Hourly Chime vs chimingClock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hourly Chime
This utility app announces the time audibly at set intervals, eliminating the need to check your screen. Choose between voice or tone alerts for convenient time awareness.
- Hourly time announcements
- Voice or tone alerts
- No screen needed
- Customizable intervals
- Background operation
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Hourly Chime is a simple daily reminder app that helps you stay on schedule with customizable hourly alerts. Choose the hours that matter to you, turn sound on or off for each alert, and add a personal message for every hour—such as “Drink water,” “Take a break,” “Get ready for your meeting,” or “Time to wrap up.” Features: • Set daily hourly reminders from 12 AM to 11 PM • Enable or disable each hour individually • Add a personal reminder message to every hour • Choose whether each reminder plays a chime • Preview the current hour’s chime instantly • Supports 12-hour and 24-hour time formats • Pause or resume all hourly reminders at any time • Clean interface with Dark Mode and Dynamic Type support Make every hour a small moment to refocus, reset, and move through your day with intention.
chimingClock
This app functions as a digital standing clock, always displaying the accurate time. It plays Westminster chimes every quarter hour, offering a simple, no-fuss experience with minimal interaction required.
- Always shows correct time
- Westminster chimes every quarter hour
- Minimal user interaction
- Designed for simplicity
- Out-of-the-box functionality
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Standing clock that always shows correct time, and every quarter of an hour plays Westminster chimes. This application is designed to have minimal user interaction -- it just works out of the box. Despite variety of different clocks available on the app store, which support all sort of features and customizations, it's not easy to find a clock which shows only time and requires minimal user interaction and customizations -- in which case, chimingClock is exactly what you are looking for.
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Verdict
Hourly Chime and chimingClock are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for Hourly Chime against 3.8 for chimingClock. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 10 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Hourly Chime's written reviews are positive against 63% of chimingClock's.
Hourly Chime ships an update every 9 days, chimingClock weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hourly Chime | chimingClock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (22 ratings) | 3.8 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SYSCODE INTERNATIONAL INC. | ECHOWAVES CORP. |
Customer experience
Hourly Chime
chimingClock
In-app purchases
Hourly Chime
No in-app purchases
chimingClock
No in-app purchases
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