Chronus Information Widgets

DvTonder

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About this app

Put what matters most on your home screen — the time, the weather, your next meeting, the headlines you follow, today's tasks, your portfolio — in one highly customisable widget suite.

Every Chronus widget shares the same lean background services, so you get rich, up-to-date information without the battery and data cost of running a separate widget for each. Mix and match the widgets you want; the ones you don't use stay dormant and consume no resources.

Widgets included
• Flex and Flex Analog — flagship all-in-one widgets with clock, calendar, weather, news, tasks, stocks and DashClock extensions
• Clock+ variants — digital, analog, dash, and combined clock+weather layouts
• Pixel and Pixel 2 — clean, at-a-glance clock and weather
• News, Tasks and Weather — dedicated single-purpose widgets
• Dash — host for any DashClock extensions you like

Highlights
• Deep customisation — fonts, sizes, colours, alignments and layouts for almost every element
• Material You dynamic colour support on Android 12+
• Weather from your choice of provider: OpenWeatherMap, AccuWeather, Met Norway, The Weather Company, Weatherbit, WeatherAPI, Visual Crossing, Tomorrow.io and WeatherStack
• News feeds from any RSS source, with built-in bookmarks to save articles for later and a dedicated Saved view
• Google Tasks with due-date notifications and quick-complete actions
• Scrollable agenda-style calendar with colour-coded upcoming events and bold highlighting
• Weather, Calendar and Tasks system notifications
• Backup and restore to local storage or Google Drive
• Available as a weather source for LineageOS and derived ROMs

Pro features (one-time in-app purchase)
• Additional widgets: Forecast, Calendar, Clock+ Forecast and Stocks
• Additional weather providers: Weather.com and Wunderground
• Additional news providers: Feedly and Reddit
• Additional task providers: Microsoft Exchange, Evernote and Todoist
• Unlimited DashClock extensions (the free version includes two)
• Many more style, colour, alignment and layout options across every widget
• Custom tap actions to launch any app or activity
• Stock price alerts
• Daydream screensaver

Good to know
• Lock-screen widgets are native on Android 16+; on Android 5–15 they require a third-party lock-screen app
• Permissions details: https://dvtonder.com/privacy.html

Credits
Chronus is developed by David van Tonder with contributions from Danny Baumann and Jorge Ruesga. Huge thanks to Nicolai Ehemann, Matt Booth and the volunteer translators who keep the app available in 36 languages.

Ratings and reviews

I have been using this app for what seems like decades. It is simple, does its job just right and has a perfect aesthetic that you can fine tune. Tap to see clock and weather , transparent background--or opaque, or none, change font colors. It just works. However, I am more than a little concerned that it is suddenly (as in over the last few days) not showing up in Google Play searches and the icon packs are nowhere to be found, except for Vista. Hope this is not a sign that it is going away.

Had to leave my previous app which I had used for many years. It didn't seem to work too well. Might be a problem with my new phone but it's premium phone so not sure. Found Chronus after trying a few before it and this one works well and does basically everything I'm looking for. Wanted something simple to display calendar events, clock, and weather. This feels lightweight and works well. I paid for pro although realized I could do all I needed in the free version. But price is worth it.

Dynamic colors! Fantastic, every time I look at the screen I get a quick dopamine hit. It used to be painful to adjust colors every time my wallpaper changed, now it's automatic. This is a great tool with tons of options and utilities to make life easier. The only thing I miss is a widget to show my current internet network. The old Dashclock widget I used isn't compatible. Other than that, it meets all my needs.

What’s new

Version 26.4.1
- Color picker: Redesigned with predefined and recent color swatches
- Color picker: Long-press a recent color swatch to remove it
- Backup and restore: Updated progress bar
- Updated libraries

Fixes:
- ANR in preferences screen at startup on some devices
- ANR when refreshing calendar or tasks widgets
- Agenda view date heading reverting to previous day after midnight
- Crash when viewing task details on Android 13+
- Screensaver animation stuck, and crash