You’re both under the same sky.
See their local time, their weather, and whether they are awake, right now, from your Home Screen.
Right now
You have done this sum a hundred times.
Nine and a half hours. Forward or back. Whether that means they are asleep, or about to be, or already three hours into their day. Same Sky answers it before you have finished asking.
Live, between the two cities this app was built for.
The sky
Their light above. Yours below.
Open the app and you are looking at both of your skies at once, meeting at a horizon in the middle. Their half is the light where they are. Yours is the light where you are.
The colours are not decoration. They come from the real position of the sun at your coordinates and at theirs, worked out on your phone from published astronomy, with no network involved. Their half is genuinely dawn while yours is genuinely dusk, and it changes through the day the way weather does.
The moon between the two halves is tonight’s moon, at its real phase. It is the same one you are both under, which is the whole idea.
On your Home Screen
Their day, without opening anything.
Both clocks, tonight’s moon and the hours you overlap. On the Home Screen, on the Lock Screen, and in StandBy on the bedside table. They keep working with the phone offline, because the astronomy is computed on the device rather than fetched.
Days
One photo a day, each.
A journal the two of you write together. One picture a day from each of you, on the days you feel like it. Nothing is mandatory, nothing nags you, and there is no streak to break.
Go back through the months and the day you are thinking of is right there, with whatever either of you said about it. It is the part people keep.
Days is the paid feature, and it unlocks on both phones. A one sided journal is not a journal. If only one of you has bought it, the app says so plainly and keeps your photos until the other side unlocks.
And
Everything else it does.
The call window
The hours you are both awake, and exactly how much of today's is left. No counting on your fingers, no waking anybody at three in the morning by accident.
Countdowns
The next time you are together, to the second, and how long it has been since the last time. Put it on the Lock Screen and it is the first thing you see.
Quiet hours
Nothing this app sends will arrive while the person receiving it is asleep. Anything that would land in their night is held until their morning, every time.
Point at the moon
One tap to say you are thinking of them. It reaches their phone, and if they are asleep it waits until they are not.
Today's question
The same prompt on both phones, chosen from the date rather than sent from anywhere. Something to answer when there is nothing new to report.
Not only for couples
Built first for partners apart, and just as much for military families, for parents whose children moved abroad, and for anyone who keeps doing the arithmetic.
Privacy
There is no server.
That is not a slogan, it is the architecture. There is nowhere for us to keep your data, because there is no us holding anything.
Private by default
Nothing is opt out. The app is built so that the private path is the only path, and there is no setting you have to find to make it true.
No analytics, no ad SDKs
There is no analytics package, no attribution SDK and no advertising network anywhere in the binary. Nothing about how you use the app is measured or reported.
Your state lives on device
The two people you set up, your countdowns, your journal and your streak are stored in the app's own database on your phone. The sun and the moon are calculated there too, from the coordinates you picked.
Syncs through your own iCloud
Pairing creates a shared record zone inside your personal iCloud account and gives one person access to it. Your photos travel through your Apple account, not through ours. We cannot read them, and that is a property of how it is built rather than a promise.
Sign in with Apple only
The only sign in method offered, and it is optional. Use Hide My Email and we never see a real address. There are no passwords, no email list and no marketing.
Nothing is sold or shared
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone, for any purpose. There is no mechanism in the app by which it could be.
The full detail is in the privacy policy, including location, photos, weather, purchases, notifications and how to delete everything.
Support
A person reads every message.
Same Sky is small and built by one person, which means help comes from someone who knows the whole app rather than from a queue.
Getting help
Write to hello@sameskyapp.com. Include your iOS version and what you were doing when it went wrong, and it gets sorted faster. There is no ticket system and no bot in the way.
Setting up together
The Us tab creates an invite link you can send however you like, plus a six character code you can read down the phone. Codes last 24 hours and stop working the moment they are used.
Purchases and refunds
Days is handled entirely by Apple, so we never see your payment details. Refunds go through Apple as well, and the support address will point you at the right place if you need it.
Your data, on request
Everything the app holds is already on your phone and in your own iCloud, so there is nothing for us to export. Settings has a delete option that removes all of it and signs you out.
Feature requests
Genuinely welcome at the same address. The app is small on purpose, so the answer is sometimes no, but it will be an honest answer rather than silence.
Common questions
Pairing, why photos have not arrived yet, waking hours that look wrong, and widgets showing stale times are all covered on the support page.
More answers on the support page, or write to hello@sameskyapp.com.
Same sky, wherever they are.
Free to set up and free to use. No account needed to reach any part of it that does not need two phones.