Belfry: Hourly Chime & Bells

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About this app

Hear the hour. Belfry turns your phone into a bell tower that rings real bells and chimes on the hour and the half hour, with Westminster chimes, a grandfather clock, gongs, singing bowls and a full set of prayer bells.

Every hour, a bell. It's counted out the way a real tower counts it: one stroke for one o'clock, twelve for midnight, at a pace that suits the bell that is ringing. Set it once and leave it. The hourly chime finds you whether the app is open, closed, or the phone has been in your pocket since breakfast.

★ HOURLY CHIME AND HALF-HOUR BELLS
• Ring on the hour and the half hour
• Westminster chimes (the famous Big Ben chime) or a full count of the hour
• Quiet hours and weekdays-only, so nothing rings while you sleep or work
• A gentle hourly reminder to look up, breathe and get back to what matters

★ BELL SOUNDS, EACH WITH ITS OWN VOICE
Church bells, monastery bells, a deep tower bell, a bright brass ship's bell, gongs, singing bowls, wind chimes and a Westminster grandfather clock. Each bell carries the full set of overtones a real bell voice is built from (the hum, the strike, the tierce, the quint), so it keeps ringing after the stroke instead of stopping dead.

★ PRAYER BELLS AND MINDFUL BELLS
• Traditional: the eight canonical hours, Matins to Compline. Free, always.
• The Angelus and Rosary: morning, noon and evening
• The Five Prayers: Fajr to Isha, worked out from your own sunrise and sunset. A quiet bell marks the time; it is never a call to prayer.
• Shabbat and the Hours: candle lighting and Havdalah for your location
• Chakra Bells: seven tones through the day
• Soft Singing Bowls: a mindfulness bell for meditation, yoga, study and focus
• Grandfather Clock: Westminster chimes, quarters and all
• Island Time: slower, warmer, further south

★ BELL ALARM CLOCK
Wake to a bell instead of a ringtone. The alarm opens over your lock screen with big Snooze and Stop buttons, and it has its own sound and its own volume.

★ PLAYS ALONGSIDE YOUR MUSIC AND VIDEOS
Bells ring over YouTube, Spotify and podcasts without stopping them, with their own volume slider. Phone calls are never interrupted.

★ IT DOES NOT MISS AN HOUR
The hour is handed to the system clock, not a timer inside the app. It keeps working after the app is closed or swiped away, and it re-arms itself after a reboot, an update or a time-zone change. If the phone goes to sleep mid-chime, the chime finishes.

★ YOUR OWN SKY
The tower stands under the real sky for where you are: sunrise, dusk, the moon in its true phase, and the weather if you want it.

★ A TOWER TO EXPLORE
There is more here than a bell clock, and it's not behind a menu or a purchase. Tap the tower, be patient, and the belfry will show you the way in: a bellfounder, a cat who rings the bells, a workshop where bells are cast, seasons, visitors and hidden prizes.

Free to use with several bells. One lifetime unlock opens every bell sound for good. No subscription, no ads, no account, and no data collected.

Belfry: bells, chimes and a bell tower clock for anyone who would rather hear the time than check it.

What’s new

Rebuilt bell sound engine for clean, click-free, static-free ringing.
- Bells are loudness-matched so no sound is too loud or too quiet.
- First strikes ring on time, even right after install.
- Bells blend with music and other apps and step aside for calls.
- Prayers keep playing when you close menus or leave the app.
- Fewer notifications: only the alarm notifies you.