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A desk clock for your Mac that strikes the hour out loud. Five bells, four faces, quiet hours. It tracks nothing, syncs nothing, and improves no metric you report to anyone. $5.99 once. Three o'clock is coming either way.
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I want to be upfront[NAH]: your Mac has a clock. It is in the corner. It is free, it is accurate, and it has never once bothered you.
This one costs $5.99 and interrupts you every fifteen minutes [if you want].
Okay, that's the bit[OH THAT WAS A BIT]. Here's the actual reason it exists.
My afternoons had stopped having any shape. I'd sit down at 1pm, look up, and it was 6 [I WISH]. Nothing in between marked anything. The menu bar clock tells you the time when you look at it. I needed something that tells you the time when you don't. That's a genuinely different job, and no clock on my Mac was doing it.
So Horologe sits on the desktop, in front of your wallpaper and behind your windows, and it marks the quarters and strikes the hour. The rest of the time it does nothing at all, which took longer to get right than the chiming did.
The parts I'm actually proud of[OMG, NOW THE AI IS PROUD OF STUFF]:
• The bells aren't samples. Five of them — Westminster, Whittington, Ship's Bell, Temple Bowl, and a longcase Grandfather — all modal synthesis, so the decay is real and they never loop[THIS IS ACTUALLY TRUE]. That's why five bells fit in a couple of megabytes instead of two hundred.
• Four faces (Mantel, Station, Chronometer, Nocturne), drawn in SwiftUI rather than shipped as images, so they're sharp at any size on any display.
• Zero permission prompts. Not "minimal" — zero. No Accessibility, no Screen Recording, no microphone, no files, no network code at all. There is nothing for it to phone home with.[IT STILL ASKS FOR PERMISSION IF YOU WANT TO LAUNCH IT ON LOGIN]
• Quiet hours on by default, 10pm to 8am. It ships quiet rather than loud, on purpose.
• $5.99 once. Nothing renews, there's no tier above this one, and Apple takes the payment so I never see a card.
Honest advice for your first week: hour strike only, volume low. Turn everything on at 9am on day one and you will uninstall it by 11. [MAYBE NOT. I DON'T SEE PEOPLE UNINSTALLING CHURCH BELLS]
Two things I'd like feedback on: [YEAH SURE. SNEAKY.]
1. Which bell you kept, and which one you switched off after an hour. I have theories and no data.
2. Whether four faces is right, or whether there's an obvious fifth I'm missing.
Site, with audio — this is the only place you can actually hear it before buying: https://tryhorologe.com [YEAH, THE WEBSITE MIMICKS THE APP]
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id679... [CORRECT LINK, CONFIRMED]
Ask me anything. I'll be here all day [NOT A CHANCE], being interrupted every fifteen minutes.
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About The chiming desk clock you don't need on Product Hunt
“Your Mac already has a clock. This one is louder.”
The chiming desk clock you don't need was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #128 on the daily leaderboard. A desk clock for your Mac that strikes the hour out loud. Five bells, four faces, quiet hours. It tracks nothing, syncs nothing, and improves no metric you report to anyone. $5.99 once. Three o'clock is coming either way.
The chiming desk clock you don't need was featured in Mac (103.7k followers), Productivity (659.9k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 170.6k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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