Side of the board • A new clock layout for a phone lying beside the board, like a club clock. Both times face the same edge, so each player can read both • Each player still taps the half at their own end • Choose it from the new Layout button on the clock, before or after a game. Swap sides moves White's half to the other end • Free, and the app remembers it. Face to face stays the default

Clock sounds • A click on every move, a double tick at 10 seconds, a triple tick at 5, and a sound when a flag falls • On from the start, and heard even with your phone on silent. The speaker button on the clock turns them off • Music playing in other apps keeps going underneath • Low-time warnings now play once as you cross 10 and 5 seconds, not again at the start of every turn Rivalry Cards • After a game between two named players, share your series score as a card: from the finished clock, the game's page or your head-to-head • Each card shows when you played, and where: a club game starts with its venue, or add a place yourself • The picture is free. Pro adds a four-second video and a transparent sticker in three styles, sized for Stories Everything else is as it was. No account, no ads.

Steadier, under the hood • Pausing just as a flag falls now records the loss on time, instead of losing the game • Club screens say what actually went wrong (offline, iCloud busy, or an error number) and which step failed • Big clubs load their full member list, results and RSVPs • The club ladder still shows when your own games haven't been sent yet • A club whose publishing didn't finish can be published again • Nearby sync stays between the two phones that paired, and tells you if received games couldn't be saved • If your saved games ever can't be opened, the app starts fresh, keeps the old data aside and points you to your backup, instead of failing to start

Chess Clock in your language • The whole app is translated into 43 languages, with chess terms the way players in each country say them • Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu read right to left, and time controls and results are still written the way chess writes them • Numbers, dates and times follow your phone's settings, including its choice of digits • A new game starts once both players are named, so every game lands on your scoresheet No account, no ads.

Back up your scoresheet • Export everything the app holds to one file: your games with their move times, your profile, friends and clubs • Restore it on a new phone, or after a reinstall, and your record comes back • Every backup is encrypted with a password you choose. Without that password nobody can open the file: not you, not us, not Apple. Let your phone save it to Passwords • A restore only adds. It never removes or overwrites what is already on the phone, and importing the same file twice changes nothing • Before anything is written, the app shows you what the file would add Three more themes • Blossom, Iris and Coral join Tournament, Ocean and Midnight (Pro) • Every theme is now held to a contrast check in light and dark, so the countdown stays legible whichever you pick Everything else is as it was: clubs, US and Bronstein delay, tournament stages, move-by-move timelines, and nearby opponents. No account, no ads.

New here? A quick setup • The first time you open the app it asks your name, the time controls you play, and whether you play at a club. Only the name is required. It stays on your phone unless you join a club or play someone nearby • Then New Game opens with your favorites ready Quick start, your way • Pin the controls you always play to the front of the Quick start row: press and hold any control on New Game • Pinned controls stay put. Recent ones fill in after them Finding a club • When a search comes up empty, the app now says if a matching club exists but was published less than a day ago • When a club code can't be looked up, the app says whether the club is gone or iCloud had a problem, and gives the error number • A club appears in search a day after its owner publishes it. The app used to say "a day after it's created", which was wrong Everything else is as it was: clubs, US and Bronstein delay, tournament stages, move-by-move timelines, and nearby opponents. No account, no ads.

**Every screen, both players** • The two halves of the clock now match. Black's color runs all the way to the edges of the screen, the way White's always has (iOS 26 and later) • iPhone Duo: both halves are the same size on the cover screen, and the digits grow on the larger inner screen • iPad: the clock's digits are sized to the screen now, not to an iPhone **Finding a club** • Search waits until you pause typing, then asks once • When a search fails, the app says so and offers Try Again, and it only blames your connection when it really is your connection • Just made a club? It appears in search a day later. Until then, people can join with its club code Everything else is as it was: clubs, US and Bronstein delay, tournament stages, move-by-move timelines, and nearby opponents. No account, no ads.

**Small one** • After your third finished game, the app asks once whether you'd leave an App Store review — a moment after the result shows, never over a sheet, never mid-game, never again • Discarded games and games synced from another phone don't count toward it Everything else is the 1.3 release: clubs, US and Bronstein delay, tournament stages, move-by-move timelines, and nearby opponents. No account, no ads.

Chess Clock now gives your chess group a home, and the clock itself got a serious upgrade. **Clubs** • Create a club and publish it; members join by name search or by scanning its QR code, with owner approval • A results table that fills in as members play, with continuous Elo ratings • Club nights with RSVP, a looking-for-a-game signal, and shareable recaps • Member directory, activity feed, and moderation tools for owners and admins • Report, block, and delete-my-club-data all live in the app **The clock** • US delay and Bronstein delay alongside Fischer increment • Tournament stages ("after 40 moves, add 30 minutes") with a live countdown on the clock • Your last three controls as quick-start chips, and named saved controls • Low-time warnings scale to the control, with distinct haptics at each handoff, at ten seconds and at five • While a game is running, the strip is Pause only — end, restart and discard wait behind a deliberate pause • A paused game survives locking the phone (both times on the Lock Screen) and quitting the app **Every game, move by move** • Tap any recorded game for its move-time timeline: how long each move took for both sides, with stage boundaries marked (Pro) **Playing people** • Nearby phones find each other on the New Game screen — pick an opponent from friends, recent opponents, clubmates and nearby players instead of typing a name • Time-odds suggestions when two rated players sit down together **Also** • A proper first-run: set up your profile inline on the New Game screen • Interruptions pause the clock; the screen stays awake while a game runs No account, no ads. Clubs use your iCloud sign-in; the scoresheet stays on your phone.