// Fuzzy Clock

Fuzzy Clock

A gentler way to tell time.

Time in words, with a sense of the day outside. Fuzzy Clock began in the Mac menu bar. The beta project now includes iPhone and iPad, widgets for Mac and iOS, and an Apple Watch app with a rectangular complication.

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Public beta for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with Apple Watch support.

Fuzzy Clock app icon — an amber sun rising behind a dark mountain peak

A clock can say 14:37.

First Light

Day's breaking now

Real transitions are solar-relative — tied to sunrise, sunset, and solar noon at your exact location — not the fixed times used to order this demo.

In the Mac menu bar

01

Reads the real sky

Sunrise, sunset, solar noon — calculated on your Mac from a saved location and turned into language. Update the saved place when you travel.

02

Calendar, read only

On macOS, a dropdown for what's coming up. Read only — nothing created, edited, or moved.

03

A place for solar phrases

Solar phrases use a saved location rather than continuous tracking. Place lookups on Mac and iOS use Apple's geocoding service. Read the privacy policy

// Across your devices

Beyond the menu bar

On iPhone and iPad, the app shows time in words and lets you choose a saved place for Crafted solar phrases. Mac and iOS widgets come in small and medium sizes, with Standard or Crafted phrasing and their own date and rounding options. The calendar dropdown remains a Mac feature.

Apple Watch has a full-screen clock and a rectangular complication. Standard fuzzy time is the default; choose Appalachian Crafted in the watch app for solar phrases. The watch requests and saves its own location. These saved places do not sync between devices, and you need to update them yourself after travel.

Try Fuzzy Clock on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch through the public TestFlight beta. The Apple Watch app is included with the iPhone build.

Project minimums: macOS 14, iOS/iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10. TestFlight lists device compatibility for each build.

// Beta

Still in beta.
Still taking shape.

Help shape a gentler way to tell time. Join the public TestFlight beta on Mac, iPhone, or iPad. For Apple Watch, install the iPhone beta first, then install Fuzzy Clock through the Watch app if it does not appear automatically.

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