- Price$0.99
- CategoryUtilities
- First releasedApril 11, 2010
- Versions1 archived
- Installable1 of 1
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerMaarten Baas
- Bundle IDcom.svarovsky-productions.AnalogDigital
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issue#1 Utility / #2 overall in Holland!
This clock was made by videoing someone actually painting the time! He's inside your phone with a bucket of paint and manually changes the digits on an old-school digital clock.
The "Analog Digital" app is the next installment in Dutch designer Maarten Baas' "Real Time" series. His works cross the fields of art, design, theatre and performance. The anonymous digital clock becomes a performance as each minute is being hand painted by a hidden man "in" the clock.
Real Time caused a sensation in the design world, and won several international design awards. Other clocks in the series are exclusive limited editions in the collections of museums and private collectors worldwide, but the Analog Digital app is now available in the palm of your hand! Some people even buy an iPod and mount it on the wall just to have this clock :-)
- Designed by Maarten Baas, Design Miami's Designer of the Year 2009.
- The movie was shot in the Netherlands.
- Optionally disable the iPhone screen-lock to leave the clock running.
- Auto-rotating Portrait and Landscape modes.
- It's a 12-hour clock - it would be cruel to force the actor to do 24 hours!
- The normal iPhone alarm can be set and works while the app is open. Note, this clock does not have an alarm, because an "app alarm" only works while the app is open, and the iPhone alarm works anytime the phone is on.
- You can play your iTunes music collection in the background while the app is running.
- The time is always accurate; immediately when you open the app, also when you leave it running for days.
- The concept of the clock is to watch time in a different way. The numbers take time to be made. This means that there are moments that the numbers are not yet ready - the man draws the time for you "while-u-wait!"
- Compatible with all iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch models.
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 17, 2010 | — | — | 6 | $0.99 |
| March 9, 2012 | — | — | 78 | $0.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 24It's really calming and relaxing to watch this. Also knowing that someone made this by hand in real time is so cool!! It's like having a little friend who cares so much that I know what time it is. I just wish I could use it as my lock screen on my phone. Thanks so much for this app and all the hard work you put into it. Artist to artist.
The effect the artist was attempting to create is entirely too subtle for the iphone screen. Instead of appearing to be clever, it's too digital. The analog portion is too brief and hard to distinguish on a small screen.
When I updated to iOS4 it gave a blank screen, but in this version that bug has been fixed, and now it's back working perfectly, yay! I leave it running on my desk when I'm at work, it's fun!! And my boyfriend has it on his iPad, which is the perfect format, you can see really clearly the guy busily painting the numbers. Makes me want to get an iPad and just mount it on the wall :)
I saw the ‘Analog Clock’ art exhibit in Atlanta, GA @ the High Art Museum & had to get this mesmerizing app 👩🎨
I loved watching the video of this analog LED clock at the High Museum the first time I visited. Today I realized it was available as an app! It's very calming and mesmerizing to watch the artist manually update the time.
Another wasted dollar to see an "art-app" in action.
This is an artwork more than a useful app on iPhone, on iPad, it is artwork that is fun slow eye candy. I like it.
As all his live clocks, very nice implemented! But why not available on my Apple Watch?
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