01Editorial
Cream paper, Didot numerals, a hairline rule under the masthead.
120+ designer faces · iPhone & iPad
Time, worth displaying.
Dive bezels, split-flap cards, phosphor terminals, cream editorial pages. Drawn one at a time — with live seconds everywhere iOS allows them.
- 120+
- widget designs
- 400+
- cities & time zones
- 4.8★
- App Store rating
Every preview on this page is live. They are reading your device clock right now — nothing here is a screenshot.
Editorial
The collection
A face for
every mood you have.
Scroll. The phone changes with you.
02Dive
Rotating bezel, lumed indices, a seconds hand with a proper counterweight.
03Flip
Split-flap cards that fall through the minute, hinge shadow and all.
04Dot Matrix
Amber LEDs on a dark grid — the unlit dots are the whole trick.
05Word Clock
IT IS TWENTY PAST NINE. Read it, don’t decode it.
06Neon
Hot core, saturated halo, wide dim spill on the wall behind.
Four surfaces
The same face,
wherever you look.
Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy and fullscreen each behave differently on iOS. Every design ships for all four.
Home Screen
Small, medium and large — three designs, not one crop.
Every face is composed separately for each slot. Seconds appear where there is room and step aside where there isn’t.
Browse the collection
Lock Screen
The screen you check a hundred times a day.
Inline, circular and rectangular slots, each with its own layout — and a live per-second tick that the Home Screen cannot give you.
Lock Screen widgets
StandBy
A nightstand clock you already own.
On charge, on its side, dimmed to red after dark. iOS hands you a full-screen surface and almost nobody uses it well.
Set up StandBy
Fullscreen
Your desk clock. Your focus.
Thirteen faces that fill the screen, keep it awake, dim at night — and switch into a 25/5 Pomodoro without leaving the view.
Fullscreen modeWorld time
Every desk
you work across.
Set any widget to any city — search by city or country, or type a raw offset when your zone isn’t listed. Daylight saving is handled for you, because widgets store a zone rather than a number.
- 400+ cities with flags and offsets
- Custom UTC offsets, including half-hour zones
- A live day/night terminator on the map face
- One widget per market, all on one screen
In the wild
The objects these
faces came from.
Every design starts with something that actually existed. Here are three of them, next to what they became.
Nixie
Six tubes of noble gas.
A real nixie lights one numeral and leaves the other nine sitting behind it in wire. That shadow stack is the whole look — so ours draws it too.
Nixie clock widget
Nightstand
The clock you sleep beside.
On charge, on its side, dimmed to red after dark — iOS hands you a full-screen surface and almost nobody uses it well.
StandBy night clock
CarPlay
The dashboard at dusk.
Dashboard slots are square, and only square. Three tiles from one family — clock, calendar, dial — with a brass accent and a night palette that doesn’t blind you.
CarPlay clock“The only clock widget I’ve kept past a week. The dive dial is better than the one on my actual watch app.”
“I run Lisbon, London and Singapore on the Lock Screen and I have not miscounted a meeting since.”
“Bought it for the flip clock. Stayed for the fullscreen mode — my old iPhone 12 is a desk clock now.”
Questions
Before you download.
Is WidgetClock free?
Yes. The app is free to download and a large part of the collection is free to use. A one-time or subscription upgrade unlocks the full set of designs, custom backgrounds and the fullscreen clock — there is no account and no ads either way.
Can an iPhone widget show live seconds?
On the Lock Screen, in StandBy and in the app’s fullscreen clock, yes — those surfaces get a per-second refresh. Home Screen widgets are refreshed by iOS on a budget, so there the seconds advance in steps while hours and minutes stay exact.
Does it work on iPad?
Yes, it is a universal app. iPad additionally gets the extra-large widget slot and a fullscreen desk-clock mode that is genuinely useful in a kitchen or a studio.
Does it need my location or my calendar?
Neither is required. Time zones are picked from a city list, and the calendar widgets show dates rather than events, so they never ask to read your calendar.
Which iOS version do I need?
iOS 16 or later for Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and iOS 17 or later for StandBy.
Your screen already
shows the time.
Make it worth looking at.
Free on the App Store. iOS 16+. No account, no ads, no tracking.