Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
Alarmy is the app people recommend most when someone says they cannot get to work on time, and it earns that. It will not let you dismiss an alarm until you have scanned a barcode in another room, solved some arithmetic, or photographed the bathroom sink. For the specific problem of still being in bed, nothing works better.
Worth saying plainly: Ready Time is not a replacement for it. Alarmy finishes its job at the moment you are standing up. What happens over the next fifty minutes is a different problem, and that is the one that decides whether you arrive on time.
Once you are awake, the morning is a chain of steps with no clock attached to any of them. Nothing happens at 7:24 to tell you it was 7:24, and by the time something does, the only move left is to hurry.
Ready Time puts a start time on each of those steps by working backward from when you have to be there, then alerts you at every one. The shower, the bag, the drive, the walk in from the lot: each gets a number and each gets a nudge.
Someone in a thread about getting to work on time put the boundary plainly. They swore by Alarmy for getting out of bed, and said that staying on top of the morning tasks afterward, so they actually left the house on time, was the part they still could not do.
| Ready Time | Alarmy | |
|---|---|---|
| The job it does | Gets you out the door on time | Gets you out of bed |
| How it works | Backward from your deadline to a start time for every step | Alarms you dismiss by completing a mission |
| After you are awake | An alert at the start of each step | Not what it is for |
| Missions to dismiss | None | Math, memory games, shaking, photos, barcodes |
| Sleep tracking | None | Sleep and snore tracking, bedtime reminders |
| Pricing model | Free; one-time unlock. No subscription | Free tier; subscription for the rest |
| Platforms | iPhone & iPad | iPhone, iPad, Android |
The honest recommendation is both. Alarmy for the alarm, Ready Time for the fifty minutes after it. They barely overlap, and neither one solves the other's problem.
Anyone who has trouble waking up. Nothing in Ready Time will drag you out of bed, and it does not try to. Keep the alarm.
Add a plan if you are already awake on time and still leaving late. That gap is thirty minutes of steps with no clock on any of them, which is not something a louder alarm can reach.
The app that overlaps most with Ready Time is Brili. See that comparison, or browse all comparisons.
“It has helped me tremendously to manage my timeblindness, and I tell people about it all the time.”— Ready Time user, 2021
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
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