Comparison

Desktop Mini Clock vs Electronic Clock

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

Head to head
About

Desktop Mini Clock

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Desktop Mini Clock brings a precision LCD clock to every Apple platform — your Mac desktop, iPhone and iPad Home Screen, and Apple Vision Pro. MAC — ALWAYS-ON FLOATING PANEL A compact clock panel floats above your other windows, exactly where you need it. Lock position, stay always on top, or hide and reveal with a click. Drag anywhere, and the panel automatically stays on screen when your display setup changes. Start at login so the clock is always ready. iPHONE & iPAD — HOME SCREEN WIDGETS From a glanceable Small square to an Extra Large layout that pairs the clock with a full month calendar, pick the size that fits your life. Lock Screen accessories show the time at a glance. Set a personal photo as the widget background. APPLE VISION PRO — SPATIAL CLOCK Place the clock anywhere in your space. Scale from a subtle accent to a bold centerpiece. Hover over the date line to reveal the lunar annotation. Open the calendar or settings window while the clock stays in view. BILINGUAL — ENGLISH & TRADITIONAL CHINESE One tap switches the entire interface: date formats, weekday names, and lunar annotations all follow your language choice. Lunar calendar covers solar terms, traditional holidays, and leap months. CUSTOMIZE SETTINGS Ā· LCD digit color and accent hue Ā· 12 / 24-hour format Ā· Seconds display with smooth progress bar Ā· Date and lunar annotation on or off HONEST BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No network access needed.

About

Electronic Clock

Features
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Electronic Clock is a minimal full-screen digital clock — and a way to give the old phone in your drawer a second life. Plug an old phone or tablet into power, open Electronic Clock, and it becomes a big clock for your desk, nightstand or wall, with the local weather on screen too. Instead of letting an old device gather dust or end up as e-waste, put it back to work — and skip buying another clock. Time and weather at a glance: large hours and minutes fill the center of the screen, with seconds and a weather emoji right beside them, and the date, weekday and local temperature along the top. No unlocking, no opening other apps — one look tells you the time, the temperature and whether you need an umbrella. Ideas for an old device: • An old iPhone as a bedside clock, a retired iPad as a living room or kitchen clock • A spare phone on your office desk, in the entryway or at a shop counter • Second-hand phones, backup phones and hand-me-downs all find a use Features: • 24-hour clock that updates every second • Date and weekday at the top, with the weekday in English, Chinese or Japanese • Seconds and a weather emoji next to the time • Optional: uses your location to show the local temperature (°C) and conditions • Weather data from MET Norway's public API — free, no ads • Choose the font, text size, text colour and background colour, or pick a built-in style preset • App available in English, Traditional Chinese and Japanese • Landscape full-screen layout on a black background by default; text scales to fit iPhone and iPad • Keeps the screen awake and hides the status bar for a clean display Privacy: No account, no ads, no analytics, no developer servers. Location permission is optional; if granted, coordinates are rounded to about 1 km and sent only to MET Norway to look up the weather — never stored or tracked. See the privacy policy for details.

Screenshots

Desktop Mini Clock4 screens
Electronic Clock3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Desktop Mini Clock at every 4 days against Electronic Clock's every 10 days. Electronic Clock'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 Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Desktop Mini Clock ships an update every 4 days, Electronic Clock every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Desktop Mini Clock versus Electronic Clock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDesktop Mini ClockElectronic Clock
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCHUN CHIEH TSAIHank Wang

In-app purchases

None

Desktop Mini Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Electronic Clock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Desktop Mini Clock free?
Desktop Mini Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Electronic Clock free?
Electronic Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Desktop Mini Clock or Electronic Clock have ads?
Neither Desktop Mini Clock nor Electronic Clock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Desktop Mini Clock or Electronic Clock?
Desktop Mini Clock ships an update every 4 days, and Electronic Clock every 10 days. Most recently, Desktop Mini Clock was updated on October 3, 2026 and Electronic Clock on October 10, 2026.

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