Carillon Repetition Minute
Hourly Chime & Quarter Bells
Free · In‑App Purchases
Carillon marks the quarter hours, the way a carillon watch complication does.
At :15, :30 and :45 a short chime. On the hour, the hour is struck. It runs by itself through the hours you choose - no alarms to set, no notification to dismiss, no screen to unlock. You don't use it. You live inside it, and after a few days you find you always know roughly what time it is without having reached for anything.
DISCREET BY DESIGN
The chimes are quiet and sound like an ordinary notification. Nobody around you looks up, and you never have to explain why your phone rings like a bell tower. It plays at your ringer volume, like any notification, and respects silent mode and Focus automatically.
HOURS YOU CAN ACTUALLY COUNT
Eleven identical strikes are impossible to count. Carillon groups them in fives, with a pause between groups - so eleven arrives as five, five, one. You hear the shape rather than counting the blows. The same grouping applies to the minutes, where counting fourteen chimes would otherwise be hopeless.
THE FULL REPETITION, ON DEMAND
Press the dial and the exact time is struck: the hour, then the quarters, then the minutes past the quarter - the acoustic time-telling of a minute repeater watch. Useful in the dark, in a meeting, while driving, or whenever looking at a screen would be rude or impossible.
WHO IT IS FOR
- Anyone who loses hours without noticing, and wants time to pass audibly
- People who find a gentle bell less jarring than an alarm
- Blind and low-vision users who want the time discreetly, without a screen reader announcing it to the room
- Anyone who likes bells
SET IT AND FORGET IT
Choose the hours it chimes and leave it. It keeps chiming after a restart without ever being opened.
FREE VERSION AND FULL VERSION
The app is free to install and chimes through the day, with fixed quiet hours overnight. The one-time Full Version Unlock adds flexible night settings and a quarter-hour journal: tap the notification when a quarter chimes and note what you did in the last fifteen minutes. Your journal stays on your phone and is never sent to us, yet you can copy or share it anywhere, for example to the AI assistant of your choice, for analysis and feedback. Quarter after quarter, you build the habit of recalling what you actually accomplished, the very heart of time management. One payment, no subscription.
Recordings are made from a real bell. No account, no subscription, no tracking, no advertising.
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Fixes an extra default notification sound that could be heard a few seconds before some chimes, left over from an older version.
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Information
- Seller
- VARIANCE VEGA - FZCO
- Size
- 2 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full Version Unlock $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2024 Swandex