Ahead: Never Miss What's Next

What matters, three times a day.

Ahead reads your calendar, your reminders and how you slept, and puts your day together on your iPhone. Morning, midday and evening. Free, with no account, and nothing leaves your phone.

THREE CHECK-INS
The 8 AM you and the 8 PM you need different things. Ahead checks in at 7, 11 and 4. Each one reads what's coming and how you slept, then says what matters now in a sentence or two, written on your phone by Apple Intelligence. The next thing coming up, what to wear, the nudge on your Lock Screen.

COMING UP, RANKED
What's next, in the order that matters to you. Swipe a card right and more of that comes first. Swipe left and less of it does. Tap it to see why it's there. Ahead learns who and what comes first for you, and keeps all of it on your phone.

GET AHEAD OF IT
Thanksgiving, a wedding, a trip. When one is close enough to plan for, Ahead brings back what you did around it last year and offers it as reminders, dated the same distance before. Nothing invented. With no history, it just asks when to remind you.

CHECKLISTS AND TRACKERS
Countdowns, checklists and notes that ride along with your day.

ASK SIRI
"Ahead, what's my day look like" reads your day. "Ahead, what's coming up" reads what's next.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE
No account to make. No servers to trust. Your calendar, reminders and health are read on the phone and never uploaded. The one exception is your location, sent to Apple once, for the weather.

FREE
Ahead Plus is gone. I'm one person building this for the love of it, and I'd rather it be in as many hands as possible.

WHY I MADE IT
Your calendar, your reminders and your health deserve one surface, and you should be able to shape that surface to fit your life. Apple built a good calendar. Ahead takes it and extends it the way I'd want it extended. Good design is figuring out what needs to be removed, so 2.0 is smaller than what came before, and better for it.

Ahead works with Calendar, Reminders, Health and Weather on iPhone, and needs iOS 26 or later. Apple Intelligence writes your day where it's available; everywhere else Ahead builds it from the facts.

Tell me what's wrong with it: jamesjacksn@gmail.com