Know how much of your life you actually spend outside.
See the Sky tracks your outdoor time automatically with your iPhone and Apple Watch, then shows it against the goal you care about. A daily habit. A 1000-hour year. Your call. No timer to remember.
Launching on iPhone and Apple Watch. One email when it's ready, a few honest updates along the way, zero spam.
You meant to get outside today.
Then the meeting ran long. The kids needed a ride. It got dark at 5:30. And the day was gone.
It's not a willpower problem. It's a visibility problem. You can see your steps, your sleep, your screen time down to the minute. But the one number that changes your mood, your sleep, and your kids' entire childhood? Nobody's counting it.
Well, almost nobody. The 1000 Hours Outside crowd counts it by hand, on paper trackers and buggy timer apps, tapping start and stop and forgetting half the time.
There's an easier way.
+ 40 minutes at the park you started late
+ the whole soccer practice nobody timed
+ the hike where your phone died
= hours you actually lived outside that never made it onto the tracker.
Your watch already knows. See the Sky just does the math.
Never press a timer again.
Your Apple Watch already senses daylight, motion, and where you go. See the Sky puts those signals together, a few times a day, and figures out when you were really out there.
Walk out the door
That's the whole instruction. Your watch's daylight sensor, your movement, and your familiar places do the rest. No button. Nothing to remember.
See the Sky adds it up
Several times a day, the app looks back at what your watch collected and turns it into outdoor sessions. Sitting by a sunny window at your desk doesn't count. Twenty minutes on the trail does.
See it on your home screen
A widget shows where you stand against your goal: 5 h 12 m of 7 today, or 412 of 1000 hours this year. Glance, then get back outside.
Pick a goal. Any size.
Some people want an hour a day. Some families want a thousand hours a year. See the Sky handles both, at the same time if you like.
Daily, weekly, monthly. Set the number, watch it fill. A weekly goal means one rainy Tuesday doesn't wreck your streak.
The 1000-hour year. Pick a target and a start date, and See the Sky tells you if you're ahead or behind pace, and exactly how many minutes a day it takes to stay on track. Presets for 1000 hours and a "first 100."
On your home screen, lock screen, and wrist. Widgets for every size, plus an Apple Watch complication. The number carries an "as of" time so you always know how fresh it is.
Built for families who count hours together.
Kids don't wear watches. That shouldn't mean their hours go untracked.
Create a profile for each family member. When See the Sky detects you were at the park for 90 minutes, one tap says who was with you, and everyone's total moves. Two parents on two phones? Both feed the same family ledger, with no double counting.
Each kid gets their own goal, their own widget, their own year-at-a-glance. Milestone badges at 100, 250, 500, 750, and 1000 hours, because the coloring-sheet tracker on the fridge deserves a digital sibling.
"We spent 1,014 hours outside last year. I know because I stopped guessing."
What we're building toward. Not a real testimonial yet, but it will be.
What's in the app
Everything that matters. Nothing that nags.
Automatic detection
Daylight, motion, workouts, and the places you frequent, combined into outdoor sessions. No timer.
Smart about windows
See the Sky learns your home, office, and school so a bright desk doesn't count as a hike.
One-tap corrections
Swipe any session to say "that was inside" or "yep, outside." Every correction makes it smarter.
Goals with pace
Daily, weekly, monthly, or cumulative. Always know if you're ahead or behind, and by how much.
Widgets everywhere
Home screen, lock screen, StandBy, and Apple Watch complications. One per kid if you want.
Family profiles
Track everyone from one watch. Sync between parents with iCloud. No accounts, no logins.
Calm notifications
All off by default. Turn on a midday nudge, an evening summary, or a weekly pace check. Your choice.
Your data, yours
Everything is computed on your device. Sessions write back to Apple Health. Export to CSV anytime.
Works without a watch
No Apple Watch? Log time manually or use the built-in timer. Add one later and it takes over.
Is See the Sky for you?
You'll love it if
- You're doing 1000 Hours Outside and you're tired of the paper tracker (or the timer app that forgets)
- You feel better after time outside and want to know when you're slipping
- You hike, run, paddle, ski, surf, or just walk the dog, and you'd like it all to count
- You live somewhere with real winters and want to see what the dark months do to you
- You want a number on your home screen, not another app to open
Probably not for you if
- You want a stopwatch that ticks in real time (See the Sky updates a few times a day, on purpose)
- You're on Android (not yet)
- You want UV index, burn time, or Vitamin D estimates. Great apps exist for that; this isn't one
Questions people ask
How does it know I'm outside without a timer?
Your Apple Watch has an ambient light sensor and already records "Time in Daylight" to Apple Health. See the Sky reads that, then cross-checks it with your movement, your workouts, and the places you go every day. A few times a day it looks back and turns those signals into outdoor sessions.
Which Apple Watch do I need?
Apple Watch Series 6 or later, Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) or later, or any Apple Watch Ultra, running watchOS 10 or newer. That's every model from the last several years. Your iPhone needs iOS 17 or later.
Does it count sitting by a window?
The daylight sensor alone would. See the Sky won't. It learns your home, office, and other regular indoor spots, and it treats daylight there with suspicion unless your movement says you actually went out. And if it gets one wrong, one swipe fixes it and teaches it.
Is it real time?
No, and that's deliberate. See the Sky is a daily metric, like a step count, not a stopwatch. Your total updates a few times a day and the widget shows an "as of" time. That's what lets it run all day with almost no battery cost.
What about the battery?
See the Sky never runs GPS continuously. It uses data your watch is already collecting, so the target is under three percent extra battery a day on both watch and phone.
My kids don't have watches. How do their hours work?
Create a profile for each of them. When See the Sky detects a session on your watch, tap the faces of whoever was with you. You can also set a default ("the kids are usually with me") so it's pre-filled. Manual entry is there for the days grandma takes them to the beach.
Do I need an account?
No. Solo use needs nothing. Family sync between two parents uses iCloud, so it's your existing Apple ID and nothing else. There's no login, no password, no server of ours holding your data.
Where does my location data go?
Nowhere. The places See the Sky learns stay on your device and are never synced, even to your other devices. Family sync shares session times and profile names only.
When does it launch?
We're building it now. The first TestFlight goes to people on this list. Get on it and you'll hear first.
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