Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
Every app here is good at something. These pages say what, honestly, and where working backward from a deadline is the better fit.
Ready Time does one thing: you set the time you need to be ready, list the steps, and it works backward to tell you when to start each one. The apps below overlap with that job from different directions. Each comparison ends with who should stay where.
Not sure what to compare yet? Start with backward planning, a reverse countdown timer, or the leave time calculator.
The original visual countdown. Compare if your problem is the chain of steps before a deadline, not one block of time.
Apple's 2025 iPhone App of the Year for visual day planning. Compare if the only broken part of your day is the deadline moments.
A voice-guided routine timer. Compare if your routines finish late because they started late.
The category leader for timeboxing your day. Compare if you'd rather the app did the start-time math.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.