Dancing ClockMeet Tico, a brass alarm clock that keeps real time, watches your pointer, walks, dances, changes mood, says the time aloud with your device's own voice and rings an alarm, with nothing uploaded.
Tico is waking up...
The alarm rings only while this page is open and the device is awake, and with a bell only when Sound is on. For an alarm you must not miss, set one on your phone as well.
Keys while you use the tool: W walk, D dance, T talk, C tell the time, A ring, S sound, 1 to 5 moods, Esc stops the alarm.
Tico is a brass alarm clock with a face. Its hands show the time of your device, its eyes follow your pointer or finger, and it blinks, looks around and waves now and then. Click or tap Tico to poke it, or reach it with Tab and press Enter.
Press Sound to hear the ticking, the hourly chime and Tico's voice. Tico speaks with a voice installed on your device; when there are several, choose one in the list next to the button. On a device without a voice of its own, the words appear in the bubble only.
Walk sends Tico strolling from edge to edge, Dance plays a beat and changes the move every four seconds, Talk gives a line that fits the mood, Tell time says the time in words and Ring tests the bell. Press a lit button again to stop.
Happy, Surprised, Sad, Angry or Sleepy change Tico's eyes, brows, mouth and voice. A mood you pick is kept for at least a minute and a half; after that Tico may cheer up by itself, and late at night it often gets sleepy.
Pick a time under Alarm and press Set. Tico rings at that time every day: Stop, Esc or a poke silences it, and Snooze 5 min rings again five minutes later. Press Clear to remove the alarm.
The alarm rings only while the page is open and the device is awake. After opening the page, click it once so the browser lets it make sound. If the alarm time passed while the page was closed, Tico tells you it could not ring.
Tico is drawn piece by piece, with bells, a hammer, gloves and boots, and every part moves: a bob while it idles, steps when it walks, three dance moves, a shake when it rings and a tear when it is sad.
Tell time puts the hour into words, such as a quarter past three in the afternoon, and every hour Tico chimes and says the hour. The voice comes from your own device, so the words are never sent anywhere to be spoken.
The alarm is checked against the clock several times a second and from an extra timer when the tab is in the background. If it rings late, Tico says by how many minutes; if it could not ring at all, Tico says so.
Behind Tico the sky turns from dawn to day, dusk and night as the hours pass, with drifting clouds, stars at night and a Sun or Moon that crosses the sky. It is a picture of the time of day, the same in every season.
Every button has a key, Tico can be poked with Enter or Space, and the eyes follow a finger on a phone. With reduced motion turned on in your device, Tico stops bobbing and dancing and the hands jump from second to second.
The sounds are made in your browser, the voice is your device's own, and the alarm and settings stay in this browser. There is no account and nothing to install.
Browsers can read text aloud with the voices of the operating system. Some voices run on the device itself; others, often marked as online or natural, send the text to a speech service. Tico uses only the first kind, which is why the list of voices can be shorter than in other apps.
Browsers keep a page silent until you click, tap or press a key on it, so that pages cannot start playing sound on their own. That is why the page asks for one click after it opens when an alarm is set and the sound is on.
To save power, browsers run a tab that is out of sight far less often than one you are looking at, and not at all when the device sleeps. The page sets an extra timer for the alarm and compares with the clock at every check, but a closed tab cannot ring.
It is free, with no registration. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, it is supported by advertising. Tico's sounds are made in your browser, its voice is one of the voices installed on your device, and your alarm and settings stay in this browser between visits. Nothing you do on the page is sent to a server. Delete everything, in How it works, removes the alarm and the settings.
Sound is off until you turn it on with the Sound button or the S key. Tico then speaks with a voice that is installed on your device; an online voice would send Tico's words to a speech service, so it is never used. On a device without a voice of its own, Tico shows its words in the speech bubble only. When your device has several voices, pick one in the list next to the Sound button.
No. A web page can only ring while it is open in a tab and the device is awake. When you come back after the alarm time has passed, Tico tells you that it could not ring, and the alarm stays set for the next day. The bell also needs Sound to be on: with Sound off, Tico only shakes and shouts in the speech bubble. For an alarm you must not miss, set one on your phone as well.
Yes, as long as this tab stays open. Browsers wake a tab that is out of sight less often to save power, so the page sets one extra timer for the alarm when you switch away and compares with the clock at every check. A hidden tab can still ring a little late; Tico then says how many minutes late it is. Up to ten minutes late it still rings; later it tells you it missed the alarm.
No. The sky is a picture that follows the clock's hours: dawn from 5:00, day from 7:00, dusk from 17:30 and night from 20:30, with the Sun crossing from 6:00 to 19:00 and the Moon at night. It is the same everywhere and in every season. For the real sunrise, sunset and Moon phase of your place, use the Sun and Moon tool on this site.
Yes. W walks, D dances, T talks, C tells the time, A rings the bell, S turns the sound on or off, the keys 1 to 5 pick a mood and Esc stops the alarm. Tico is a button too: press Tab to reach it and Enter or Space to poke it. The letter keys work while the tool is in use and you are not typing in a box.
The Clock tool is for timekeeping: many alarms with labels and repeat days, a countdown timer, a stopwatch with laps, a world clock and a full screen clock. Dancing Clock is a character first: Tico keeps the time, says it aloud, walks, dances and changes mood, and it has one alarm that rings every day at the time you pick. Use the Clock for several alarms or timers, and Dancing Clock for a talking clock with some company on your desk.