Horae — Living Specimen Clock

Nature composes the hour

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

An always-on clock typeset from butterflies, songbirds, leaves and flowers. Butterflies, songbirds, leaves and flowers settle into the shape of the hour. Horae is an always-on clock whose digits are not drawn but composed. Every stroke is made of living specimens, arranged the way a naturalist would pin them. Leave it on a desk, or plug it in beside the bed and let it stay lit all night. FIVE FACES • Butterflies — the signature face; wings gather along the strokes of each numeral • Songbirds — birds take the digits' place • Pebbles — worn stones, quiet and heavy • Fallen Leaves — autumn foliage, turning with the hours • Linnaeus Flower Clock — a faithful rendering of Linnaeus's Horologium Florae of 1751: twelve hour-flowers ringing a dial inscribed with their Latin names, a sunflower at the centre, and a firefly that keeps the seconds BUILT TO STAY LIT • Bedside mode — plug in and the clock fills the screen; tap to leave • Burn-in protection on the faces meant to run all night • Day and night palettes that follow the real hour QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No accounts. No analytics. Horae contains no networking code, so it works entirely offline and there is nothing to send anywhere. Butterflies is free, with every feature unlocked — the free face is not a crippled one. A single one-time purchase opens the other four, and every face added later. Named for the Horae, the Greek goddesses who kept the hours and turned the seasons.

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    Seller
    • 四青 薛
    Size
    • 13.9 MB
    Category
    • Lifestyle
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 34 more
    • English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
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