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Windows Screensaver

Turn your idle screen into a classic flip clock.

A retro flip clock, with every digit turning over on its own flap, just like the classic bedside clocks.

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Free trial

Every feature works. A small trial caption shows on screen until you buy a licence.

  • 12 or 24-hour time, with optional seconds
  • Landscape, portrait or automatic layout
  • Choose your colours and font, or pick a preset
  • Dim the display and set the size
  • Primary display only, or every display

For Windows 11 · flip-clock-screensaver.zip · 1934 KB

See it in action

The Clarke preset: white digits on orange flaps
The Clarke preset: white digits on orange flaps
The Classic preset, with seconds switched on
The Classic preset, with seconds switched on

Retro style, modern settings

12 or 24-hour time

Choose the time format you're used to, with an optional AM/PM marker and leading zero, and add a third flap for the seconds.

Real flip animation

Each flap turns over as the time changes, just like a bedside clock. Prefer it still? Switch the animation off.

Landscape or portrait

The clock follows the shape of your display automatically, or you can fix it side by side or stacked.

Your colours

Pick the background, flap and digit colours yourself, or start from the Classic, Red, Orange, Midnight, Paper and Clarke presets.

Size and font

Make it fill from 30 to 100% of the screen, in any font on your computer. Show the flaps, or just the digits on their own.

One display or all

Show the clock on your main display with the others black, or on every display you have.

Settings

Click Settings… in Windows' Screen Saver Settings to make the Flip Clock Screensaver your own. Your choices are saved for your Windows account.

The Flip Clock Screensaver settings, with a live preview
The Flip Clock Screensaver settings, with a live preview
Option What it does
24-hour clock Off gives a 12-hour clock, with an optional AM/PM marker and leading zero
Show seconds Adds a third flap for the seconds
Orientation Automatic (follows the shape of the display), Landscape, or Portrait (stacked)
Size 30 to 100% of the screen
Show flaps Off shows just the digits on the background
Separate flap for each digit One flap per digit, instead of one per pair
Animate flips Turn off for an instant change
Colours Background, flap and digit colours, plus Classic, Red, Orange, Midnight, Paper and Clarke presets
Font Any installed font, in bold if you like. The default is Bahnschrift Condensed Bold
Dim display 0 to 90% darker
Displays Primary display only (the others go black), or all displays

Perfect for

  • Anyone who misses their old flip clock
  • Offices and reception areas with a screen on show
  • Second monitors that are often left idle
  • Retro and minimalist desk setups
  • Anyone who wants to glance at the time from across the room

Install in four easy steps

  1. Download the zip, then right-click it and choose Extract All…
  2. Copy Flip Clock.scr into C:\Windows\System32. Windows will ask for permission, so click Continue.
  3. Type screen saver into the Start menu search and open Change screen saver.
  4. Choose Flip Clock from the list, click Settings… to customise it, then click OK.

Just want a quick look first? Right-click Flip Clock.scr and choose Test to see it full screen, or Configure to open its settings.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Set the size up to 100% of the screen and pick a bold font and strong colours, and the time is easy to read from a distance.

Yes. With Orientation set to Automatic, the hours and minutes stack on top of each other on a portrait display, and sit side by side on a landscape one.

Yes. Dim display makes the whole clock up to 90% darker, which is easier on the eyes in a dark room and gentler on your screen.

Flip Clock is free to download and try, with every feature working. Until you buy a licence, a small "Flip Clock trial" caption shows in a corner of the screen, moving every couple of minutes. Click Buy a licence in the settings, then Enter licence key… with the key from your receipt email to remove it.

Yes. Click Deactivate on this PC in the settings, then enter the same key on your other computer.

Yes. Windows SmartScreen shows this warning for new programs it hasn't seen many people download yet. Click More info, check the file is Flip Clock.scr, then click Run anyway. It's a single, self-contained file that doesn't change anything else on your computer.

Windows only lists the screen savers it finds in System32 (plus the one currently selected). If you install it from your Downloads folder instead, it disappears from the list as soon as you choose a different screen saver.

Choose a different screen saver, then delete Flip Clock.scr from C:\Windows\System32. That's all - there's nothing else to uninstall.

Ready to try the Flip Clock Screensaver?

It's free to try, it's small, and it takes a minute to install.

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