World Clock Widget vs Anywhen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
World Clock Widget
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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.
Anywhen
Easily compare current times across multiple cities and plan meetings with remote teams. This app visualizes time differences with a unique drag-and-drop timeline, showing day and night cycles and business hours at a glance. It operates entirely offline and is built for accessibility.
- Drag-and-drop timeline for time comparison
- Visual day and night bands
- Offline operation
- Accessibility features for VoiceOver
- Calendar view for specific dates
- 100+ time zones supported
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Anywhen is a world clock and time zone converter for people who work, travel and stay in touch across time zones. Compare the current time in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney and 100 zones at a glance, plan meetings with remote teams, and check the time difference before you call. No network, no account, no ads. Anywhen is a time zone app that stops asking you to type a time. The cursor in the middle of the screen never moves. The timeline does. Drag it sideways, like winding film, and every place you added moves at once. "When it is 9:00 in London, what time is it in Tokyo and in San Francisco?" becomes something you read instead of something you calculate. ■ Drag the time axis Let go and it keeps gliding, then settles on 15-minute steps. One tap brings you back to now. A calendar takes you to another day, keeping the time of day you were looking at. ■ See day and night Every row is painted with a day and night band computed from sunrise and sunset, so you can tell it is the middle of the night over there without reading a single number. Business hours are marked along the bottom. ■ Never miss a date change The thing people get wrong is not the hour, it is the day. Every row carries a +1 / -1 badge measured from the zone at the top of the list. ■ It never goes online Anywhen makes no network requests and has no accounts. The IANA time zone database ships inside the app, so it behaves the same in airplane mode or three floors underground. It collects nothing about you. ■ Built for VoiceOver A row is read as one sentence rather than five fragments. If dragging sideways is not an option, swipe up and down on the time in the header to move in 15-minute steps. Text size settings are followed throughout. ■ Made for • Scheduling calls and meetings with colleagues in other time zones • Business trips and travel planning in local time • Checking whether family or friends abroad are awake • Remote teams working across several time zones • Looking up the offset from UTC or GMT 100 time zones. 16 languages. No ads, no in-app purchases, no network access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Anywhen at none against World Clock Widget's 1. Anywhen also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. World Clock Widget sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Anywhen asks for nothing beyond the download.
World Clock Widget ships an update every 9 days, Anywhen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | World Clock Widget | Anywhen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AHMET DUMAN | Roku, K.K. |
In-app purchases
World Clock Widget
- Meridian Plus$4.99
Anywhen
No in-app purchases
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