Flip clock vs desk clock: which one rings?
No — Horologe isn't a flip-clock screensaver, and a screensaver isn't a clock that rings: Horologe is $5.99, paid once; Fliqlo is free. They do different jobs, and the right one depends on which job you want done.
The Horologe specification, in prose: four faces — Mantel, Station, Chronometer, Nocturne; five bells — Westminster, Whittington, Ship's Bell, Temple Bowl, Grandfather; the quarters on or off, and the hour counted out either way; quiet hours silent from 10pm to 8am; a right-click on the menu-bar bell to mute. About three and a half megabytes, macOS 15 or later, on the Mac App Store.
What Fliqlo is
Fliqlo is a flip-clock screensaver for macOS and Windows: large white numerals on a black background, with 12- and 24-hour formats, landscape or portrait, a dim control, optional flaps, and a size control. The macOS version is 1.9.5, requires macOS 14 or later, and costs $0.00. It's a screensaver, so it appears when the screen idles rather than sitting on the desktop while you work.
Its feature list is visual, and that's the point. It's a beautiful thing to leave on a screen you aren't using. If that's what you want, it's free and it's very good at it.
What a screensaver can't do
A screensaver is asleep until the screen idles. It can't mark the hour while you're working, because it isn't there while you're working. And Fliqlo's page lists no chime or sound at all; the feature list is entirely visual. If you want a large flip clock for the moments you step away, that's a fair choice. If you want the hour to arrive while you're at the desk, you need something that stays visible.
What Horologe does differently
Horologe is a window at desktop level: in front of the wallpaper, behind your windows, never taking focus. It stays there while you work, so the hour can arrive without you opening anything. It can be dragged and resized, and it rings — the quarters if you want them, the hour counted out either way. The bells are computed, not recorded, so no two strikes are exactly alike.
It isn't a screensaver and it isn't a replacement for one. You can run both: Fliqlo for the idle screen, Horologe for the desk. They don't fight.
Which to choose
If you want a flip clock on an idle screen, Fliqlo is free and does that job better than a desk clock would. If you want a clock that rings the hour while you work, Horologe is $5.99 once. The limits, in the same size type: no alarms, no timers, no world clocks, no ticking, and it can ring during a call.
Horologe is $5.99 once. For the wider question of where a clock should sit, read desktop widgets and the clock that isn't one and what to look for in a desktop clock. If the menu bar is more your surface, the menu bar clock and the clock behind it is the other side of the argument.
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