Hourly chime & Speaking clock

Hourly chime app (blip blip) that speaking clock every hour to tell you the time

Hourly Chime & Speaking Clock App

"Hourly chime & Speaking clock" is an innovative app that alerts you with hourly chimes and speaks the current time. It offers customizable reminder intervals and sound options, helping you keep track of time effortlessly. With features for muted time ranges and background operation, it's perfect for safe time-telling while on the go. A compatible text-to-speech engine, like Google TTS, is required for the speaking functionality. Download now to enhance your mindfulness and time awareness.

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By: Hoang Lang

Users: 152,999

776

Rating: 4.38

(1,984)

0.03

Version: 2.0.9 (Last updated: 2024-05-16)

Creation date: 2020-11-26

Email: su*****@langhoangal.dev

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage

Other:

view network connections
full network access
run at startup
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping
read Google service configuration

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App summary

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Mindfulness Chime is a hourly chime app (also known as a talking clock, speaking clock, hourly alert, hourly beep, hourly reminder, hourly signal or just a blip blip) that help you to tracking time better with 5 mins, 10 mins, quarter-hourly, half-hourly and hourly reminder chimes.

You can set different sounds for each time slots such as hourly, half-hourly... so it's more easier to known the time.

The option to speak the current time is also support. Speak out loud the time so you don't need to open your phone, safer while driving.

Support muted time range setting, auto turn off at desired time.

NOTICE: A text-to-speech engine must be installed, like for example Google TTS, IVONA TTS, Vocalizer TTS or SVOX Classic TTS. The TTS engine is not part of this application and can be downloaded from the Play Store. The quality of the voice depends from the installed TTS engine.

* Permission:
- Internet: to collect bug/crash log (via google service) in order to fix and make app better day by day
- Vibration: to use vibrate function as app have a Vibrate Only option
- Foreground Service: to run app in background to schedule alarm for ringing bell

User reviews

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Pros

Helps users with time blindness and staying on track
Customizable chime options (different sounds for different times)
Simple and easy to use interface
Responsive developer support
No excessive permissions required

Cons

Inconsistent chime timing (often late or skips chimes altogether)
Frequent ads and interruptions during setup
Issues with app reliability, especially on newer Android versions
Battery and RAM usage concerns
Some features not functioning as expected (e.g., time speaking or test feature)

Most mentioned

Chimes are not consistent/timely
Ads interfere with app functionality
App has helped with time management for users with ADHD
Complaints about reliability and need for frequent reboots
Desire for more customization options

User reviews

Pretty good, except that it needs a separate volume button. Developers instead decided to use the media control volume, and that, in my view, can create issues. It wouldn't have been so bad if they had opted to use the alarm, or, maybe, even the notification volume.

Neftali Pineiro, 2024-09-11

So it does what it says on the tin but on android at least it starts to play the alarm an additional time every hour until you reboot your phone. So I woke up to the beep going off 8 times instead of once for instance. Idk if I'm understanding the exact cause but having your 5 minute alarm slowly take longer and longer to stop over the week is both funny and kinda annoying. Pls fix.

RYY B, 2024-09-10

This app is unreliable. Sometimes the chimes and voice work, and other times not. It skips a lot of times. I have turned off battery optimization. Worse, it uses far, far more RAM memory than any app I've ever used! This means either it is running some other Chinese spyware in the background, or it is very poorly coded.