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Clock, weather, calendar, news, tasks and stocks widgets for your home screen.
AppBrain's verdict
EstablishedPopular- Rating on Google Play
- 3.80
- 28,698 ratings
- Installs
- 1.8 million
- Last updated
- July 26, 2025
- Ads
- Contains ads
- Size
- N/A
Chronus Information Widgets is popular, with 1.8 million installs. Users are divided: 3.8 stars from 28,698 ratings.
Summary
Chronus Information Widgets delivers a unified home screen experience with time, weather, calendar, news, tasks and stocks within a single, highly customizable widget suite. Built for lean background updates and cross-provider flexibility, it keeps you informed without draining battery. With 1,000,000+ total downloads and 2.8K in the last 30 days, and a rating of 3.80 from 28,698 users.
Pros & Cons
- Highly customizable with fonts, colors, sizes, and layouts
- Broad provider support for weather and news
- Backup and restore to local storage or Google Drive
- Custom tap actions to launch apps or activities
- Lock-screen widgets on Android 5–15 require a third-party lock-screen app
User feedback
Ratings and reviews on Google PlayComments on Chronus Information Widgets for Android
Google Play Rating history and histogram
Store listing
By DvTonder, from Google PlayDescription by DvTonder Written by the developer, not by AppBrain. Click to read.
Every Chronus widget shares the same lean background services, so you get rich, up-to-date information without the battery and data cost of running a separate widget for each. Mix and match the widgets you want; the ones you don't use stay dormant and consume no resources.
Widgets included
• Flex and Flex Analog — flagship all-in-one widgets with clock, calendar, weather, news, tasks, stocks and DashClock extensions
• Clock+ variants — digital, analog, dash, and combined clock+weather layouts
• Pixel and Pixel 2 — clean, at-a-glance clock and weather
• News, Tasks and Weather — dedicated single-purpose widgets
• Dash — host for any DashClock extensions you like
Highlights
• Deep customisation — fonts, sizes, colours, alignments and layouts for almost every element
• Material You dynamic colour support on Android 12+
• Weather from 12 providers: OpenWeatherMap, AccuWeather, Met Norway, The Weather Company, Weatherbit, WeatherAPI, Visual Crossing, Tomorrow.io, WeatherStack, Pirate Weather, Open-Meteo and MeasureSpace
• News from any RSS source or Hacker News, with built-in bookmarks to save articles for later and a dedicated Saved view
• Google Tasks with due-date notifications and quick-complete actions
• Scrollable agenda-style calendar with colour-coded upcoming events and bold highlighting
• Weather, Calendar and Tasks system notifications
• Backup and restore to local storage or Google Drive
• Available as a weather source for LineageOS and derived ROMs
Pro features (one-time in-app purchase)
• Additional widgets: Forecast, Calendar, Clock+ Forecast and Stocks
• Additional weather providers: Weather.com and Wunderground
• Additional news providers: Bluesky
• Custom clock fonts for digital and world clock widgets
• Additional task providers: Microsoft Exchange, Evernote and Todoist
• Unlimited DashClock extensions (the free version includes two)
• Many more style, colour, alignment and layout options across every widget
• Custom tap actions to launch any app or activity
• Stock price alerts
• Daydream screensaver
Good to know
• Lock-screen widgets are native on Android 16+; on Android 5–15 they require a third-party lock-screen app
• Permissions details: https://www.dvtonder.com/privacy.html
Credits
Chronus is developed by David van Tonder with contributions from Danny Baumann and Jorge Ruesga. Huge thanks to Nicolai Ehemann, Matt Booth and the volunteer translators who keep the app available in 36 languages.
Safety and technology
Found in the app by AppBrain- Ads
- Contains ads
- Price
- Free
- Libraries
- 17
- App size
- N/A
- Content rating
- Everyone
Technologies used by Chronus Information Widgets
Releases
Updates seen on Google Play- Launched
- September 2013
- Jul 26, 2025UpdateVersion 25.0
- May 16, 2024UpdateVersion 24.1.1
- Mar 9, 2024UpdateVersion 24.0.5
- Jan 18, 2024UpdateVersion 24.0.4
- Jan 7, 2024UpdateVersion 24.0.3
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Installs
Tracked by AppBrain- Last 30 days
- 2.8 thousand
- Per day
- 92
- 30-day average
- Play install range
- 1+ million
- Launched
- September 2013
Installs over time
Chronus Information Widgets has been installed 1.8 million times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 92 installs per day.
Rankings
Google Play top chartsGoogle Play Rankings for Chronus Information Widgets
About the app and developer
About Chronus Information Widgets
Chronus Information Widgets is a productivity app developed by DvTonder.
How many times has Chronus Information Widgets been downloaded?
Chronus Information Widgets has been downloaded 1.8 million times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.8 thousand times.
What is the rating of Chronus Information Widgets?
Chronus Information Widgets is rated 3.80 out of 5 stars, based on 29 thousand ratings.
Is Chronus Information Widgets free?
Chronus Information Widgets is free. The last update was on July 26, 2025.
What are the requirements for Chronus Information Widgets?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The APK has been available on Google Play since September 2013.
Chronus Information Widgets is made and published by DvTonder. AppBrain is an independent app data site and isn't affiliated with DvTonder. The app name, icon, screenshots and description belong to DvTonder and are shown as published on Google Play.
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