Comparison

AlwaysOn vs Long Lasting 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

Long Lasting Clock

Features
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A big clock. A message for the room. Show the time alongside a welcome, meeting notice or class break on one clear screen. See the time at a glance. Turn your iPhone or iPad into a large, full-screen clock for your desk, nightstand or presentations, with no ads or account required. Write and show a message for free. Clock Pro adds fonts, colors, size controls, and saved messages. “Next meeting at 14:00” “Welcome to our space” “On a break until 10:15” You write and update the message yourself. There is no calendar connection. MAKE IT YOURS WITH CLOCK PRO Clock Pro is an optional one-time purchase, not a subscription. Add Flip, Focus and Custom Font clock styles, Paper and Night Red appearances, and your own text, background and colon colors. Save up to five complete clock looks with Clock Pro. Saved Messages · Saved Time Zones · Custom Colors AT YOUR PACE Keep the screen awake while the full-screen clock is open. Burn-In Protection gently moves the display over time; it does not guarantee against screen burn-in. Keeping the screen awake uses more battery. Your personal messages, saved places and clock preferences are stored on your device, not collected by the developer. No account, ads or tracking.

Screenshots

AlwaysOn4 screens
Long Lasting Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AlwaysOn at none against Long Lasting Clock's 1. Long Lasting Clock's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Long Lasting Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AlwaysOn asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AlwaysOn ships an update every 4 days, Long Lasting Clock weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AlwaysOn versus Long Lasting Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlwaysOnLong Lasting Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWeijin WangSchmidt Service Partner AB

In-app purchases

None

AlwaysOn

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Long Lasting Clock

One-time1
  • Long Lasting Clock Pro$1.99

Questions

Is AlwaysOn free?
AlwaysOn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Long Lasting Clock free?
Long Lasting Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AlwaysOn or Long Lasting Clock have ads?
Neither AlwaysOn nor Long Lasting Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AlwaysOn or Long Lasting Clock?
AlwaysOn ships an update every 4 days, and Long Lasting Clock weekly. Most recently, AlwaysOn was updated on November 10, 2026 and Long Lasting Clock on November 10, 2026.

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