Perch

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About this app

Perch turns the phone sitting on your desk into a calm, always-on display.

Most phones spend their day face-up doing nothing. Stand yours up, open Perch, and it becomes a glanceable desk clock: the time large enough to read across the room, today's weather in the corner, and a quote to sit with. No notifications, no feed, nothing asking for your attention.

WHAT'S ON SCREEN

• Clock — a big, clean time display that fills the screen in portrait or landscape. 12- or 24-hour, optional seconds, optional date.
• Weather — current conditions for any city, in °C or °F. Search once and it stays put.
• Quote of the day — a curated offline collection that changes at midnight. Pick the categories you want: inspirational, wisdom, stoic, tech, or proverbs.
• Word of the day — learn a word a day in Spanish, French, German, Italian, or Japanese, with an example sentence and pronunciation. Off by default.
• Stopwatch and timer — tucked into a low-profile icon rail at the edge of the screen, out of the way until you need them.

BUILT FOR LEAVING ON

• Night dim — set the hours you sleep and Perch fades toward true black, dropping the screen brightness with it. No glare at 2am.
• Follow the room — optional ambient light sensing dims the display as the room darkens, on a curve that matches how your eyes actually adjust.
• Burn-in protection — the display shifts by a couple of pixels each minute so nothing etches into an OLED panel.
• Stays awake — the screen holds while Perch is open, so it's ready whenever you glance over.
• True black — dark by design, so unlit pixels stay unlit.

MAKE IT YOURS

Nine typefaces to choose from, with separate picks for the clock and everything else. Every setting applies instantly and is remembered.

QUIET BY DEFAULT

No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your settings live on your device and nowhere else. Weather is fetched from Open-Meteo; everything else — the clock, the quotes, the words, the tools — works with no connection at all

What’s new

Initial test