Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.
Movie night has a hidden schedule. The feature starts 15 to 25 minutes after the time on your ticket. The popcorn line moves at its own pace. The parking structure sits between you and both. Ready Time plans backward from showtime, popcorn included.
Yes. The time printed on your ticket is when the lights go down and the ads and trailers begin. The feature itself lands 15 to 25 minutes after that, and the exact gap is up to the theater. Those minutes can feel like permission to leave late. Then you spend them in the parking structure and the popcorn line, and still miss the opening scene.
Everything you control happens before the lights dim: leaving the house, the drive, parking, concessions. Ready Time gives each its own slot counting back from showtime. If you'd rather skip the trailers on purpose, set your deadline 15 minutes after the ticket time and walk in as the studio logos roll. Either way you decided it in advance. Share it with whoever you're meeting and they get the same leave time, so nobody is still parking when the trailers start.
The drive above is a starting number. In the app, pick the real place, choose drive, walk, or bike, and Apple Maps fills in how long it takes.
Change where you're leaving from or how you're getting there, and every step before the drive shifts with it.
Work backward from the showtime, then add the parts nobody budgets for: parking, the ticket or concession line, and finding your row in the dark. For a 7:00 show that usually means a 6:35 arrival, which means leaving at 6:15 for a twenty-minute drive. The previews buy you a grace period. Showing up during the trailers still means climbing over people.
Because the showtime reads like a deadline you only have to meet at the last second, when the lights are already going down. Everything real happens before it: leaving, parking, the line, the seat. Give each of those a start time and the rush eases, because you stopped planning to the wrong number.
Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.
Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.
“A key part of my planning process. Well worth the investment.”App Store review
Ready Time
You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.