CircleTime Now Shows When You Move, Not Just How Much

Key Points:

• CircleTime shows movement timing, not just quantity.
• New Fitness Mode uses Apple Activity data.
• Displays activity as colored arcs on a 24-hour circle.
• Reveals daily rhythm and movement patterns.
• Designed to reduce pressure, promote awareness.
• Helps users feel more present.
• Created by a small team (designer, developer, thinker).
• A passion project with global users (50+ countries).
• Core purpose: Change relationship with time.
• An invitation to slow down.

If you’ve ever used a fitness tracker, you probably know the feeling. You glance at your wrist and see rings or numbers telling you how much you’ve done, or more often, how much you still need to do. It can sometimes feel like another task on your to-do list.

But what if tracking your movement wasn’t about pressure? What if it was about simply understanding your own rhythm? A small, independent app called CircleTime is exploring that exact idea. With its new Fitness Mode, it’s offering a completely new way to look at your daily activity, focusing on when it happens, not just if it happens.

A Calendar That Breathes

Before we get to the new feature, it’s important to understand that CircleTime is different at its core. Instead of showing your day in a grid of boxes and lines, the app shows your time in a circle, like a clock. This circle also shows you the cycle of daylight, the phases of the moon, and even the weather.

The idea is to help you feel more connected to your day and the environment around you. It’s a calmer, more natural way to look at your time, moving away from the stressful feeling of a packed schedule and toward a gentle, flowing rhythm.

Fitness as Presence, Not Pressure

This is where the new Fitness Mode comes in. It connects with your Apple Activity data but shows it in a new way. Instead of just showing you that you’ve closed your rings, CircleTime places your movement as colored arcs on the 24-hour circle.

You can see your morning walk as a bright arc right after sunrise, or an evening workout as a block of color in the dark. It’s not a tool to push you harder. It’s a gentle mirror that shows you your habits. You might notice that you’re most active on Wednesdays or that you move most in the afternoons. It’s about discovering the quiet story your body is telling you throughout the day.

An Invitation to Slow Down

This new feature fits perfectly with the app’s main purpose: to change our relationship with time itself. It’s not about being more productive, but more present.

Dejan Durini, the co-creator and thinker of CircleTime, puts it best:

At its core, CircleTime is an invitation to slow down and reimagine what time can feel like when it’s not reduced to a list of obligations.

The new Fitness Mode extends this idea to our bodies. It gently brings your movement into the picture, helping you see it as a natural part of your life, not something extra you have to get done.

Born from a Simple Idea

You might be surprised to learn that CircleTime wasn’t made by a big company. It was built by a small team of three, a designer, a developer, and a thinker, who wanted to create something gentle and useful. They worked without any big investors or ad campaigns.

It was a true passion project, and it has found its way to people in over 50 countries who were looking for a calmer way to orient their days. This new feature is the next step in their journey, helping us reconnect not just with our time, but with ourselves.