Short version: the TimeZoneMeet iOS app is live on the App Store today. You can install it on iPhone or iPad, pin it to your home screen, and stop typing
timezonemeet.app into Safari every time you need to check what time it is in São Paulo or whether 9am Tuesday in New York is sane in Mumbai.
The longer version — what's the same as the web, what's actually different on iOS, and the one thing about Premium that catches people out — is below.
Why a phone app for a tool that already works in a browser?
Time-zone questions show up at awkward moments: when a calendar invite lands while you're walking between meetings, when a colleague in another region pings you on the train, when you're at the airport and need to confirm an arrival time. Those are exactly the moments when typing a URL into mobile Safari, waiting for the page, then thumb-typing a city name is too much friction. People do it once, then default to "let me check at my desk later" — and the check never happens.
A home-screen icon collapses that to one tap. The native shell also gets out of the way of the URL bar and tab clutter, so the lookup field is the first thing you see. That sounds small. It changes how often you actually do the lookup, which is the whole point.
What's the same as the web
Feature parity is the goal, and as of this release it's essentially there. Everything you can do at timezonemeet.app works inside the app:
- City lookup across the full 33,000+ city database, with accent-folding (sao paulo → São Paulo) and region disambiguation (Santa Barbara, California, US). See step-by-step city lookup if you want the walkthrough.
- Two-city Schedule tool with meeting-window ranking, the 5-day horizon spread, holiday badges, and DST shift warnings.
- Pick-on-a-map with 73 globally-iconic cities — two taps, two local clocks, no spelling. The original map post explains the why.
- Recurring analyzer that projects 12 weeks out and flags the exact week DST will shift your call — relevant whenever you're booking a series, not a one-off (background reading).
- AI features — natural-language scheduler ("next Tuesday morning that works for NYC and Berlin"), AI briefings on your schedule results, and follow-up chat. Free tier gets a small daily quota on the natural-language input; the briefing and chat are Premium-gated.
What's actually better on iOS
A few things genuinely improve when you're inside the app rather than mobile Safari:
- Home-screen presence. The icon sits next to Calendar and Mail, which is where your scheduling muscle memory already lives. You'll reach for it the way you reach for those, not the way you reach for a bookmarked URL.
- No URL bar, no autocomplete fighting you. Mobile keyboards love to "correct" city names. The native input field is tuned so that Kyiv stays Kyiv and São Paulo doesn't become Sao Pailo.
- Cleaner iPad layout. On iPad the Schedule tool gives meeting windows the room they need without the desktop chrome being squeezed into a portrait viewport. We also keep the native build pinned to the mobile-first layout regardless of viewport width, which avoids the awkward in-between sizing you sometimes get on tablets.
- Faster cold start. The web bundle is shipped inside the app, so the first lookup after launch doesn't wait on a network round-trip the way a fresh Safari visit might. The city database loads from local assets.
The Premium thing you need to know
Website Premium and App Premium are separate purchases. They do not transfer in either direction.
Apple's App Store rules require that any in-app upgrade go through Apple's In-App Purchase system. That means the iOS app can't unlock Premium based on a Stripe subscription you bought in your browser, and a website session can't read your App Store purchase. If you want Premium in both places, you'll need to buy it in both places. We know that's friction; it isn't a policy we'd pick if we had the choice.
In practice, most people use one or the other and don't notice. If you live in the web app, keep website Premium. If you live in the iOS app, buy App Store Premium there and use Restore Purchases when you reinstall or switch devices. The FAQ entry has the exact behavior in each combination.
What's not in the iOS app (yet)
A handful of web-only features deliberately don't ship in this first iOS release:
- Email magic-link sign-in. On iOS, Premium is tied to your Apple ID via the App Store, so the email sign-in flow that restores website Premium across browsers isn't shown.
- Admin and account pages that only make sense in a browser context.
- Direct calendar export wiring. The Schedule page can still produce an
.icsfile you can share into Calendar, but a deeper native calendar integration is on the list for a follow-up release.
Roadmap and feedback
The release we shipped today is roughly "the web product, well-housed on iOS." The next pass focuses on things that only make sense natively: a Share Sheet extension so you can hand a calendar invite or message to TimeZoneMeet and get the local times back without leaving the other app, a Home Screen widget for a saved city or pair, and tighter Calendar.app integration for the ICS handoff. None of those are promised dates — they're the shape of what comes next.
If something feels off or you'd like a particular native capability, drop a note via /contact. We read all of it. Bug reports with the iOS version (Settings → General → About in the app — coming in the next build, sorry) and a one-line reproduction are gold.
Where to get it
Search "Time Zone Meet" in the App Store if the link above doesn't open on your device. The listing name is "Time Zone Meet"; the app launches as TimeZoneMeet.