AlwaysOn vs AutoSnooze Bedside Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Large digital clock display
- Current date and calendar
- Upcoming calendar events
- Local weather forecast
- Customizable display hours
- Low-brightness sleep mode
- Burn-in protection
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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.
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.
- Always-on display
- Adjustable brightness slider
- Portrait and landscape modes
- 12/24-hour format
- Two gentle alarms
- Customizable alarm sounds
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | AlwaysOn | AutoSnooze Bedside Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Weijin Wang | Dialogs Apps, Inc. |
In-app purchases
AlwaysOn
No in-app purchases
AutoSnooze Bedside Clock
No in-app purchases
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