Worlds Apart vs Nice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Worlds Apart
Understand the local time for people you care about, not just places. This app helps you find considerate times to connect and plan calls or travel by visualizing time zone differences and their impact on daily routines.
- Humanize time zones
- Track local time, date, weather, and part of day for contacts
- Contact signals for considerate communication
- Time Machine for planning calls
- Interactive widgets for home screen access
- Offline travel planning with Fly Mode
- Private by default, no tracking
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World clocks tell you what time it is somewhere. Worlds Apart helps you understand what that time means for someone you care about. Are they starting their day or winding down? Is now a considerate time to call? When might work better for both of you? And when you travel, how does everyone’s time change along the way? Worlds Apart makes time zones feel human—not like a list of clocks, but like a time machine centered on people. PEOPLE, NOT JUST PLACES Save family, friends, teammates, or cities. See their local time, date, weather, part of day, and time difference from you at a glance. Contact signals such as Good Time, Maybe, and Quiet Hours provide simple guidance based on local time and contact hours you control. They never claim to know someone’s actual availability. PLAN WITH TIME MACHINE Scrub forward or backward through time to see what the same moment looks like for everyone. Find a better time to call without calculating time-zone differences yourself. SET UP INTERACTIVE WIDGETS Keep the people and places you care about on your Home Screen. Check their local context and scrub through time directly from interactive widgets—without opening the app. TRAVEL WITH FLY MODE Enter your departure, destination, dates, times, and optional layover. Fly Mode turns the itinerary into a visual journey through time while keeping the local time for people back home visible. Fly Mode works offline and follows the itinerary you entered. It does not claim to provide live flight location, delay, or arrival information. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT • No account required • No contacts import • No calendar access • No advertising tracking • No third-party analytics • Saved people, places, preferences, and journeys remain on your device Whether the people you love are across the country, across the world, or waiting for you at your next stop, Worlds Apart helps you find a better moment to connect.
Nice
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A highly sophisticated world clock Search for and add cities Place widgets via favorites
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Nice at every 5 days against Worlds Apart's fortnightly. Nice also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Worlds Apart ships an update fortnightly, Nice every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Worlds Apart | Nice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaishree Garg | Jeong-Hoon Mo |
In-app purchases
Worlds Apart
No in-app purchases
Nice
No in-app purchases









