TZ24 vs Needless Clock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TZ24
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Your world clocks, right on your home screen. TZ24 is a world clock and time zone converter that makes it easy to check global time, compare cities, set reminders, and track your favourite locations with customisable home-screen widgets. Whether you're working with international teams, traveling, or staying connected with loved ones abroad, TZ24 helps you stay in sync. NEW: HOME-SCREEN WORLD CLOCK WIDGETS Keep the time zones that matter most just a glance away. Choose from four useful widget layouts: • Compare Time Widget See and compare the time in two cities directly from your home screen. • Single Time Widget Display the local time for one selected city. • Multi-City Widget Track multiple city clocks together in one convenient widget. • Compact Multi Time Widget Keep a smaller selection of global times visible in a space saving layout. Check important city times without opening the app. WORLD CLOCK YOUR FAVOURITE CITIES TOGETHER Add the cities you care about and view their current local times in one organised dashboard. See time differences and UTC offsets to understand how time changes around the world. COMPARE TIME ZONES EASILY Compare the time between two cities with a simple time zone converter. Whether you're coordinating an international meeting or planning a call with friends abroad, TZ24 makes comparing time zones straightforward. EXPLORE THE WORLD TIME ZONE MAP Discover global time zones using an interactive map. Explore UTC offsets and better understand time differences across countries and regions. SET OFFLINE TIME ZONE REMINDERS Create reminders for selected time zones and stay organised when planning activities across countries. PERSONALISE YOUR WORLD CLOCK • Four home-screen widget layouts • Multiple city clocks • Time zone comparison • Interactive global time zone map • Offline reminders • 12-hour and 24-hour formats • Optional seconds display • Theme customisation • Notification preferences and haptic feedback PERFECT FOR GLOBAL LIVING Remote Workers Keep important international time zones visible while coordinating with colleagues. Traveler's Follow local times across your favourite destinations. Friends & Families Stay connected with people living in different countries. Global Professionals Compare times before making international calls. Make every time zone easier to manage. Download TZ24 and keep the world on your home screen.
Needless Clock
This app offers a collection of living, animated clocks that display time through unique visual narratives. Interact with the scenes to alter elements and enjoy a calming visual experience that goes beyond simple timekeeping.
- Living, animated clock designs
- Interactive visual elements
- Customizable clock scenes
- Scheduled display dimming
- Short clock film creation
- No ads or third-party tracking
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People do not open Needless Clock merely to find out the time. More often, they want the glowing screen beside them to grow quiet without becoming empty: something to glance at between tasks, a little light at night, time passing without hurrying anyone along. Needless Clock is a collection of living, animated clocks. They all keep the same real time, but each inhabits a world of its own. Fish turn through water, birds arrive from far away, ants hurry under the weight of a treat, cars follow the painted lines of a car park, and a brush writes numerals in water. At the turn of a minute the picture wakes; once everything has found its place, only small movements, wings, shadows and breathing remain. TIME HAS THIRTEEN PLACES TO GO Fish gather into figures. Touch the water and those nearby scatter, then swim home along their own curved paths. Birds perch on five wires. Some leave at the next minute, others find a new place, and now and then a distant bird crosses the clouds. Tap once and the sky sinks beneath the sea, the flock becoming fish of different forms. Ants carry biscuits, rock sugar, dried fish, winter-melon candy and leaves. Cars pull into bays. Metal blocks fall one by one. These digits are not displayed; they are made. Lotus Pond, Starry Night and Auspicious Cranes share one frame: brushstrokes paint the time across the water, and cranes fly out of the painting to form the figures. White sand crabs climb out of their burrows and line up as figures, while a few red crabs wander the beach, slipping into a burrow or strolling past. Water runs from a brush onto stone and disappears first from the finest ends of the strokes. Oracle bone, bronze, seal and clerical scripts sit beside the hands of Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Huang Tingjian, letting one numeral travel through centuries. A gnomon casts its shadow among the twelve Earthly Branches, its length changing through the twenty-four solar terms. There is also a wall of cooperating clock faces, a luminous word clock, figures revealed by paper and shadow, and mechanical flaps that fall like those once heard in stations and airports. GOOD JUST LEFT THERE Swipe to move between clocks. Tap to change a material, colour or world. Or choose a few favourites and let them rotate by themselves, from every minute to every hour. At night the display can dim on your schedule. Keep the screen awake, or hide the title, date and time zone until only time remains. It belongs on an iPhone stand, across an iPad, beside a Mac workspace, or spread quietly over the television in a living room. A MOMENT YOU CAN TAKE WITH YOU On supported devices, Share waits for the next minute. It keeps the stillness before the change and stops after the movement has come to rest, making a short clock film to save or send. No account, no advertising and no third-party tracking. The clocks and their calculations stay on the device. Location is off by default and, if enabled, is used only to let the car park grow dark near your own sunset. Supports Reduce Motion and VoiceOver. Made for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. All clocks now support portrait and landscape on iPhone and iPad, including upside-down portrait. May it do more than tell the time. May it keep the time with you for a while.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Needless Clock at every 4 days against TZ24's every 2 months. TZ24's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TZ24 ships an update every 2 months, Needless Clock every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TZ24 | Needless Clock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergio Vazquez | 路 林 |
In-app purchases
TZ24
No in-app purchases
Needless Clock
No in-app purchases









