Preorders for my clock app are live!

I LOVE this app. It's Grand Clock on steroids. If you've used that app, you know.

Here are my suggestions:

• For the hot key on Mac, I'd like to be able to either enter any key or choose a key like Command+Shift+Space.
  • Currently, I have it set to Command+Shift+0, but I would like to use Command+Shift+Space, which would be easier to access.
• Also, a key to open the settings and turn on/off announcements anywhere would be nice.
• I love how you can adjust the chime splits so the hour chimes land directly on the hour. With a precision of 100ms, you can only get so close to getting the chime splits exactly on the hour. It would be nice if you could allow the precision to go right down to the sample if you so desired, but that would be way overkill for most people. For those who want to be precise, it would be useful. At least give me a precision of around a millisecond or at least 10ms.
• You could take this idea and have the chimes for the quarters land directly on the quarter hour directly and not have the mechanical noise if any to land on the quarters, thus the chimes are exactly on the quarters.
• One more idea I just thought of. Not all mechanical clocks are accurate down to the second. Maybe you could add something which offsets a clock off by a few seconds fast or slow, thus making it run fast.

Overall, as a clock enthusiast, this is a dream come true. It would be nice if maybe on the clock tab, you could play a ticking sound like tick.wav and just loop it, and that could be used as the ticking sound? That would be cool.

Also, if you want help with anything on the app, please feel free to reach out.

I started using Grand Clock in 2015 or 2016, and it was great until it got pulled. I didn't like the Westminster chimes apps even though I had bought those because of their MIDI chimes.

Your app takes everything I loved about Grand Clock and scales it up by a million!

As a person who wishes they had more mechanical chiming clocks, I love this app and it's fantastic! Keep up the great work!

Can't wait to see what future versions bring!

Just do it the same way grand clock does.

I haven't looked at the sounds for it, but I actually started a project like this which does incorperate ticking. The way I did it was to have tick.wav or whatever the file extension was just loop. The user could turn up or down the volume. If you wanted to be fancy you could automatically create the looping point and give users the option to modify it just like splits.

You could then add a background mode entitlement in xcode, specifically the Audio, AirPlay, and Picture in Picture option.

In fact, this would allow you to play chimes without sending notifications, but only while the app is open.

Maybe somehow destroy notifications right before they get sent if the app is opened so you could just play them like macOS?

also, a volume slider on iOS would be nice. Just select the volume, then rerender the files, just like you do for splits/fades.

I'll probably have loads more feedback! If you want me to help test future versions I can and would love to.

This is the app I've always dreamed of owning.

If this app was $10, or even $20, I would have bought it in a heart beat.

I think emails on profiles are private.

You can contact me on my applevis profile which will send me an email, then I can reply to that if you are ok with that.

go to https://www.applevis.com/users/25801 and you should see a contact tab. Let me know if that works.

Hi,
First, I'm sure there's not a way to do this, but would it ever be possible to have the alarms come exclusively out of a connected headset or bluetooth device and not use the speaker? I'm sure not, and this is a feature with the apple alarms and even android alarms I've never understood. I just think if someone shares a room and sleeps with a bluetooth headset, why should their alarm wake up the roommate?

Also, cuckoo clocks... do you think you might be able to implement a setting for it to sound only once an hour? Instead of having it sound 10 times for 10 o'clock, 11 times for 11, 12 times for 12 o'clock, etc. just have a setting where people can have it sound once an hour. Just an idea.

Having run the app for about a day now, it really is lovely. Also seems that this thread is (unsurprisingly,) collecting a lot of previous Grand Clock fans, as I also loved this program while it existed!

Last night I was able to try the scheduling feature--lovely as the chimes are, they don't need to be going off in the midst of a choir practice--and it worked perfectly! That's a very good feature I'm surprised is only now being done.

One suggestion, though. I did see the announcements toggle added to the clock home screen, and that works perfectly fine, but I wonder if it would be possible to also add this to the control center as a widget? It's no trouble if not, as it's fairly easy to pop the app open and disable the announcements, but I think being able to disable them quickly from anywhere, without having to leave whatever screen you might be on, would be very useful. In a similar vein, might it be possible to make the enabling/disabling of announcements accessible via the backtap in the same way you might a calling of the time? This would be another potential way to adjust this quickly, without even unlocking the phone, to boot.

Thank you again!

I eagerly awaited the release of this clock application. While it's very nice and definitely super-accessible, I'm hoping for more and better clock recordings to add to it. For instance, the Westminster selections are all very nice, but some of them were recorded quite far away from the source, adding a lot of unwanted room ambience to the recording. Also, I've only discovered one clock that's actually stereo, and it's not a full-on Westminster-style implementation--no quarter-, half- and three-quarter-hour chimes, just a single bong. However, the stereo sound of the single chime used is pretty impressive. Here's hoping for more, not just sounds, but more applications from this author/developer.

Maybe someone who lives in England can record Big Ben for use, is that allow. Long live meows.

I love the announcements. I really don’t like 11 labs but I’m using a human female Clock I found in the Steve’s library for now. It’s good enough until we get something better. Seriously, this app is awesome, I’ve been looking for something like this for the iPhone for years, just never found one that did the talking Clock correctly.

I downloaded VAL onto my iPad this morning and chose another favourite voice from Steve's talking clock: the same voice which was used in the Sharp talking calculator. I owned 2 of these calculators at different times, and the voice brings back so many happy memories.

I also loved Grand Clock back in the day, but I love the 2 voices I chose even more because of the nostalgia.

I installed this app on Monday and have had it running on my iPhone 17 Pro Max and it’s wonderful! The real clock sounds are wonderful I look forward to future developments! Thanks.

I love this app so much that I also installed it on my older iPhone with a different clock. Now one phone cuckoos while another chimes, Lol. My grandmother loved clocks and always had at least 15 that either chimed or made some sort of sound, so hearing these sounds is nostalgic for me.

Hello everyone!

Please can you try and duplicate the following, as I think there is a bug with the scheduler.

1. Add a schedule, such as a temporary one.

2. Set the clock to none.

3. Expected result: announcements are paused when the schedule is active.

4. Actual result: schedule behaves as if they did not exist.

Using first update after initial release.

Thank you. I await your reply.

It would be really cool if there was a mode similar to this.
Http://1194online.com
It’s the old Speaking Clock when you would call a number and hear the time. This is the Australian version but it’d be cool if this app could do something like that, maybe we could even write to the person who made this website and get those recordings.

Hi,
I made what I THOUGHT was an hourly clock with different sounds for each hour (12 hour format, so 12 different sounds), and an alarm sound. But yet, it classified this as a simple clock. What am I doing wrong? They're labelled 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, etc.
Thanks

Val is working very very well on my iPhone and my mac. Have had zero problems with either one thus far. Very nice work. Also have to give a shout out to all the clock audio compilers and creators out there. Its cool to have all the old hardware clocks archived, but what is really cool is how some of you have found such creative ways to announce the time. My most congratulations to the author of the "Piano major and Minor" packs. Those are really over the top creatively. Thanks too all.

Kevin

Wow, this is awesome! I'm thinking about ordering this. I have some questions though.
1. How can you find different clocks and alarm sounds to add/import?
2. Can you import your own sound effeccts into the app and use them as alarm sounds, and if so, how?
3. Can timers and alarms have different sounds? For instance, with alarms, let's say you have one for waking up in the morning and/or a nap, and then you have another one for say taking meds at a certain time. Is this possible, even if it's in one clock? For timers, let's say you are making 2 different things in the air fryer Can you have 2 timers so sound different, even in the same clock?

Hello there. I know I'm rather late to the party, but I found out about your awesome chiming clock app when I heard about it from a certain blind youTuber. I have to tell you, I'm loving it! And as I'm typing this, the colonial westminster clock was chiming the half hour. I'm still rather nervous about adding new chiming clocks, mainly because I'm not sure where to find some. Anyway, to conclude, this is a great app. I'm excited to see what new features are coming next. Keep up the great work!

First of all.... I've been loving this app.
Second.... I splurged for my birthday and got myself a clock commissioned which I'm going to be uploading for the community. It's a British female voice in a studio setup, akin to the talking clocks of old but the recordings were made specifically for the app. I found her on voice123 and she's doing the recording today.
I am having a lot of files made, separate files for hours and minutes for example, and so it'll be ready when you release the really huge method that allows for hours and minutes files.
I'm also going to do a male clock for the community.
Stay tuned and I'll upload them soon!

maybe digital clock?
I didn't get a quarter past, half past or quarter to recorded because I was paying by the word and that's not the type of talking clock I personally like in English haha.
It's delayed because my sound editor can't get to splitting all the files until sunday.

I have another question. Forgive me if I asked this already. But, I was kinda tired last night when I was browsing. :-) ;-)
My question is how can I find clocks? I will say that I'm excited for the community library! Because, that will make it easier, and more fun! :-) ;-)

Can Someone link the clocks on mastadon here? I can't wait for my perfect clock.... I've had the image of my perfect iPhone talking clock in my head for so many years and I'm so glad this software can make it a reality.

Finally got around to installing on MacOS.
BUg. In the first setup window where you pick clocks. if you try to play audio while other audio is playing, it will crash the app on mac. seems to work fine on iPhone.

I hit several crashes on mac.
1. trying to play audio while other things are playing.
2. switching the global keystroke on and off.
3. Honestly.... it crashed and I'm not sure why.

I’m just using the very latest staple build of macOS 26. Using headphones with my 3.5.mm jack plugged into my M1 Max MacBook Pro that handles everything. I’ve had this thing for 4 years and it’s been reliable as rain.

this app is awesome for what I’ve been hearing about it. Would love to test it out myself but I don’t have cash on my Apple account

Hello!
Here's a talking clock for the community. I commissioned this since my dream has always been to have a professional, british female clock on the iPhone, just like the talking watches of old.
The woman who voiced this for me has appeared on several commercials in the U.K., and was willing to give me a cut price rate on this since she wanted to help us out as well.
Please don't misuse this.
I have a lot more files, it's currently set up for the way the clock works now but I have about an extra 60 files that we're not using but I'll add in when the really huge method gets updated.
I stole the hour1 and hour2 files from the original clock.
Again, I worked with her on this and have permission to post this.
voiced by Megan Liberty Edmunds
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tcrgk9gh4t9vnfog0f48x/Megan-Liberty-Edmunds.zip?rlkey=ryxmwyrudfo1tpjo8dd6nhe1d&raw=1
I hope you all enjoy. this is my dream clock.