KeepCue vs Blue Hour

KeepCue: Visual Timeline & Routine Planner For those of us who need structure, routines, and flexibility in planning. Certain activities are best started with a cue, try beginning on cue instead of fixed clock time. Time block for overall structure, then act on cue to get things done. CUE-ANCHORED ROUTINES You figured out a few things about yourself: the ten minutes of journaling to start your day right, the two-minute shutdown ritual that helps you transition out of work mode, the night routine that gets you to bed on time and prepared for the next day. Let your cues guide you back on track. Instead of fixed times, anchor activities and routines to approximate time blocks plus something that already happens in your daily life, e.g., when you wake up, when you walk through the front door, when you close your laptop. These are all possibilities for anchors that provide structure without having to adhere to fixed clock times. Why do routines matter? Your routine is a solution to a problem you've already solved. Now if you could just get it done on automatic, that'd make life easier. The morning routine that starts your day right, the afterwork routine that transitions you to home mode or a different role, the evening routine that gets you prepared for the next day. The distance between planning and done is a cue: something that tells your brain the routine starts now, and gets you on your way to completing it. KeepCue provides 60+ cue ideas to get you started. VISUAL TIMELINE TO VIEW YOUR DAY See your work and personal life at a glance. Your schedule and free time in one view: find the time you didn't know you had, fix an overlap, or swap an activity just for this week. VIEW YOUR CALENDAR EVENTS View your existing calendar events on the timeline. KeepCue can show any calendar your Apple Calendar app can access, including iCloud, Google, Outlook, Holidays, Birthdays, and subscribed calendars. KeepCue only reads your calendar, and it stays on your device. READY-MADE ROUTINES KeepCue comes with real, helpful routines for morning, afterwork, evening, and weekends. Morning: Core, Full morning routine Afterwork: WFH Transition, Post-shift Recovery Night: Minimalist, Wind-down, Work & School Weekends: Sunday reset, Weekend Recovery Easily add ready-made routines to your planner. UNLIMITED ROUTINES & ACTIVITIES • Add unlimited activities and routines, anchored to time and real moments. Repeat daily, on chosen weekdays, or every few days or weeks. • Break anything overwhelming into a checklist of smaller steps and check them off one by one. • Choose how completed activities look: a color tint, dimmed, or a strikethrough line. HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS See where you are in your day right from the Home Screen, and check off an activity, or a routine's steps, without opening the app. • Small widget: the activity you're on, or the next one. Also works in StandBy mode. • Medium widget: short list of activities coming up today. • Checklist widgets: choose a routine and check off its steps right on the widget. You can add more than one checklist widget. • Lock Screen widget: see what's next on the Lock Screen. DARK MODE KeepCue goes by your iPhone's settings, whether Light or Dark mode. Customize by updating your iPhone's appearance settings. There is also a dark and a tinted app icon, for when you customize your Home Screen icons to Dark or Tinted. REMINDERS Get a reminder when an activity is about to start, or 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes before. Reminders cover your KeepCue activities only, not your calendar events. There are no activity reminders until you turn notifications on. Tapping a reminder opens activity details. Completing an activity clears its reminder. KEEPCUE Built for iOS. One-time purchase, lifetime access. No sign-up. No subscription. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Reach out at support@keepcue.app https://keepcue.app

Blue Hour turns time into light: a sun sinks toward the horizon as your timer runs, so you can feel how much is left without reading a number. Built kindly for ADHD and time-blindness, calm enough for classrooms and kids. No account, no ads, no streaks. Free forever, with a tip jar in Settings. RAISE THE SUN Drag the sun up to set your time, one minute to three hours, with soft detents you can feel. Prefer numbers? Tap the readout for a keypad. Three preset chips keep your rituals one tap away. THE SETTLING DUSK As the last light falls, the sky deepens and the screen dims a few gentle stops. At zero: two slow breaths of glow, a soft haptic, and an optional two-note chime. No alarm slam. Ever. THE LIGHT FOLLOWS YOU A Live Activity keeps the sinking sun on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. An optional nudge can tell you when time is up, even if you have looked away. Off by default. CYCLES, GENTLY Pomodoro in Blue Hour's language: work while the sun sets, then the break is a sunrise. The sky returns to morning, and the next round starts when you do. Rounds are counted in little suns, never quotas. START FROM ANYWHERE A Home Screen widget starts your usual timer in one tap. Siri and Shortcuts can start, pause, and resume without opening the app. FOR CLASSROOMS One tap opens the big display: a wall-sized countdown calm enough for a whole room, with a classroom preset set from one to twenty minutes. A QUIET LINE EACH DAWN Every day the idle sky carries one line from 412 public-domain quotations. Seneca, Thoreau, Lao Tzu, old proverbs. One per day. No feed, no push, no hustle. CALM BY CONSTRUCTION • Optional halfway and final-minute cues • Keeps the screen awake while the light falls, if you want • Wall-clock accurate: background it, come back, the light agrees • VoiceOver, Reduced Motion, and Dynamic Type are first-class FREE FOREVER Every feature, free. No premium tier, no subscription. If Blue Hour earns a place on your Home Screen, there is a tip jar in Settings. It unlocks nothing. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No analytics. No tracking. Blue Hour makes zero network calls, and its App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected," the rare kind that means exactly what it says. The light keeps track for you.