OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities
Runs your day's priorities as mutually exclusive countdown timers with a real alarm at zero.
OwnTime turns your priorities into a chess clock: each gets a daily time budget, only one runs at a time, and starting one pauses the rest. When a budget runs out a real alarm fires, through Focus and silent mode, instead of a notification you can ignore. It works on iPhone alone, Apple Watch alone, or both synced directly over WatchConnectivity, with no server or account. There's no built-in analytics; instead you export your whole history as a plain SQLite file. One-time purchase, requires iOS 26.1 or watchOS 26.
What holds up
- +Alarm fires through Focus and silent mode, not a notification you can miss or dismiss
- +No server or account — phone and watch sync directly over WatchConnectivity
- +Exports full history as a plain SQLite file instead of locking it in app analytics
- +One-time purchase, no subscription
Mind the limits
- −Requires iOS 26.1 or watchOS 26 — no support for older OS versions
- −No built-in statistics or charts — you query the SQLite export yourself
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