Minimal Clock vs Clock Stand
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Minimal Clock
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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 ⢠Clock + Date ā time, weekday, and date ⢠Clock Only ā a large, legible clock ⢠Date & Day ā the full weekday and date ⢠World Clock ā your local time plus one or two cities (Pro) ⢠World Cities ā 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 / ā1) 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.
Clock Stand
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Clock Stand turns your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful, always-on clock for your desk or nightstand ā and it's completely free. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account. No catch. Just a gorgeous clock. A DOZEN GORGEOUS THEMES Make it yours and match any room ā switch live, day or night: ⢠Digital faces ā Midnight, Paper, Sunset, Forest, retro Nixie, soft Ambient, and a split-flap Departures board ⢠Artistic analog faces ā Bauhaus, Aurora, Eclipse, Porcelain, and Helios ⢠Subtle gradients and lighting: refined and modern, never garish ⢠Big, legible time in portrait or landscape WAKE TO THE WEATHER Our signature feature: don't just wake at a set time ā wake to the sky. Create a custom weather alarm that goes off when the weather turns to rain, snow, fog, thunderstorms, wind and more. Pick the condition, and Clock Stand watches the sky for you. You won't find this on your stock clock. ALARMS THAT WORK ⢠Dependable alarms that ring even when the screen sleeps ⢠Snooze and repeat, with in-app Stop and Snooze ⢠See your next 24 hours of alarms right on the clock ⢠Suggest a wake-up time from your Health sleep ALWAYS-ON, YOUR WAY ⢠Keeps the screen awake while it's on its stand ⢠Battery-aware: let it sleep below a set level, or stay on only while charging ⢠Brightness slider ā or just swipe left/right to dim ⢠Auto-dim when a Focus such as Sleep is active WEATHER AT A GLANCE ⢠Current conditions and temperature from Apple Weather ⢠Completely optional ā turn it off anytime WIDGETS ⢠Home Screen, Lock Screen, and a Control Center toggle ⢠Themed to match your clock MADE FOR EVERYONE ⢠iPhone and iPad, portrait or landscape ⢠Available in 9 languages Free, forever. No ads, no in-app purchases, no sign-up ā just a beautiful clock for your space. Weather data provided by Weather.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clock Stand at none against Minimal Clock's 1. Clock Stand also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks). Minimal Clock's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Minimal Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clock Stand asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minimal Clock ships an update every 6 weeks, Clock Stand every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minimal Clock | Clock Stand |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yechiel Ben David | Aleksandar Pecanov |
In-app purchases
Minimal Clock
- World Clock Pro$4.99
Clock Stand
No in-app purchases
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