3Cats Clock Widget + Seconds

3Cats Software

About this app

The lightest clock on the market!
Featuring:
- transparent color home-screen widget with custom launcher
- seconds and blinking
- 24 or 12-hour clock (AM/PM)
- date and day of the week display
Rate it with your heart...

This is the new version of the 3Cats Clock with Seconds. It has been fixed and now the widget works on every device reliably and with minimal resource usage. Long-tap to resize the widget, the text will not change size but it will be centered.

* Do you know the difference between an Icon and a Widget?
If your widget seems too small, doesn't work or you can't change the colour, double check that you're really adding the Widget and not an Icon on your home screen before rating 1-star!
** Clock Widget falls behind or stops?
Maybe system is killing it for "battery optimization". Try the "Keep Alive" option.
*** Clock Widget still falls behind or stops?
If 3Cats Clock must run at all cost, try the "Foreground" option. It will use a Foreground Service with Notification.

Ratings and reviews

Update 7 Apr 23: dropping from 4 to 2 stars because widget keeps freezing, the time not updated. Will have to look for another app. Excellent simple app, does what it says, 4.9 stars. I wanted a simple clock widget with seconds (hh:mm:ss) but there are so few! This is the best I've tried. One request: the font style could be improved, maybe provide a couple of styles to choose from? Then I'd give it 5 stars.

It was working perfectly with my previous phone, which was running Android 11. However, I had to upgrade to a new phone that is running Android 15, and this app's widget now stops updating the time display until something "triggers" it, such as tapping the widget to launch the app, or rotating my phone to landscape mode (which triggers the widget to resize). Since my new phone has an option to display seconds with the built-in clock, I am uninstalling this app.

I got this app for a digital seconds display and it does the job perfectly. Android says it uses too much battery but I have no problem with it. It does freeze now and then which I wish it wouldn't but flipping it to landscape and back starts it again. I'm looking forward to the next version that will fix this little bug. If it gets fixed I would give it 5 stars but even if it doesn't it's usable and the price is right.

What’s new

v2.9
- Added option for Foreground Service for absolute liveliness
- Fix crash on Android 8
v2.8
- Fix apps missing from the list of apps that the widget can launch.
v2.7
- Fixes crashes that happened because of system restrictions mostly on Android 8 to Android 12.