Comparison

Binary Clock vs Planet Dial

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

Head to head
About

Binary Clock

Features
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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

About

Planet Dial

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Planet Dial shows the current time on each of the eight planets, at that planet's own pace. On Jupiter the second hand runs 2.4 times faster than on Earth. On Venus one second lasts two Earth minutes, so the hands barely move. On Neptune the same month lasts thousands of days. You feel how differently time flows on each world, not as numbers but as the motion of the hands. • Eight planet clocks, with the planet itself as the dial • Mean solar time at each planet's prime meridian. Mars matches NASA's Mars Coordinated Time • A calendar for each planet: years counted from AD 1, twelve months around the orbit, days of that planet • Venus and Uranus rotate backwards, so their hands run counter-clockwise • Earth shows your device's own time and date • Portrait or landscape • A desk clock: hide the text, set it down, and it dims on its own Three gestures only: swipe to change planet, tap to hide the text, press and hold to see how long the planet's second, day and year are in Earth time. No account. No data collection. Works offline.

Screenshots

Binary Clock4 screens
Planet Dial4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Planet Dial at none against Binary Clock's 1. Planet Dial also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Binary Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Planet Dial asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Binary Clock versus Planet Dial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBinary ClockPlanet Dial
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSuper, Inc.Shunsuke Kishino

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Binary Clock

One-time1
  • Binary Clock Pro$2.99
None

Planet Dial

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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