"Five bells, one desk: choosing your chime"
Westminster, Whittington, Ship's Bell, Temple Bowl, Grandfather: what each chime sounds like, and which to start with. Horologe is $5.99 once.
Bells, clocks, and the hour
Short pieces about the sounds that tell the time — church bells abroad, the Westminster Quarters, ship's bells, the pips — and the desk clock that strikes them on a Mac. New posts every couple of days.
"No subscription: what a one-time price buys"
Horologe is $5.99, paid once. Why there's no subscription — no account, no sync, no server to pay for — and what happens if the maker vanishes.
What does Horologe cost? $5.99, once
Horologe costs $5.99, paid once — what that buys, why there's no subscription and no tier above it, and how refunds work. One page, one minute.
Are chiming clocks annoying? An honest answer
A chiming clock can be annoying. Horologe is built so it doesn't have to be — decay instead of samples, everything optional, quiet hours. $5.99 once.
Why pay for a clock your Mac already has?
The Mac's clock is a readout you have to look at. Horologe is an object that keeps the hour on its own — and it's $5.99, paid once.
A desktop clock for your Mac: what to look for
What to look for in a desktop clock for the Mac: face design, size, layering, whether it can chime and be silenced, and a one-time price.
The Mac menu bar clock, and the clock behind it
The menu bar clock is macOS's own. Horologe is a desk clock you can see without looking, with a menu-bar bell to hush it. $5.99 once, macOS 15+.
A mantel clock app without the mantel
Horologe's Mantel face is a brass bezel, cream enamel and blued hands on your Mac — a mantel clock without the shelf. $5.99 once, five bells.
Mac desktop clock widgets: a clock, not a widget
macOS desktop widgets are a glance; Horologe is a desk clock that rings on its own. What widgets do, and why this isn't one. $5.99 once, macOS 15+.
Church bells on your Mac, on the hour
A church bell on your Mac: the hour counted, the quarters optional, silent 10pm–8am. Westminster and Whittington are the tower bells. $5.99 once.
A clock that chimes every fifteen minutes
Horologe can chime every fifteen minutes: the quarters on, the hour counted, and one setting to turn them off. Two bells do quarters. $5.99 once.
A grandfather clock for your Mac
Horologe's Grandfather voice is one deep tolling strike for each hour — the sound of a longcase clock without the furniture. $5.99 once.
Mac clock with sound: ticking, speaking, chiming
Three kinds of sound a Mac clock can make: a tick, a spoken time, a chiming bell. Horologe is the third — $5.99 once, four faces, five bells.
A Westminster chime for your Mac
Horologe is a Westminster chime app for the Mac: the real four-note quarters, the counted hour, quiet hours at night. $5.99 once, macOS 15+.
An hourly bell for your Mac
Horologe rings an hourly bell on your Mac — counted strikes on the hour, quarters optional, quiet hours nightly. $5.99 once, no subscription.
A chiming clock app for the Mac
Horologe is a chiming clock app for macOS: four faces, five bells, quarters or the counted hour. $5.99 once, limits stated plainly.
The grandfather clock at your grandmother's house
A grandfather clock is two clocks in one case: one keeps the time, one counts the hour. How the weights, pendulum and strike train do it, and why it stays.
Westminster Quarters: the notes and changes
The Westminster Quarters are the four-note chime played every quarter hour. The five changes, the notes, and how to tell where you are in the hour.
How to hear Big Ben on your Mac
Big Ben is the bell, not the tower. Hear it from your desk — live on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, in recordings, or struck hourly by a desk clock.
Westminster chime sounds: why the free ones loop
A free Westminster chime mp3 is one recorded stroke on repeat. Why the seam always shows, and what a bell computed the moment it sounds does instead.
How Horologe's bells are computed, not recorded
None of Horologe's five bells is a recording. Each strike is computed the moment it sounds, from the bell's own partials. Two bells to strike yourself.
How to make your Mac chime every hour
Your Mac can chime every hour. What macOS offers, and what a chiming clock adds: counted bell strikes, real decay, quiet hours, one-click mute.
Missing church bells? Take the hour with you
You moved somewhere the hour passes silently, and something feels off. What the bells were doing for you, and how to keep them wherever you live.
What is a horologe? Meaning and pronunciation
A horologe is a timepiece — any instrument that tells the hour. The word's meaning, where it comes from, and why a chiming desk clock for Mac took it.