Telling Time
Telling Time app icon

Learn to read the clock.

Telling Time helps children turn times like “quarter to five in the afternoon” into 16:45, using an analog clock face, words, or both.

Coming soon to theApp Store
A question showing an analog clock at quarter to five and the text “Quarter to five in the afternoon”, with 16 typed on the keypad

Four levels, one step at a time

Start with whole hours and work up to reading any minute on a clock face with no tick marks.

1

Easy

Whole and half hours

2

Medium

Quarters and ten-minute steps

3

Hard

Every five minutes

4

Extreme

Every minute, no tick marks

Start screen with the four levels A wrong answer, 21:40, shown next to the right answer, 20:40 Score screen showing 4 of 5 and every answer A question on iPad

Instant feedback

A wrong answer is shown next to the right time, so mistakes turn into understanding. Each round ends with a summary of every answer.

Morning or evening?

An analog clock only shows twelve hours, so the part of the day is always on screen. Every question has exactly one right answer.

You decide

Show the clock face, the text, or both, and choose 5, 10, 15 or 20 questions per round.

No ads, no tracking

No accounts, no ads and no data collection. Just practice, on iPhone and iPad, in light and dark mode.

Nine languages

The app follows the language of your device and uses each language’s own way of telling the time.

  • English
  • Svenska
  • Suomi
  • Norsk
  • Dansk
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Español
  • Italiano