OrbitCal vs Sphere

OrbitCal: Your Schedule, Reimagined Spatially. Break free from the grid. OrbitCal transforms your calendar into a beautiful, interactive series of concentric rings, turning time management into a tactile, spatial experience. ### TIME AT A GLANCE See your year, month, day, and hour as nested rings. Navigate from a bird's-eye view of your entire year down to the ticking seconds of your current meeting with intuitive pinch-to-zoom and drag gestures. ### THE RING PARADIGM * Outer Rings: Months and Days provide a long-term horizon. * Inner Rings: Hours and Minutes visualize your immediate focus. * Central Hub: A dynamic "Command Center" that surfaces your next meeting, countdowns to your current event's end, and one-tap actions. ### SMART FOCUS * Visual Whitespace: OrbitCal automatically highlights "Focus Windows"—the gaps in your schedule—helping you find time for deep work. * Pastel Aesthetic: A clean, soft design optimized for clarity and serenity. * Haptic Precision: Feel every hour and minute as you navigate through your day with custom-tuned haptic feedback. ### FEATURES: * Fluid Navigation: Smoothly zoom from the macro (Year) to the micro (Seconds). * EventKit Integration: Seamlessly syncs with your existing iCloud, or Outlook calendars. * Contextual Actions: One-tap access to meeting links and directions directly from the center of the OrbitCal view. * Conflict Visualization: Instantly spot overlaps and scheduling crunches. The calendar isn't a list; it's a cycle. See your time in OrbitCal.

Sphere shows your schedule and weather in the sky. It's designed to have atmosphere. Each of your events is a capsule on the arc, running from start to end in the color of the calendar it came from. Clouds stack by altitude (modeled after cirrus and cumulus clouds), and you'll see rain, storms, lightning, and more. For clear hours, you'll see birds in the day and twinkling stars at night. The wheel: - Moves you throughout the arc. - The center button makes an event. Press and hold to make an all day event (default setting). - Click left and right to go to the previous and next events. Press and hold either to move a whole day. - Every button can be reassigned in settings. - Events open in Apple's native calendar, so editing, deleting and replying to an invitation work exactly the way you're used to. - All-day events are under the date, where they can be read without taking room on the arc. The menu: - Today's arc with sunrise, midday and sunset. - Tonight's moon and the temperature right now. - Appearance; Natural Sky means the app is light by day and dark at night, and dark makes it dark all the time. - Calendar toggles. Outside the app: - Home Screen: the sky curve with your events on it, in small and medium. - Lock Screen: where the sun is and your next calendar event. Sphere is free. No account, no subscription, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Privacy: https://smidgecraft.com/sphere/privacy Support: https://smidgecraft.com/sphere/support Questions, ideas, or feedback? mason@smidgecraft.com