What this site is

VClock is a collection of small, focused time tools that run entirely in your browser. Open a page and it works — there is nothing to install, no account to create, and no free trial that later asks for a card. It covers the things people actually need a clock for during a working day: a digital clock, an alarm, a stopwatch, a countdown timer, a Pomodoro study timer, a world clock for 80+ cities, date calculators, and reference pages on public holidays across Europe.

Alongside the tools there are written guides on the subjects they touch — how the Pomodoro technique actually works, why 24-hour notation exists, how to schedule a meeting across four time zones without getting it wrong. Those are written by hand, one at a time, because a guide that was worth publishing is worth writing properly.

Who runs it

VClock is published by Jithin Suresh Babu, based in Germany. Full statutory details, including a postal address, are on the imprint page.

The site is small and deliberately stays that way. Rather than generating a page for every possible search phrase, the aim is a handful of tools that are genuinely better than the alternatives, and guides that answer the question they promise to answer.

Why it exists

Most free online timers are surprisingly unpleasant. They interrupt with modal pop-ups, they lose your alarm when you switch tabs, they need JavaScript frameworks measured in megabytes to render a countdown, and a worrying number of them load a dozen third-party trackers before showing you the time. VClock is an attempt at the opposite: load fast, work offline, keep your data on your own machine, and not get in the way.

That produces some specific design choices. Timers keep running when you navigate to another tool, because a countdown that dies on navigation is useless. The study timer refuses to change cycle length mid-session, so a running Pomodoro cannot be silently re-timed underneath you. The alarm sound is synthesised in the browser rather than downloaded, so it works with no network. None of these are exciting features; together they are the difference between a tool you keep open and one you close.

How it is funded

VClock is free and is paid for by advertising served through Google AdSense. There is no paid tier, no premium unlock, and nothing behind a sign-up. Being straightforward about this matters: ads are the entire business model, which is why they appear on the pages, and it is also why the site does not need to collect anything about you to make money.

We do not accept payment for editorial coverage. Where a guide recommends an approach or a piece of equipment, it is because it seemed like the right recommendation, and no one paid for the mention.

What we do and do not collect

Your preferences, alarms, and study log live in your browser's localStorage. They are never transmitted to a server, and there is no server-side database in which they could be stored — which also means we cannot recover them if you clear your browser data. The study log records per-day totals and session counts only, never the clock times at which you studied, so it cannot be used to reconstruct when you were at your desk.

Advertising is handled by Google, governed by the consent choice you make on your first visit and changeable at any time from the Privacy settings link in the footer. There is no analytics: Google Analytics was removed in September 2026 and nothing replaced it, so nothing on this site measures your visit. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what each provider receives, on what legal basis, and how to exercise your GDPR rights.

How it is built

VClock is written in TypeScript and built with Vite. There is no UI framework and there are no runtime npm dependencies at all — the interface is plain DOM code and the styling is CSS custom properties. Every page is pre-rendered to static HTML at build time, so the content is present before any JavaScript runs, which is why the tools appear instantly and why they remain readable if a script fails to load.

The LCD digits use the DSEG7 Classic font, self-hosted rather than pulled from a font CDN. Alarm and timer sounds are synthesised with the Web Audio API instead of shipping audio files. The site is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch.

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Corrections and contact

If a holiday date is wrong, a time zone offset looks off, or a guide contains a mistake, please tell us — corrections to reference data are the most useful mail we get. Write to contact@vclock.eu or use the contact page.