Horae — Living Specimen Clock

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About this app

Butterflies, songbirds, leaves and flowers settle into the shape of the hour.

Horae is an always-on clock whose digits are not drawn but composed. Every stroke is made of living specimens, arranged the way a naturalist would pin them. Leave it on a desk, or plug it in beside the bed and let it stay lit all night.

FIVE FACES
• Butterflies — the signature face; wings gather along the strokes of each numeral
• Songbirds — birds take the digits' place
• Pebbles — worn stones, quiet and heavy
• Fallen Leaves — autumn foliage, turning with the hours
• Flower Clock — a faithful rendering of Linnaeus's Horologium Florae of 1751: twelve hour-flowers ringing a dial inscribed with their Latin names, a sunflower at the centre, and a firefly that keeps the seconds

BUILT TO STAY LIT
• Bedside mode — plug in and the clock fills the screen; tap to leave
• System screensaver — Horae takes over on the dock or charger
• Burn-in protection on the faces meant to run all night
• Day and night palettes that follow the real hour

QUIET BY DESIGN
No ads. No accounts. No analytics. Horae contains no networking code, so it works entirely offline and there is nothing to send anywhere.

Butterflies is free, with every feature unlocked — the free face is not a crippled one. A single one-time purchase opens the other four, and every face added later.

Named for the Horae, the Greek goddesses who kept the hours and turned the seasons.

What’s new

First release.

Five faces: Butterflies — free, with nothing held back — plus Songbirds, Pebbles, Fallen Leaves, and the Flower Clock after Linnaeus's Horologium Florae of 1751.

Plug in for bedside mode, or set Horae as your system screensaver for the dock and charger. Burn-in protection on the faces meant to run all night, and day and night palettes that follow the real hour.

No ads, no accounts, no networking code — entirely offline.