Shadowline vs Binary Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadowline
Visualize time zones with elegant clock faces or a single 24-hour dial. Plan meetings, manage jet lag with science-based advice, and view a live day & night map. Widgets offer at-a-glance city times.
- World clocks with customizable themes
- 24-hour dial for at-a-glance time comparison
- Meeting planner with calendar integration
- Jet lag adjustment plans
- Live day & night map with moon phase
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Shadowline turns time zones into something you can actually see. Track the cities that matter to you, then read them at a glance — as elegant clock faces, or on a single 24-hour dial where every city sits on one ring so you instantly see who's awake, who's asleep, and the hours you overlap. FEATURES • World clocks — Add any city on Earth and see its time, day or night, and offset from you. Reorder, rename, and theme each one. • 24-hour dial — All your cities on one circular timeline. Drag to scrub through the day and find a time that works everywhere. • Meeting planner — Swipe through upcoming hours and watch every city update together. Found a slot? Add it straight to your calendar. • JetLag IQ — Heading somewhere new? Get a simple, science-based plan to shift your body clock and land ready. • Day & night map — A live world map with the real sunlight terminator, plus sunrise, sunset, and moon phase. • Widgets — Put your favorite cities and the dial on your Home and Lock Screen in styles that match your look. Everything runs entirely on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking — your cities and settings never leave your phone. SHADOWLINE PRO Free to use with up to three cities. Unlock Shadowline Pro once — a single $2.49 purchase, no subscription — for unlimited cities, every widget style, and import/export. Yours forever.
Binary Clock
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Binary Clock turns your iPhone into a beautiful binary timepiece for your desk, nightstand, or a charging dock in landscape. Read the time the elegant way. Six columns of glowing dots show the hours, minutes, and seconds in binary, floating on a pane of Liquid Glass over slow, living artwork. LIVING BACKGROUNDS Swipe through a gallery of hand-built backgrounds that drift, glow, and breathe: - Aurora, a living color gradient - Cosmos, deep nebula with a twinkling starfield - Borealis, northern lights over a starry sky - Horizon, a cinematic sunset - Ridges, misty layered mountains - Mercury, flowing liquid metal - Artwork, an editorial sun over hills - Contemporary, minimal drifting light - Pattern, a pulsing halftone wave MADE FOR STANDBY Leave it running while charging and the screen stays awake with a calm, always-on display. A matching widget brings the binary clock to StandBy and your Lock Screen. BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN - A Liquid Glass clock face with refractive, glassy dots - Live local weather and the date - Clean controls that fade away on their own - Portrait and landscape, iPhone and iPad NEW TO BINARY? It is easy. Each column is one digit. A lit dot counts, from top to bottom, as 8, 4, 2, and 1. Add the lit dots in a column and you get the number. You will be reading it in a day. PRO One simple, one-time purchase unlocks every background, color themes, and the always-on standby display. No subscription, ever. Tell the time in binary. Make it art. Terms of Use (EULA): https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/binary-clock/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/binary-clock/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Shadowline at 17.0 against Binary Clock's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Shadowline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Binary Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shadowline ships an update every 2 days, Binary Clock daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Shadowline | Binary Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KKB CoRi Technologies Private Limited | Super, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Shadowline
- Shadowline Pro$2.49
Binary Clock
- Binary Clock Pro$2.99









