Antique Analog Clock Widget vs AlwaysOn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Antique Analog Clock Widget
Add a touch of classic elegance to your device's home screen with a customizable analog clock widget. Choose from historical clock tower designs and personalize colors, numerals, and backgrounds with your own photos. Supports seconds display for a complete analog experience.
- Analog clock widget
- Historical clock tower hands
- Customizable colors
- Customizable background image
- Seconds display support
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Looking for a beautiful, classic clock? All designs are available for free! -- Features -- * Analog clock widget * Historical clock tower hands from around the world * Customize colors for hands, numerals, scale, and background * Customize background image - Use any photo from your device * Supports seconds display -- How to Add a Widget to Your Home Screen -- 1. Touch and hold your home screen, then tap "Edit" in the top-left corner 2. Search for the "Antique Clock" widget 3. Choose your preferred size, then tap "Add Widget"
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 ads: AlwaysOn at none against Antique Analog Clock Widget's shown. AlwaysOn also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 1). Antique Analog Clock Widget's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Antique Analog Clock Widget holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. 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.
Antique Analog Clock Widget 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 | Antique Analog Clock Widget | AlwaysOn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MIDORI YOSHIDA | Weijin Wang |
Customer experience
Antique Analog Clock Widget
AlwaysOn
In-app purchases
Antique Analog Clock Widget
No in-app purchases
AlwaysOn
No in-app purchases
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