Binary Clock vs Planet Dial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
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
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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Binary Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Planet Dial asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Binary Clock | Planet Dial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Super, Inc. | Shunsuke Kishino |
In-app purchases
Binary Clock
- Binary Clock Pro$2.99
Planet Dial
No in-app purchases
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