Comparison

worldclock.today vs AlwaysOn

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

Head to head
About

worldclock.today

This app visualizes time zones by replacing clock hands with city names on a single dial. A white center indicates daytime and a dark outer ring signifies nighttime, allowing for quick understanding of global time and who is currently awake. It supports up to eight cities and works offline.

Highlights
  • Cities as clock hands
  • Day/night indicator
  • Real-time global time
  • Supports up to 8 cities
  • Offline functionality
  • No account required
Features
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The city is the hand. London at 4 o'clock means it's 4 PM there. Tokyo at 10 means 10 AM. City names replace clock hands on a single dial. They move in real time, just like hands would. White center = daytime. Dark outer ring = nighttime. One glance tells you the time in every city and who's awake right now. No lists. No math. No switching between clocks. Pick up to 8 cities. That's it. Built for remote teams, frequent travelers, and anyone tired of googling "what time is it in Dubai." Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac. No account. Works offline.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Large digital clock display
  • Current date and calendar
  • Upcoming calendar events
  • Local weather forecast
  • Customizable display hours
  • Low-brightness sleep mode
  • Burn-in protection
Features
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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.

Screenshots

worldclock.today3 screens
AlwaysOn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: AlwaysOn at 4.8 against worldclock.today's 4.0. AlwaysOn also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AlwaysOn holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlwaysOn has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

worldclock.today ships an update every 2 months, AlwaysOn every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
worldclock.today versus AlwaysOn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterworldclock.todayAlwaysOn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.8 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings122 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuca BarberisWeijin Wang

Customer experience

worldclock.today

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

AlwaysOn

All ratings22 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

worldclock.today

No in-app purchases

None

AlwaysOn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is worldclock.today free?
worldclock.today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AlwaysOn free?
AlwaysOn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, worldclock.today or AlwaysOn?
AlwaysOn is rated higher. worldclock.today averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while AlwaysOn averages 4.8 from 22 ratings.
Do worldclock.today or AlwaysOn have ads?
Neither worldclock.today nor AlwaysOn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, worldclock.today or AlwaysOn?
worldclock.today ships an update every 2 months, and AlwaysOn every 4 days. Most recently, worldclock.today was updated on October 31, 2026 and AlwaysOn on November 5, 2026.

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