It’s about time you’ve found an app that conveniently and beautifully displays a clock on your device, without distractions or excessive extras. We would call Clocks timeless, if not for its very purpose.

What we love: Apart from the essential information such as time, date and day of the week, you can also add the area you’re in and the weather, both in one fell swoop simply by enabling location services. The fine-tuning of your Clocks face itself is broken down into three straightforward sections: background, layout and font, with an opportunity to choose from an eclectic mix of styles and aesthetics. Finally, you can go into the settings to customise with your preferred temperature scale and 12-hour or 24-hour formats.

Quick tip: If you want Clocks to appear automatically when your phone connects to a charger, you can set up this action in Shortcuts.

Meet the creator: Clocks is the first app built by the San Francisco–based developer and product designer Daniel Destefanis.