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Time, honestly.

Being present, in the moment you’re in.

You don’t have a number of years, you have a number of minutes, and it moved while you read that. TrueTime shows your exact age, the hours of today you’ve spent and the ones you haven’t, and the distance to whatever you’re counting toward.

Presence · every secondFree · iOS · Android · WebBuilt on e_core

Inside the app

Your life, in the unit it’s actually spent.

A calendar tells you the date. A clock tells you the time. Neither of them tells you where you are. TrueTime does one thing: it puts you at the centre of the count and shows you the answer honestly.

Your day, right now

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spent today

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still in front of you

That is one day, from your own clock. Give TrueTime a date of birth and it does the same arithmetic on your whole life: your exact age, to the minute, and the distance to every moment you are counting toward.

Exact age

Not years. Minutes.

A birthday rounds you to the nearest year and throws the rest away. TrueTime keeps the rest: years, days, hours and minutes since you started, recounted every second you look.

Time state

Where the count puts you

The same number, read back as a state rather than a figure. Not how long you have been alive, but where that leaves you standing today.

Milestones

The dates you're counting toward

Add the moments that matter and see both halves of each one: the days you've already spent getting there, and the days still between you and it.

Time scrubbing

Move along your own line

Scrub back through what's happened and forward through what's booked. The whole readout follows, so you can see what your time looked like then, and what it will look like next year.

Screens

Four screens. That’s the app.

Time state01

Your age to the minute, and the day you're standing in.

Milestones02

Every date you're counting toward, days used and days left.

Share your state03

A QR code or an identifier. That's the whole handoff.

Timeline04

Scrub back through what happened, forward through what's booked.

The count

Nothing here is an estimate.

Every figure TrueTime shows is arithmetic, not a guess and not an average. It starts from one date you give it and it keeps going, so what you see is your own count and not a rounded version of somebody’s.

The numbers are unremarkable on their own. What they change is how a Tuesday looks once you can see how much of it is left.

You’ll never be here again.

What TrueTime counts

Your exact age. Years, days, hours and minutes since the moment you started, recalculated while you watch it.

The day you're in. Hours spent and hours remaining. Not a bar counting down to bedtime, the actual arithmetic of the day.

Your time state. The count read back as a position rather than a number, so a figure that means nothing on its own means something.

Distance to a milestone. And distance from it. Every date you add gets counted in both directions.

No streaks, no catching up. A day you don't open the app is counted exactly the same. The counting was never yours to keep up with.

Presence

A counter you look at, not one that watches you.

The fair worry about an app that counts your life is that it turns into another thing to manage. So TrueTime asks for one date, shows you where that puts you, and then gets out of the way. There is nothing here to maintain.

One number

It only needs a date

Everything TrueTime shows is arithmetic on your date of birth. There is no questionnaire, no setup, no profile to fill out before the app becomes useful.

Share a state

Hand someone your time

Show another person where you are in your own count, with a QR code or an identifier. Nothing to add, nobody to follow, no thread to keep going afterwards.

Both directions

A date reads differently from each side

The day before a milestone and the day after are the same distance from it, and nothing alike. TrueTime shows you both, because which side you're on is most of the meaning.

Then you put it down

It ends with you closing it

There is no feed here to fall into. You look, you see where you are, and you go be in the minute it just counted.

Knowing how much of something is left is the whole difference between having it and spending it.

TrueTime won’t tell you what to do with the minutes. It only makes sure you know how many there were, which turns out to be most of the work.

TrueTime is one of six apps for being alive, each built for a moment you won’t get back.

All six apps →

TrueTime runs on e_core, the framework we sellSee the framework →

Start with the minute you’re in.

Free on iOS, Android, and web. Give it one date and the count is already running.