What does the free version include?

Up to 5 time zones, the full daylight-aware zone card display (including daylight, sunrise/sunset, and work hours), the time-shift planner, the free Single Zone Home Screen widget (small and medium), and the free circular Lock Screen clock. Ads are shown on the home and detail screens. Groups, Meeting Overlap, the inline and rectangular Lock Screen widgets and the Meeting Hub widget, DST alerts, public holidays, notifications, and exports require Lifetime or Plus.

Does Time Zone Buddy work with Siri and Shortcuts?

Yes. Three App Shortcuts ship with the app and appear automatically in Siri, Spotlight, and the Shortcuts app: 'Plan a meeting in Time Zone Buddy', 'Add a time zone in Time Zone Buddy', and 'Show alerts in Time Zone Buddy'. Long-pressing the Home Screen icon also exposes the same three actions as Quick Actions. Saved zones are indexed in Spotlight with their country flag, region, UTC offset, and both standard and DST abbreviations — search EST, EDT, AEST, or AEDT any time of year and the right zone surfaces. Tap a result to open the zone instantly.

Time Zone Buddy — World Clock App & Time Zone Converter for iOS

Q: Why doesn't Lifetime include iCloud Sync?

iCloud Sync is an active, continuously running service that keeps your zones and groups in sync across your supported Apple devices. Because it requires ongoing maintenance, it's the one feature that honestly belongs with a subscription. Everything else is a one-time unlock.

Q: Does Plus include Family Sharing?

Yes. The Annual plan includes Family Sharing for up to 5 family members via App Store Family Sharing. The Monthly plan does not include Family Sharing. Lifetime does not include Family Sharing.

Q: Does Time Zone Buddy have widgets?

Yes. The Single Zone widget is free and comes in small and medium sizes — it shows any saved city's live time with the same daylight-aware shading as the app, and the medium size adds a day timeline and a work-hours status line with the next start or finish time. Lifetime and Plus add Lock Screen clocks (circular, inline, and rectangular accessory widgets) and the Meeting Hub widget (small, medium, and large) that shows who's in work hours right now across all your zones, who's coming online soon, and who's off duty. Tap any widget to jump straight into the app. Widgets read your data on-device through a private App Group — nothing leaves your device.

Coming soon in v1.5 · The new city view

See any city, properly.

Arriving in version 1.5: tap a city and the sky over it fills the screen — deep night, golden hour, or the middle of the afternoon, drawn from that city’s own sunrise and sunset. Underneath the clock, a daylight bar shows how far through the day they are. Shift the time first and the city opens at that moment, sky and all.

The redesigned Time Zone Buddy city view for Sydney at 9:41 am: a bright morning sky fills the header, above the local time, a daylight bar with a marker early in the day and sunrise and sunset labelled beneath it, a Home City card, and a Time Zone card reading 1 hour ahead of you in Brisbane

The sky, and their whole day

The light where they are, worked out on your device from that city’s own solar times — morning, sunset, night, dawn. Below the clock, a daylight bar marks where they sit between sunrise and sunset. Both follow the time of day, not the weather.

Time zone, answered first

The card leads with what you opened it for — how far ahead or behind you they are. The abbreviation, UTC offset and next clock change sit underneath, labelled.

Everything in its place

Local time, time zone, daylight, work hours and public holidays each become their own block, each answering one question — so you go straight to the one you came for.

Holidays, next one first

Public holidays lead with the one actually coming up, with the full year a tap away. Home and Away each explain what that status gets the city.

Travel Mode

Home, wherever you land.

Set your Home city and Time Zone Buddy keeps it close as you travel. When your device changes time zone, an Away card appears right beside Home — so “what time is it back home?” is a single glance.

Time Zone Buddy Travel Mode showing Sydney pinned as Home beside an automatic Away card for New York

Your Home, pinned

Your Home city stays at the top of your grid and always shows its public holidays and clock changes — free, on every tier.

Away, automatically

Travel and Time Zone Buddy pins an Away card for where you are now, next to Home. Land in a new zone and a friendly card shows how far ahead or behind home you are.

A Home & Away widget

Home time at a glance on your Home Screen — and while travelling it flips to a Home | Here view, with each city's daylight and the next sunrise or sunset where you've landed.

Precise away details, optional

Travel Mode works without location access. In version 1.4 and later, you can opt in to occasional coarse location checks while using the app for more accurate Away sunrise and sunset. Plus and Lifetime also get regional public holidays where available. How location is used.

Detail

Every detail, beautifully clear.

Tap any city for the full picture — a live map, the exact local time, an hour-by-hour crossover with your day, a real-time daylight arc with sunrise and sunset, and its work hours.

Hour Crossover row lining up your hours with the city's — Hour Crossover

Daylight arc showing sunrise, midday, and sunset for the city — Daylight arc

Work Hours card showing the city's working window — Work hours

Planning

Plan any time, from anywhere.

Drag the time-shift bar ±12 hours, pick a future date, and instantly see the clock in every zone. No calculator, no guessing.

Time shift planner with the time slider active, updating every city at once

Meeting Overlap results ranking the best meeting window across time zones

Scheduling

The perfect meeting window, found.

Meeting Overlap ranks every possible overlap window by how many people it works for. Share the result as a clean image — no app required on their end.

Alerts

Never miss a clock change.

DST alerts appear in-app the week before a transition, with optional push notifications at 7 days out, the business day before, and the morning it happens.

Home screen with a Daylight Saving Time change banner and per-city DST countdown pills

Widgets

The world, on your Home Screen.

The free Single Zone widget keeps any city's live time on your Home Screen in small or medium size, with the same daylight-aware shading as the app — the medium size adds a day timeline and an at-a-glance work-hours status. Lifetime and Plus add Lock Screen clocks and a live Meeting Hub widget showing who's working right now across all your zones.

Shortcuts

Right where you need it.

Long-press the app icon to plan a meeting, add a zone, or jump straight to alerts. Ask Siri or use the Shortcuts app: “Plan a meeting in Time Zone Buddy.”

Spotlight indexes every zone you've saved with its country flag, region, UTC offset, and both abbreviations — search EST, EDT, AEST, or AEDT any time of year and the right zone surfaces. Tap to open it instantly.

Siri Shortcuts Spotlight Quick Actions

Native

Built for Apple, end to end.

A native SwiftUI app for iPhone and iPad. Liquid Glass surfaces, App Intents, Siri, Spotlight, Quick Actions, the Share Sheet, iCloud Sync, full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support, and Reduce Motion respect — it feels like Apple shipped it.

iPhone iPad iCloud Sync VoiceOver Dynamic Type Reduce Motion

Ready to master your time zones?

Free to download. No account, no identifiable or cross-device tracking.

Simple, honest pricing

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Free

Always free

Download Free

✓ Up to 5 time zones
✓ Daylight-aware zone cards
✓ Time shift planner (±12h)
✓ Single Zone widget (small & medium)
✗ Ads shown
✗ Groups
✗ Meeting Overlap
✗ DST alerts & notifications
✗ Exports
✗ iCloud Sync

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Plus

$14.99 /year AUD

or $2.99/month AUD

Get Plus

✓ Unlimited time zones
✓ Daylight-aware zone cards
✓ Time shift planner (±12h)
✓ No ads, ever
✓ Groups, Meeting Overlap, Exports
✓ All widgets — Home Screen, Lock Screen & Meeting Hub
✓ DST alerts & notifications
✓ iCloud Sync across supported Apple devices
✓ Family Sharing — Annual plan, up to 5 people
✓ Early access to new features

Lifetime

$39.99 AUD

One-time purchase · Yours forever

Buy Lifetime

✓ Unlimited time zones
✓ Daylight-aware zone cards
✓ Time shift planner (±12h)
✓ No ads, ever
✓ Groups, Meeting Overlap, Exports
✓ All widgets — Home Screen, Lock Screen & Meeting Hub
✓ DST alerts & notifications
✗ iCloud Sync (Plus only)
✗ Family Sharing (Annual plan only)

Time Zone Buddy is built by a solo developer. Your support keeps it ad-free and actively improved.

Prices shown in AUD. Your local price is set by Apple and displayed at checkout — it will vary by region. iCloud Sync is Plus-only. Family Sharing is included with the Annual plan (not Monthly or Lifetime). Lifetime is a one-time purchase — no subscription, no renewal.

Frequently asked questions

Up to 5 time zones, the full daylight-aware zone card display (including daylight, sunrise/sunset, and work hours), the time-shift planner, and the free Single Zone Home Screen widget (small & medium). Ads are shown on the home and detail screens. Groups, Meeting Overlap, Lock Screen & Meeting Hub widgets, DST alerts, public holidays, notifications, and exports require Lifetime or Plus.

Yes. The Lifetime option ($39.99 AUD) unlocks everything except iCloud Sync with a single purchase. No subscription, no renewal. You keep all current features forever on iOS and iPadOS.

iCloud Sync is an active, continuously running service — it keeps your zones and groups in sync across your supported Apple devices. Because it requires ongoing maintenance, it's the one feature that honestly belongs with a subscription. Everything else is a one-time unlock.

iCloud Sync (your zones appear instantly on every supported Apple device you own), Family Sharing with the Annual plan (up to 5 family members), and early access to new features. If iCloud Sync or Family Sharing matters to you, Plus Annual is the right choice. If you prefer owning your software outright, Lifetime is the better deal.

Yes — the Annual plan includes Family Sharing for up to 5 family members via App Store Family Sharing. The Monthly plan does not include Family Sharing. Lifetime does not include Family Sharing.

Yes. Your time zones, groups, and settings never leave your device — there are no accounts and no servers of our own. The app uses only anonymous, aggregate analytics (via Firebase) to understand which features are used; it is never linked to your identity and never sold. If you enable iCloud Sync (Plus only), your data is stored in your personal iCloud account — not ours. We never see it.

When a tracked timezone has an upcoming daylight saving change within 7 days, a banner appears at the top of the Home screen (Lifetime/Plus only). If you enable notifications, you'll receive push alerts at 7 days before, the business day before, the morning of the change, and the day after — all scheduled on-device.

Meeting Overlap finds the best time window to meet across any number of timezones. It calculates which time slots overlap with the work hours of the most people in your tracked zones, ranks them, and shows local times for each zone. Share the result as a clean image or text. Requires Lifetime or Plus.

Yes. Three App Shortcuts ship with the app and appear automatically in Siri, Spotlight, and the Shortcuts app: “Plan a meeting in Time Zone Buddy”, “Add a time zone in Time Zone Buddy”, and “Show alerts in Time Zone Buddy”. Long-pressing the Home Screen icon exposes the same three Quick Actions. Saved zones are indexed in Spotlight with their country flag, region, UTC offset, and both standard and DST abbreviations — search EST, EDT, AEST, or AEDT any time of year and the right zone surfaces. Tap a result to open the zone instantly.

Open Time Zone Buddy → Settings → Restore Purchases. Your Lifetime or Plus subscription will be restored automatically using your Apple ID.

Yes. The Single Zone widget is free and comes in small and medium sizes — it shows any saved city’s live time with the same daylight-aware shading as the app, and the medium size adds a day timeline and a work-hours status line with the next start or finish time. Lifetime and Plus add Lock Screen clocks (circular, inline, and rectangular accessory widgets) and the Meeting Hub widget (small, medium, and large) that shows who’s in work hours right now across all your zones, who’s coming online soon, and who’s off duty. Tap any widget to jump straight into the app. Widgets read your data on-device through a private App Group — nothing leaves your device.

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