Lumitron vs Pixel Clock Pixel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Lumitron
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Lumitron turns any screen into a full-screen retro clock - and nothing else. No status bar. No navigation buttons. No browser address bar, no home indicator, no window frame, no menu. Open Lumitron and the only thing left on your screen is the time. EIGHT REAL DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES Every theme recreates the physics of an actual historic display, not just a different font color: - LCD - familiar liquid-crystal segments, including the classic grey-green look - LED - vintage red glow, plus white, green, amber and blue variants - CRT - cathode-ray tube look with soft glow and scanlines - VFD - vacuum fluorescent display with its signature blue-green light - Nixie - neon glow-discharge tubes in warm orange-red - Panaplex - flat neon seven-segment displays - Numitron - incandescent filament digits, steady warm light, no flicker - Electroluminescent (EL) - glowing teal EL panel AUTHENTIC PHYSICAL EFFECTS Glow, bloom, ghost segments, fine scan lines and vignette, segment grids, gentle flicker - each effect recreated for the technology it belongs to, and each one can be switched on or off. MAKE IT YOURS - Color variants within every display technology - 12-hour or 24-hour format - Show or hide seconds - Adjustable digit size, from compact to full screen - Thin, regular or bold weight - Authentic seven-segment DSEG7 font TIME, YOUR WAY - System time - accurate, always in sync - Custom time - set any hour, minute and second - Frozen time - lock the display at a chosen moment, perfect for photos or a shop window display ALWAYS ON While Lumitron is open, the screen stays awake - no dimming, no sleep. Leave it running as a bedside clock, a desk display, or a second-screen companion. LEARN AS YOU LOOK Each display technology comes with a short explanation of how it works and why it looks the way it does. ONE TAP, NOTHING ELSE Settings open with a single tap anywhere on screen, and close the same way. In normal view there isn't a single button visible - just the clock. Lumitron is exactly what it looks like: a clock. There's no alarm, no timer and no date - just an honest, true full-screen digital clock built around eight real display technologies.
Pixel Clock Pixel
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Pixel Clock is a nightstand clock drawn pixel by pixel. Big digits, a black background that stays black on OLED, and dimming that goes far lower than the screen itself. FEATURES ⢠Pixel digits that fill the screen, on iPhone and iPad, upright or on its side ⢠Swipe up or down to dim, all the way down to a faint glow ⢠Double tap for ember mode: only the digits, as dark as it gets ⢠Alarms with weekdays, a slow sunrise before they ring, and snooze ⢠Seven colours plus any colour you like; light, dark or pure black background ⢠Tap for the date, the next alarm and the battery ⢠A few pixels fall from the digits on the hour ⢠A StandBy widget for when your phone charges on its side ⢠No account, no ads, no tracking ALARMS The alarm rings with a soft chime while Pixel Clock is on screen. A notification is scheduled as a backup for when it is not.
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Verdict
Lumitron and Pixel Clock Pixel are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters ā price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them ā neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Lumitron | Pixel Clock Pixel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikolai Emelianov | Dimitry van den Berg |
In-app purchases
Lumitron
No in-app purchases
Pixel Clock Pixel
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is Pixel Clock Pixel free?
Do Lumitron or Pixel Clock Pixel have ads?
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