Comparison

Superclock vs Compass

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

Head to head
About

Superclock

Features
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Superclock is an iPhone alarm app on Apple's AlarmKit. It rings like Clock and knows your day like Calendar. - Rings through silent, like Clock. - On any date, which Clock cannot do. A date months away, thirty minutes from now, or set by sunrise or a meeting. - Several alarms: 06:00, 06:10, 06:20 as one, until you are up. Stopping any one of them ends the rest. - Sunrise: Superclock uses your location to work out sunrise where you are, and asks Apple's WeatherKit for the weather there when an alarm follows it. - Meetings: an alarm that moves when the meeting moves, with Join. - Reminders: a reminder that actually rings, and ticks itself off. - A trip: your mornings, walked to their clock before you fly. - People: the time where the people you know live, and an alarm for a birthday or a regular call. - Shared alarms: share an alarm or a timer with your people. See when they are up. - Timers: count down and count up, and the timers you actually use, one tap from the Home Screen. - Limit: 15 min of Instagram, or any app, a day: then it rings or blocks. - Widgets on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, and a Live Activity while an alarm rings or a timer counts down. - Siri and Shortcuts: set an alarm from a sentence, like "6am saturday airport run". - Claude: ask it to set or move an alarm, and it is on your iPhone in seconds, with Undo. Meetings, reminders and trips are one-time unlocks, or all three with Pro, which also includes every paid feature added later. Everything else is free. No subscription. Try every paid feature free for 7 days. Your alarms stay on this phone. An account is optional and free: sign in with Apple to let Claude set your alarms, and see them at superclock.app.

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Compass

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COMPASS • Live heading with true north or magnetic north, with a calibration tip when the sensors drift • Large, easy-to-read dial with degrees and cardinal directions • Your coordinates in decimal degrees, degrees-minutes-seconds, MGRS and Plus Code • Altitude, plus sunrise and sunset for your location • Flashlight and SOS light, and optional voice guidance for your heading QIBLA • Shows the direction and distance to the Kaaba from where you are • Clear on-dial guidance (turn left or right) until you are aligned AZIMUTH LOCK • Choose a target bearing and follow the dial until you are on course • Useful for hiking, camping, photography, astronomy and orienteering WEATHER AND MOON • Current conditions and forecast from Apple Weather • Moon phase, moonrise and moonset, sunrise and sunset AIR QUALITY • Current Air Quality Index for your location with pollutant details and general guidance • Pro: save up to five locations and compare them with updates every 3 hours MADE TO FEEL YOURS • Choose from premium backgrounds and themes and arrange the information cards you care about • Metric or imperial units and 12 or 24-hour time follow your iPhone, or set your own • Available in 33 languages with a built-in language switch: English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Right-to-left layouts for Arabic and Hebrew. • The compass works without a connection; weather and air quality need the internet. SMART COMPASS PRO (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) Smart Compass is free to use with ads. Subscribe to Smart Compass Pro to remove ads, unlock all five Air Quality locations with updates every 3 hours (free: one location, updated every 24 hours) and use the premium styles. Subscription terms: • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, or when a free trial ends. • The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the same price. • Manage or cancel your subscription any time in Settings > your name > Subscriptions, or at https://apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel it. • If you start a free trial, any unused part of it is forfeited when you buy a subscription. • Prices may vary by country and are shown in your local currency before you confirm. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/smartcompassgps/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/smartcompassgps/privacy-policy IMPORTANT Smart Compass uses your device's magnetometer and location. Magnetic interference from metal, magnets, cases or electronics can reduce accuracy; calibrate often and confirm Qibla with a trusted source. Air quality and weather information is general and is not medical advice. Do not rely on this app as your only means of navigation in remote, marine, aviation or emergency situations. Weather data is provided by Apple Weather; see https://weatherkit.apple.com/legal-attribution.html. Air quality data is provided by the Google Air Quality API. Location is used only to show coordinates, weather, moon and air quality for where you are.

Screenshots

Superclock4 screens
Compass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Compass at 17.0 against Superclock's 27.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Superclock sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Compass sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Superclock versus Compass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuperclockCompass
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS27.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSystem Operator LLCMahendrakumar Gohel

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Superclock

One-time5
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Trips$1.99
  • Meetings$1.99
Show 2 more
  • Reminders$1.99
  • Pro$4.99
3 purchases

Compass

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Plan$3.997 Days
  • Weekly Plan with Free trial3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Yearly Plan$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Superclock free?
Superclock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Compass free?
Compass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Superclock or Compass have ads?
Neither Superclock nor Compass shows ads.

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