TimeGlance Reviews

I purchased for .99 and downloaded TimeGlance to my Apple Watch 3. I set it for my time zone. It worked correctly for about one day when I noticed it was off by a few hours. I was unable to correct this. So I decided to try uninstalling and reinstalling TimeGlance . It seems to be uninstalled but I’m not able to reinstall. It shows that I purchased TimeGlance in TimeGlance Store but I can’t find it anywhere to reinstall. So now I have nothing.

TimeGlance was working as intended the first few hours, unfortunately I kept noticing the time wouldn’t update causing the digital time to be set back several hours. This is fixed only by tapping on the time icon or TimeGlance to refresh, but that defeats the purpose of the name “this app” not “time tap on the time for it to refresh and sync so you can glance for a few hours at a time”. Very unfortunate considering it’s a paid app

Edit: I’ve been using TimeGlance for ages with no problems whatsoever, but it seems like a recent update has caused it to become glitchy. The time is not updating and I never know if it’s right or not so I deleted it! I work at a hospital and can’t get my times wrong. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Original review: Just downloaded, but so far this is the perfect app for my needs! Seems like this should come automatically from Apple, but I’m not sure they’d have done as nice and neat of a job as this developer. Clean app, easy to use from the watch, very customizable, just perfect. Would love to see more color options in the future, but the ones provided are nice.

I bought this complication only because I wanted a way to view both local and 24 hour UTC at the same time.

For the most part it generally works. However all too frequently I’ll glance at the watch and notice that this app has not updated in hours, such as I just noticed 9:24pm and this app is showing 10:00. Tapping the complication the exiting updates to the correct 21:24.

I really want to like this complication more, but it’s just not very reliable.

When it works it’s great. I have an Apple Watch Series 3 and this compilation is hit or miss. I think it’s a syncing issue with the Apple Watch Series 3. The correct time will display if I turn off and on my watch. I notice it’s usually at night when the wrong time displays. Also do not uninstall as I had to ask for a refund twice from TimeGlance Store because it doesn’t show in my Apple Watch or phone’s purchases the phone store says you already purchased it and watch store says you need to buy it. I’ve tried purchasing it from my phone and then purchasing it from my watch, same issue. The developer is very nice and responsive though.

TimeGlance does have a few bugs though. Sometimes the complication fails to update on the watch face and sometimes opening TimeGlance fixes this, other times it doesn’t.

First impressions have been incredible.

All I wanted was a digital time complication for the Infograph face that I could stick up in a corner. I can read analog just fine, but let’s be honest, reading digital time is so much easier and if you have a spare complication spot, worth as well imo.

I tried using watchsmith at first but the time was way too small and it didn’t curve. I was digging and digging and finally found mention of TimeGlance.

You may be asking yourself why I’m writing such a long review for an app that does 1 thing. Well, the relief I’m feeling is overwhelming. That’s weird but I don’t care, I have a nice digital time complication on my watch face.

$1 later I have EXACTLY what I wanted. Perfect number size, perfect legibility.

For a buck you can’t go wrong, and you’ll definitely be surprised.

Fits seamlessly into the ‘infographic’ watch face. I forgot that I was even using it until I read the message from the author while adjusting it. This should have been native to the actual watch face. Recommended improvement: provide the ability to turn off date or time for a slightly larger display.

I’m using TimeGlance to display date and time as the top center complication in the Infograph watch face on an Apple Watch 6. For me, it takes care of two things I wanted: not having to display seconds (as the built-in time complication does) and being able to use just one complication slot for both date and time, leaving the watch background less cluttered.

I wanted something minimal to display digital time on an analog face and this does the job perfectly. I love the customizable options. I had to go download through my watch App Store again when I updated phones - kudos to the developer for including this information in the write up in TimeGlance Store because I could not figure out where it went. Thanks so much for this nifty little app!

I’m 78 and 72 years ago I spent 18 long months learning to tell time by reading clocks and watches - digital time didn’t exist. I continually pestered my parents to tell me my guessing was correct - rarely was it. That’s why I use the California face - I earned it. The problem is my three “fill-in” jobs, each have different hours and days. There are times I wake to dusk or dawn, look at my watch and don’t know which it is - until now! I have a VALUABLE complication “this app”. Set to 24 hour time I now know day from night. Thank you, perveyors of this app!

TimeGlance is simple. It allows you to put the time or time and date on any complication without having to use the world clock one that Apple provides! TimeGlance is perfect and well worth the 99 cents it costs! Thanks!

Hello Developer,

I love this, however can you make an option to hide the time and only show date, because I just like to see the current work week only in the complications.

Thanks

Wonderful app. I’ve been trying to become proficient in using 24 hour time and this is perfect as a training too. Could we maybe get some bigger font sizes for those of us than need reading glasses?

I wanted to replace the World Clock complication with a digital clock and this does the job perfectly. It doesn’t display which time zone it is showing but when I’m home I set it to the same one always and when I’m traveling I set it to home. Pretty cool!

I got it installed on my watch, I can edit the setting and click “save” but it isn’t an option in complications. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Edit: Restarting the watch made it work! Excellent!

I spent so long trying to find a Complication that just displays the time in the outer corner of the Infographic face, without the ugly extra text of the default World Clock. So happy with how this one works, so simple yet so perfect.

Love this little complication and it's ability to show a digital time while using some of the gorgeous analog watch faces. I can read analog time, but it's not instant, even after all these years. So having the digital time is perfect for when I need the watch to tell time.
A note- if you upgrade your watch, you'll have to re-download the complication from TimeGlance store on the watch itself. Still works great in iOS 18 & WatchOS 11.
Thank you dev!

Please add a color picker so we can customize the color better. Limited selection of colors is my main problem with TimeGlance . Also a way to have different settings for different instances of the complication would be useful.

Typically for myself I’d like to have the digital time for a quick glance to see what time it is. But also keeping the minimal analog watch look and to be able to use new new watch faces. TimeGlance really created the best complication and best possible way to use minimal digital time in sync it with analog time properly best purchase.