Ply: Chess Clock

Ply is the chess clock that never misses a tap. Open it, tap a time, and play: two taps to a running game.

THE CLOCK
• The switch happens the moment your finger lands, not when it lifts. Slap the whole half of the screen, with any number of fingers.
• The time never drifts and never jumps: every move is measured on the phone's own clock, not counted in ticks.
• The side to move is bright. The side that waits is dim. You can see whose turn it is from across the room.
• At 10 seconds the clock turns red. Warnings at one minute, 30 and 10 seconds, a beep for each of the last 5, and an alarm when a flag falls.
• A click on every move, made so that fast bullet taps do not cut it off. Loud Sounds for a noisy room. A light tap of the phone on each switch.
• One small pause button in the middle, away from your hand. Turn on Hold to Pause, and a stray finger in blitz does not stop the game.
• Add or take away time for a penalty, take back the last tap, restart, or end the game.
• Upright, or on its side beside the board. On iPad too.

TIME CONTROLS
• Bullet, blitz, rapid and classical presets: 1+0, 2+1, 3+0, 3+2, 5+0, 5+3, 10+0, 15+10, 30+0.
• Your own control: minutes and seconds, an increment, and its kind: Fischer, Bronstein or US delay. Save it as a tile.
• Time odds: give one player more time than the other.
• Keep Running After a Flag, for US Chess rules.

AFTER THE GAME
• A summary when a game ends: the time each side used, the average and the longest move, and a chart of the seconds for each move.
• Your games stay on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking.

PLY PRO
• Board games for 2 to 8 players: names and colors, one tap passes the turn. Time bank, time per turn, or count up. For Catan, Scrabble, Rummikub, backgammon, wargames and more.
• Byo-yomi for Go and shogi: main time, then periods.
• The FIDE tournament control: 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 more, with 30 seconds a move.
• A mechanical clock face in 3D: hands, a button that goes down, and a flag that falls.
• The OLED Black clock theme, wood-and-bell sounds, and a voice that says "one minute", "thirty seconds" and "ten seconds".
• Every game in charts: games by week and by weekday, what you play, how your games end, and where your time goes.

Ply speaks 58 languages.

Ply Pro is a weekly subscription, with a free trial for new subscribers, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews each week unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your account settings on the App Store.

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