# HourMate - Hourly Chime & Time Reminder for Keeping Track of Your Precious Hours

> Utilities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id647679676](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id647679676)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id647679676`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Daniel V.W
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 3.10 / 5 (46 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4.3
- **Last updated:** 2016-08-14
- **First published:** 2013-05-24
- **Size:** 14 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hourmate-hourly-chime-time-reminder-for-keeping-track/id647679676)
- **Website:** [http://hourmate.katalislabs.com](http://hourmate.katalislabs.com/)

## Description

This app gives you hourly chimes to remind you about how fast the time is going. Don't lose track of your precious time!

***** "A simple reminder just to let you know, it's time to refocus and get back on track." - Do I? (Canada)

Features:
• Beautifully, elegantly, & automatically tells the time at each hour (1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, and so on).
• Choose between beep sounds or human voices as the alerts sound. The human voices tells you the hour!
• Set on/off for each hour. So it's up to you if you don't want to be disturbed on your sleeping time, or if you want HourMate to alert you in every 2, 3, or 6 hours.
• The alerts also come along with random quotes, sayings, and wisdom words about the Time.
• Unlock the Premium Quotes and get thousands of inspiring quotes from various topics.
• You can even modify those quotes into your own personal reminder. For example:
* Lunch time reminder at 12PM
* Take medicine at 8AM, 2PM, and 8PM
* Sleep time at 11PM
* Call your loved one at 9PM
* And any kind of reminder (that you cannot put in the Calendar app).

And the best thing is, it's FREE!

New feature!
• HourMate can also repeatedly remind you about something when you're leaving your current location. It's called Outbound Reminder. Unlock it through in-app purchase.

How to use this app:
1. Open HourMate, make sure the big red button is switched on and allow HourMate to make some notifications and access your location when asked. Don't worry, we promise WE WILL NOT RECORD YOUR DATA in any way. 
2. Close the app.
3. Done! HourMate will hourly tell you the time.

***** "Has the features other apps don't. Works wonderfully, even with no app in the background! Perfect for what i needed." - S.LionHeart (USA)

***** "I simply wanted something to beep at me hourly during the day to remind me to get up from my desk and MOVE! I even fully closed the app so it wasn't open in the background and it STILL beeped for me on the hour." - tra548 (USA)

## Rankings

- #209,784 — Overall

## Review summary

Core feature is hourly time announcements, often with inspirational quotes and a background mode. However, recurring complaints center on mandatory location access/privacy, reliability issues after updates, problematic purchases/restores, and battery drain.

### Pros

- Hourly time announcements/chimes.
- Inspirational quotes included in the app.
- Background operation so it can chime without opening the app.
- On/off switch to easily disable reminders.

### Cons

- Requires always-on location access and raises privacy concerns.
- Reliability issues after updates: crashes, not chiming, or not opening.
- Upgrade/restore purchases can fail and support may be unresponsive.
- Battery drain on iPhone and Apple Watch.
- Inconsistent performance across devices/versions.

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