Comparison

World Clock Widget vs UTC Face

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

Head to head
About

World Clock Widget

Features
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Your world should read like a clock, not a spreadsheet. Meridian is a clock-first world-time instrument for the places that matter to you. Instead of scanning unrelated clocks, see every saved city around one live 24-hour solar face. Daylight, local dates, and relative offsets stay visible together, so the shape of your world makes sense at a glance. ONE FACE, EVERY CITY • Focus any saved city with one tap. • Read its local time, date, UTC offset, solar state, sunrise, and sunset. • See every other city relative to the one in focus. • Follow half-hour and quarter-hour time zones accurately. CONVERT EXACT MOMENTS With Meridian Plus, choose a date and time to see the matching local time and day in every saved city. Meridian follows the time-zone and daylight-saving rules carried by the operating system, including skipped and repeated local times. The last three moments you converted come back as one-tap rows. With Time Capture, paste a date, time, and city, review the details, and convert the confirmed moment across your saved clocks. Reviewing a captured time is free; applying it uses Plus or the Convert preview. UPCOMING TIME CHANGES See each saved city’s next clock change within 30 days and how its time difference from another saved city will change. Included free. SOLAR ALERTS With Meridian Plus, have sunrise, sunset, golden hour, blue hour, and solar noon announced for any saved city, on time or up to 30 minutes before. WORLD ALARMS With Meridian Plus on iOS and iPadOS 26 or later, set a one-time alarm for a saved city’s local date and time. See the matching time on your device before you enable it, or turn a future moment in Convert into an alarm. Open World Alarms from the alarm-clock button on the main screen. Alarms stay tied to the moment you confirmed, even when you travel. YOUR CLOCKS EVERYWHERE • iPhone and iPad layouts built for each screen. • Focus, Constellation, Solar Atlas, and interactive Time Lens widgets. • An extra-large iPad Solar Atlas for up to eight saved cities. • Pin a city or follow your selected clock. Tap a widget to open its city. • Choose a Time Lens comparison session in Edit Widget to step through time. Other clock widgets stay live. • Lock Screen and StandBy views. • Apple Watch app and complications. • Private iCloud sync between your devices. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no Meridian account, advertising, analytics, or tracking. Manual city selection provides the complete core experience. When you choose Current Location, Meridian sends coordinates to Apple map services to resolve the place and time zone. It stores the coordinates with the saved clock, which may sync through your private iCloud account. The developer cannot access those coordinates or iCloud data. Solar calculations run on your device. FREE AND FAIR Free includes two clocks. Home Screen widgets, including the extra-large iPad Solar Atlas, Lock Screen widgets, Apple Watch, complications, StandBy, iPad, iCloud sync, renaming any clock, and UTC reference clocks stay free. Meridian Plus raises the limit to eight clocks, unlocks Convert, and adds solar alerts and World Alarms. World Alarms requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later. Buy it once with your Apple Account. It never expires, and there are no recurring charges. Meridian uses your device's operating system clock and time-zone information. It does not claim independent atomic-clock accuracy.

About

UTC Face

Display city times and UTC offsets on your Apple Watch face with large, readable text. Manage your city list on your iPhone, with offline support for 50 built-in cities and online search for others. Automatic daylight saving updates ensure accuracy.

Highlights
  • Large, readable city times on watch face
  • Displays city code and UTC offset
  • Supports large rectangular complication slots
  • Manage city list via iPhone app
  • Offline support for 50 built-in cities
  • Automatic daylight saving updates
  • No ads, analytics, or accounts
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UTC Face: World Clock puts a city's time on your Apple Watch face in type large enough to read at a glance. The built-in world clock complication is small. This one uses the whole slot: the city's three-letter code, its UTC offset, and the time — in the same large, rounded, monospaced face as your watch's own clock. HOW IT WORKS • Edit your watch face and add UTC Face to a large rectangular complication slot — Modular Duo, Modular, Infograph Modular, or any face with one. • Tap the slot again to choose which city it shows. • Put a second one in the other slot for a different city. YOUR CITY LIST • Manage your cities in the iPhone app: add, remove, reorder. • Changes sync to your watch automatically. • 50 built-in cities covering every major time zone, available offline. • Unlimited online search for anywhere else. • UTC is always there. ACCURATE • Updates on the minute, aligned to the minute boundary — no drift. • Daylight saving changes are handled automatically for every city. PRIVATE • No accounts, no analytics, no ads. • Your city list stays on your devices. There is no server. Requires iOS 26 and watchOS 26.

Screenshots

World Clock Widget4 screens
UTC Face4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: World Clock Widget at Free against UTC Face's $0.99. World Clock Widget also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). UTC Face's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

World Clock Widget is free to download; UTC Face costs $0.99 up front. World Clock Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. UTC Face asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

World Clock Widget ships an update weekly, UTC Face every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
World Clock Widget versus UTC Face: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorld Clock WidgetUTC Face
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAHMET DUMANIbrahim Poyraz

In-app purchases

1 purchases

World Clock Widget

One-time1
  • Meridian Plus$4.99
None

UTC Face

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is World Clock Widget free?
World Clock Widget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UTC Face free?
UTC Face costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do World Clock Widget or UTC Face have ads?
Neither World Clock Widget nor UTC Face shows ads.
Which is updated more often, World Clock Widget or UTC Face?
World Clock Widget ships an update weekly, and UTC Face every 6 days. Most recently, World Clock Widget was updated on October 24, 2026 and UTC Face on October 29, 2026.

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