News Clocks
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travel | $0.99 | National Spork LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
News Clocks is a unique and powerful travel clock that you can rely on. It's more than just another world clock widget. As one reviewer said, "This has evolved into a great app. Well worth the price. The customization is amazing."
Here's a brief overview of special aspects of News Clocks you won't find elsewhere:
Add, delete, and rearrange your clocks with ease. No internet connection is required to search for cities. Use the built-in help feature to learn more.
Analog clock styles include modern, gold luxury, aviation, simple, and Chinese numerals. Digital style also included.
With Nightstand Mode, let the app run while you sleep. Enjoy four brightness settings and an integrated alarm. The auto lock feature keeps the screen turned on if your device is plugged in to power.
New, customizable double line labels now show even more city information! Show the time, date, 24 hour ("military") time, day of week, or even relative dates like "Today" and "Tomorrow".
The date calculator computes zone changes, date addition and subtraction, can plan and project meeting times for locations around the world, and even distances between cities.
Lunar phase (on the polar mapped globe view) is shown in real time.
Reviews
Global projects
MikeWatt
I am lucky enough to have a job producing corporate meetings all over the world, so this app is invaluable keeping track of projects that are in various stages of development. In my home office, I have a full scale wall version with nine real clocks on it!
Brilliant time piece
xerxers
We are kiwis living in Florida and have family living all over the place. This international clock allows me to see what the time is whenever we want to make a phone call. I think the layout and the way the clocks can be presented is just excellent.
Simple, elegant, perfect
russiard
This is exactly what I always wanted. I like how the extra cities are organized. If there is a whole region you don't need, you can turn it off. Also, it can chime like a grandfather clock every hour if you want! Perfect!
Just okay
dr_punditington
This, in my humble opinion, is only okay. I was hoping for more cities at once or more options at once or more something. I never did understand the box with options to choose "more cities" for certain parts of the world. If changing the settings there did anything, I'm not aware of what. Since writing the above, I've installed Worldwide Clock HD, which I've found to be far superior to News Clocks. Other reviews consisting of vaguely-worded advertising hype notwithstanding, News Clocks is attractive, but a minimal program. I've changed my rating from 2 stars to 1.
Don't trust the 5 star ratings
Horse Nebula
The 5 star hype seems to be self-advertizing. The way you select cities is stupid: you tap on a clock ad it changes to a random city. And there seems no way to get the old selection back. Just search the App Store for World Clock and you will find much better options!
News Clocks
Runta Runta
Wanted to be able to display clocks in multiple cities that I choose, this is not the application for this purpose. A waste of .99
I just love it, it's perfect.
billholz
I read the reviews, and I was not sure about it, but I am going on a trip around the world soon, and I was very pleased that some of our ports are what you have listed. I turned on the options and the world is very beautiful in the back ground. I also am going to Alaska this week end and I saw you had a clock for that. I can't wait to show my girlfriend. you must have hundreds of hours in this App. I would give you six stars if I was allowed to. I never saw an app before that you could touch the clock face And it would change the name. Thanks for telling us about that. I now have returned an every thing was a real Joy, it's one of my favorite apps of 320. I up graded the app on my iPad. And it's just great. Thanks another 5 Stars.
Solid app
Jrip73
Love the huge db of cities! All of the stops on my trip to Asia were available. It's easy to change cities and the world view makes it easy to see which day a given city is on. Future feature adds? Adding the current date and time under each clock in the six clock view would be great.
Great App
RR360
Works very well. Relatively easy to learn. Really like the way it moves to the location on the world map when you tap on the location name. This is an app that really compliments an I-pad. Future suggestions: 1. Would like to have the ability to move the order of the clocks. 2. Would like to be able to assign a location by zip code and then have the location name appear. 3. I think tat it would be easier to tell day and night if the actual face of the clock was either black or white rather than the location name becoming black or white. Keep up the excellent work. The 99 cent cost of the app is a real value.
