Comparison

WorldClock Zones Pro vs Needless Clock

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

Head to head
About

WorldClock Zones Pro

Features
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WorldClock is a tiny world clock with a built-in meeting planner. KEY FEATURES - Live ticking clocks for as many cities as you want - Day or night sun-and-moon icon next to each city - Reorder, edit, delete any city - Search 16+ preset cities to add in one tap - Meeting tab: pick a moment, see local time + working hours band in every city - Everything stays on your device — no accounts, no tracking Perfect for remote teams, travelers, families across borders, and anyone scheduling across zones. Lightweight. Private. Free. Forever.

About

Needless Clock

This app offers a collection of living, animated clocks that display time through unique visual narratives. Interact with the scenes to alter elements and enjoy a calming visual experience that goes beyond simple timekeeping.

Highlights
  • Living, animated clock designs
  • Interactive visual elements
  • Customizable clock scenes
  • Scheduled display dimming
  • Short clock film creation
  • No ads or third-party tracking
Features
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People do not open Needless Clock merely to find out the time. More often, they want the glowing screen beside them to grow quiet without becoming empty: something to glance at between tasks, a little light at night, time passing without hurrying anyone along. Needless Clock is a collection of living, animated clocks. They all keep the same real time, but each inhabits a world of its own. Fish turn through water, birds arrive from far away, ants hurry under the weight of a treat, cars follow the painted lines of a car park, and a brush writes numerals in water. At the turn of a minute the picture wakes; once everything has found its place, only small movements, wings, shadows and breathing remain. TIME HAS TWELVE PLACES TO GO Fish gather into figures. Touch the water and those nearby scatter, then swim home along their own curved paths. Birds perch on five wires. Some leave at the next minute, others find a new place, and now and then a distant bird crosses the clouds. Tap once and the sky sinks beneath the sea, the flock becoming fish of different forms. Ants carry biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish, winter-melon candy and leaves. Cars pull into bays. Metal blocks fall one by one. These digits are not displayed; they are made. Water runs from a brush onto stone and disappears first from the finest ends of the strokes. Oracle bone, bronze, seal and clerical scripts sit beside the hands of Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Huang Tingjian, letting one numeral travel through centuries. A gnomon casts its shadow among the twelve Earthly Branches, its length changing through the twenty-four solar terms. There is also a wall of cooperating clock faces, a luminous word clock, figures revealed by paper and shadow, and mechanical flaps that fall like those once heard in stations and airports. GOOD JUST LEFT THERE Swipe to move between clocks. Tap to change a material, colour or world. Or choose a few favourites and let them rotate by themselves, from every minute to every hour. At night the display can dim on your schedule. Keep the screen awake, or hide the title, date and time zone until only time remains. It belongs on an iPhone stand, across an iPad, beside a Mac workspace, or spread quietly over the television in a living room. A MOMENT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU On supported devices, Share waits for the next minute. It keeps the stillness before the change and stops after the movement has come to rest, making a short clock film to save or send. No account, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The clocks and their calculations stay on the device. Location is off by default and, if enabled, is used only to let the car park grow dark near your own sunset. Supports Reduce Motion and VoiceOver. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while.

Screenshots

WorldClock Zones Pro3 screens
Needless Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Needless Clock at 4 against WorldClock Zones Pro's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
WorldClock Zones Pro versus Needless Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorldClock Zones ProNeedless Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLEAN ASIA CO., LTD路 林

In-app purchases

None

WorldClock Zones Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Needless Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WorldClock Zones Pro free?
WorldClock Zones Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Needless Clock free?
Needless Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WorldClock Zones Pro or Needless Clock have ads?
Neither WorldClock Zones Pro nor Needless Clock shows ads.

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