Comparison

AlwaysOn vs AutoSnooze Bedside Clock

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

Head to head
About

AlwaysOn

Transform a plugged-in iPhone into a convenient desk display. View the time, date, calendar, and weather at a glance. Features a sleep mode for nighttime use and custom display hours.

Highlights
  • Large digital clock display
  • Current date and calendar
  • Upcoming calendar events
  • Local weather forecast
  • Customizable display hours
  • Low-brightness sleep mode
  • Burn-in protection
Features
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Turn your iPhone or iPad into a beautiful desk and nightstand clock. Free, with no ads and no subscriptions. AlwaysOn shows the time, your calendar, weather and more on a screen you leave docked or propped up, and on your Home Screen and Lock Screen too. START WITH A FINISHED DESIGN • Ready-made layouts, each with its own background • Swipe between layouts, and the background moves with your widgets • Change any of them, or make your own WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN • Clock, with seven faces including Eclipse: the time inside a glowing ring • Time Together, Daylight, Word Clock, Card Clock, Tube Clock, Countdown, Green Room, Moon Phase and Horizon • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Tap ▶ to watch a whole day go by in seconds CLOCKS AND BACKGROUNDS • Digital clocks in eleven styles, including big iPhone-style digits • Clock backgrounds: Lens, Card (split-flap), Tube, Prism, Stone, Shadow and Green Room • Space backgrounds: Tonight's Sky shows the real stars over your city, plus Earthrise, Saturn and Jupiter • Animated and still backgrounds: Earth, Horizon, Moon Phase, Catnap, Soft Flow, Tide and more • Seasonal backgrounds for holidays and festivals MADE FOR NIGHT • Darker nights with a soft amber clock • Day Mode hours, Smart Dimming and burn-in protection • A sunrise alarm that wakes you with light YOUR LAYOUT • Arrange the clock with Calendar, Up Next, Weather, World Clock, Countdown, a Focus timer, Photos and Battery • Separate layouts for portrait and landscape, made for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no tracking, no data collected • Available in English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese AlwaysOn turns a screen you're not using into something calm and useful.

About

AutoSnooze Bedside Clock

This app transforms your iPhone into a classic bedside clock with large, bright digits on a dark background. It features a screen that stays on, adjustable brightness, and two gentle alarms with customizable sounds. Designed for nightstand use, it operates without ads or network access.

Highlights
  • Always-on display
  • Adjustable brightness slider
  • Portrait and landscape modes
  • 12/24-hour format
  • Two gentle alarms
  • Customizable alarm sounds
Features
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AutoSnooze turns your iPhone into a classic bedside clock: big red 7-segment LED digits on a pure black background, drawn like a real LED panel — faint ghost segments included. Made for the nightstand: - The screen stays on while the app is open — no sleep, no lock - Tap the display for a brightness slider; dim it to a whisper for dark bedrooms (your level is remembered) - Works in portrait and landscape - Follows your 12/24-hour setting, with a small AM/PM indicator - No ads, no tracking, no network access — nothing but a clock Two gentle alarms: - Each with its own time, on/off switch, and sound (Chime, Gong, Bell, or Beep) - An alarm plays its sound once and stops. No snooze, no repeats, no "dismiss" dance at 7 AM — it respects that you heard it - Alarms sound even if the silent switch is on Note: AutoSnooze is a bedside clock, not a background alarm app. Alarms fire while the app is open on your nightstand — leave it running on the charger overnight, as intended.

Screenshots

AlwaysOn4 screens
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: AutoSnooze Bedside Clock at 5.0 against AlwaysOn's 4.7. AlwaysOn's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AutoSnooze Bedside Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AlwaysOn has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AlwaysOn versus AutoSnooze Bedside Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlwaysOnAutoSnooze Bedside Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeijin WangDialogs Apps, Inc.

In-app purchases

None

AlwaysOn

No in-app purchases

None

AutoSnooze Bedside Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AlwaysOn free?
AlwaysOn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AutoSnooze Bedside Clock free?
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AlwaysOn or AutoSnooze Bedside Clock?
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock is rated higher. AlwaysOn averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while AutoSnooze Bedside Clock averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do AlwaysOn or AutoSnooze Bedside Clock have ads?
Neither AlwaysOn nor AutoSnooze Bedside Clock shows ads.

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