A Forager Lab product

Brutal Time

A typographic clock for people bored with clock apps.

A brutalist desk clock for iPhone. Time shown as type, grid, and rhythm, and now every movement can come alive with kinetic motion.

Download Brutal Time on the App Store

Free · Full Edition unlock for Kinetic Motion

Kinetic Motion

Each movement can come alive. Continuous, ambient motion runs through the type: letters that breathe, sway, and resolve on their own unhurried rhythm.

Multiple motion types per movement. Calm and deliberate, never a screensaver.

A one-time Full Edition unlock. Buy it once, keep it forever. No subscription, no ads, ever.

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Movements

Four clock faces, each built on a different typographic system. Every movement works in typographic or numeric mode, light or dark, portrait or landscape.

Concrete movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, light mode
Concrete movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, dark mode

Concrete

// Raw surfaces and honest materiality defining the brutalist ethos.

Index movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, light mode
Index movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, dark mode

Index

// The beauty of archival data and information density.

Neo-Swiss movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, light mode
Neo-Swiss movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, dark mode

Neo-Swiss

// Absolute grid precision meeting contemporary chaos.

Colossal movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, light mode
Colossal movement of the Brutal Time clock on iPhone, dark mode

Colossal

// Overwhelming scale that diminishes the human observer.

Features

  • •Kinetic motion (Full Edition)
  • •4 movements
  • •Typographic + numeric modes
  • •Light + dark
  • •3 typefaces
  • •Accent colors
  • •Portrait + landscape
  • •Home Screen + StandBy widgets
  • •Always-On display support
  • •Opens automatically when you plug in (via Shortcuts)
  • •iPhone, iOS 17 or later
  • •No subscription, no ads