Time to Leave

Dan Finkelstein

About this app

Don't miss your upcoming appointments -- get notified on your device when you should leave to make it there on time!

- Takes into account your current location and traffic conditions along the way.
- Specify which device calendars you'd like to the app to use.
- Begin an event title with "bike to" or "bike" or "cycle" to get bike travel time estimates, or start it with "walk" or "walk to", or "take a bus to" or "bus" to get walking or transit estimates
- Customize how soon to get notified and a "buffer" time
- Choose whether to avoid highways and tolls
- Customize normal alert and "urgent" alert sounds
- "Snooze" a notification to get alerted again before its time to leave
- "Pick up" mode! Do you drop a kid off at an appointment and want to be alerted when to leave to get there at the beginning AND the end? Add the text "(P/U)" at the END of your event title (Ex: "Dance class (p/u)") and TTL will do the rest.
-IFTTT Maker interface allows you to perform custom home automation tasks when it's almost time to leave -- flash a light, make an announcement, etc.

Ratings and reviews

Simple, but very effective. This app has saved me a couple times. Whereas the Google "time to leave" function is erratic and can't be customized, this app works every time. On at least two occasions in the past two weeks since I downloaded the app, this app has told me to leave at the correct time, whereas if I left when the Google notification indicated I would have arrived VERY late.

Finally upgraded my old phone and this was the first thing I installed, works exactly as the old Google Now feature, shame Google dropped it (and couldn't be bothered to tell us that they were dropping it). One thing I would like to see is the ability to use other sounds for the alert such as alarms or your own audio files Great app, thxs.

This is a really good app that fills a need. One difficulty is that it appears to resolve the address field to Bing Maps. Unfortunately Bing isn't as good at getting it right when you use less structured content in the address field as compared to Google Maps. I'd gladly pay more for the app to use Google Maps for address lookup. It would also be nice if users could add keywords to the app options and the app would ignore calendar entries containing that keyword. Otherwise great app.