One of the more surprising app omissions from the iPad was the iPhone’s Clock app. It’s an extremely useful iPhone app, featuring a world clock, alarm, timer, and stopwatch. Why Apple didn’t choose to add this app to the iPad is a mystery for the ages, but at least it’s opened up the market for some incredible clock apps for the platform. Let’s take a look at some of the better clock apps on the App Store:
Night Stand HD (US$4.99, also available in free Lite version) — This good looking universal app not only gives you a choice of clocks, but you also have a world clock, multiple alarms, and a stopwatch. You can also see limited weather information right on the clock face. Unfortunately, the current lack of background capabilities on the iPad means you’ll have to keep this app running in order for those alarms to ring on time, but that will be resolved with iOS 4.2 in November.
Clock Pro HD ($5.99) — Obsessed with time? This might be the iPad app for you. It features an alarm clock in 18 different styles, iPod music alarms, an analog clock full screen support, a chess clock, a world clock, a stop watch with lap control, nature times (sunrise, sunset, midday, high and low tide) for any location, a sleep timer, an egg timer, a metronome, a countdown clock, and a project clock. Whew! As with Night Stand HD, the app must be open for alarms to work due to the background limitations of iOS 3.2 on the iPad.
TUAWA roundup of clock apps for the iPad originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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