LiveTime Viewer vs WatchTheTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LiveTime Viewer
View your Live Time Clock Display on any iOS device. This companion app allows you to monitor live event times remotely, supporting both portrait and landscape orientations. It automatically discovers nearby clocks or connects via URL.
- Remote clock display viewing
- Portrait and landscape support
- Disable device sleep
- Automatic clock discovery
- Connect via URL
- Maintains connection across networks
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**NOTE: Live Time Viewer is used in conjunction with Live Time for macOS. If you do not own or have viewing access to Live Time for macOS with an enabled Clock Display, you won’t have anything to view with this iOS app. Live Time Viewer is the easiest way to see your Live Time Clock Display on any iOS device! Need to keep track of your live event’s time but aren’t at a laptop or desktop computer? No problem, now you can keep track of your event anywhere you have an iOS device and an internet connection (cellular or wifi). Supports portrait and landscape viewing. • Ability to disable your device from sleeping while viewing a Clock. • Automatic discovery of nearby Live Time Clocks Displays for quick connecting. • Quickly load Live Time clocks to watch by simply entering a URL. • Automatically keeps you connected even when switching between cellular and wifi connections when the Clock Display is externally available through a global hostname.
WatchTheTime
Customize your Apple Watch with a variety of digital time and date complications. Personalize colors, formats, and even offsets to create a unique watch face. Supports multiple complications and all Apple Watch styles.
- Digital time and date complications
- AM/PM toggle
- Color customization
- Custom date formats
- Multiple complications
- 24-hour format support
- Time/date offset
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This app allows you to: - Choose a date and/or digital time complication for your Apple Watch - Enable AM/PM on digital time complication - Change the color (where available) for both the date and the digital time Apple Watch complications - Change the date format from default options, or specify a custom format - Use multiple Apple Watch complications at the same time - Support for all complication styles, including Apple Watch Series 4 complications - 24-time format - Support for your Apple Watch's language - Custom time/date offset by hour and minute Requires: - Compatible Apple Watch running watchOS 4+ - Compatible iPhone paired to Apple Watch
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LiveTime Viewer at 4.6 against WatchTheTime's 3.6. LiveTime Viewer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (71% vs 57%). WatchTheTime's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (39 vs 9). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LiveTime Viewer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 39 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of LiveTime Viewer's written reviews are positive against 57% of WatchTheTime's.
LiveTime Viewer ships an update every 3 months, WatchTheTime every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LiveTime Viewer | WatchTheTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better | 3.6 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Workflow Network | Adam Dama |
Customer experience
LiveTime Viewer
WatchTheTime
In-app purchases
LiveTime Viewer
No in-app purchases
WatchTheTime
No in-app purchases
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