The Spiros-app is a light live wallpaper app for Android, which displays the current time by 2 or 3 spiral-shaped hands. You can set different options to get a nice live wallpaper. In addition to the default Spiros-mode, this live wallpaper offers also the Triros-mode, where the hands are displayed as different lines that make triangular shapes, which also gives a very nice but diffused view of the current time. The optional banner shows your battery level and temperature (in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit). To avoid confusion (which may be possible ;-), the digital time is also shown. In addition, you can choose to display your daily number of 'look apps' to control your phonephilia.

Installation

After downloading the Spiros-app (on your mobile), you have to install the app as a live wallpaper via long-pressing on an empty space of your home screen. You cannot find the Spiros-app in your regular app directory as it will be downloaded in an Android system directory reserved for live wallpapers. If you have any problems with setting the wallpaper, use a special wallpaper picking app, such as Google Wallpaper.

You can download the app via the download-page. Since July 2024, the app is no longer available via Google Play.

PS Spiros is also available as classic Windows screensaver (it was the original software implementation of the idea!).

Examples

Below you find a few screen images of the Spiros-app.