Mascot Clock
A clock, alarm and stopwatch wrapped in a hand-drawn cat.
Mascot Clock is the long-running Android clock whose face is an animated character instead of a grid of digits. It is the default pick for anyone who wants an alarm clock that feels like a toy rather than a spreadsheet.
What it does
- Animated mascot face with a fully customisable outfit
- Alarm, world clock, stopwatch and timer in one app
- Wake-lock friendly alarms that survive aggressive battery management
- Widget and lock-screen clock faces
About Mascot Clock
Mascot Clock replaces the flat digital readout with a character that reacts to the alarm state, so an incoming alarm reads as something alive rather than a system notification.
It bundles a conventional alarm clock, a world clock, a stopwatch and a countdown timer, each with its own home-screen widget. Alarms can be given names, snoozed with a gesture, and tuned with ramps that gradually raise the volume before the peak so you wake up instead of being startled.
The whole thing is a single offline app with no account and no analytics. The trade-off is that it is closed source and sold commercially, and that as of this writing it has no reachable download — see the availability note on the right.
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