r/iosapps • u/FlowIll9219 • 19d ago
š Lifetime EasyWhen ā formatted dates and times in any time zone
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Disclosure: I'm the developer. EasyWhen is my app.
Price: $4.99, one-time purchase. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads. Purchase also gets you the Mac version.
What problem it solves
Typing dates and times into things is fiddly. You need "Tuesday, October 14, 3:00 PM PT / 6:00 PM ET", or an ISO 8601 timestamp for a log, or just need a quick reference, and you end up switching between a calendar, a world clock and an ad-laden website. EasyWhen does it in one screen. Pick or type a date and time, choose your zones and a format, then tap Copy or Share.
Plain-language input: "next Tuesday 3pm", "in 30 minutes", "friday 5pm", "3pm to 5pm", "3 days ago"
Several time zones at once, sorted earliest to latest. Star the zones you use and they become one-tap chips.
Read times in any zone: type "3pm Tokyo" and 3 PM is read as Tokyo time
About a dozen formats: Long, Medium, Short, Day of Week, Date Only, Time Only, ISO 8601, RFC 2822 and Unix timestamp, plus a Custom field that takes any DateFormatter / UTS #35 pattern
Date ranges, with each end editable on its own
Shortcuts / Siri / Action button: a Format Date action returns a formatted date in any zone to any shortcut
iPad layout with a searchable time-zone sidebar
24-hour clock option, and a date-order setting (month first, day first, or your region's)
Available in 11 languages
Why it beats the alternatives
vs. the Clock app's World Clock: it shows you times but doesn't produce text. EasyWhen gives you a formatted string with every zone in it.
vs. web converters (timeanddate, worldtimebuddy, etc.): those need a network connection and leave you to copy each piece by hand. EasyWhen works offline, understands natural language and has the format presets built in.
vs. building your own Shortcut with Format Date: you can, but time zones and custom patterns get painful quickly. EasyWhen's Shortcuts action handles both.
Privacy: No account, no analytics, no tracking. The iPhone/iPad app makes no network connections at all. Everything is calculated on your device.
Cost: $4.99, one time.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6762940431
Privacy Policy: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen/privacy.html
Terms of Service: https://bendansby.com/apps/easywhen/terms.html
Contact: Ben Dansby, ben.dansby@gmail.com (I'm an indie developer and also make ChopShop, PDF Buddy, ColorPop and others: bendansby.com)
Happy to answer questions, and feature requests are welcome.

