Show HN: Dialed – A Radial Calendar App for iOS
apps.apple.comHey HN! I just launched Dialed – a calendar app where your day is visualized as a clock instead of a grid. I've always found traditional calendar UIs frustrating. Lists feel like todo apps. Grids feel like spreadsheets. But we experience time circularly, like a clock face.
A few months ago I saw a radial planning concept and couldn't stop thinking about it. Started building that week.
Key features:
Day visualized as 24-hour clock Tasks/events as colored arcs Apple Calendar sync Time analytics (planned vs actual) Custom themes
Built in Swift/SwiftUI. The radial layout was harder than expected – lots of edge cases around midnight wrapping and overlapping events.
This is my first iOS launch. Would love feedback on whether the radial metaphor works for you guys!
As nice as this app is, a subscription for something that has zero online components, and therefore has no ongoing costs that need covering, is what goes a step too far for me.
I have zero issue with a one-time payment, and have no problem justifying paying for major version updates. But a subscription just because?? Sorry, no. IMO that’s Adobe-level scummy.
I know you need a revenue stream. But the only justification I can accept for a subscription is a compelling online component that has out-of-pocket costs for you, directly. Even if there is a profit margin involved.
It’s why I pay Bitwarden for family syncing of passwords, and Sophos for the dashboard that can let me monitor up to 10 machines across the family, and Apple for that data insurance package they call iCloud that can cover up to 6 family members. These all have compelling online components that cost the provider serious money and which need ongoing revenue to cover.
And no, AI is not “compelling” in the least.