The people you care about live on other clocks. TimeNest puts their day on the same screen as yours — so you can see, without doing the arithmetic, whether right now is a decent hour where they are.
TimeNest is a free iPhone app that draws up to five cities as parallel timelines beside your own day, so you can see at a glance whether it is a reasonable hour where someone is.
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Not a row of clock faces you have to read one at a time. Every city you follow gets its own lane, running left to right through the same hours — their sleep, their daylight, their meetings, next to yours.
You can follow up to five cities at once, and the lanes are shaded for sleep and daylight, so overlapping waking hours are something you see rather than work out.
Turn the dial and every clock turns with it. Push forward to Thursday morning and watch which lanes wake up. You are not converting time zones in your head any more — you are looking at the answer.
Sunrise, sunset and quiet hours are drawn in, so “they are awake” is something you see rather than something you calculate.
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Your schedule, the weather and the people you follow live on the home screen and the lock screen. Most days you never open the app at all.
TimeNest has three lock screen widgets: a 24-hour dial for a single city, a three-city list, and a single-line clock. Each one can be set to a different city.
The lock screen dial draws 24 hours around a circle. Bright where they are awake, with a marker at their current hour. You read it before you read the numbers.
Or take the wide slot: three cities, their local times, and whether today is already yesterday over there.
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Month, week, day — the same schedule at three distances. Your Google, Outlook and Apple calendars are already in it.
The packed days and the open ones, side by side. Events from the calendars you already use show up here without being copied anywhere.
One column, hour by hour. What you finished crosses itself out, the gaps in between are drawn as rest rather than left blank, and a line slides down the page as the day goes.
At the bottom the day closes itself — what the weather actually turned out to be, and a question or two worth answering while you still remember the answer.
One sticker at the end of each day. Nothing to fill in, nothing to score. A month later it reads like a story you didn’t know you were writing.
Every morning
At an hour you choose, TimeNest reads what you have planned, checks the weather where you are, and puts the day into a few plain sentences. Not another list of notifications — a note.
Fourteen plans, eleven tasks, and the evening finally opening up at 23:00. The numbers are your own, and the sentences around them change with the weekday and the hour — Monday morning does not read like Friday night.
Not the city you typed in once. And if it cannot tell where you are, it leaves the line out instead of guessing at you.
Every briefing is kept. Star the ones worth finding again, and read back through a week you have already lived.
It is set for 8:00 and stays quiet until you switch it on. Weather and the closing line are each their own switch.
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Pick the three that actually matter, give every other task a slot, and the app tells you when you have planned more than fits — before the day starts, not after it fails.
That is timeboxing. It is an old idea with good evidence behind it, but you don’t have to care about the name to use it.
No. TimeNest requires nothing from the other person — you add a city, not a person. They never install anything, never receive a request, and never know about it.
Apple’s World Clock shows four numbers; TimeNest shows four days. Each city you follow becomes a horizontal lane shaded for sleep and daylight, so you can see where their night sits inside your afternoon and which hours everyone happens to be awake. TimeNest also puts a city on the lock screen.
TimeNest is free. There is no paid tier, no ads, and no account is required to start. It needs iOS 15 or later.
Three: a 24-hour dial that draws one city’s whole day around a circle, a three-city list with local times, and a single-line clock. Each widget can be set to a different city.
The daily briefing is a short note TimeNest writes at an hour you choose — how many plans and tasks the day holds, when your evening opens up, and the weather where you actually are. It stays off until you turn it on, and past briefings are saved so you can read them back.
TimeNest reads Google, Outlook and Apple Calendar and draws those events alongside your own blocks. It does not copy or modify them, and you can switch it off at any time. See the privacy policy.
Up to five cities at once on the timeline. Each lock screen widget can be set to a different city.
No. TimeNest is available for iPhone only. There is no Android version.
Free · iOS 15 and later · No account required to start