Tinny(not)
What it does
Tinny(not) is an hourly chime and speaking clock for iPhone. It sounds the hour from your lock screen, with the app closed, using one of 14 built-in sounds, a voice that speaks the time aloud, or words you write yourself. Pick your hours, pick your days, pick whether it marks every hour, every half hour, or every quarter.
Free to use. If you want the extras, a single optional purchase unlocks them, once. No subscription, no advertising, and it collects no data whatsoever. The name is a joke about the one thing people feared it would sound like: it is Tinny, and it is not tinny.
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Features
Chimes from the lock screen
Set your hours and days once. Chimes fire with the app closed and the phone locked, because they are scheduled with iOS through Apple's UserNotifications framework rather than played by a running app.
Speaking clock
Hear the time spoken instead of chimed, in any speech voice installed on your iPhone, in your language and your 12 or 24 hour format. Generated on the device.
14 sounds, or your own
Fourteen built-in chimes, from soft bells to a public address pip. Import up to 3 of your own recordings in .wav, .caf or .aiff, each up to 30 seconds.
A sound per quarter
Every hour, half hour or quarter. Give :00, :15, :30 and :45 each their own sound, or silence one of them entirely, and know the quarter without looking.
Your own words
Replace the time with your own text, like "Take your pills" or "Stretch break". With the speaking clock selected, the app reads your message aloud.
Works with VoiceOver
The main controls carry VoiceOver labels and announce their state. We test with VoiceOver and fix what we find.
Nothing collected
No analytics, no accounts, no advertising, and no network code of its own. The app has no servers to send anything to. Free to use; the optional upgrade is a one-time purchase, with no subscription.
The sounds
Each sound has a name and a short description, so you know what you are picking before you pick it.
Free: Chalet (cuckoo clock), Dot (beeper), Kyoto (buddha bowl), Linden (wind chimes), Parlour (call bell).
Included in the optional one-time purchase: Belfry (striking clock, Westminster and Big Ben style), Courant, Dorje (Tibetan bell), Helm (ship's bell), Meridian (time signal pips), Ohm (singing bowl), Pendulum (grandfather clock, Westminster and Big Ben style), Quai (public announcement), Vesper (bell), and the Speaking Clock, which says the time in any voice installed on your iPhone.
You can also import up to three recordings of your own and swap them for others whenever you like.
Reviews
"Thanks for the awesome app. The available sounds are really good and I like that you can add your own too."
App Store review
"Thank you for this app, which works quite well overall, particularly thanks to the alarm volume being perfectly audible."
AppleVis review
Free, with optional extras
Free, with no time limit: hourly chimes for any hours you choose, every day, with 5 of the built-in sounds.
Optional one-time purchase: all 14 sounds, the speaking clock with voice choice, custom notification text, 15 and 30 minute intervals with a separate sound per mark, custom day-by-day scheduling (not just weekdays or weekends), and importing your own audio. No subscription, no ads, nothing recurring.
Available in English, German, Italian, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Russian and French.
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
Start hearing your hours
Pick your sound, set your hours, and let the day announce itself.