Hourly vs Boople
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hourly
This app provides customizable hourly chimes and notifications, functioning like a personal wristwatch that alerts you at specific intervals. You can select unique sounds, display custom messages, and choose which times to be notified.
- Customizable hourly chimes
- Selectable notification sounds
- Display custom messages
- Flexible notification scheduling
- No ads or tracking
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Hourly helps you keep track of time. It's just like having a wristwatch that beeps on the hour, except it's much more personal! You can choose: * The sound to play (from a simple wristwatch beep, to the legendary Greenwich Pips, to a spoken voice, or the chime of an old clock) * A message to display on the screen * Which hours, half hours, or any other times to notify you about We think it's the best hourly chime app on the App Store, and we're always listening for your feedback if you think we can do better! No ads, no tracking, no In-App Purchases. Ever.
Boople
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This is for me, but you can use it too. Boople is a reminder app with one job: boop you on a schedule you set. Drink water every 30 minutes. Stand up every hour. Check your posture every 45 minutes. Stretch every 2 hours. Set it once and stop thinking about it. HOW IT WORKS You build a boop like a sentence: "Gimme a boop every 30 min from 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM on weekdays playing bird." - Interval: every 15 minutes, up to every 2 hours - Window: a start and end time, so nothing fires while you sleep - Days: any combination of weekdays - Sound: glass, wave, scream, bird, cricket, fart, bubble, boing. Tap one and hear it before you commit. - Pause: flip a boop off without deleting it, flip it back on whenever Make as many boops as you want. Tap any card to change it, toggle it off for the weekend, or delete it. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No account. No sign up. No cloud, no sync, no ads, no feed. No streaks to keep and no badges to earn. Your boops live on your phone and nowhere else, and the app never talks to a server. ONE HONEST LIMIT iOS only lets an app keep 64 pending notifications at a time. Boople shows you the live count right on the home screen, so a dense schedule never quietly stops working without you knowing. Add a Boop, and it'll boop you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Boople at Free against Hourly's $0.99. Boople also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Boople is free to download; Hourly costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hourly ships an update every 6 months, Boople every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hourly | Boople |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (127 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 127 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Jones | Adiv Maimon |
Bugs and requests
Hourly
Reported bugs
13 issues- Notifications don't work when phone is locked or in sleep mode
- Notifications stop working after phone is silenced
- App stops working after iOS updates
- Settings fail to sync between iPhone and multiple Apple Watches
- Duplicate notifications firing within 2-3 seconds
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- Day-of-week selection not functioning correctly
- Apple Watch notifications don't display the time, only logo
- App doesn't work reliably in background
- Chimes during phone calls and are audible to other party
- 11 PM checkbox gets stuck on some devices
- Notifications appear twice on Apple Watch
- App stops notifying around midnight and restarts at 9 AM
- Text display issues on Apple Watch with large text settings
Requested features
16 requests- More diverse sound options (cuckoo chime, gong, church bells, grandfather clock)
- Ability to use system sounds and custom ringtones
- Female voice option and multiple voice varieties (British, Australian accents)
- Volume control for individual notifications
- 24-hour continuous operation option
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- iCloud sync with Apple Watch
- Apple Watch standalone functionality without iPhone dependency
- Ability to set different schedules for weekdays vs weekends
- Customizable notification messages beyond 'it is X o'clock'
- Quarter-hour chime intervals
- Different sounds for hour vs half-hour vs quarter-hour
- Haptic feedback option
- Ability to select which device receives notifications
- Profile/preset saving and restoration
- Spoken time on Apple Watch notifications
- Disable notifications without clearing history
Boople
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hourly
No in-app purchases
Boople
No in-app purchases









