Chess Clock

LR Studios

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

This game clock can be used for most two-player games, like Chess, Go game (Weiqi, Baduk), Checkers, Shogi, Othello, Backgammon, ...

The design is kept simple and minimalistic, to let you see clearly the player times.

Features:

- Handle 7 different time systems (listed below)
- Undo any number of moves
- Sound warnings
- Restore the clock (if you accidentally close it or want to resume it later)
- Edit player times or change settings while playing
- Display the clock vertically or horizontally
- Several text fonts available
- Optimized for both phones and tablets

Time systems available:

- Fischer
- Sudden death
- Sudden death + additional time (for example, 30 min + 15 min after 40 moves)
- Japanese Byo-yomi
- Canadian overtime
- Hourglass
- Bronstein

Game specific features:
- For Go players: on Canadian overtime, automatically pauses the clock to let you take your stones

Ratings and reviews

the app is great because it lets you set clock for any intellectual game, be that chess, go, shogi, xiangqi. however, it still lacks two very important features: 1. option to select yourown sound for timer set off, 2. it's bad that timer starts immediately. it should first show the stopped clock (with all setup made before) and only when a player presses his own button for the first time, the timer should start. when you play blitz, every second is valuable!

Missing two key features: Clock should be ready, and only start when a player taps. This is how actual clocks start a game. A maximum time should be available for fischer time. E.g. two minutes main, ten seconds increment, five minutes max.

It's not possible to set different starting times of players. Apart from that works fine, even if it doesn't offer much visual candies

What's new

- Bugfixes and performance improvements