Time Flies vs Simple Rituals

Oh how Time Flies! Stop wondering where it went. Yesterday it was the new year, and before you realize it's Thanksgiving already. Time Flies is a reminder and planner app that keeps you plugged in to the passage of time — what is coming, what has passed, how long ago and how long to go. That number is the whole point, and every part of the app gives it to you. SPAN - YOUR WHOLE LIFE ON ONE RULER (Pro) Today sits in the middle, the past on the left, the future on the right. Drag and the number climbs — 15 days, 62 days, 3 years. Zoom out from a week to a whole year and the shape of your life appears: busy weeks stand tall, quiet months are gaps you can see from across the room. Tap anything for how long ago it was, when it comes round again, and how many times it already has. COUNTDOWNS THAT WORK BOTH WAYS 37 days to your trip. 8 months since you moved to a new city, or started a new job. Both sit at the top of your home page, so nothing sneaks up on you. Tap any event, task, reminder or memory and start counting to it — including the next time a birthday comes round. A countdown retires itself the morning after it lands, so your list never fills with things that already happened. WHAT YOU CAN PUT IN IT Six color coded types of activity... REMINDERS - for something you want a quick one-off notification for. TASKS - for something you want to do and tick off. Anything you don't finish rolls over to today and shows how many days it has been slipping. EVENTS - for something happening at a specific date and time. MEMORY - for something worth keeping. Time Flies counts the years for you and tells you when the anniversary comes round. ALARM - for something too important to sleep through. It cuts through Focus, and on iOS 26 and up it takes over the screen like a proper alarm. COUNTDOWN - for something you want to watch approach, or keep counting once it has passed. JUST SAY IT Type "dentist Friday at 2" or just talk to it. The AI assistant knows your routine — wake up, lunch, family time, wind down — so new plans land where your day actually has room. Ask it to move things, ask what your week looks like, ask it anything. Tap the mic on your home screen and speak once (Pro). Or share a flyer, screenshot or voice note in from any other app, add one line of context — "I want to go next week" — and it becomes a plan. A DAY YOU CAN READ AT A GLANCE One clean timeline, color coded by type and framed by your own routine. A home screen widget keeps today and your nearest countdowns one glance away (Pro). ON THIS DAY (Pro) The memories you logged, brought back on their anniversary, right on today's timeline. Never more than a few, and only the ones worth returning to. ON THE HORIZON Anything coming up appears well ahead of time, then again as it gets closer — six months out, then a month, a week, the day before. Nothing arrives without warning. EVENING PROMPT AND DAILY OVERVIEW (Pro) A quiet nudge at day's end: anything worth remembering from today? One line is enough. And each morning, a short brief on the day ahead, including what rolled over. WEEKLY REWIND (Pro) Every Sunday evening, a short warm recap of where your week went. YOURS, EVEN OFFLINE Saves without a connection and syncs when you are back. Your memories are yours — mute any memory, any person, or the whole feature in one tap. FREE TO START Everything above is free except where marked Pro. Every activity type, countdowns, routines, notifications, rollover and offline saving are free forever. You also get five AI requests free — not five a month, five for life — to try the assistant before deciding. Pro unlocks unlimited AI scheduling, Span, home screen voice capture, the widget, On This Day, the Daily Overview and Weekly Rewind. A subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. https://sotimeflies.com/terms https://sotimeflies.com/privacy Time flies either way. Keep it.

Simple Rituals does not keep score. It keeps your place. It shows one thing: the next ritual, in the part of the day you are actually in. Complete it, or postpone it, and the day moves on. A short "Then" line tells you what follows, so you always know what is next without having to look at everything at once. A morning. An afternoon. An evening. THREE WINDOWS The day is held in three parts, and each part keeps its own rituals. Morning - begins 6:00, ends 10:00 Afternoon - begins 12:00, ends 17:00 Evening - begins 19:00, ends 22:30 A ritual belongs to a window rather than to an exact minute, so a morning routine has shape without a clock to fall behind. Give it a time only if it needs one. FOUR PRIORITIES Every ritual carries one, and you choose which. Must - non-negotiable Should - want to, most days Could - if time allows Won't - intentionally parked Won't is the priority that usually goes missing: it lets an intention stay on your list while you are openly not doing it. Nothing has to be deleted in order to be paused. NO STREAKS. NO SHAME. There is no chain to protect, no perfect record to defend, no number that falls because life happened. A day counts as kept if you completed anything at all. And when something cannot happen, you postpone it - the ritual moves, it does not fail. That was a decision, not an omission. YOUR DAYS A month calendar of the days behind you, always a tap away. Each day reads plainly - Kept. A gap here. Not yet. No record. Gaps are shown, never underlined in red. A record, not a report card. WHAT A RITUAL IS MADE OF A name. A window. A priority. A time, if you want one. That is the whole editor: no tags, no notes, no timer counting you down. Every field you would have to think about is one more reason not to open the app tomorrow. GENTLE NUDGES, OR NONE AT ALL A quiet reminder as a part of your day begins. Reminders make no sound and set no badge. They are scheduled on your iPhone rather than sent from a server, and a single switch in Settings turns them off for good. START WITH ONE RITUAL YOU CHOSE No email and no password to sign up - you are anonymous by default. Setup takes a moment, and the first thing it asks is that you write one ritual in your own words. Later you can use Sign in with Apple for one reason only: so your rituals come back after a reinstall, or on a new phone. WHAT IT COSTS The morning window is free, and stays free. The afternoon and evening windows open together with a single one-time purchase - lifetime access, charged once to your Apple Account, yours to keep. It is not a subscription and it does not renew. Restore it any time from Settings. WHAT YOU WILL NOT FIND No streaks, no badges, no score, no leaderboard. You start with one ritual: the one you wrote yourself. Add the next when it earns a place. FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE DELETED A HABIT APP BEFORE Usually on the day the streak broke - eleven days kept, the twelfth missed, and the app never opened again. Or the morning the notifications began to feel like an accusation. This one is built on the opposite assumption: that you already know what matters, that some days will be gaps, and that a quiet list you actually kept is worth more than a perfect one you abandoned in March. If a change cannot be saved, the app says so rather than pretending it worked. Your data, and the anonymous account holding it, can be deleted from Settings whenever you like. Made for iPhone, in one quiet light theme: cream, forest green, and a serif that does not raise its voice. Simple Rituals supports personal reflection and everyday routine building. It is not a medical or mental health service, and does not provide diagnosis, advice, or treatment. Terms of Use: https://feelingmindful.com/apps/simple-rituals/terms Privacy Policy: https://feelingmindful.com/apps/simple-rituals/privacy Small things, done daily.