Present vs JustClock

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.

Open it. See the time. JustClock is a quiet clock for your desk or bedside. A clear digital clock, the date, and local weather share one simple screen. The time appears without waiting for the weather. Make room for your day • Five in-app widgets: digital clock, analog clock, date, weather, and phrase • Place digital and analog clocks together • Add, remove, move, and resize widgets • Light and dark modes, with an option to follow your system • Manual portrait and landscape modes, each with its own saved layout • Arrange widgets in one editable clock composition • One app-wide font, with widget colors and opacity • Pretendard included; optional fonts download after confirmation • 12-hour or 24-hour time, optional seconds, and an optional year in the date • Twelve night weather icons that follow the actual lunar phase A phrase when you want one The default clock starts without a phrase. Add a phrase widget to read 120 short adaptations in both English and Korean, or write your own text of up to 100 characters. Included phrases follow your language setting and change daily or hourly. Your clock can use included phrases or your own text. Both work offline. A calm screen, simple controls Start in landscape, then keep your last chosen orientation. Tap to reveal clock layout, settings, and orientation controls at the top left; tap again to hide them. Settings with several options open a selection sheet. The clock screen stays awake while open and respects your device's reduced-motion setting. Free, with no ads, sign-up, or in-app purchases. Settings, widget layouts, and text you write are saved on your device. Weather is optional: with location permission, approximate coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo for a forecast. The clock keeps working if permission is denied or weather is unavailable. Weather data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0. Temperature and weather codes are formatted for display. Included phrases are adapted from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, translated into English by George Long, and the Tao Te Ching, translated into English by James Legge. They are not presented as verbatim quotations.