Digital Clock 4 transforms the standard, inconspicuous Windows taskbar time display into a fully customizable desktop widget that matches your personal aesthetic. Designed by Nick Korotysh, this open-source utility moves the time directly onto your wallpaper, offering much better readability and style control than the default system clock. It serves as both a practical timekeeping tool and a visual enhancement for your workspace, allowing you to check the time at a glance without squinting at the screen corner.
Key Features
- Skin Customization: Users can completely alter the clock's appearance using different fonts, textures, and colors to blend perfectly with any desktop wallpaper or theme.
- Plugin Architecture: The software supports add-ons that expand its functionality beyond telling time, including a scheduler, countdown timer, and an alarm system that plays local audio files.
- Display Management: You can adjust the opacity level, enable "always on top" mode to keep the time visible over active windows, or use the "transparent for mouse" option to click through the widget.
- Multi-Monitor Support: The application automatically detects extended display setups, allowing you to place synchronized clocks on secondary screens or mirror the primary clock configuration.
- Portable Mode: The program runs directly from a folder without requiring a full installation, making it ideal for users who carry their software toolkit on a USB drive.
Use Cases
This software is ideal for users with visual impairments who require large, high-contrast time displays, as well as customization enthusiasts who want their desktop clock to align with a specific visual theme (like Cyberpunk or minimalism). It also benefits professionals who work with full-screen applications and need a floating, transparent clock overlay to track time without exiting their workflow.
Digital Clock 4 remains one of the most flexible and lightweight options for Windows users who need more control than Microsoft provides by default.
Version 5.1.9 — January 2026
- Added support for multi-line text input within the Quick Note feature.
- Improved visual feedback by adding icons to the position menu and plugins list.
- Enhanced user interface interactions, including cursor changes to indicate draggable areas.
- Fixed a regression where the clock position reset incorrectly after connecting an external display.
- Resolved discrepancies in text alignment settings to match previous version behaviors.
- Corrected window layering issues to keep the inactive clock window properly backgrounded.
- Addressed rendering artifacts and selection bugs affecting certain light font styles.
- Updated the internal updater and translation files, including new localization for Chinese (CN).
