Desk Clock & Timer Full Screen

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About this app

Desk Clock puts a timer, a stopwatch and a clock on a spare phone next to your keyboard, sized to be read at a glance without breaking what you are doing. The screen stays on for as long as you are working, so the time you have left is always in view rather than a swipe and two taps away.

Tap anywhere to bring up the mode switch, the dim slider and the settings button. They fade out again after six seconds, leaving nothing on screen but the number you are watching.


Time-boxing

Presets for 15, 20, 30, 45 and 60 minutes cover most of the blocks you would set for yourself, and a custom tile opens a picker for any length up to 24 hours. Tapping a preset starts the countdown straight away — there is no separate start button, so setting a block takes one tap and no thought.

A hairline progress bar under the digits shows how much of the block is gone. While the countdown runs, the pause and reset buttons fade away with the rest of the controls, so there is nothing on screen to fidget with and nothing to catch your eye except the time remaining. Tap once to bring them back.

When the block is up the readout flashes, the backlight lifts off whatever dim level was set so it cannot be missed, and the alert repeats for 40 seconds with a haptic pulse and the system alert sound. The alert plays while the app is open, which is the point — this is a clock meant to sit in front of you with the screen on, not a background alarm.


Stopwatch with laps

Elapsed time to hundredths, with a lap button while it runs. Laps are listed newest first, each showing both the split and the running total, which is what you want when you are timing several parts of a job in one sitting. Start, pause, resume and reset sit on the face itself rather than in the fading control bar.

Timing comes from a monotonic clock, so the count is unaffected by switching modes or by putting the phone down and coming back to it.


Clock

Hours and minutes sized to fill the screen, with optional seconds and date, and a choice of 12 or 24 hour time. Orientation can be left automatic or locked to portrait or landscape, so a phone in a stand stays the way you put it.


Home-screen widgets

Three widgets — timer, stopwatch and clock — that show what the app is doing and open it in that mode when tapped. The readout resizes itself to fill whatever space you give the widget. A countdown carries on ticking down on the home screen even when the app is closed, so a block you started is still visible while you use the phone for something else.


A clock that does not distract

The dim slider first lowers the real screen backlight, and once that hits its floor it keeps going by fading the digits towards black — one continuous control that reaches far darker than the phone's own brightness setting allows. A bright rectangle in your peripheral vision is exactly what you do not want next to a monitor, and this turns it down to a level a phone normally cannot reach. The change is app-scoped and never alters the brightness of anything else.

Auto brightness follows the room instead, holding a comfortable level as the light changes through the day. The target is adjustable from 10 to 100 percent. Devices without a light sensor can still use the manual slider.

Burn-in protection shifts the display a few percent every 45 seconds, so a screen left on for hours does not mark an OLED panel.


Left on all day

With seconds hidden the clock wakes once a minute rather than once a second, and repaints only the digits. Nothing runs in the background: closing the app releases the wakelock, the brightness override and the light sensor. The timer and the stopwatch pick up from the wall clock when you return, so neither loses time while you are away.


No accounts, no interruptions

No internet permission, no sign-in, no ads and no analytics. The app asks for no runtime permissions at all. Your settings stay on your phone.

What’s new

First release.

• Full-screen clock, timer and stopwatch, with the screen kept on.
• A dim slider that goes well below the phone's minimum brightness.
• Auto brightness that follows the light in the room.
• Burn-in protection that shifts the display slightly on OLED screens.
• Timer with 15, 20, 30, 45 and 60 minute presets, plus a custom length.
• Stopwatch with laps.
• Home-screen widgets for all three modes.
• 12 or 24 hour time, optional seconds, date and orientation lock.