Comparison

Long Lasting Clock vs Present

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

Head to head
About

Long Lasting Clock

Features
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A big clock. A message for the room. Show the time alongside a welcome, meeting notice or class break on one clear screen. See the time at a glance. Turn your iPhone or iPad into a large, full-screen clock for your desk, nightstand or presentations, with no ads or account required. Write and show a message for free. Clock Pro adds fonts, colors, size controls, and saved messages. “Next meeting at 14:00” “Welcome to our space” “On a break until 10:15” You write and update the message yourself. There is no calendar connection. MAKE IT YOURS WITH CLOCK PRO Clock Pro is an optional one-time purchase, not a subscription. Add Flip, Focus and Custom Font clock styles, Paper and Night Red appearances, and your own text, background and colon colors. Save up to five complete clock looks with Clock Pro. Saved Messages · Saved Time Zones · Custom Colors AT YOUR PACE Keep the screen awake while the full-screen clock is open. Burn-In Protection gently moves the display over time; it does not guarantee against screen burn-in. Keeping the screen awake uses more battery. Your personal messages, saved places and clock preferences are stored on your device, not collected by the developer. No account, ads or tracking.

About

Present

This app transforms your phone into a minimalist bedside display showing time, date, weather, and upcoming calendar events. It's designed to be glanceable and reduce phone distractions, offering a calming visual experience without interactive elements.

Highlights
  • Glanceable time, date, and weather
  • Calendar event preview
  • Dynamic sky and moon phases
  • Offline functionality
  • Minimalist, distraction-free interface
  • Automatic screen dimming
Features
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Enough things already ask for your attention. Present is not one of them. Set your phone on a stand and it becomes a calm, glanceable display: the time, the date, the weather, and a quick look at what is coming up. What matters right now, and nothing else. NOTHING TO TAP There are no controls on the readout. No settings screen. No feed, no badge, and no notification it can ever send you. Present is built to reduce what your phone asks of you, not to collect your attention — it slips into the background and is simply there when you look up. A GLANCE, NOT A SESSION The time and date, the current conditions, and the next few hours of your calendar scrolling under a fixed now-marker. You read it in a second from across the room and get back to whatever you were doing. TIME YOU CAN SEE WITHOUT READING Behind it all, a sky that dims through the real dusk where you actually are. Sunrise and sunset are computed on the device from your own coordinates. The sun climbs the edge of the screen and sets at the bottom right; the moon takes over at nightfall, drawn at tonight's true phase. Look up and you know roughly where you are in the day before you have read a single number. BUILT TO BE LEFT RUNNING The screen dims after a minute untouched and clears the moment you reach for the phone. The now-marker breathes and the clock's separator blinks — small movements that keep a bright, static screen from settling into one position all night. YOUR CALENDAR STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Events are read on the device, read-only, one day at a time. No title, location, attendee or time ever leaves it. Location is requested at kilometre accuracy and rounded before it reaches the weather service, which is the only thing the app talks to. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No cloud. No ads. No tracking. The clock, the sky and the moon need no network at all, so they keep working offline. This is Present — A Simple Clock Here & Now. Free for a week, then $0.99 once. No subscription. Weather data from MET Norway. Requires iOS 17 or later. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Long Lasting Clock4 screens
Present3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Long Lasting Clock at 4 against Present's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Long Lasting Clock sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Present sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Long Lasting Clock ships an update weekly, Present every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Long Lasting Clock versus Present: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLong Lasting ClockPresent
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSchmidt Service Partner ABViable Labs LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Long Lasting Clock

One-time1
  • Long Lasting Clock Pro$1.99
1 purchases

Present

One-time1
  • Unlock Present$0.99

Questions

Is Long Lasting Clock free?
Long Lasting Clock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Present free?
Present is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Long Lasting Clock or Present have ads?
Neither Long Lasting Clock nor Present shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Long Lasting Clock or Present?
Long Lasting Clock ships an update weekly, and Present every 4 days. Most recently, Long Lasting Clock was updated on November 10, 2026 and Present on November 6, 2026.

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