Segments, not a font
The LED and LCD faces are drawn as segments — the unlit strokes stay faintly visible behind the lit ones, exactly like the alarm clock on your nightstand. That ghosting is the whole reason those clocks feel real.
Digital
Digital clock widgets
that don’t look default.
Forty-odd digital faces drawn one at a time — seven-segment LED, split-flap, dot matrix, terminal, LCD. Each one is a real layout for a real widget slot, not a stretched screenshot.
- 40+
- digital faces
- 3
- widget sizes
- 1 s
- refresh on Lock Screen
Numbers sized to the slot
A small square, a medium rectangle and a large panel are three different layouts, not one design squeezed three ways. Seconds appear where there is room for them and disappear where there isn’t.
Any city, any offset
Point a digital widget at Tokyo and leave it there. Search by city or country, or type a raw UTC offset when your zone isn’t on the list.
Live previews
Every digital face, ticking live
These previews run on your device clock right now. Nothing here is a screenshot.
Why iPhone’s built-in clock widget is the way it is
Apple ships exactly one clock widget style, and it is deliberately quiet: system font, system colour, no seconds. It is designed to disappear into the wallpaper. That is a reasonable default and a boring home screen.
A digital clock is a design object — the reason a Braun DN and a Casio F-91W and an airport split-flap all tell the same time and feel nothing alike is typography, spacing and the colour of the unlit state. WidgetClock treats each face as its own object, with its own grid.
Practically, that means you can run a phosphor-green terminal readout beside a warm amber departures board and a cold blue LCD, and the three of them will look like a collection rather than a settings screen.
Questions
Digital, answered.
Can an iPhone widget show a digital clock with seconds?
Yes. WidgetClock’s digital faces include seconds variants, and the Lock Screen and StandBy faces update every second. Home Screen widgets are refreshed by iOS on its own schedule, so for a live sweeping second hand use the Lock Screen, StandBy or the app’s fullscreen clock.
Does the digital widget support 24-hour time?
It follows your iOS setting for 12- or 24-hour time, and you can override it per widget if you want a 24-hour readout on a phone otherwise set to AM/PM.
Will a bright LED widget drain my battery?
No more than any other widget. On OLED iPhones the dark faces actually light fewer pixels than a white one — the black background is genuinely off.
Can I put a digital clock widget on the Lock Screen?
Yes — the inline and rectangular Lock Screen slots both have dedicated digital layouts. See the Lock Screen clock widget page for the exact steps.
Digital clock widgets
that don’t look default.
Free on the App Store. iOS 16+. No account, no ads, no tracking.