The bell rings at 8:30 whether you're ready or not. Between waking kids, making breakfast, finding the other shoe, and driving there, there's almost no spare time. A backward plan turns that tight morning into a sequence you can follow step by step.
School mornings rarely fail because of one disaster. They fail because five things happen in a row and one of them takes longer than you hoped. The kid who can't find socks. The cereal that spills. The backpack still at the bottom of the stairs. You can't prevent all of that, but you can budget time for it.
Ready Time works backward from the school bell. You add each step with honest durations, the ones that match real mornings rather than best-case guesses. If getting dressed takes 15 minutes including the sock negotiation, put 15 minutes. The plan tells you when to wake them so you arrive with a little time to spare.
The drive above is a starting number. In the app, pick the real place, choose drive, walk, or bike, and Apple Maps fills in how long it takes.
Change where you're leaving from or how you're getting there, and every step before the drive shifts with it.
Whoever is driving needs the leave time and everything in front of it. What usually gets passed along is 'be there by 8:30' and nothing else. Share the plan and it lands on their phone with its own alerts for every step, so they're working from your buffer instead of guessing at one. The 15 minutes you budgeted for the missing shoe goes with it.
Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.
Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
“A key part of my planning process. Well worth the investment.”App Store review