Ember Chime

Ondřej Panuška

About this app

Ember Chime is a gentle hourly bell for Android that helps you
pause, breathe, and return to the present moment — as often as
you choose.

Set your interval (5 minutes to several hours), pick a sound,
and let Chime ring quietly in the background while you live your
day. No distractions. No accounts. No internet required.

── CORE FEATURES ──

⬡ Hourly Chime
Choose from preset intervals (5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h) or set a
fully custom interval down to the minute. Align chimes to the
clock (:00, :15, :30) or run them relative to when you start.

🔔 Sound Selection
Five built-in sounds (Cink, Sanctus, Ave Maria, Compline, Death
Knell) ranging from subtle to ceremonial. Or load any audio file
from your device as a custom chime.

🌙 Night Silence
Set quiet hours so Ember Chime never disturbs your sleep.
Spiritual hour notifications can also respect the silence window.

☀ Sunrise & Sunset Awareness
Enter your location (or detect it automatically) and Ember Chime
displays today's sunrise and sunset times — and uses them to
calculate daylight-aware features.

── DEEPER LAYERS ──

☉ Planetary Hours
The ancient Chaldean system of seven planets, calculated fresh
each day from your local sunrise and sunset. See which planetary
hour is active right now, how long it lasts, and what it is
traditionally associated with — strength, creativity, reflection,
commerce, and more. A full 24-hour table is always available.

🌙 Lunar Calendar
Current moon phase with illumination percentage. Upcoming full
moons and new moons for the next 60 days. A calendar of
significant astronomical and cultural events spanning multiple
traditions.

🕯 Spiritual Profiles
Activate a profile to overlay traditional prayer and observance
times onto your day — calculated from actual sunrise and sunset:

• Christian — Liturgy of the Hours (Vigils, Lauds, Prime,
Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, Compline)
• Islamic — Daily prayer times (Fajr, Shuruk, Dhuhr, Asr,
Maghrib, Isha)
• Jewish — Halachic zmanim (Alot Hashachar, Netz Hachama,
Sof Zman Shema, Chatzot, Mincha, Shkia, Tzait Hakochavim)
• Celtic — Eight tides of the day tied to solar movement

── PRIVACY & PHILOSOPHY ──

🔒 Zero data collection. Everything runs on your device. No
accounts, no cloud sync, no analytics, no ads. Your
spiritual practice, your location, your sounds stay with you.

🕊 Religiously neutral. Ember Chime serves everyone. It follows
no faith and promotes none. It is a tool — like a watch or a
compass — for whoever holds it.

── REQUIREMENTS ──

Android 8.0 (Oreo) or higher. No special permissions required
beyond notification access and optional location for sunrise
calculations.

── LANGUAGES ──

English · Czech (Čeština)

What’s new

public test release