Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
Tiimo deserves the praise it gets. Apple named it iPhone App of the Year in 2025, and the visual timeline — your whole day as gentle, color-coded blocks — is the best version of all-day planning for people who lose track of time.
But a whole-day timeline is a commitment. It works when you plan each day, place each block, and keep the timeline true as the day shifts. If most of your day runs fine and only the deadline moments go sideways — out the door by 8:15, at the appointment by 2:00 — you're maintaining a lot of planner for a few broken minutes. And the timeline runs forward: blocks alert at the times you placed them, which means the placing is still your job.
Ready Time only cares about the moments with a clock on them. Set the time you need to be ready, list the steps, and it works backward to when each one has to start — then alerts you at every start time. No timeline to tend. A morning plan gets built once and repeats.
| Ready Time | Tiimo | |
|---|---|---|
| The core idea | Works backward from a deadline to a start time for each step | Your whole day as a visual timeline, planned forward |
| Tells you when to start | Yes — computed from the deadline | Alerts fire at the times you place on the timeline |
| Daily upkeep | Build a plan once; set it to repeat | Works best when you lay out each day |
| AI features | None | AI co-planner breaks tasks into steps (paid) |
| Pricing model | Free; one-time purchase for extras. No subscription | Subscription only — no one-time or lifetime option |
| Account & data | No account. Plans stay on your device, with optional iCloud sync through your own Apple ID | Email account; plans sync through Tiimo's cloud, which is what makes the web and cross-device experience work |
| Platforms | iPhone & iPad | iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Apple Watch, web |
If those platform and feature columns matter to you, Tiimo wins them fair and square. Ready Time is two people and one idea: the backward math from a deadline, done properly, with an alert at every start time.
Stay if you want your entire day made visible — the timeline, the icons, the gentle structure — and you'll actually keep it up. That's the job Tiimo was built for, and it does it beautifully across every screen you own.
Switch if the planner keeps lapsing because it asks for more than you need. A deadline, some steps, and being told when to start — that part doesn't require redoing your whole day.
Timeboxing your whole day is Structured's territory too — see that comparison, or browse all comparisons.
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time tells you when.
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