For macOS · Free

Talking Clock

A Mac clock that tells you the time, out loud.

Download for Mac

Version 1.0 · 2.1 MB · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon & Intel

Signed with Apple Developer ID · Notarized by Apple Developer: Thomas CHUNG (Team 7FVXX299HB)

Talking Clock window: analog clock, digital time 4:50:54 PM PST, the words “Ten to five”, and a Talk button

What it does

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Speaks the time

Press Talk or the space bar and it says “It’s ten to five in the afternoon.” It uses the best English voice installed on your Mac.

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Smooth sweeping seconds

An analog dial redrawn every frame, plus the digital time with AM/PM and your time zone.

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The time in words

Shows the time the way people say it — “Quarter past nine”, “Twenty-two minutes to six”.

How to install

Talking Clock comes as a disk image (.dmg), the standard way to install a Mac app from the web.

  1. Download the DMG. Click Download for Mac; Talking-Clock-1.0.dmg is saved to your Downloads folder.
  2. Open the DMG. Double-click Talking-Clock-1.0.dmg in Downloads (or click it in your browser’s download list). A Talking Clock window like the one shown here opens.
  3. Drag it to Applications. Follow the arrow and drag the Talking Clock icon onto the Applications folder. This copies the app to your Mac.
  4. Eject the disk. Click ⏏ next to Talking Clock in the Finder sidebar (or drag the disk icon on the desktop to the Trash). You can then delete the .dmg from Downloads.
  5. Launch the app. Double-click Talking Clock in your Applications folder. The first time, macOS asks “Talking Clock” is an app downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it? and notes that Apple checked it for malicious software. Click Open.
Talking Clock disk image window: the Talking Clock app icon on the left, a gold arrow, and the Applications folder on the right
Step 3 — drag the clock icon onto the Applications folder.

Note: run the app from Applications, not from inside the disk image — ejecting the disk takes the app with it. To uninstall, drag Talking Clock from Applications to the Trash.

Signed with my Apple Developer ID

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Safe to open — Apple has checked it

Talking Clock is distributed outside the Mac App Store, so it carries both of Apple’s credentials for that.

  • Apple Developer ID signature — signed with the “Developer ID Application: Thomas CHUNG (7FVXX299HB)” certificate, which Apple issues only to members of the Apple Developer Program. The signature proves the app comes from me and hasn’t been changed since I built it.
  • Apple notarization — Apple scanned this exact build for malware and issued a notarization ticket. The ticket is stapled to both the app and the disk image, so macOS can verify it even offline.
  • Hardened Runtime — macOS’s stricter app-security mode, required for notarization.
  • It does nothing else — no account, no ads, no tracking, no network access. It just tells the time.

To check for yourself, run this in Terminal after installing:

$ codesign -dv --verbose=2 "/Applications/Talking Clock.app" 2>&1 | grep -E "Authority|Team|Notarization"
Authority=Developer ID Application: Thomas CHUNG (7FVXX299HB)
Authority=Developer ID Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA
Notarization Ticket=stapled
TeamIdentifier=7FVXX299HB

$ spctl -a -vv "/Applications/Talking Clock.app"
/Applications/Talking Clock.app: accepted
source=Notarized Developer ID
origin=Developer ID Application: Thomas CHUNG (7FVXX299HB)

Prefer the browser? There’s also a web version of the clock.