Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.
A tailgate is the one plan where being early is the point, and the ending still sneaks up on you. The grill is going, someone starts one more round of cornhole, and suddenly it's 12:40 with a canopy to break down and a gate to find. Ready Time runs the day backward from kickoff, so the last burger and the teardown both get a start time.
Time moves differently at a tailgate. You parked with more than four hours of margin, which feels like forever, so nobody tracks the gap between one more brat and kickoff. Teardown is real work: the grill still hot, coolers repacked, canopy wrestled into its bag, the car reorganized. Then a ten-minute walk turns into twenty-five behind a crowd funneling toward the same gates. The security line peaks in the half hour before kickoff. That's how you end up hearing the opening drive instead of watching it.
Ready Time gives every leg of game day its own start time: loading up, the drive, parking, setup, the long easy middle, and the two legs that always get shortchanged, teardown and the walk in. The teardown alarm is the one that saves you. It goes off while the lot still feels relaxed. The grill gets half an hour to cool and come apart. You walk toward the gate ahead of the crush instead of inside it. Pack everything but the cold stuff the night before, and the morning becomes one short load instead of a scramble.
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.
A common rule of thumb is three to four hours before kickoff for a full tailgate with a grill, and closer to two if it's drinks and snacks from the trunk. Lots at NFL stadiums typically open four to five hours before the game. College lots range from that to sunrise traditions. Working backward from a 1:00 kickoff, a four-hour tailgate means parked by 8:30 and out of the driveway by 8:00. Put your own kickoff into the plan below and check what time it says to leave the house.
Arriving within the first hour of the lots opening gets you a spot near your gate and room to set up, which usually means four to five hours before kickoff at an NFL stadium. Two hours out, you're usually in the far lots. The last 90 minutes bring the worst of the traffic, on the roads and on foot. If you're skipping the tailgate, 60 to 90 minutes before kickoff still covers parking, the walk, and the gate line before it peaks in the final half hour.
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.
“I get so tired of counting backward to when I should start my task. This app is the solution.”App Store review
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.