Tockwell app icon

A beautiful, customizable world clock for iPhone & iPad.

Time in any city. Alarms that ring through silent mode. Themed widgets — even custom-colored — on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy. Ready for iOS 27 and iPhone Duo.

Download on the App Store

In review — launching soon

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A live taste of Tockwell — running in your browser, in your time zone.

See Tockwell in motion

Under a minute with a simple, private clock: big readable time, large widgets, larger text, themes and an analog face, Nightstand, and alarms that ring through Silent.

Music: “Deliberate Thought” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0.

Built for privacy.

  • 0 Analytics in the app or the widget
  • 0 Tracking manifest-verified
  • 0 Third-party SDKs not one
  • 0 Network calls ever

At a glance

A world clock that looks designed

Full-screen hero clocks with selectable themes and fonts. Live ticking. Smooth digit transitions.

Four widget styles

Dark, Light, Glass (iOS 26 Liquid Glass), and Custom — with your own colors.

Custom colors with a contrast guard

Pick any background and time color. The editor warns you if the result is hard to read.

AlarmKit alarms

Ring through silent mode and Focus, like Apple's own. Per-alarm snooze (1–9 min) and max snoozes (1–3).

Custom cities, your way

197 curated cities plus full IANA fallback, plus a Custom City flow where you name and zone it yourself.

A default city

Star one city — new widgets start on it. Change any widget’s city later from Edit Widget.

Lock Screen widgets

Inline, Rectangular, and Circular accessories — and StandBy when you're charging.

Nightstand mode

Bedside or desk-clock. Dim or Bright. Optional warm tint. Stays awake while you're looking at it.

See every mode

Tockwell alarms screen

Alarms

Wake up on time with simple, reliable alarms — ring through silent mode and Focus.

Tockwell multiple time zones screen

World clock

Keep an eye on friends, family, and teams across time zones.

Tockwell night mode screen

Night mode

A dim, gentle clock that's easy on the eyes after dark.

Tockwell bright mode screen

Bright mode

A big, high-contrast clock that fills your screen.

Custom Colors — actually customizable

Pick any background and time color and watch the clock face update in real time. The editor shows a WCAG contrast badge — Great, Low, or Hard to read — so you don't accidentally pick a combo nobody can read.

Custom Colors editor with three swatches and a WCAG contrast badge

Starter swatches: Amber / Black · Mint / Charcoal · Ink / Paper. The colors you pick power the Custom widget immediately — placed widgets reload to match — and also drive the in-app clock when you tap the Custom card in either theme gallery.

Tockwell vs Apple Clock

Apple Clock is fine. Tockwell goes deep on the parts most people actually look at every day — the clock face, the widgets, and the alarm experience — and treats style as a real feature.

Apple Clock Tockwell
Widget styles One system style Four: Dark, Light, Glass, Custom
Custom widget colors No Yes — pick background, time, caption; live preview; WCAG contrast guard
Lock Screen widgets Only the system clock Inline, Rectangular, and Circular accessory widgets
Multi-city widgets Yes, single look Themed multi-city large widget that matches your color choices
Custom city names Tied to the system's city / time-zone list Type your own name (e.g., "Mom's Cabin") with any IANA zone
Default city for widgets No app-level default Star a city; new widgets follow it automatically
Alarm snooze length Fixed 9 minutes 1–9 minutes per alarm
Max snoozes Unlimited 1, 2, or 3 (configurable per alarm)
Nightstand brightness StandBy is system-managed Dim or Bright, plus optional warm tint, with proper brightness save / restore
Full-screen clock view Only in StandBy / charging Anytime, with selectable theme and font
Themes / fonts None 6 presets (3 light + 3 dark) + Custom; 4 fonts
Privacy posture Apple-system, varies Fully offline; no analytics, no network, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
Data collected (Some, per Apple) None — verified in the App Store privacy manifest

Built for privacy

Tockwell is one of the more honest privacy stories on the App Store: there isn't one to tell.

  • No network calls. Tockwell makes none. Nothing leaves your device.
  • No analytics, no telemetry. None at all. No first-party, no third-party.
  • No tracking. The App Store privacy manifest declares NSPrivacyTracking = false and an empty tracking-domains list.
  • No data collection. The privacy manifest declares an empty collected-data-types list. Your cities, alarms, and color choices live in UserDefaults inside an App Group on your device.
  • No accounts, no sign-in, no cloud sync. There's nothing to sign into.
  • No third-party SDKs. Not one.

If you submit the privacy nutrition label as "Data Not Collected," it matches reality. Read the full privacy notes →

More to explore

Nightstand mode — Dim and Bright

Nightstand

Full-screen, glanceable, stays awake. Dim or Bright with an optional warm tint.

Lock Screen with accessory widgets

Lock Screen + StandBy

Inline, Rectangular, and Circular accessory widgets. Hero time, secondary city / date.

Tockwell on iPad

Universal — iPhone & iPad

One binary, adaptive layout from the smallest current iPhone to the 13" iPad Pro.

Frequently asked questions

Does Tockwell work without internet?
Yes. It makes no network calls. Time data comes from your device's clock; time-zone data from iOS.
Do I need to sign in?
No. There's no account system.
Do widget colors actually sync with the widget?
Yes. The Custom widget reads the colors you pick in the in-app editor through a shared App Group and refreshes its placed timeline automatically when you change them.
Will alarms ring if my phone is silent or in Focus?
Yes — AlarmKit alarms break through silent mode and Focus with a system-grade alert, the same way Apple's own Clock app alarms do.
Can I set my own city name?
Yes. Tap Cities → + → Custom City… to give a city your own name and pick any IANA time zone.
How does the local clock know which city I'm in?
Only if you let it. Turn on Name It After My Location and Tockwell takes a single kilometer-accuracy location fix on your device, picks the nearest of 11,500 world cities in your time zone, and keeps just that name — your location is never stored or sent. Leave it off and the clock says "Local Time" with your zone, rather than guessing a city. Either way, touch and hold the clock → Call It… to pick any city in the zone or type your own; Tockwell remembers it per zone.
Is there a stopwatch or timer?
No. Tockwell is focused on the clock, alarms, and widgets. Use Apple Clock for stopwatch and timer.
Is there a Mac app or watch app?
Not at launch. The iPhone and iPad versions ship from a single universal binary.
Does Tockwell support Dynamic Type and VoiceOver?
Yes. Lists, settings, and onboarding scale with Dynamic Type. Every clock surface ships a combined VoiceOver label (e.g., "New York, 3:45 PM, Wednesday, May 21, Tomorrow").

Get Tockwell.

$3.99, one time. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. Runs on iOS 18 and later.

Download on the App Store

In review — launching soon