BellsClock vs Chime Alarm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BellsClock
Easily create and manage custom school bell schedules. Import schedules from CSV files or websites, and export your own. Personalize screen colors and navigate with a hamburger menu.
- Customizable bell schedules
- Add/delete class periods
- Modify start/end times
- Import from CSV/web
- Export to CSV
- Personalize screen color
- Hamburger menu navigation
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Version 2 update: * Navigation among pages is done by the hamburger menu. * The screen color can be modified and personalized. * Individual bell schedules can be exported to Comma Separated Value (CSV) text format. Details: You can customize a bell schedule by adding or deleting class periods, modifying their start and end times, adding or deleting whole schedules, and modifying the names of the periods. School bell schedules can be imported from a Comma Separated Values text file located on the device or, for school-wide distribution of a set of schedules, from a Web site. The CSV file format is simple: - Quotation marks are optional. - A schedule record precedes the set of period records. - Period record format is periodname,start HH:MM,end HH:MM HH can be 24 hour or 12 hour; simply add AM or PM for 12 hour times. - Sample file: # Comment lines have leading hash mark # Next line is a schedule name (no colon or comma) Regular # These are period records name-of-period,HH:MM,HH:MM Home Room,7:55,8:05 1st Period,8:08,8:48 2nd Period,8:51,9:31 Break,9:31,9:41 3rd Period,9:44,10:24 4th Period,10:27,11:07 5th Period,11:10,11:50 Lunch,11:53,12:33PM 6th Period,12:36,13:16 7th Period,1:19PM,1:59PM 8th Period,14:02,14:42 Office Time,2:42p,15:15 # Next schedule A.M. Assembly Home Room,7:55,8:03 Assembly,8:05,9:15 1st Period,9:18,9:51 # And so on.....
Chime Alarm
This utility app allows users to set custom alarms for reminders and scheduled chimes. It offers a variety of sound options, including text-to-speech and custom recordings, with alerts that stop automatically. Keep your schedule organized with simple, clutter-free notifications.
- One-time and repeating alarms
- Built-in and custom chime sounds
- Text-to-speech messages
- Record custom alarm messages
- Quick editing and toggles
- Clean alarm list
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Chime Alarm is a simple custom alarm app for short alerts, reminders, and scheduled chimes. Create alarms fast, choose how they sound, and keep your schedule organized without extra clutter. Each alert plays briefly and stops automatically, making it useful for quick reminders, timed prompts, spoken alerts, and custom notifications throughout the day. Features: • One-time and repeating alarms • AlarmKit support • Built-in chime sounds • Text-to-speech messages • Record your own custom alarm message • Quick editing and on/off toggles • Clean alarm list • Norwegian localization Use Chime Alarm for schedule prompts, short reminders, voice alerts, recurring chimes, and custom alarm messages without extra noise or complexity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Chime Alarm at 5.0 against BellsClock's 4.2. Chime Alarm also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months). BellsClock's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Chime Alarm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BellsClock has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BellsClock ships an update every 6 months, Chime Alarm every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BellsClock | Chime Alarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francis Golazeski | Potato Studios Development llc |
In-app purchases
BellsClock
No in-app purchases
Chime Alarm
No in-app purchases
