Comparison

Minimal Clock vs Clearwing

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

Head to head
About

Minimal Clock

Features
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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 — time, weekday, and date • Clock Only — a large, legible clock • Date & Day — the full weekday and date • World Clock — your local time plus one or two cities (Pro) • World Cities — 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 / āˆ’1) 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.

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Clearwing

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Your Home Screen, finally quiet. Clearwing is a collection of 21 widgets that look truly transparent: clocks, calendars, countdowns, a moon phase, a photo, floating on your wallpaper with nothing around them. And the part nobody else fixed: there is no app name under them. iOS prints the app's name beneath every widget, which ruins the clean look unless you switch to large icons. Clearwing's own name is invisible, so its widgets carry no label and you keep your small icons. 21 WIDGETS • Invisible spacer: pure wallpaper, for airy layouts • Clocks: digital, a minimal analog dial, a word clock that says half past nine, and a binary clock in glowing bits • Day & Time: the date and the clock in one glance • Date, Weekday written large, and a monthly Calendar with today circled • This Week strip and the week number • Countdown with a progress ring, and Days Since for streaks and anniversaries • Year Progress, Day Progress, and a Year Grid with one dot for every day • Moon: tonight's phase, computed on your device • Daily line: one calm sentence a day • Photo in a floating frame, arch, circle, or tilted polaroid • Monogram with your initials • Battery in a glowing ring FIFTEEN LOOKS FOR EVERY WIDGET Retro Pixel is the signature default, and every widget also comes in Minimal, Editorial serif, Bold, frosted Glass, Handwritten, Script calligraphy, Typewriter, Neon, Couture fashion serif, Engraved, Chalk, Marker, Retro geometric, and Poster. Browse the whole collection in the built-in gallery, rendered live on your own wallpaper, then pick looks and tones per widget. A frosted-glass backdrop option gives you the soft blurred-wallpaper card style too. SET UP IN A MINUTE iOS does not allow real see-through widgets, so Clearwing recreates your wallpaper behind each one, pixel for pixel. Take one screenshot of an empty Home Screen page, import it, and place your widgets. A built-in fine-tune editor nudges the alignment if your device sits a pixel off, and switching between small and large icon modes is one tap. WRITTEN ON YOUR IPHONE On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the Daily Line widget writes a fresh calm line every day, entirely on-device. Without it, a curated pack takes over seamlessly. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • Clearwing contains zero networking code, so nothing can leave your iPhone • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking • Your wallpaper and photos stay in the app's private container • Delete the app and every trace is gone Free. No subscription. No catch. Your wallpaper deserves the whole screen.

Screenshots

Minimal Clock4 screens
Clearwing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Clearwing at none against Minimal Clock's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Minimal Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clearwing asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Minimal Clock versus Clearwing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinimal ClockClearwing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYechiel Ben DavidShubham Dolas

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Minimal Clock

One-time1
  • World Clock Pro$4.99
None

Clearwing

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minimal Clock free?
Minimal Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clearwing free?
Clearwing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minimal Clock or Clearwing have ads?
Neither Minimal Clock nor Clearwing shows ads.

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