A sleek, modern acrylic digital clock widget for Novadesk.
AClock is an acrylic digital clock desktop widget built for Novadesk. It brings clean typography, live time, date, and animated seconds progress to your desktop while seamlessly integrating with modern Windows aesthetics.
- Digital Time Display: Crisp hours and minutes with styled colon separator.
- 12H / 24H Toggle: Easily switch between 12-hour format (with AM/PM indicator) and 24-hour format.
- Date & Day Info: Displays full date (Month Day, Year) and current day of the week.
- Live Seconds Progress: Live numerical seconds counter accompanied by an animated progress bar (0-60s).
- 5 Built-in Themes: Choose between Dark, White, GitHub, Dracula, and Material UI.
- Backdrop Blur Effects: Supports Acrylic, Blur (BlurBehind), and None (solid).
- Window Corner Styles: Choose from Round Small, Round, or None (square).
- Custom Scaling: Scale effortlessly between 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, 175%, and 200%.
- Context Menu Controls: Access all customization options instantly by right-clicking the widget.
- Desktop Integration: Fully draggable, edge snapping, and automatically remembers your settings.
- Windows 10 or later
- Novadesk
- The bundled
BlurBehindNovadesk add-on (for Acrylic and Blur effects)
Download the latest widget package (.ndpkg) from the project releases:
Double-click the downloaded .ndpkg file to install it directly with Novadesk. Novadesk must be installed before opening the package.
Clone or download this folder, then start it through the Novadesk Widget Manager:
cd D:\Novadesk-Project\AClock
nwm runThe project entry point is index.js. If your Novadesk executable is in a different location, use the Widget Manager configuration or start Novadesk with this file as its script.
All widget settings can be configured at any time by right-clicking on the widget:
| Option | Values / Actions | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Time Format | 12-Hour / 24-Hour | Toggles between 12H (with AM/PM badge) and 24H military format |
| Theme | Dark, White, GitHub, Dracula, Material UI | Changes the background card, text, and accent colors |
| Scale | 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200% | Dynamically scales widget dimensions and fonts |
| Blur Effect | Acrylic, Blur, None | Controls window backdrop transparency and blur effect |
| Corners | Round Small, Round, None | Sets the window corner rounding style |
| Reload Widget | Action | Refreshes the widget UI |
Settings are automatically saved across sessions using Novadesk's persistent storage (app.storage).
If AClock is useful to you, supporting the project on Patreon helps cover the time spent maintaining widgets, adding new features, and testing new Novadesk releases. Support is optional, but it makes continued work on the project possible.
AClock is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.