Comparison

Seconds Clock vs Big Digital Clock

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

Head to head
About

Seconds Clock

Display hours, minutes, and seconds with precision on your iPhone's Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, and Picture-in-Picture mode. Customize clock faces and time displays for a clear, personalized view.

Highlights
  • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen time display
  • Picture in Picture clock
  • Full-screen desk clock
  • Customizable analog and digital clock faces
  • Choice of accent colors
  • Shortcuts support
Features
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See hours, minutes, and seconds clearly in the app, on the Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island. On supported devices, use Picture in Picture to keep the clock visible over other apps. MinSec combines a precise seconds display, a full-screen desk clock, and customizable clock faces in one clean iPhone app. WHY MINSEC - Dynamic Island and Lock Screen time: show your selected hours, minutes, seconds, and optional fractional seconds with a Live Activity - Picture in Picture clock: keep the clock visible over other apps on supported devices - Lock Screen clock: check the current time without unlocking - Full-screen desk clock: turn your iPhone sideways for a clear landscape display - Analog and digital clock faces: switch styles to suit the moment - Custom time display: choose which hours, minutes, and seconds to show, plus fractional seconds - Detailed time: choose 12- or 24-hour time and display fractional seconds - Personalize the look: use a smooth second hand and a choice of accent colors - Shortcuts support: quickly start or stop the Live Activity - Private by design: no ads, accounts, analytics, or tracking MinSec uses your iPhone's system time and does not require a network connection. Seconds on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island use Live Activities. iOS allows each Live Activity to run for up to 8 hours. On some older iOS versions, it may stop at midnight; restart it to keep displaying the time.

About

Big Digital Clock

Transform an old phone or tablet into a large, always-on digital clock with local weather. Displays time, date, temperature, and weather conditions at a glance, ideal for desks or nightstands. Offers customization options for fonts, colors, and display styles.

Highlights
  • Full-screen digital clock display
  • Local weather conditions and temperature
  • Customizable fonts, text size, and colors
  • 12-hour or 24-hour format
  • Keeps screen awake
  • Landscape full-screen layout
Features
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Electronic Clock is a minimal full-screen digital clock — and a way to give the old phone in your drawer a second life. Plug an old phone or tablet into power, open Electronic Clock, and it becomes a big clock for your desk, nightstand or wall, with the local weather on screen too. Instead of letting an old device gather dust or end up as e-waste, put it back to work — and skip buying another clock. Time and weather at a glance: large hours and minutes fill the center of the screen, with seconds and a weather emoji right beside them, and the date, weekday and local temperature along the top. No unlocking, no opening other apps — one look tells you the time, the temperature and whether you need an umbrella. Ideas for an old device: • An old iPhone as a bedside clock, a retired iPad as a living room or kitchen clock • A spare phone on your office desk, in the entryway or at a shop counter • Second-hand phones, backup phones and hand-me-downs all find a use Features: • 12-hour or 24-hour clock that updates every second — set automatically for your region • Date and weekday at the top, with the weekday in English, Chinese or Japanese • Seconds and a weather emoji next to the time • Optional: uses your location to show the local temperature (°C or °F) and conditions • Weather data from MET Norway's public API — free, no ads • Choose the font, text size, text colour and background colour, or pick a built-in style preset • Celsius or Fahrenheit, matched to your region by default • App available in English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese • Landscape full-screen layout on a black background by default; text scales to fit iPhone and iPad • Keeps the screen awake and hides the status bar for a clean display Optional Pro (one-time purchase, yours forever): • Custom colours for text and background • 5 extra fonts and 6 extra style presets • Flip clock animation Privacy: No account, no ads, no analytics, no developer servers. Location permission is optional; if granted, coordinates are rounded to about 1 km and sent only to MET Norway to look up the weather — never stored or tracked. See the privacy policy for details.

Screenshots

Seconds Clock4 screens
Big Digital Clock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Seconds Clock at none against Big Digital Clock's 1. Seconds Clock also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Big Digital Clock's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Big Digital Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Seconds Clock asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Seconds Clock holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Seconds Clock versus Big Digital Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSeconds ClockBig Digital Clock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer杰 曹Hank Wang

Customer experience

Seconds Clock

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Big Digital Clock

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Seconds Clock

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Big Digital Clock

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$1.99

Questions

Is Seconds Clock free?
Seconds Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Big Digital Clock free?
Big Digital Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Seconds Clock or Big Digital Clock?
Seconds Clock is rated higher. Seconds Clock averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Big Digital Clock averages 4.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Seconds Clock or Big Digital Clock have ads?
Neither Seconds Clock nor Big Digital Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Seconds Clock or Big Digital Clock?
Seconds Clock ships an update every 10 days, and Big Digital Clock every 10 days. Most recently, Seconds Clock was updated on November 13, 2026 and Big Digital Clock on November 6, 2026.

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