A really nice timer for casual games with your friends. I like the ability to save your own preset times, so you can play your favorite time easily. A great alternative to an analog or electric chess timer. I would definitely pay money for this app. The only thing I would have liked to see is a sound cue for the end of the game. Overall, a very solid chess timer.

5 years ago, gcbiggie64

Awesome

What a fantastic timer. Sometimes you find yourself playing real chess but don’t have a clock on hand. This fantastic app has many of the time options of a real check clock. The button size and readability is very good. The sound effects give it a real visceral feel of hitting a clock! Would be cool to add a vibrate when hit button too.

4 years ago, Walksslow

Great for Backgammon Too!

I wanted an app for playing backgammon, and this one fits the bill VERY nicely! Use is intuitive (although it took me a bit to figure how to program delays). Automatic pause feature upon interruption is an obvious nice touch for a clock that is connected to your mobile phone. Manual pause feature works well to manage game interruptions. Two additions I’d like to see: 1. A useful help/programming guide. 2. Visual countdown of the delay period. As it stands now, clock doesn’t begin counting down until full delay period has expired, then clock displays count down of reserve time consumed. A great little app for backgammon or chess players. Highly recommended!

3 years ago, Per4mnce

Excellent and easy to use chess timer

A simple and intuitive user interface that works well. Some nice options for more advanced use. Totally free and no annoying advertisements. Tested on my iPad and iPhone using most recent IOS version. Thank you developers!

4 years ago, Flambeau400

Great Clock!

Great clock with a lot of nice features. One small bug. Once you’ve made a time change in the Edit function of Settings, there’s no option to cancel. There are only two choices. Both options, “ Show more

4 years ago, The only Ninthwonder

Perfect chess timer

This chess timer app is perfect for almost all situations. They have some pre set options, but they also allow you to customize your clocks for different variations. Easy on use, customize and great on battery life. Perfect easy chess clock for planned or unplanned games!!!

6 years ago, SharanKC

Pretty Good

This is what I’ve been looking for. I really didn’t want to spend $25-$30 on a digital chess clock and this serves as a perfect alternative. I tried a couple of time settings (30 min and 15-10 split). It worked as expected. Thanks for this app.!! 👍🏻

6 years ago, bruce.hammerlee

Missing one feature

Great app and the price is right. One tweak would make it even better for Tournament Scrabble, which allows 25 minutes per player, then imposed a 10 point penalty for every minute (or fraction) they go over. The option to count up after counting down to 0:00 would be great.

4 years ago, Dissatisfied user 8897

Only blitz games?

I can’t figure out how to make the clock reset after each turn, it just pauses and then continues counting down. I want to give each player 1 minute per turn, but the clock doesn’t reset after each turn. Tried messing with the settings, but couldn’t get it to work. Very frustrating. EDIT: there is another app called “Chess Clock Plus” that does exactly what I want it to do (or close enough), and it is much more customizable.

5 months ago, Bruce The Gamer

Excellent!

This is the best chess clock app ever! Very easy to use and is versatile with its custom time controls. Highly recommend to use this when playing speed chess on a board.

3 years ago, hama irfan

5 stars chess timer

Free, easy to use, with the ability to save your favorite time settings with a beautiful interface. I would allow this in even biggest tournaments xD

4 years ago, msalzge

Good clock - just needs two things to be perfect

1. Keep the other clock running when one side runs out of time. Double forfeits are possible under USChess rules. 2. Show a progress bar marking the delay time. Other than that, great product!

5 years ago, FeetOfHermes

Fine and Fischer Fine Clock

A great clock, easy to use, easy to reset; enough of a “click” sound to notice but not distract; with clocks being so absurdly priced these days, this app is smart and effective. Cheers. —Mark

5 years ago, AriDor

Really intuitive!

It's super easy to make custom time settings on this, and there are no overly complicated buttons, like in other chess clock apps. Definitely recommend.

6 years ago, bricklypear

My favorite timer

Thank you for keeping this up to date! It’s my favorite and I will keep using it. It’s great and works well with my games with my friend who isn’t super phone savvy. Perfect!

2 years ago, sinasll

IT’S GREAT!

what a great timer, with a nice theme but we just need more themes like (black&white) theme, this will be more beautiful! pls add some more themes and sounds, we need a alert after a time ends up.

5 years ago, Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Use with other games

We use this with other games like rumicube to add another dimension to it!!! What a blast!!! We put 5 min on the clock and add 2-5 sec per play to make it a blitz game

7 months ago, K10xanother

Perfect

On a budget and aren’t looking to buy a legit clock? This is it. Simple, easy pre-set clock times on the go. Highly recommend!

6 years ago, Amomymous122

Functional and uncluttered

Great chess clock, I use it very frequently for Warmachine and Hordes Steamroller timing. Simple to set and up and reliable. A very good app. Still solid after an infrequent update.

6 years ago, Elvis clutchings

Some features don't work

I've tried to create a custom time of 10 minutes, but it does not seem to save. Otherwise the options it gives such as 5 min is good. I'll redownload to see if it fixes the problem.

2 months ago, Dani Da Bacon

The best app for a chess clock out there!!

I hosted my own tournament!! We were on a budget so, we used this app for the clocks, it worked great!!

9 months ago, seonghuhn

Perfect

Fantastic timer. Has all the features you need. And it’s free with no ads. Amazing!

8 months ago, CarbarKing

No sound

My app no longer makes a click noise when you hit the button. Even when I toggle it on/off. Very real bummer

6 years ago, rextwelve

Adds time during fast turns

For the price, free, it is ok. If you move quickly, it won’t reduce the time, and sometimes it will even add a few seconds. This seems like an easy and worthwhile fix.

9 months ago, PhotoSharingEasier101

New Clock Who This

Love the new look and feel in the latest update 🤩

3 years ago, Velvet Red

Exactly what you expect

It's rare that I'm pleseantly surprised by an app. No ads, beautiful UI, simple and intuitive. 10/10.

6 years ago, zedlyfe

Simple, Great

Simple app, does its job well. I'd even be willing to pay a few bucks for it.

5 years ago, MrLee56

Perfectly simple and easy

One idea: In delay mode how about also showing a little countdown timer.

3 years ago, Sophia Puckett

It’s great!

It’s a great app and we have so much fun playing with it. I totally recommend this app.

6 years ago, RevivedPhoenix122

Best IPhone Chess Clock!

This is one of the best chess clocks compared to it is free. Of course, if you go out and buy a real one, it is better but this is a FREE app.

4 years ago, EastoniaDogger

Fantastic!

Great look and feel. And functionality is top-notch.

6 years ago, Solo thick tight

Fantastic

Great app, does everything it needs to.

5 years ago, ilovedrydays

Useless update

Had to update when it was working fine, since the concept is so simple the fact that it had to be updated tells me it was a piece of junk to start with.

1 year ago, TLG_GC11

It’s free and does its job as a chess timer well.

Simple but good app.

8 months ago, india trash

Best chess clock on App Store

This is the best. No ads, no payment and no lags

5 years ago, TeD2D

Works great!

Can’t argue with free. No need for a $30 clock and this is 1,000x’s better!

5 years ago, YGlen

Improved my game

Very useful clock!

6 months ago, Gogo_IGUANA

Excellent app

Very useful

3 years ago, MiamiC70

No updates in a long time appears to be abandoned.

No updates in a long time appears to be abandoned. No iOS updates or updates for new hardware.

4 years ago, prado, gabriel

My sound doesn’t work

I used o love the beep sound but it stopped working :(

5 years ago, chess2456

Great product

I love it!

2 years ago, Ultamite gamer

Cool App

Bagel spiders haunt my dreams. Help.

6 months ago, 18092555

Clock

Good

3 years ago, ijnijnjiniununun

Perfect

Great gui

9 years ago, Eyerlykids

Fantastic free chess clock

Works perfect, with no problems or ads. It would be nice to set different times for each side, but I would expect to pay for that. It really is just a clean, effective, well-designed app. I play against my little kids with it; I get 5 mins. and they get unlimited. I hit pause to end my turn, and they hit their clock to run my time. Works well.

3 years ago, marvinthekid

Chris

Not great. Very limited.

7 years ago, Unhappy PBS app user

Nice chess clock

I like this app a lot. The only thing that would be nice to be able to do which is not possible on this clock, is to set a different time for each player. I enjoy playing blitz with my 5 year old, but it would be nice to give him more time without have to just run out the clock on my side before starting.

8 years ago, Mr Kilian

Excellent!!!

Super simple. Works great on my iPhone or iPad. Just bought an Omcor clock for our son for Christmas then found the App for the chess clock. So much better, faster and easier to set up. Will be returning the new clock and using this exclusively. Plus, so much easier to travel with since its on your phone.

6 years ago, Sentinel_nova

Great, but not perfect

Overall this is a very good chess clock, and can account for most games I've played with friends. I just have one problem with it though, and it's with the time controls. You can't have different times on different sides, which is somewhat needed if I'm trying to practice armageddon or just play someone better/worse who needs the time odds.

9 years ago, mattski108

Nice but missing one key feature

Simple and clean design. Just missing one key feature: the ability to set different time controls for each player. Maybe in a future update??

Description

Replace your chess clock with this free game timer! It's easy to use, yet fully featured to handle any time control. 100% free: no in-app purchases, no ads! Choose your time control and you're ready to play. The 2nd player presses her button to start the 1st player's clock - and the game is on! FEATURES - Large, easy-to-read buttons - Works in landscape and portrait on all devices - Quickly customize the app for one-tap access to all your favorite time controls - Time controls include base minutes per player and optional per-move delays or bonus time. The app supports both Fischer and Bronstein increments, as well as simple delays. The duration is up to you! - Supports multiple-stage time controls commonly seen in tournaments, such as "40 moves in 2 hours + game in 60 minutes." A glance at the clock shows your current stage! - Support for handicapping lets you set different time controls for each player! - You can adjust the time remaining on the fly, in the middle of your game, for either or both players! - Clock pauses automatically if the app is interrupted; manually pause the clock at any time - Pleasant sounds for buttons and "time's up" alert At Chess.com, we really do love chess, and *sometimes* we even play it offline! For times like that, we created this clock - and we hope you love it as much as we do.