Five Bells User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience78.9% of reviews
Neutral7.9% of reviews
Negative experience13.2% of reviews

~ Based on 38 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Five Bells Safe?

Five Bells appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Five Bells is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 198 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 198 App Store ratings for Five Bells.

Is Five Bells Legit?

Five Bells appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Five Bells is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Perfect

Just perfect.

Five bells 🔔 GREAT

Thank you for having such a good bell 🔔 clock app had an tried others some not loud enough an or not working at all ect, but this one is the best one update it once in awhile an maybe a nicer clock but good other wise 👍👍👍👍👍

Fun

It’s fun. I pretty much can tell time with it all through the night. It’s not intrusive, it’s sort of subliminal

During the day it’s a conversation starter.

Old sailors hardly seem to hear it.

Time incorrect

I’ve had this app for quite a while and love it but just recently it started chiming late. Not sure if this can be fixed by the designers but I hope it can. Please try!

Exactly what I wanted

Standard US Navy six four-hour "watches", appropriate bells on the half-hour. Settings can be customized to your preference -- bells can be "standard", "quieter", or "gentle" (I like the "quieter" bells -- sound is perfect for me). This free app works very well, and doesn't bug you with "in app purchases", so I was quite happy to donate to the author's "tip jar".
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Bells and more

This app is perfect. It makes the bells, has a quiet option to silence the bells overnight, and uses lat/long to also tell the times of sunrise/set and moonrise/set.

Learned a lot

This is great. I now understand how the system works, and it helps
me keep track of time when working.
I do wish the silence function worked. I have to turn my phone off when we sleep.. I don't mind hearing the occasional bell through the night but the wife is not keen.

Quiet time doesn’t work

I really wanted this to work but the quiet time feature doesn’t work. Despite it being set to not ring from after 9pm to 6.29am to not annoy the hell out of my wife, we have just been awoken at 3.00am by bells and she reports hearing them every half an hour earlier. So it’s likely to be a delete from me unfortunately and a strong recommendation against them for people who like their sleep uninterrupted by bells.
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Good app but not customizable

I used to have a ships bills app on my android that was like this one and I really enjoyed it. The bell sound is really great, the only thing I wish is you could customize it so you can leave out the half hour bell. The bell is going off every 30 minutes can get annoying and distracting very quickly.
I had to delete the app because of that reason
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Great learning tool

It’s easy to use and a great learning tool. When I watch the seafaring movies I enjoy knowing what the bells mean

Eight Bells and all’s well

I’m retired US Navy. If you have a Naval or Coast Guard background and understand the eight bell cycle of time-telling, then this is the app for you. Easy to configure. Pleasant sounding ring tone on the bell itself. Overall, a fun way to keep track of time throughout the day without taking your iPhone out of pocket to glance at it.
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Apple iwatch

If you have an Apple Watch, this app doesn’t work. You don’t hear the bells on the phone. It sends a notification to the watch and it’s only one ding. Thankfully this is a free app. Maybe if it worked, I’d give it 5 stars.

IpadOS 17 killed it.

IpadOS 17.1 it’s working again.

No bells anymore

No bells after iOS 17 upgrade this morning. I hope there’s gonna be an update to the app.

Stopped Working

Stopped working after latest iOS update on iPhone 11 Pro. Sad now. Another bell app had done this and they are no more. Hope updates are pending

IpadOS 17 killed it.

After each IOS update I had to turn the bells ON. But with IPadOS 17 it stooped chiming. I have no clue how to adjust the IOS settings if there is a fix. The app no longer has a support website. It was great while it lasted.

Looked, tried, disliked, until this

Thank you for this app, which is exactly what I was looking for. Every other nautical/navy clock app has weird behavior with the current iOS version, or wants way too much money, or ??? This app acts exactly as I hoped, has options, managed the banners (or none!!) correctly and has decent bell sounds. THANK YOU!!!
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Very Happy

Very happy with this app. Ever since Weems & Plath discontinued their ship’s bell app, I have been looking for a replacement ship’s bell/clock. So glad I found this one. I like the sound and volume level of the bells. We’ll done, and am really enjoying it.

Only wish could be on my Apple watch also.

Due to a medical condition I loose track of time. This app has been so helpful keeping me on track. Only wish I could have it along even when not carrying my iPhone.

Simple and useful free features

Easy to use. Quiet hours feature is a big plus. Dog watch bells also nice plus at no charge.