World Clock Time Zone Widgets vs Hour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
World Clock Time Zone Widgets
Easily track the local time in cities worldwide with customizable widgets for your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Dynamic Island. Convert dates and compare time zones with a powerful tool, ideal for remote workers and global coordination. Offers visual daylight hours and sunrise/sunset information.
- Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Dynamic Island widgets
- Analog and digital clock displays
- Searchable city database (10,000+ cities)
- Date and time conversion tool
- Visual daylight hours display
- Live Activities integration
- Customizable clock renaming
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Check the time, anytime! Track the local time in cities across the world, right from your Home Screen, Lock Screen, or Dynamic Island. Add cities to World Clock and select the analog or digital clocks. Then check the World Clock widget whenever you need to know the time. Features: • Attractive analog and digital clock displays, with options to display seconds and 24-hour time. • Simple UI for adding and managing cities. Search or browse 10,000+ cities by name. • Rename a city to create a custom clock, e.g., “Grandma’s House”. • Get your local time using location (GPS). • Widgets are available in many sizes and styles, including Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Today widgets. • Live Activities available on iOS 16.2+ and iPadOS 17+. See the Live Activity on your Apple Watch with iOS 18 and watchOS 11. • Stick a clock or two in the Dynamic Island with Live Activities and see them across all your apps. • Convert tool: set the date and time, compare the times across all your time zones, and then share, create a reminder, or add to your calendar with just a few taps. This is a must-have productivity tool for remote workers or anyone coordinating across time zones. • Includes easy instructions for adding the Widget to your home and lock screens. • Daylight hours shown visually, based on actual sunrise and sunset times. • Look up a location’s sunrise time, moon phase, time zone details, and more. • In-app purchase to remove ads and unlock extra features. One-time purchase — no subscriptions!
Hour
This app displays the current time in multiple cities worldwide, with customizable backgrounds and formats. It helps users schedule meetings across time zones and provides sunrise/sunset information.
- Add/delete unlimited cities
- Rearrange cities via drag and drop
- Dynamic clock face background
- Notification Center Widget
- AM/PM or 24H format
- Time travel swipe for scheduling
- Sunrise/Sunset information
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After 8 years on the Mac, Hour is coming to the iPhone and iPad. Hour macOS, your popular and convenient free World Clock since 2012. HOUR FEATURES • Add or Delete any city, as many as you want. • Simply rearrange your cities by drag and drop. • Hour display the Clock Face black or white background, following the night and day of the city. • Notification Center Widget. • Display AM/PM format or 24H format. • Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday information displayed. • Theme light or dark. • Easily schedule meetings or calls with friends or colleagues with the time travel swipe. • Rename the city as you want. • Fine tune time format per world clock*. • Digital mode for your World Clocks. • Sunrise, Sunset information. • Time Offset information. • VoiceOver support. Hour never prompts you for a review because we value your workflow too much to interrupt it. If you feel generous and have a couple of minutes, please leave a review. It makes a huge difference to us. Thank you in advance. *InApp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hour at none against World Clock Time Zone Widgets's shown. World Clock Time Zone Widgets's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (23K vs 4). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. World Clock Time Zone Widgets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hour sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for World Clock Time Zone Widgets against 4.8 for Hour. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: World Clock Time Zone Widgets has 23K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
World Clock Time Zone Widgets ships an update every 3 weeks, Hour every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | World Clock Time Zone Widgets | Hour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23K ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overdesigned, LLC | Fabrice Leyne |
Customer experience
World Clock Time Zone Widgets
Hour
Bugs and requests
World Clock Time Zone Widgets
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widget not updating correctly
- App crashing when adding/editing locations
- Incorrect time zone offsets for some locations
Requested features
5 requests- Add more customization options for widgets
- Improve widget reliability and update speed
- Integrate with Apple Watch
- Add ability to calculate time differences between locations
- Provide a smaller widget size option
Hour
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
World Clock Time Zone Widgets
- World Clock Pro$4.99
Hour
- Hour Advanced Features$2.99
Questions
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