Dialed
A Radial Calendar App for iOS
Details
- External ID
- 46081403
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Dialed
- Website domain
- apple.com
- Launched
- Nov. 28, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey HN! I just launched Dialed – a calendar app where your day is visualized as a clock instead of a grid. I've always found traditional calendar UIs frustrating. Lists feel like todo apps. Grids feel like spreadsheets. But we experience time circularly, like a clock face.A few months ago I saw a radial planning concept and couldn't stop thinking about it. Started building that week.Key features:Day visualized as 24-hour clock Tasks/events as colored arcs Apple Calendar sync Time analytics (planned vs actual) Custom themesBuilt in Swift/SwiftUI. The radial layout was harder than expected – lots of edge cases around midnight wrapping and overlapping events.This is my first iOS launch. Would love feedback on whether the radial metaphor works for you guys!
Enrichment
- Theme
- meeting scheduling and notetaking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- radial calendar app
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Dialed is a SwiftUI iOS app with a custom circular 24-hour canvas, EventKit calendar sync, and local data persistence, easily built with modern AI coding assistants.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Adobe, Bitwarden, Sophos, Apple iCloud
Concerns raised: Subscription model for offline-only app with no ongoing costs, No justification for recurring payments without online components, AI features not compelling enough to warrant subscription
Competitors
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Attention rank: #147 of 151 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 26 days after the earliest competitor.
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