Comparison

Electronic Clock vs Diary

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

Head to head
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.

About

Diary

Features
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Keep your thoughts, memories, and everyday moments private with a simple diary designed for personal journaling. Write freely, add photos and moods, and protect your memories with a passcode and Face ID or Touch ID. PRIVATE & SECURE • Protect your diary with a 4–6 digit passcode • Unlock with Face ID or Touch ID • Automatic locking keeps your entries private • Privacy mask protects your screen when the app goes to the background • Your diary data is stored locally on your device • No account and no cloud storage required WRITE YOUR WAY • Write, edit, and read diary entries • Add titles, text, dates, and times • Quickly record a thought, photo, or mood • Add multiple photos, tags, locations, weather, and categories • Use writing templates for today, gratitude, weekends, travel, and more • Customize paper colors, font size, and text color • Favorite important entries • Export an entry as an image to your Photos FIND & RELIVE YOUR MEMORIES • Search titles, entries, categories, tags, and locations • Filter entries by date or photos • Use the calendar to see your journaling history • Discover memories from this day in previous years • Review your month at a glance • Travel through your memories with Time Machine by year • Browse your favorite entries • View statistics for entries, photos, writing streaks, moods, categories, and popular tags BUILD A DAILY JOURNALING HABIT • Track consecutive journaling days • Set a daily reminder • Look back on your writing and memories whenever you want PERSONALIZE YOUR DIARY • Light mode, dark mode, or follow the system • Multiple themes • Customize the look and feel of your journal BACKUP & EXPORT • Back up and restore your diary, photos, and tags • Export your memories as JSON, TXT, or PDF • Keep a copy of your personal memories whenever you need it A private space for everyday thoughts, feelings, photos, and memories—without an account or subscription.

Screenshots

Electronic Clock3 screens
Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Electronic Clock at none against Diary's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Electronic Clock versus Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElectronic ClockDiary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHank Wang思宇 赵

In-app purchases

None

Electronic Clock

No in-app purchases

None

Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Electronic Clock free?
Electronic Clock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diary free?
Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Electronic Clock or Diary have ads?
Diary shows ads; Electronic Clock does not.

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