Ambient Time vs Converty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ambient Time
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Put time where it belongs: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or the biggest display in the room. Ambient Time is a native collection of clocks and useful glances. Explore 47 ways to read the moment on iPhone and iPad—from precise word grids and binary displays to astronomy, weather, mathematics, and generative art. ONE HOME FOR EVERY SCREEN The destination-first control center organizes Widgets, Apple Watch, TV & Displays, Clocks, and Instruments. Browse what fits each surface, preview it live, and choose starting defaults without pretending to control system-owned placement. CLOCKS WITH A POINT OF VIEW • Word Clock spells out time in nine languages plus IPA. • Cosmic brings the sun, moon, horizon, and zodiac into one quiet astrolabe. • Tide follows local predictions and highlights the next high or low. • ASCII World Clock wraps global hours around a text-art globe. • Moon Track follows the live lunar phase. • About Time turns optimistic phrases into the hands of a clock. • Inkwell Ledger lets the day unfold as a handwritten journal. • Mandaza draws a generative clock that never repeats exactly. WIDGETS MADE FOR THEIR SPACE Ambient Time groups Home Screen clocks and information widgets by size, so every layout stays clear and useful. Because the Lock Screen already shows Apple's clock, Ambient Time adds context instead: moon phase, golden hour, rain, tides, and poetry in Inline, Circular, and Rectangular forms. A CALMER GLANCE ON APPLE WATCH Choose from six legible clocks in the Watch app. Add nine Smart Stack widgets and complications for tides, rain, forecasts, golden hour, moon phase, world moments, words, compliments, and poetry. MADE FOR THE ROOM—AND THE MAC Apple TV offers a remote-first gallery of Ambient clocks and fixed dashboards. Mac brings the same destination control center to the desktop, including fullscreen Ambient Mode, dashboards, and Desktop or Notification Center widgets. Five global color themes are available where a clock supports them. Weather, sun, moon, and tide features use coarse location only with permission. There are no accounts, ads, subscriptions, or purchases, and location is never used for tracking. Built natively in SwiftUI with Reduce Motion support. Made by Luke Steuber.
Converty
This app allows you to convert, compress, and organize your files directly on your iPhone. It offers a suite of tools for image and document conversion, PDF editing, file compression, text extraction, and media trimming, all while prioritizing user privacy by operating entirely offline.
- Convert images, documents, and videos
- Edit and merge PDF files
- Compress files by quality
- Scan documents and extract text (OCR)
- Trim and adjust video speed
- Remove sensitive metadata
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Converty converts, compresses and fixes your files in a few taps — and it all happens right on your iPhone. No server uploads, no account, no ads: your documents never leave your device. CONVERT ANYTHING • Images between HEIC, JPG, PNG and more • Open RAW photos and AVIF images and convert them to JPG, PNG or HEIC • Documents and photos into PDF, in one tap • Turn a video into an animated GIF • Extract a video's audio track as M4A, WAV, AIFF, CAF or Apple Lossless — and open FLAC files • Convert from any app, straight from the share sheet SHRINK FILE SIZE • Compress in one tap: pick Low, Medium or High, with an estimate of the final size • Or set the quality, the exact size or the pixels yourself • Resize images to exactly the size you need VISUAL PDF TOOLS • Fill in PDF forms with iOS's native editor: fields, text and signature • Split, rotate, reorder and extract pages, visually • Merge several files into a single PDF SCAN AND RECOGNIZE • "Scan document" opens the camera straight away and names files from their content • Extract the text from a document or photo, then fix, copy or save it as .txt TRIM AND POLISH • Trim video and audio • Change video playback speed PRIVACY FIRST Converty works entirely offline. No file is ever sent to a server, no account is required, and we collect no data. Sensitive metadata (location, date, device) can be removed with a single tap. Designed for iOS with a glass design, light and dark mode, an accent color of your choice and 48 languages — following your iPhone's language automatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Ambient Time at 5 against Converty's 1. Ambient Time also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ambient Time ships an update every 6 days, Converty every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ambient Time | Converty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LanguageCraft | VINCENZO GALLINA |
In-app purchases
Ambient Time
No in-app purchases
Converty
No in-app purchases








