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Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 vs Needless Clock

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

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Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保

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Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 为你带来一系列精心设计的时钟风格——支持全屏展示,其中部分风格还可作为主屏幕小组件使用。 **时钟风格** • **时钟矩阵** — 由无数枚微型指针钟排布而成,表盘指针整齐划一地波浪旋转,兼具视觉冲击与仪式感。 • **翻页时钟** — 复古机械翻页质感数字时钟,支持显示日期与自定义标题文字。 • **经典指针** — 玻璃质感 Braun 风格模拟时钟,全程 SwiftUI 渲染,光影细腻。 • **点阵时钟** — 成千上万的粒子漂移聚拢,拼出当前时间,每秒散开重组。 • **像素方块** — 时间编织进流光溢彩的像素渐变马赛克之中,藏而不露。 • **世界时钟** — 翻卡式呈现世界各地城市的跨时区时间:北京、纽约、伦敦、东京、悉尼、洛杉矶。 **桌面小组件** 其中部分风格(目前为翻页时钟与时钟矩阵)支持主屏幕小组件,与 App 内的自定义设置实时同步。 **全面自定义** 多数风格提供 App 内设置面板与实时预览,可调节指针颜色、时钟尺寸、动画速度、时间格式(12/24 小时制)、翻页卡片比例、标题文字、透明度等。 **横屏沉浸模式** 横屏进入全屏展示模式,支持双指缩放、拖动平移、双击还原,控件在静止后自动淡出,让时钟成为焦点。 无广告,无订阅,无账号。

About

Needless Clock

This app offers a collection of living, animated clocks that display time through unique visual narratives. Interact with the scenes to alter elements and enjoy a calming visual experience that goes beyond simple timekeeping.

Highlights
  • Living, animated clock designs
  • Interactive visual elements
  • Customizable clock scenes
  • Scheduled display dimming
  • Short clock film creation
  • No ads or third-party tracking
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People do not open Needless Clock merely to find out the time. More often, they want the glowing screen beside them to grow quiet without becoming empty: something to glance at between tasks, a little light at night, time passing without hurrying anyone along. Needless Clock is a collection of living, animated clocks. They all keep the same real time, but each inhabits a world of its own. Fish turn through water, birds arrive from far away, ants hurry under the weight of a treat, cars follow the painted lines of a car park, and a brush writes numerals in water. At the turn of a minute the picture wakes; once everything has found its place, only small movements, wings, shadows and breathing remain. TIME HAS TWELVE PLACES TO GO Fish gather into figures. Touch the water and those nearby scatter, then swim home along their own curved paths. Birds perch on five wires. Some leave at the next minute, others find a new place, and now and then a distant bird crosses the clouds. Tap once and the sky sinks beneath the sea, the flock becoming fish of different forms. Ants carry biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish, winter-melon candy and leaves. Cars pull into bays. Metal blocks fall one by one. These digits are not displayed; they are made. Water runs from a brush onto stone and disappears first from the finest ends of the strokes. Oracle bone, bronze, seal and clerical scripts sit beside the hands of Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Huang Tingjian, letting one numeral travel through centuries. A gnomon casts its shadow among the twelve Earthly Branches, its length changing through the twenty-four solar terms. There is also a wall of cooperating clock faces, a luminous word clock, figures revealed by paper and shadow, and mechanical flaps that fall like those once heard in stations and airports. GOOD JUST LEFT THERE Swipe to move between clocks. Tap to change a material, colour or world. Or choose a few favourites and let them rotate by themselves, from every minute to every hour. At night the display can dim on your schedule. Keep the screen awake, or hide the title, date and time zone until only time remains. It belongs on an iPhone stand, across an iPad, beside a Mac workspace, or spread quietly over the television in a living room. A MOMENT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU On supported devices, Share waits for the next minute. It keeps the stillness before the change and stops after the movement has come to rest, making a short clock film to save or send. No account, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The clocks and their calculations stay on the device. Location is off by default and, if enabled, is used only to let the car park grow dark near your own sunset. Supports Reduce Motion and VoiceOver. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while.

Screenshots

Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保3 screens
Needless Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Needless Clock at 4 against Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 versus Needless Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保Needless Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer军 沈路 林

In-app purchases

None

Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保

No in-app purchases

None

Needless Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 free?
Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Needless Clock free?
Needless Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 or Needless Clock have ads?
Neither Clock Saver· 精美时钟· 时钟屏保 nor Needless Clock shows ads.

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