Minimal Digital Clock vs AlwaysOn
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
AlwaysOn
Transform a plugged-in iPhone into a convenient desk display. View the time, date, calendar, and weather at a glance. Features a sleep mode for nighttime use and custom display hours.
- Large digital clock display
- Current date and calendar
- Upcoming calendar events
- Local weather forecast
- Customizable display hours
- Low-brightness sleep mode
- Burn-in protection
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful desk and nightstand clock. Free, with no ads and no subscriptions. AlwaysOn shows the time, your calendar, weather and more on a screen you leave docked or propped up, and on your Home Screen and Lock Screen too. START WITH A FINISHED DESIGN • Ready-made layouts, each with its own background • Swipe between layouts, and the background moves with your widgets • Change any of them, or make your own WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN • Clock, with seven faces including Eclipse: the time inside a glowing ring • Time Together, Daylight, Word Clock, Card Clock, Tube Clock, Countdown, Green Room, Moon Phase and Horizon • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Tap ▶ to watch a whole day go by in seconds CLOCKS AND BACKGROUNDS • Digital clocks in eleven styles, including big iPhone-style digits • Clock backgrounds: Lens, Card (split-flap), Tube, Prism, Stone, Shadow and Green Room • Space backgrounds: Tonight's Sky shows the real stars over your city, plus Earthrise, Saturn and Jupiter • Animated and still backgrounds: Earth, Horizon, Moon Phase, Catnap, Soft Flow, Tide and more • Seasonal backgrounds for holidays and festivals MADE FOR NIGHT • Darker nights with a soft amber clock • Day Mode hours, Smart Dimming and burn-in protection • A sunrise alarm that wakes you with light YOUR LAYOUT • Arrange the clock with Calendar, Up Next, Weather, World Clock, Countdown, a Focus timer, Photos and Battery • Separate layouts for portrait and landscape, made for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no data collected • Available in English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese AlwaysOn turns a screen you're not using into something calm and useful.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AlwaysOn at none against Minimal Digital Clock's 3. AlwaysOn also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Minimal Digital Clock's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Minimal Digital Clock sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. AlwaysOn asks for nothing beyond the download.
AlwaysOn holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 22 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Minimal Digital Clock ships an update every 2 months, AlwaysOn every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimal Digital Clock | AlwaysOn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (17 ratings) | 4.8 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 东锣 杨 | Weijin Wang |
Customer experience
Minimal Digital Clock
AlwaysOn
In-app purchases
Minimal Digital Clock
- Minimal Clock Pro$0.991 Month
- Minimal Clock Pro$5.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$8.99
AlwaysOn
No in-app purchases
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