; the other twelve need Full Access. Lava Lamp — a slow, warm, hand-built lava lamp with real glass, molten wax and brushed metal, in a range of colours. All free. Visualiser — abstract light that moves in time with whatever is playing in the room. All six looks need Full Access. FREE TO TRY, ONE-TIME UNLOCK Roomlight is free to download. Thirteen presets come free: all ten Lava Lamp colours, plus one from each of Fireplace (the classic hearth), Snow (mountain range) and Outdoors (campfire night). The other thirty are locked. Full Access is a single, one-time in-app purchase that unlocks everything. It is not a subscription, and once you buy it, it stays yours for ever. Every feature works on the free presets: sound, sleep timer, speed and intensity controls, TV mirroring and all quality settings. SOUND Every scene can bring its own atmosphere: fire crackle, rain, wind, crickets, surf, desert night. Each one loops seamlessly with no audible restart, and it mixes with your own music rather than interrupting it. Sound is off until you ask for it. ON YOUR TV Screen Mirroring or an HDMI cable sends the scene to the big screen full-bleed, with no interface in the way. Your phone becomes the remote. MADE TO SIT IN A CORNER - Sleep timer, so it fades out on its own - Speed and intensity controls, to take any scene right down to barely moving - Balanced and Maximum quality, so an older device stays cool - Pauses itself the moment it is off screen - Works offline once installed, with no account and no sign-up PRIVACY Roomlight collects nothing. No account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Your settings stay on your device. The scenes themselves need no connection — the only time Roomlight talks to a network is to ask the App Store about Full Access, and that conversation is between your device and Apple. The microphone is used only if you switch on the music-reactive feature, is analysed live on-device, and is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere. TERMS Full Access is a one-time in-app purchase. It does not renew, there is no subscription, and you are never charged again. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dock4 screens
Roomlight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dock at weekly against Roomlight's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Dock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Roomlight sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dock ships an update weekly, Roomlight every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Dock versus Roomlight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDockRoomlight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAli CorakCORY MARK CAKSSELKL

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dock

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99
1 purchases

Roomlight

One-time1
  • Full Access$0.99

Questions

Is Dock free?
Dock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Roomlight free?
Roomlight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dock or Roomlight have ads?
Neither Dock nor Roomlight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dock or Roomlight?
Dock ships an update weekly, and Roomlight every 2 months. Most recently, Dock was updated on November 8, 2026 and Roomlight on November 10, 2026.

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