A clock that belongs
on your desktop.
A retro split-flap clock that sits quietly on your Windows wallpaper. It starts when your machine does, flips the way the real thing does, and stays out of your way.
Your desktop already shows the time — in a corner, in a font nobody chose. FlipClock gives it a place of honour instead.
The clock, reimagined.
Every digit is drawn by hand — a warm tile, a hinge across the middle, and a card that folds down over the seam when the minute changes. No fonts pretending to be hardware. It's the departure board you stared at as a kid, minus the airport.
Time, your way.
Twelve-hour with a small AM/PM marker, or twenty-four-hour for people who mean business. Seconds are optional — show them when you want the motion, hide them when you want the calm.
Lives on your wallpaper.
In Stay on Wallpaper mode the clock sits beneath every other window — part of the desktop itself, never in the way of your work. Prefer it floating on top? One checkbox.
Your desktop, your position.
Grab the clock and drag it anywhere. It remembers the spot between restarts — and if you unplug the monitor it was living on, it walks back to your primary screen instead of getting lost off the edge.
Quietly in your tray.
No taskbar entry, no notifications. The clock runs from the system tray: double-click to show or hide, right-click for settings — style, format, opacity from 30 to 100 percent, and startup.
Starts with Windows.
Tick one box — in the installer or in Settings — and the clock is simply there every time you sign in. It even repairs the case where Windows quietly disabled it in Task Manager's Startup tab.
One clock. No duplicates.
Launch it twice and the second copy notices the first and bows out. You will never collect a stack of overlapping clocks — a desktop needs exactly one.
A date at a glance.
A slim strip beneath the digits carries the day — set in a wide-tracked monospace, like the destination line on a departure board.
Four styles. One clock.
Pick a skin from Settings. Same overlay, same tray, same startup — a different face.
Flip
The original split-flap experience.
Digital
Every digit cut from the same figure eight — flipped the same way.
Minimal
Nothing unnecessary.
Terminal
For people who live in a shell.
Put it on your desktop.
One small installer. No account, no admin rights, no telemetry — just a clock.
↓ Download for WindowsRather build it yourself? The source is right here.
Windows may show “Windows protected your PC” because the installer isn't code-signed — certificates cost hundreds of dollars a year, which is a lot for a free clock. Choose More info → Run anyway. The source is public if you'd rather read it first.
FlipClock currently supports Windows. It leans on the Windows registry for its start-at-sign-in behaviour.
Free. Open. Yours to read.
FlipClock is a single Python file and a handful of build scripts — small enough to read over coffee. Inspect it, build it yourself, file an issue, or send a patch.
AG-Aayush / Desktop-Digital-ClockBuy me a momo.
FlipClock is free and open source. If it earned a place on your desktop, you can support its development — it keeps the flips coming.