Minimal Digital Clock vs Exact Seconds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minimal Digital Clock
This app offers a clean, landscape-oriented digital clock experience for your desk or nightstand. It features elegant clock skins, ambient fullscreen effects, and useful tools like a timer and stopwatch.
- Elegant clock skins
- Ambient fullscreen effects
- Optional background music
- Timer, countdown, stopwatch
- Customizable display options
- Bilingual interface
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Minimal Digital Clock is a clean, landscape-first digital clock designed for your desk, nightstand, and StandBy-style viewing. FEATURES • Multiple elegant clock skins with distinctive typography • Ambient fullscreen effects — snow, stars, bubbles, and more • Optional background music for a calm atmosphere • Timer, countdown, and stopwatch • Customize display: weekday, date, seconds, 24-hour format • Bilingual interface (English / Chinese) Minimal Clock focuses on what matters — time, beautifully displayed. Core features work without an account. Privacy Policy: https://simpledigitalclock.com/privacy/en Terms of Service: https://simpledigitalclock.com/terms/en
Exact Seconds
This utility displays the current time with second-level precision, offering a large, readable clock and customizable widgets for your home and lock screens. It's designed for situations where exact timing is crucial, providing a clean and focused experience without ads or tracking.
- Large in-app clock with live seconds
- Home Screen widget with live seconds
- Lock Screen widget with live seconds
- Customizable widget appearance
- Multiple in-app clock colors
- Optional in-app date display
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Exact Seconds is a clean, focused clock that shows the current time down to the second. Use it whenever precise timing matters: coordinate an exact moment, check the current second at a glance, or keep a large, easy-to-read clock open on your iPhone. CUSTOMIZABLE LIVE CLOCK Choose the appearance that works best for you. Set the time format, clock color, background, and optional date display directly in the app. LIVE SECONDS WIDGETS Keep the exact time visible without opening the app. Exact Seconds supports Home Screen widgets, a Lock Screen widget, and supported CarPlay displays. Choose from multiple widget sizes and customize their appearance with built-in themes or independent background, time, and date colors. Appearance changes apply to existing widgets without requiring you to remove and add them again. Features: • Large in-app clock with live seconds • Home Screen widgets with live seconds • Lock Screen widget with live seconds • CarPlay widget support • Multiple widget sizes • 12 built-in widget themes • Independent background, time, and date colors • System, 12-hour, and 24-hour time formats • Live seconds preserved in every time format • Multiple in-app clock colors • Black or white in-app background • Optional in-app date display • No account required • No ads • No advertising or cross-app tracking Exact Seconds uses your iPhone system time. For the best accuracy, keep Set Automatically enabled in iOS Date & Time settings. Exact Seconds uses limited anonymous analytics to understand whether widgets remain active over time and to improve widget reliability. This analytics does not use IDFA and is not used for advertising or cross-app tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minimal Digital Clock at 5.0 against Exact Seconds's 4.2. Minimal Digital Clock also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Exact Seconds's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Minimal Digital Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Exact Seconds has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Minimal Digital Clock ships an update every 3 weeks, Exact Seconds every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimal Digital Clock | Exact Seconds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 东锣 杨 | Vagram Malkhasian |
Customer experience
Minimal Digital Clock
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In-app purchases
Minimal Digital Clock
No in-app purchases
Exact Seconds
No in-app purchases
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