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Harmony v1.0.4228 / 23apr2026 / MIT License

Digital chiming clock with 100+ chimes and 50 alarms + reminders. Multiple chime styles of Melody, Ships Bells, British Royal Ships Bells, Grande Sonnerie and Petite Sonnerie. On-screen date / time / part of day. Custom coloring, time / date format and many options.

Features

• Integrated toolbar with auto-hide for easy access to clock settings, alarms and reminders
• Click or tap the clock face, or press any key to silence an active alarm(s)
• Press the "ESC" key to toggle full screen mode
• Click and drag to position clock face
• Run clock windowed, maximised or in full screen mode
• 140+ built-in face color-pairs and 10 custom color-pair slots to customise the clock's text and background
• Adjust Face Brightness: 10-100%
• Adjust Frame Brightness: 10-100%
• Dim To (90-10%) - reduce brightness of clock during evening hours (7 PM - 7 AM by default)
• Face Shade Styles: Flat, Shade, Shade 2, Round and Glow
• Face Shade Power: -100% (shade to black) to +100% (shade to color)
• Text Feathering: None, Low, Medium, High and Ultra
• Face Options: Tint Background, Swap Colors and Flash Separator ":"
• 6 Frame Color Styles: Back, Text, Back+Text, Text+Back, Black and White
• 56 Melody Chimes with intro and dongs
• 30 Ships Bells - standard and British Royal chimes
• 16 Sonnerie - Grande and Petite chimes
• Quarterly Chiming Options: 15m, 30m and 45m
• Chime Volume: 0-200%
• Chime Speed: 25-400% - 100% is default
• Reduce Chime Volume (90-10%) - quieten chimes during evening hours (7 PM - 7 AM by default)
• Definable Midi Playback Device: Choose between Midi Mapper and up to 10 installed midi devices (hardware and software)
• Chime Options: Always On Midi + Preview Sample Chime
• Set Alarms / Reminders by: Daily, Day of Week, Month or Date
• 50 Reminders with static message display (long messages are scrolled)
• 50 Flashing Alarm messages (long messages are scrolled) and optional alarm buzzer with gradual fade-in
• 60+ Built-in alarm buzzers to choose from
• Adjustable Alarm Duration: 10 seconds to 2 hours (10 sec intervals)
• Copy and Paste alarms and reminders to and from Clipboard
• Save All and Open all alarms and reminders to and from file
• General Options: Frame Maximised, On Top, Automatic Startup, Color Contrast (for settings), Retain Pos / Size (app position and size) and Click To Show (click clock face to show main toolbar)
• 3 Time Formats: 24hr, 12hr AM/PM or 12hr am/pm
• 6 Date Formats: 9 April 2026; 9th April 2026; April 9, 2026; April 9th, 2026; 9 / 4 / 2026; and 9 / 4 / 2026
• Date Options: Show, Uppercase, At Top and Full (non-abbreviated)
• Day of Week Options: Show, Uppercase, At Top and Full (non-abbreviated)
• Part of Day Options: Show and Uppercase
• Customisable Part of Day Labels: Afternoon, Evening, Predawn and Morning
• Definable Evening Range: 1-11 PM (7 PM by default)
• Definable Morning Range: 1-11 AM (7 AM by default)
• Reminder Options: Uppercase and At Top
• Multi-monitor support
• Straightforward, fuss-free operation
• Options Window - Easily change app color, font and settings
• Portable
• Smart Source Code (Borland Delphi 3 and Lazarus 2.2/4.4/4.6)

App Changes

• Modern GUI
• Multi-monitor support
• Integrated top toolbar with access to all clock settings
• New render procs for improved performance
• Fast resizing
• Improved "Face Colors" list item color preview image / display
• Click to show toolbar
• Retain app position and size on screen
• Animated background scheme support
• Significant optimisations and improvements with an updated codebase

Codebase Changes

• Optimised for 2K display (60fps+)
• Functional on 4K display
• General render improvements of ~300%
• Text render improvements of ~200%
• Smart font character caching with twin feather support
• Increased background animation render rate to 60fps
• Active GUI Scaling (60% - 200% of OS scaling, realtime adaptive)
• TextCore (upgraded) - non-GUI and GUI text box engine (txt, bwd, bwp, rtf)
• FastDraw (new) - GUI / general graphics work via high-level and low-level rapid-render procs for the CPU
• Dynamic scaling and loading of System, Folder, and App images
• New color-based animated background schemes / engine upgrade
• Automatic MSIX handling (MS Store app/MSIX bundle) with seamless adaptive settings and temp file storage and management for restrictive access compliance
• Source code supports both 32bit and 64bit
• 32bit compilation in Borland Delphi 3 (stable)
• 32bit compilation in Lazarus 2.2 (stable)
• 64bit compilation in Lazarus 4.4+ (functional/work in progress)

Download

Download harmony.exe or from the "bin" or "src" folders above - for Microsoft Windows, and Linux/MacOS via Wine.

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