Comparison

Clock Widgets vs Minimal Clock

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

Head to head
About

Clock Widgets

Features
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Your Home Screen already tells the time. It could do it with style. Clock Widgets is a gallery of 34 clock faces: a flip board that snaps over on the minute, a green phosphor terminal, time spelled out in a grid of words, an odometer that rolls the digits, dots and dashes for anyone who reads Morse. Pick one, tap once, and your widget is wearing it. Eleven faces are free. The other 23 โ€” nixie tubes, a Swiss railway dial, split-flap boards, crystals, matchsticks, a sci-fi HUD โ€” open with Clock Widgets Pro, a paid subscription that also includes every face added later. Everything else is free and stays that way: all widget sizes, small through large and extra large on iPad; Stand By, the fullscreen bedside clock that holds the screen awake while the phone charges on its side; 12 or 24-hour time, date on or off, any city's time zone. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party code. The app makes no network requests at all โ€” which is why every clock keeps perfect time in airplane mode. For the desk that deserves better than the default. For the nightstand at three in the morning. For anyone who has rearranged their Home Screen twice in one evening. Clock Widgets Pro renews monthly or yearly until you cancel; the price for your country appears in the app before anything is charged. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Minimal Clock

Features
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Minimal Clock puts a real retro digital clock on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. It is the authentic 7-segment LCD look, not a plain font dressed up to resemble one. THE LOOK The time is drawn in a true DSEG7 7-segment typeface with a "ghost segments" effect: the unlit segments sit faintly behind the lit digits, exactly like a physical digital clock. FIVE WIDGETS โ€ข Clock + Date โ€” time, weekday, and date โ€ข Clock Only โ€” a large, legible clock โ€ข Date & Day โ€” the full weekday and date โ€ข World Clock โ€” your local time plus one or two cities (Pro) โ€ข World Cities โ€” up to three cities, no local clock (Pro) WORLD CLOCK Keep other time zones on your Home Screen. The city picker searches every time zone, shows each city's UTC offset, and marks a day difference (+1 / โˆ’1) for cities already on tomorrow or still on yesterday. FIVE THEMES, TWO FONTS Pick a theme for each widget: Dark, Light, Clear (transparent), Green (retro VFD), or Red (retro LED). Choose the LCD (Retro) 7-segment font or a monospace Terminal font. Every placed widget can look different. COLORS, LABEL, AND NIGHT MODE (PRO) Five display colors sit on top of any theme: amber, ice blue, cyan, violet, and rose. Add a short label of your own under the clock. Switch on night mode and the StandBy clock dims to a soft red, so it won't light up a dark room. WHEREVER YOU NEED THE TIME Small and Medium on the Home Screen, rectangular, circular, and inline Lock Screen widgets, and StandBy support so it works as a bedside desk clock. The world clocks come in Small, Medium and rectangular. The clock follows your device's 12/24-hour and first-day-of-week settings, and the date and weekday follow your locale. City names are shown in English. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Minimal Clock Pro is one purchase, not a subscription. The three core clock widgets, all five themes, both fonts, Lock Screen, and StandBy stay free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no network, no tracking, no data collection. Nothing leaves your device.

Screenshots

Clock Widgets4 screens
Minimal Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Minimal Clock at 17.0 against Clock Widgets's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Clock Widgets sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Minimal Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clock Widgets ships an update every 4 weeks, Minimal Clock every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Clock Widgets versus Minimal Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClock WidgetsMinimal Clock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks โ€” betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNadzeya YashchukYechiel Ben David

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Clock Widgets

Subscriptions2
  • Clock Widgets Pro monthly$1.991 Month
  • Clock Widgets Pro yearly$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Minimal Clock

One-time1
  • World Clock Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Clock Widgets free?
Clock Widgets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Minimal Clock free?
Minimal Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clock Widgets or Minimal Clock have ads?
Neither Clock Widgets nor Minimal Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clock Widgets or Minimal Clock?
Clock Widgets ships an update every 4 weeks, and Minimal Clock every 6 weeks. Most recently, Clock Widgets was updated on October 7, 2026 and Minimal Clock on October 9, 2026.

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