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Desktop Clock Widget for Windows 10: Best to Use in 2024
All these apps are customizable and offer a wide array of features
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Updated onApril 18, 2024
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Enhancing your desktop with a clock widget can add both functionality and style to your Windows 10 setup.
Whether you’re looking for simplicity, weather updates, or customizable backgrounds, there’s a clock widget out there for you. Let’s dive into some of the best options available currently on the market.
What is the best clock widget for Windows 10?
1.Clocks– Easily customizable
A simple and unobtrusive app, easy to customize with a few clicks. It displays the clockon top of other programs and comes with 5 different basic clock shapes, so you can pick your favorite.
The basic version comes for free, and it also has a paid extension. The developers are constantly improving the app to fix all possible bugs.
The Graphics are pretty nice and they feature cool, realistic animations that you can enjoy on your screen, whatever the resolution.
We decided to set it in the first place in our selection because it’s simple, effective, and very customizable.
Otherkey featuresinclude:
Clocks
2.Sense Desktop– Dynamic weather information
This is a clock inspired by the HTC Sense UI initially designed for Windows 7; nowyou can install it on Windows 10 and even Windows 11.
Of course, the clock is fully customizable, allowing you to place it anywhere on the desktop, and choose the time zone, time display format (12 or 24 hours), widget size, and widget opacity.
Apart from the clock, the app also includes dynamic weather information (current conditions and future forecasts). The app is not for free, but it comes with a free trial period.
There are over 20 clock skins to choose from and you can set it with an automatic location (from cell/Wi-Fi or GPS) or manual.
Otherkey featuresinclude:
Sense Desktop
3.MetroClock– Various background options
MetroClock is an app with a minimalistic design, which displays the time, day of the week, anddate.
The app comes with 10 backgrounds that you choose from. Also, it has an alarm feature in case you need to set one.
This is also a free app and you can use it on older systems like Windows 8 but you can go up to Windows 11 with it.
Although the MetroClock app has various backgrounds, you can also pay to acquire more beautiful backgrounds.
Otherkey featuresinclude:
MetroClock
4.Nightstand Analog Clock– Classic design
A sleek, classic analog transparent clock, which comes with 59 background landscape images.
Users complain, though, that the app is not dynamic and the time won’t change in case one travels to another time zone.
Also, you can customize the background image with one of your own, but change it at every reboot.
Even though the Nightstand Analog Clock app has a simple design, it is also appealing thanks to its multiple background options.
Otherkey featuresinclude:
Nightstand Analog Clock
5.Watch One– Multiple languages available
Watch One is a classic digital clock, that also shows the date. You can adjust the color of the number and, of course, the background using one of the 30 included wallpapers.
Unfortunately, you can’t use your own background. As expected, the clock widget can be resized according to your preferences, and you can also set it to be displayed as a portrait.
It’s also worth mentioning that the clock is available in 22 languages so you can feel at home.
With the Watch One digital clock widget, the wallpaper can be changed into the main screen and it also has a switchable portrait or landscape feature.
Otherkey featuresinclude:
Watch One
Additional clock widgets for Windows 10 that you might want to try
We hope that you found the desired clock app among these ones. In case you’re looking foralarm clock apps, we have an entire article dedicated to them.
For more interesting widgets, don’t miss our guide onwidgets for Windows 10for more suggestions.
We welcome your suggestions and comments in the dedicated section below.
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Milan Stanojevic
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Milan has been enthusiastic about technology ever since his childhood days, and this led him to take interest in all PC-related technologies. He’s a PC enthusiast and he spends most of his time learning about computers and technology.
Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s one of the Troubleshooting experts in our worldwide team, specializing in Windows errors & software issues.
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Before joining WindowsReport, he worked as a front-end web developer. Now, he’s specialized in Windows errors & software issues.
