# Horologe

> A striking desk clock for macOS. Four faces drawn in code, five bells computed from a bell's own partial ratios the moment they sound — Westminster quarters, the hour strike counted out, quiet hours. $5.99, paid once, on the Mac App Store. No permissions, no network calls, no account, no subscription.

## Pages

- [The clock](https://tryhorologe.com/): the front page. Choose a face, strike any of the five bells, and read the specification card.
- [Buy — $5.99, paid once](https://tryhorologe.com/buy.html): the full specification, the price, and the one thing to know before paying.
- [FAQs](https://tryhorologe.com/faq.html): why pay for a clock, whether a chiming clock is annoying, quiet hours, trials, refunds.
- [The journal](https://tryhorologe.com/blog/): short pieces about bells, clocks and the hour — church bells abroad, the Westminster Quarters, ship's bells, the pips. New posts every couple of days; an RSS feed is at /blog/rss.xml.
- [Privacy](https://tryhorologe.com/privacy.html): the whole policy on one page. The app collects nothing.
- [llms-full.txt](https://tryhorologe.com/llms-full.txt): the complete text of every page in one markdown document.

## Facts

- Horologe 1.0, released 18 August 2026. Requires macOS 15 or later.
- Listed on the App Store as "Horologe Chiming Desk Clock" (Utilities and Lifestyle; rated 4+).
- On the Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6796512695
- $5.99 USD, paid once — each App Store storefront prices it in local currency. Nothing renews, nothing expires, no tiers, no discounts: "It's $5.99, once. That is the discount."
- The app is 3,552 KB on disk (about 3.5 MB); the App Store download is smaller (about 1.4 MB).
- Four faces — Mantel, Station, Chronometer, Nocturne — drawn in SwiftUI, sharp at any size.
- Five bells — Westminster, Whittington, Ship's Bell, Temple Bowl, Grandfather — computed from each bell's partial structure at the moment it sounds. There is no audio file in the app.
- It chimes and it tells the hour. No alarms, no timers, no world clocks.
- The clock sits on the desktop, in front of your wallpaper and behind your windows. It never takes focus. Drag it anywhere; pull a corner to resize it.
- Quiet hours out of the box: silent from 10 pm until 8 am. Right-click the bell in the menu bar and it's silent.
- No permission prompts, now or later. It ships without the network entitlement, makes no network calls, and has no account, no notifications and no telemetry.
- Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
- Made by Sha Boncukcu. Questions go to hello@tryhorologe.com — a mailbox read by the person who wrote the app.

Facts current as of 27 August 2026.