# Ambient Time — Clocks, widgets & dashboards > Clocks, widgets & dashboards (iPhone/iPad app by LanguageCraft.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ambient-time/id6778627510 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [LanguageCraft](https://appshunter.io/developer/1029635130) - Category: Utilities, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 25 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-06-17 - Data updated: 2026-08-23 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ambient-time/id6778627510/reviews.md ## What is Ambient Time? Put time where it belongs: on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Mac, or the biggest display in the room. Ambient Time is a native collection of clocks and useful glances. Explore 47 ways to read the moment on iPhone and iPad—from precise word grids and binary displays to astronomy, weather, mathematics, and generative art. ONE HOME FOR EVERY SCREEN The destination-first control center organizes Widgets, Apple Watch, TV & Displays, Clocks, and Instruments. Browse what fits each surface, preview it live, and choose starting defaults without pretending to control system-owned placement. CLOCKS WITH A POINT OF VIEW • Word Clock spells out time in nine languages plus IPA. • Cosmic brings the sun, moon, horizon, and zodiac into one quiet astrolabe. • Tide follows local predictions and highlights the next high or low. • ASCII World Clock wraps global hours around a text-art globe. • Moon Track follows the live lunar phase. • About Time turns optimistic phrases into the hands of a clock. • Inkwell Ledger lets the day unfold as a handwritten journal. • Mandaza draws a generative clock that never repeats exactly. WIDGETS MADE FOR THEIR SPACE Ambient Time groups Home Screen clocks and information widgets by size, so every layout stays clear and useful. Because the Lock Screen already shows Apple's clock, Ambient Time adds context instead: moon phase, golden hour, rain, tides, and poetry in Inline, Circular, and Rectangular forms. A CALMER GLANCE ON APPLE WATCH Choose from six legible clocks in the Watch app. Add nine Smart Stack widgets and complications for tides, rain, forecasts, golden hour, moon phase, world moments, words, compliments, and poetry. MADE FOR THE ROOM—AND THE MAC Apple TV offers a remote-first gallery of Ambient clocks and fixed dashboards. Mac brings the same destination control center to the desktop, including fullscreen Ambient Mode, dashboards, and Desktop or Notification Center widgets. Five global color themes are available where a clock supports them. Weather, sun, moon, and tide features use coarse location only with permission. There are no accounts, ads, subscriptions, or purchases, and location is never used for tracking. Built natively in SwiftUI with Reduce Motion support. Made by Luke Steuber. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.5 — 2026-08-20 Version 1.5 widens what a widget can hold: • The Standard widget size gains Plain Language, Anti-Grid, Elements, Orbital, Syntax Tree, Vernier, and Year • Ishihara joins the Compact size • Inkwell Ledger and Word Weather join Showcase and Extra Large • Two new Classic faces: Railway and Skagen • Continued rendering, accessibility, and reduced-motion refinements ### 1.3 — 2026-08-09 Version 1.3 gives every screen a clearer sense of time: • 47 native clocks on iPhone and iPad, including About Time and Inkwell Ledger • Instruments for weather, tides, daylight, the moon, and world time • Curated Home and Lock Screen widgets for every supported size • A Live Activities chooser for Sunset Arc, Weather Window, and Tide Turn, each with its own switch and scheduled ending • Six Watch app clocks plus nine Smart Stack widgets and complications • Ambient clocks, fixed dashboards, After Dark scenes, and saved display choices for Apple TV, iPad, and Mac • A native Mac control center with fullscreen Ambient Mode and widget configuration • Clearer navigation, accessibility, reduced-motion behavior, and rendering throughout ### 1.1 — 2026-06-19 Polish and small fixes across the clock faces. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-06-18 The catalog grew, and there's a new way to browse it. NEW • More than forty clock faces, organized into eight families: Dials, Words, Digital, Boards, ASCII, Sky, Weather, and Generative. • The app now opens to a browsable grid of live faces. Tap any tile to fill the screen, and return to the grid any time. • Weather & Environment faces: local temperature, rain, wind, cloud, humidity, pressure, UV, air quality, and tide. • Sky & Astronomy faces: moon phase, the analemma, planetary hours, a cosmic astrolabe, and the year's progress. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, one per family, configurable to your favorite face. • Full Apple TV support: browse and switch faces with the remote. IMPROVED • Per-face settings for hour format, time zone, language, and color palette. • Word Clock now offers IPA phonetic transcription alongside its languages. • A gentle ambient mode that drifts, dims, and keeps the screen awake for always-on display. Made by Luke Steuber. Thanks for watching the time go by. ### 1.0 — 2026-06-18 No release notes. ## More apps by LanguageCraft - [WordADay - A Minimalistic Word of The Day App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wordaday-a-minimalistic-word-of-the-day-app/id1029635131) - [What Color Is This](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/what-color-is-this/id6767490668) - [Idea Tiles: Connect Thoughts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/idea-tiles-connect-thoughts/id6767775306) - [Alt Text Intelligence](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alt-text-intelligence/id6767936719) - [Skymarshal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skymarshal/id6768003674) - [Mandaza](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mandaza/id6768237815) All apps by LanguageCraft: https://appshunter.io/developer/1029635130 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*