Comparison

Luna vs Timezone

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

Head to head
About

Luna

Features
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Luna turns a smartphone you already own into a bedside sleep clock for your child, and puts you in control of it from your own phone. HOW IT WORKS Luna is one app with two modes. Install it on an old phone, stand it by your child's bed and pick Alarm Clock mode. Install it on your own phone and pick Parental Device mode. Pair the two with a 4 digit code and you are set up. WHAT YOUR CHILD SEES A big, clear clock and an animated moon character that shows whether it is still night or time to get up. A progress bar fills through the night, so a child who cannot yet read a clock can still see how much of the night is left. NIGHTLIGHT The edge of the screen glows in the colour you pick, from 12 presets. Set the brightness, and dim the clock itself so it does not light up the whole room. BEDTIME SCHEDULES Build repeating schedules: a bedtime, how long the night lasts and which days it applies to. Weeknights and weekends can be different. Each schedule turns the nightlight and the morning alarm on or off independently. NAPS Start a nap from your phone or from the clock itself. Anywhere from 1 to 180 minutes, with an optional nightlight and an optional alarm at the end. LISTEN AND ANSWER When your child calls out at night, hear the room from your own phone and answer them, without getting up. Tap Listen in and the room plays live. Put your phone away and the clock keeps listening for you, sending your phone a notification if the room gets loud, until you stop it. A small mark on the clock shows whenever its microphone is on. Nothing is recorded, and everything stays on your home Wi-Fi. WAKE-UP SOUNDS Seven alarm tones and eight wake-up music tracks. The volume ramps up gradually from silence, so nobody is startled awake. One tone is built into the app and works with no connection at all. MUSIC AND STORIES Send your own songs, lullabies and bedtime stories to the clock, as single files or a whole album in a zip. Luna reads the titles and the track order from the files, and everything copies over your Wi-Fi and stays on the clock, so it plays with no connection. Queue an album from your phone and run the playback from there: play, skip, seek, volume, and a stop timer that ends the music after the current track, after a delay, at the end of the playlist or at bedtime, fading out over the last minute. You decide what your child can do on the clock, control by control: hidden, daytime only or always. Albums and sounds carry a colour and a symbol, so a child who cannot read still picks the one they want. FITS A 3D PRINTED CASE Adjust the screen padding and the corner radius so the display lines up neatly inside a custom case. PRIVACY Your phone talks to the clock over your own Wi-Fi. The connection is encrypted, pairing is confirmed with a code shown on the clock, and there is no account to create. Your child's schedule, their nap, their nightlight, the sound of their room, the music you send and their name stay on your devices. None of it is sent to us and none of it is stored in the cloud. A noise alert only tells your phone that something was heard. FREE Luna is free. No ads, no subscription required, and every feature in the app today is available to everyone. You can chip in to support development if you want to, and it adds your first name to the supporters list in the app. It is a contribution, not an upgrade. Support is a one-off payment or a monthly one, and the monthly option renews every month at the price shown before you buy, until you cancel it in your App Store account settings. WHAT YOU NEED Two devices on the same Wi-Fi network: one to be the clock, one to control it. An old phone you no longer carry is exactly the point. Luna speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French. TERMS AND PRIVACY Terms of Use (EULA): https://luna-clock.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://luna-clock.web.app/privacy

About

Timezone

This app helps you track time across different locations with a world clock, converter, and interactive map. Easily compare local times, find working hour overlaps, and add widgets to your home screen for quick access. Plan travel, remote work, and calls effortlessly.

Highlights
  • World clock with saved cities
  • Time zone converter slider
  • Interactive day-and-night map
  • Working hour overlap finder
  • Home screen widgets
  • City and time zone catalog search
Features
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Know the time anywhere, at a glance. Timezone combines a world clock, time zone converter, interactive day-and-night map, and useful Home Screen widgets in one focused app. • Save cities and compare local times • Slide the timeline to convert time across locations • Explore daylight, sunrise, and sunset on the world map • Find practical overlap between working hours • Add clock, city list, and world map widgets • Search a catalog of cities and time zones • Choose 12- or 24-hour time Plan calls, travel, remote work, and everyday moments without doing time-zone math.

Screenshots

Luna4 screens
Timezone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Timezone at none against Luna's 5. Luna's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Luna sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Timezone asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Luna ships an update every 11 days, Timezone every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Luna versus Timezone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLunaTimezone
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian PaillardPixelated Development

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Luna

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Supporter$1.991 Month
  • Monthly Super Supporter$3.991 Month
One-time3
  • Supporter$1.99
  • Super Supporter$3.99
  • Luna Hero$8.99
None

Timezone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Luna free?
Luna is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timezone free?
Timezone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Luna or Timezone have ads?
Neither Luna nor Timezone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Luna or Timezone?
Luna ships an update every 11 days, and Timezone every 2 months. Most recently, Luna was updated on October 31, 2026 and Timezone on November 5, 2026.

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