The Chronos app for iPhone and Android

• Already use Chronos? Open the app and log in with the same email and password you use on the web. Everything you have on the web is there.
• New to Chronos? Tap Create an account, enter your name, email and a password, and you're signed straight in on a 14-day free trial with no credit card. Chronos takes your timezone from your phone.
• Forgot your password? opens the reset page in your phone's browser.
• After you sign in, your phone asks whether Chronos can send you notifications. Say yes to get reminders on this phone.

The bar along the bottom holds the five places you'll use most. Pull down on Today, Calendar, Agenda or Tasks to refresh.

• Today — A greeting, what's left today, your schedule, any Signals, your habits and your active projects.
• Calendar — A month grid with a dot for each busy day, folding to a single week strip, above an hour-by-hour timeline of the day you pick.
• Agenda — Everything scheduled, as a list. Switch between Day and Week.
• Tasks — Your open tasks, grouped by when they're due. Tap + to add one, tap a task to edit it, or tick it off (with Undo).
• Chronos — Chat with Chronos, by typing or by voice. Tap the new-chat button at the top to start over.

A task in the app has a title, priority, duration, due date and optional notes. Chronos then finds time for it, just as it does on the web.

Tap the menu button at the top left (or swipe in from the left edge) to reach every other part of Chronos. It follows the web sidebar section for section: Share, Team, Insights and Wellness, then Notifications, Settings, Help and Log out at the bottom.

Choose what the menu shows

1. Tap Edit menu, or press and hold any item.
2. Tap an item to hide it or show it again.
3. Tap Done.

Your web sidebar hides the same items, and the other way round. Notifications, Settings and Help are always shown.

These are built into the app:

• Dashboard (the Today tab), Calendar, Agenda, Tasks and Chronos
• Projects
• Docs and lists: create, edit and delete them, and comment on docs
• Shared Calendars and Booking Links
• Chat
• Habits, Journal and Weekly Review
• Notifications and Settings

Shared Links, Teams, Team Booking, Allocations, Executive, Analytics, My Stats and Helpopen the web version inside the app, already signed in and in your app's light or dark look. In the menu they have a small arrow icon. Tap the arrow at the top right of the page to open it in your browser instead. So do Manage plan & billing and More settings on the web (calendars, integrations and your account) in Settings.

Docs are edited as plain text in the app. If a doc has formatting the app can't keep, it opens read-only and asks you to edit it on the web, so nothing gets lost.

• Adding, editing and deleting tasks in the Taskstab works without a connection. The app saves the change and sends it when you're back online, even if you close the app in between.
• While changes are waiting, Tasks and Agenda show a banner such as 2 changes waiting to sync.
• Everything else needs a connection, including ticking off a task, logging a habit, writing in your journal and chatting with Chronos.

Tap a notification to go straight to what it's about: a task opens in Tasks ready to edit, and a doc, list or project opens on its own screen. Anything else opens the matching screen or web page.

Choose what you get under Settings › Notifications:

• This phone — turn notifications on for this phone, or Send a test notification.
• Reminders— for tasks, events or both, whether they're also emailed, and How early (5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes, or 1 hour before).
• Updates— your morning brief, scheduling alerts when a task can't fit before its due date, and booking alert emails.

The bell at the top of the screen opens your in-app notifications and shows how many are unread.

• Push-to-talk: in the Chronos tab, tap the microphone, say what you need, then tap it again. What you said is sent as your message.
• “Hey Chronos”: turn it on under Settings › Voiceto talk to Chronos hands-free. It's off until you switch it on.
• Siri (iPhone): ask Siri to add a meeting, read your agenda, log a habit and more. Turn this off with the Siri switch under Settings › Voice.

The phrases and how hands-free conversations work are in Siri and “Hey Chronos”. What Chronos can do for you is in Chronos Agent.

• Live Activitiesshow what's on now or next on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a countdown in the last 10 minutes. Turn them off under Settings › Notifications › Lock Screen.
• The Next up widget shows your next two tasks or events on your Home Screen or in CarPlay.

Setting them up in the car is covered in CarPlay.

• Profile— your name and timezone. Chronos schedules your day and counts streaks in this timezone. Search for a city, or pick your phone's own timezone from the top of the list.
• Appearance — System, Light or Dark. System follows your phone's setting.
• Haptic feedback — a gentle tap when you complete tasks and habits.
• Availability — your working hours for each day and any time off. Chronos only schedules your tasks inside these hours.
• Peak hours— your peak and low energy times, so demanding work lands when you're sharpest.
• Notifications and Voice — as described above.
• Plan — your plan and, on a trial, how many days are left.
• Delete account — at the bottom, under Log out. See Account and security for what happens and how to restore it within 30 days.

Dates and times are picked with your phone's own date and time picker.

The app follows your plan. When a screen needs a different plan, it says which one and offers to upgrade on the web.

• Chronos tab and “Hey Chronos” — Pro, Teams and Enterprise, and during your free trial
• Docs & Lists — Shared and above, and during your free trial
• Shared Calendars — Shared, Teams and Enterprise
• Team chat — Teams and Enterprise

When a free trial ends you can still see everything, but changes aren't saved until you choose a plan. See Plans and billing.

Both apps have the same tabs, menu, screens, offline tasks, notifications, voice input and “Hey Chronos”. These are iPhone only:

• Siri shortcuts and the Siri switch in Settings › Voice
• Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
• The Next up widget for your Home Screen and CarPlay

Each time you open Chronos it checks for an update and downloads it in the background. The update is used the next time you open the app, so if you hear about a fix, close Chronos fully and open it again. Bigger changes come as a new version of the app itself.

Related articles

• Siri — talk to Chronos hands-free on iPhone
• CarPlay — what's on now and next in your car
• Notifications — reminders and alerts
• Account and security — password and deleting your account