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Chronus Information Widgets on Windows Pc

Developed By: DvTonder

License: Free

Rating: 3,9/5 - 30.663 votes

Last Updated: August 04, 2026

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 25.0
Size 8.5 MB
Release Date September 19, 25
Category Productivity Apps

App Permissions:
Allows an app to access approximate location. [see more (9)]

What's New:
Version 28.0.3 • Material Expressive (Pro): Pill-style Calendar, Tasks, News, and Stocks widgets • Calendar: Month view shows events as colored bars; new... [see more]

Description from Developer:
Put what matters most on your home screen — the time, the weather, your next meeting, the headlines you follow, today's tasks, your portfolio — in one highly customisable widge... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Chronus Information Widgets and install on Windows PC. Chronus Information Widgets is free Productivity app, developed by DvTonder. Latest version of Chronus Information Widgets is 25.0, was released on 2025-09-19 (updated on 2026-08-04). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 1,000,000. Overall rating of Chronus Information Widgets is 3,9. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 30,663 users, 16,556 users had rated it 5*, 3,982 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Chronus Information Widgets on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Chronus Information Widgets on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Chronus Information Widgets on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

Step By Step Guide To Install Chronus Information Widgets using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Chronus Information Widgets" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Chronus Information Widgets on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Chronus Information Widgets" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Put what matters most on your home screen — the time, the weather, your next meeting, the headlines you follow, today's tasks, your portfolio — in one highly customisable widget suite.

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.
Version 28.0.3
• Material Expressive (Pro): Pill-style Calendar, Tasks, News, and Stocks widgets
• Calendar: Month view shows events as colored bars; new Calendar Sync screen
• Google Tasks: Show all tasks in lists over 100 items
• News: OPML import

Fixes:
• Tasks: Sync reliability across Google Tasks, Evernote, Todoist, and Exchange
• Stocks: Yahoo, Alpha Vantage, and FMP reliability
• Calendar: Local-time setting could misplace events
• Fixed ANRs on widget and extension refresh
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.