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| 10 of the best Android clock widgets out there |
Before you head off to the Play Store for another clock widget hunt, drop by in the slide-show where we rounded up ten widget-y timekeepers that we thought will look really cool on your home-screen. The Android horologists seem to be mostly about minimalism these days, but among the many widgets built with clean, straight lines you'll also find some original takes on bringing an analog watch-face on a smartphone screen.
10 of the best Android clock widgets around
1. Minimalistic Text
When it comes to
Android clock widgets, minimalistic is where it's at. And this one is
one of the most customizable of the kind. Not only it supports custom
fonts, it can be configured to display time, date, battery and weather
information. An in-built layout editor ensures that you'll spend almost
as much time on customizing this widget as you spent on pimping your
entire phone.
2. Jelly Bean Clock Widget
The good ol' Jelly
Bean clock widget looks just as good on a KitKat device as it did on
Android 4.1 phones and tablets when they were brand new. Constructed out
of six lines - no less, no more - this widget is the literal meaning of
minimalism in clocks. Still, color and shape settings are available in
its options menu, along with the ability to display data. So this widget
doesn't always have to be as simple as it looks.
3. ClockQ Digital Clock Widgets
This digi-clock lets
you choose between 26 fonts, has custom colors, transparency, rotation,
scale, shadow effects, weather information, and a nice splash of premium
functionality if you're willing to pay. You'll get 12 additional fonts,
a layout editor, battery level information, and ad removal. Pretty
good!
4. DashClock Widget
This unassuming
lock-screen widget comes bundled with 'extensions' that give you instant
access to current local weather, missed calls and unread texts,
upcoming calendar appointments, and scheduled alarms. It's an
open-source project as well, so if you have any better ideas and know
code-fu, implement, test, and debug them yourself.
5. D-Clock Widget
D-Clock is a simple
digital clock widget with big, bold letters and a nice-looking
reflection underneath. There's nothing more to it, but we argue it
doesn't need any more. Sometimes the simplest things are the best.
6. Chronus: Home & Lock Widget
Chronus is an elegant
all-in-one widget for your Home & Lock screen. It includes a Clock,
a Weather showing, News feed, and a Calendar widget, which also happens
to support DashClock extensions. You might know this widget's look from
CyanogenMod's cLock, because both were brought by the same developers.
This is certainly one of the most fully-featured widgets on Android at
the moment, and one you shouldn't miss if you aren't looking for
minimalism.
7. Minimal Date & Time
This widget presents
the current time, date, and day of the week in stylish, nice-looking
form. There's a hollow see-through effect to make the widget really gel
with your wallpaper of choice. And if black seems too grim for your
liking, try setting different background and text colors if you want.
Just so you know, this widget requires the UCCW app from Google Play to
run. No biggie, as UCCW doesn't need root or other possibly risky
procedures.
8. One More Clock Widget
What did Xiaomi say
yesterday... "one more thing"? Uh-uh. This app offers more than 70
dynamic clock widgets for Android home-screens. If you can't find at
least a few to your liking among them, you must be a lost cause.
Happily, this app is free and has no ads. It also happens to be quite
popular!
9. Analog Clock Wallpaper/Widget
With all these
digital clocks on display, one could have thought there are no analog
clock widgets to speak of. But there's one that has two fully animated
watch-faces, down to its gears and coils, along with 54 clock faces with
an animated second hand. If you want a mini Moto 360 on your
home-screen, this widget might be your best bet.
10. Classic/Vintage Clock Widget
Speaking of analog
widgets, here's one that does a good job at imitating various vintage
clocks. It offers recreations of famous timepieces such as The Big Ben
(London), the Puerta del Sol (Madrid) or Kremlin (Moscow). The watch
gets updated regularly, even receiving the occasional new timepiece from
time to time. That's pretty good for a free app!
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