“that clock app”

A clock for everything that repeats — so you can see what's coming before it needs a reminder.

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Ever been ambushed by a reminder? It pops up out of nowhere when you're too busy to deal with it — or you swipe it away, forget about it for two weeks, and by then the timing's all wrong anyway.

“that clock app” shows your routines the way a planetarium shows the sky. Each routine is a ring, each event on it is a planet, and the dial turns with time while the needle stays fixed at the top. How close something is, is just how close it is to the needle: no mental maths, no countdowns.

Then it goes further. Log what happened, and the rings adjust — a dose taken early moves the next one, a cycle that runs long teaches the app your real rhythm. And everything you log becomes a journal you can look back on.

Rings, planets and systems

Group rings into systems — "Day", "Meds", "Training", whatever you like — and swipe between them. Rings in a system can share one clock, or each keep their own: a 24-hour day, a week, a 28-day cycle, or any length at all.

  • The centre shows the time, or "Day 12 of 28" on longer cycles.
  • Under the dial, a card for each ring shows its next event, and "Show more" lists every planet, soonest first.
  • Tap a planet to see when it's next, when you last logged it, and to log it now.
  • Colour the arc from one planet to the next to mark a stretch of time, like a fasting window or work hours.
  • Faint ticks mark the hours or days, and optional dots mark noon and midnight.
  • On a wide screen, the clock and your ring cards sit side by side.

Timing that adapts

Real life doesn't run on a fixed schedule, so each clock can choose what happens when you log:

  • Stay fixed — like a normal clock.
  • Re-anchor — the whole ring shifts so the event you logged sits exactly when it happened.
  • Keep the spacing — took a dose two hours early? The next ones this cycle move up to keep them evenly spaced, and tomorrow starts fresh.
  • Learn the period — the app blends your usual cycle length with your recent ones to learn your real rhythm, ignoring a missed log here and there.
  • Write your own — power users can write the timing rules in JavaScript. The code runs in a sandbox with no access to the internet or your data, and a Check button tries it on your real logs first. Every built-in rule is there as editable code to start from.

Clocks can count local time, so dinner at 7pm stays at 7pm when the clocks change, or real elapsed time, so "every 6 hours" really means 6 hours.

A journal, built in

Attach forms to planets, and logging an event asks the questions that matter for it. Build forms from:

  • multiple choice (as a list or a dropdown, one answer or several)
  • short or long text
  • numbers, with a unit and limits
  • rating scales, with labels at each end
  • a location on the map
  • photos, from your camera or library

When you log, the app shows which occurrence you're answering and how early or late you are. Your journal lists every entry by day: filter it by system, ring or form, tap to edit, or select several to delete. Changing a form later never breaks your old answers.

Reminders

  • Give any planet as many reminders as you like, set a fixed time before it or a share of the cycle.
  • Choose a sound — the default, silent, or one of four built in: chime, bell, pulse and rise.
  • Mark the important ones time-sensitive so they break through Focus.
  • Reminders close together can be merged into one notification, so you're not buzzed three times in five minutes.
  • Tap a reminder to go straight to logging it. Once logged, it won't remind you again — and because logging can move your rings, reminders move with them.

Sun, sky and weather

  • Sunrise and sunset planets follow the real sun where you are, worked out on your phone. Shift them too — "an hour before sunset".
  • Behind the dial, the sky changes colour with the sun, from night through twilight to day. Or give each system a plain colour instead.
  • The current weather and your town sit in the corner over the sky, in °C or °F.
  • Use your phone's location or pick a spot on the map — or turn location off entirely.

Features: routines you can share

A Feature is a ready-made bundle of rings and forms. Start with the built-in ones:

  • Sunrise/Sunset — a sun ring for your location.
  • Daily schedule — wake, work, home and sleep, plus meals with a reminder before dinner.
  • Menstrual tracker — a cycle that learns its length from your logs, with phases, a symptoms form and a heads-up before your period.
  • Medication manager — doses that keep their spacing, a dose form and a reminder before each.

Add a whole Feature as a new system, or pick single rings from a live preview. Then make your own: turn your rings and forms into a Feature, copy and tweak a built-in one, and export it as a file to share. Files you import are checked before anything is added.

Your data stays yours

No account, no ads, no tracking. Everything lives on your phone; the only things that reach the internet are the weather and place-name lookups, and only if you turn location on. Export everything as a file whenever you like, or erase it all from Settings. The privacy policy has the details.