Time, told fifty ways.
A quiet, beautiful clock for any screen you leave on — from a number system the Cistercian monks invented to a year drawn as falling rings. Free, on‑device, no account, no tracking.
iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Apple TV — and your Mac, via the iPad app.
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Cistercian
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Morse
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Anti‑Grid
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Year
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Fibonacci
One app, tuned to each screen
Native SwiftUI everywhere — but the right face for the right place: ruthless and glanceable on the wrist, lush and immersive on the television.
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iPhone & iPad
Browse every face in a live grid, swipe between them, tap to cycle nine color themes. Home- and Lock-Screen widgets in three sizes.
Runs on Apple-silicon Macs too (via the iPad app), bringing its widgets to your Mac.
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Apple Watch
A hand-picked, glanceable set — Word Clock, Dial, Binary, Minimalist — paged with the Digital Crown, plus three complications.
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Apple TV
The big, quiet one. The lush faces — Mandaza's generative engine, the Cosmic astrolabe, Aurora — drawn at full resolution as ambient wallpaper for the room.
Fifty faces. None of them ordinary.
Each face is its own idea about what a clock is. A working sample:
Color Plate- Morse
Cosmic
Tide
Dial
Binary
Googly
Maya
Nine themes. Tap to change the weather.
- Bioluminescent
- Monochrome
- Sodium
- Neon
- Ember
- Paper
- Risograph
- Sky
- Inverse
Get Ambient Time
Free. No account, no ads, nothing to buy. Everything runs on your device — it makes essentially no network calls, keeps nothing, and tracks no one.
- Native SwiftUI — not a web wrapper
- Full VoiceOver support; honors Reduce Motion
- Burn-in protection & scheduled dimming for ambient use
The lab
The app is the curated fifty. Behind it sits the workshop they came from — 200+ experimental web clocks, from numeral systems no one uses anymore to clocks you genuinely cannot read. Wander in.
Open the clocks archive