Name: Ahead
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: MiguelT

Ahead shows a time a few minutes into the future and never tells you how many.

If you have ADHD or time blindness, you have probably tried setting your watch fast. It works for about a week. Then you learn the number, you start subtracting it without thinking, and you are late again.

Ahead takes the number away from you. It picks a random offset inside a range you choose, 2 to 20 minutes by default, and changes it several times a day at times you cannot predict. The amount is never shown on the watch or in the settings. There is nothing to subtract.

So when the watch reads 8:52, you do not know whether it is really 8:50 or 8:34. The safe move is to leave now. That small uncertainty is what gets you out the door.

HOW IT STAYS HONEST

A plus sign sits next to the time whenever the face is running fast. Switch the offset off and the plus goes dark and you see true time. The face never shows a shifted time without saying that it is shifted.

The clock never runs backwards while you are looking at it. If a new offset is smaller than the last one, the change waits until you look away, so you are never handed back time you do not have.

Nothing else on your watch changes. Alarms, timers, activities and system time all stay real. The offset lives only on this watch face.

Seconds, when you switch them on, are true seconds.

DESIGN

Retro LCD styling with seven segment digits, visible unlit segments, a weekday strip and a date dial. Three themes: LCD, inverted and amber. On always on displays it drops to a dim low power layout that keeps the plus indicator visible.

Four complication slots. Choose from steps, heart rate, battery, notifications, Body Battery, calories, alarms, Bluetooth, sunrise and sunset, distance and floors climbed.

SETTINGS

Offset on or off
Minimum and maximum offset
Re-roll frequency, roughly 3, 6 or 10 times a day
Theme
Seconds on or off
Unlit segments on or off
Four complication slots

Free. No ads, no accounts, no data collection.