Paste a cron expression and get a plain English description of when it runs online for free. Also generate cron expressions visually. Free cron job.
Paste your cron expression at tools.arkaserve.com/cron-descriptor and the tool translates it to plain English instantly. Examples: "*/5 * * * *" → "Every 5 minutes." "0 2 * * *" → "At 2:00 AM." "0 9 * * 1-5" → "At 9:00 AM, Monday through Friday." "0 0 1 * *" → "At midnight, on the 1st of every month." Completely free, no signup.
Every minute: "* * * * *". Every 5 minutes: "*/5 * * * *". Every hour (at :00): "0 * * * *". Every day at midnight: "0 0 * * *". Every day at 9 AM: "0 9 * * *". Every Monday at 9 AM: "0 9 * * 1". Every first of the month at midnight: "0 0 1 * *". Use the visual builder on the tool to generate any schedule without memorizing the field order.
A standard cron expression has 5 space-separated fields: Minute (0–59), Hour (0–23), Day of month (1–31), Month (1–12), Day of week (0–7, where 0 and 7 = Sunday). A 6-field expression adds a Seconds field at the start. * means "every value," */N means "every N," ranges use a hyphen (1-5), and lists use commas (1,3,5). @daily, @weekly, and @hourly are shorthand aliases.