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In a nutshell

World Time Widget is a world clock for the people in your life. You put the cities that matter to you on your home screen, lock screen, StandBy and Apple Watch, and you can see at a glance whether it is a good time to say hi.

It launched alongside iOS 8 in 2014, has passed a million downloads, and Apple has featured it several times since. Every clock shows whether it is day or night where that person is, so you know before you text. Clocks take your own labels, so the screen reads “Mum in Sydney” or “Berlin office” rather than a list of airport codes. When a call has to work in three places at once, there is a time zone calculator built in.

New in iOS 27

Coming this autumn.

Ask Siri, and keep your hands where they are

Add a clock, compare two cities, or open the time zone calculator just by asking. Adding and comparing run in the background, so the app never opens.

Say “Hey Siri, add a city to World Clock”, answer “Reykjavík”, and it is saved. Say “Hey Siri, compare times in World Clock” and Siri replies “Tokyo is 9 hours ahead of London”, with a card showing both. Any of the app’s 644 cities can be named, not only the ones you track.

Comparisons are worked out live rather than read from a fixed offset, so they survive daylight saving, and half hour and 45 minute zones read properly: Kolkata comes back as “5 hours, 30 minutes ahead of London”.

Phrases are localised, not translated, each using the app’s name in that language: on a German phone, “Zeitzonenrechner in Weltzeituhr”. Clocks are searchable in Spotlight, every action is a Shortcuts action, and all are free.

Siri will not read out a single clock’s time: it already answers that well on its own.

Onscreen awareness for Apple Intelligence

Your clocks and search results now tell the system what they are, so Siri can refer to what is on screen without you naming it.

A new iPad design that moves with the window

A world map with your clocks below it: a wrapping grid in portrait, a sideways strip in landscape. The layout reflows as the window changes, so it works the same in Split View or Stage Manager as it does full screen.

If you would like a build before release, get in touch.

Why another world clock

Apple ships a Clock app on every iPhone, so it is a fair question.

Your own labels. “Charlie deployed” tells you more than “Honolulu” does.

Add Anywhere. You don’t need to know what timezone the place you are looking for is in, just search for the city, town,village or hamlet and we’ll find the time.

Day and night on every clock. You see whether it is 2pm or 2am where your people are, not just a number you have to interpret.

Widgets on every surface. Home screen, lock screen, StandBy, and an Apple Watch complication.

A time zone calculator. Move a meeting time and watch what it does to everyone else’s day.

Easy. When we surveyed our users, “easiest to use” was the single most common reason people gave for choosing it.

Features

• See the time to the second
• Clocks for anywhere worldwide, with automatic daylight saving adjustment
• Custom labels for each clock
• Home screen, lock screen and StandBy widgets
• Apple Watch app and complications
• Day and night state on every clock
• 12 or 24 hour display, and seconds if you want them
• Analog or digital faces
• iCloud sync, so your clocks follow you between devices
• Time travel, to see what a moment looks like everywhere at once
• Beautiful themes for the widgets and the main app

Privacy

There is no account, and no sign up. Your clocks live in your own iCloud, not on our servers. We do not track you and we do not sell anything about you. The app earns its spot on your home screen by being useful and then getting out of the way.

Featured by Apple

• Utilities, Apps We Love (US)
• Cool Clocks and Timers (US)
• Enhanced for 3D Touch (US)
• Best New Apps (UK)
• Federico Viticci’s My Must-Have iPhone Apps, MacStories

About Lewis

World Time Widget is made by Lewis Smith, a full time indie developer based in the UK, who has been building iPhone apps since 2012. He went full time indie in 2017 and looks after development, design and marketing himself. Holly handles customer support, also from the UK.

Alongside World Time Widget, Lewis makes Progress, a body measurement tracker that has been on the App Store since 2012, and Emoji Countdown, also featured by Apple, which counts down to the days you are looking forward to, each one pinned to a favourite emoji.

You can find more at lewis42.me and on LinkedIn.