Blue Hour vs Due Something

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.

Due Something now runs on your wrist, can wake you with a real alarm, and keeps a lasting record of everything you finish. Apple Watch - Your Scheduled tasks on the Watch, grouped the way they are on iPhone - Swipe to complete, snooze, or delete, and tap the plus to add one by dictation - Choose what each swipe does in Settings, Apple Watch, on your iPhone - Snooze swipes can open the task or apply a set duration you choose - Two complications: Scheduled, in four shapes, and a New Task button - Anything you do while your iPhone isn't nearby is applied when it is Alarms - Turn on Create Alarm for a task that has a date, a time, and Emergent - It rings through Silent mode and Focus, with the system alarm sound - Stopping the alarm doesn't complete the task, so it's still there to do A lasting completed history - Finishing a repeating task now leaves a record that stays behind - Completed occurrences show in Completed and count toward your report totals and streak - The history survives deleting the task it came from Calendar - Add to Calendar now keeps a live link: edit the task and its event follows - The link carries to a repeating task's next occurrence - A green calendar icon marks any task that came from, or writes to, a calendar Siri and Shortcuts - Complete and reopen tasks by voice - Ask for tasks by list, date range, or whether they're done - Full Reminders actions on iOS 27 for creating and updating tasks and lists Finding things - Filter Scheduled by Repeating, Calendar, Flagged, Emergent, Location, or Alarm - Start typing something you've done before and pick it from the suggestions — the old task comes back instead of a duplicate Sharing - Share a task as a PDF: everything it holds, with a page for each attachment - Export a whole selection as separate files, or as one document with a cover page iPad and Mac - Tasks open in a panel beside your list rather than covering it - Reworked toolbars, with Settings and the sidebar button together Appearance and selection - Light Mode, Dark Mode, or System Default under Settings, Appearance - Choose which buttons the select bar carries, in Batch Select Options - Set a location alert on several tasks at once Repeating - "Last" in the On day picker, for the last day of any month, whatever its length Shared lists - A list shared with you as view only now says so, instead of taking edits that could never sync - Flags, Emergent marks, and sharing still work on them Fixes - Resend limits now count per snooze cycle rather than resetting when the app opens - Completing a task on one device clears its alert on your others - Dictation no longer fails on the attempt after an interrupted start - A task whose location can't be found no longer looks as though it saved - Repeating tasks set to the last day of the month advance properly - Faster search, faster suggestions, and less sync bookkeeping