Kids Telling Time

Review by eFreeware

The most distinctive thing about Kids Telling Time is that it treats clock reading as a two-way skill. Children do not just look at a clock and name the time; they also set clocks to match a time they are given. Both directions are practiced on analog and digital faces, which is more than many clock drills bother with.

It is built for children who are learning to read a clock and for the adults helping them. The developer, Intellijoy Educational Games for Kids, works in this educational space, and the game is rated for Everyone. At $1.99 with no ads and no in-app purchases, it is a straightforward purchase.

A house full of clocks and one hungry mouse

The setting is a house with four rooms, each one full of clocks. A mouse named Ticky is the guide, and the goal of each round is cheese: children set and read the correct times to help Ticky collect the cheese and eat it. That framing gives the practice a purpose beyond a score, which matters when the audience is young enough to lose interest in a bare worksheet.

The four rooms give the game a structure to move through rather than one endless drill screen. Ticky's errand is simple enough that a child can follow it without much explanation, and the cheese works as a reward that is easy to understand. It is a small, self-contained world, and the premise is the whole of it.

How a round of clock practice works

A typical round asks the child to work with a time on an analog face or a digital one. Sometimes the task is to read the clock and give the time; sometimes it is to set the clock so it shows the time asked for. Getting the times right is what moves Ticky along toward the cheese.

Because the game covers both clock types, a child meets the same time in two different forms. That back-and-forth is the part I find most useful in principle: reading a digital display and reading hands on a face are separate skills, and a game that asks for both keeps them connected. The paid version includes smaller time increments, so the difficulty can go finer than whole and half hours.

Why the practice holds up over repeat sessions

Clock reading is the sort of skill that needs repetition before it sticks, and the game is arranged around that. The four rooms and Ticky's cheese give each session a beginning and an end, so a child can finish something rather than stopping mid-drill. That makes it easy to return to for short practice sessions.

The smaller increments in the paid version are what keep it usable as a child improves. A game limited to hours and half hours runs out of challenge fairly quickly; finer times extend the useful life of the app. The developer's most recent update, in June 2026, was described as minor fixes, and the app has been available since October 2014.

What it costs and what you get

Kids Telling Time costs $1.99. There are no ads and no in-app purchases, so the practice is not interrupted and there is nothing further to buy once you have paid. For a children's educational game, that is a clean arrangement: one payment, then the whole game.

The developer separates this version from a lite one, which covers hours and half hours. The game has been installed more than 10,000 times and holds a 4.2 average from 108 ratings.

A focused buy for clock practice at home

I would point this at parents and teachers who want a child to practice both reading and setting clocks, on analog and digital faces, without ads interrupting the session.

The scope is narrow by design: this is clock practice and nothing else. If that is the skill you want drilled, the $1.99 price, the absence of ads and purchases, and the two-way analog and digital tasks make it an easy thing to try.

What's new in version 1.2.10

Minor fixes