Project Time Machines 2.0
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Find out when you'll really finish.

You say you plan to finish your project by June. Your own work habits say September.

Project Time Machines 2.0 works out the true date your own hours point to, and shows it to you early, while you can still do something about it.

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Free. No card required. Everything on this page is version 2.0, in testing now. Testers get PTM Pro for free.

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Example: Launch my app126 hours left
You say you'll work 4 hours a weekFree
Reach your goal
June 14
You really work 2 hours 45 minutes a weekPro
Reach your goal
September 22

14 weeks later than you planned.

Most of us guess short.

In a 1994 study, students already working on their thesis guessed they'd finish in 34 days. It took 56. A finish date picked by feelings is usually wrong.

Buehler, Griffin and Ross, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1994.

So your PTM does the math.

The hours you say are leftdivided bythe hours a week you really workisthe date you'll finish.

No pep talks. Your own hours, and an honest goal date.

Time remaining Free

Everything that's left to do, on one board.

Break the project into stages, and each stage into individual tasks, with a time estimate attached to each. Your PTM adds them up, accounts for the pace you say you'll work and gives you an accurate date you will reach your goal.

  • It shows when, not just what. Most task boards show what's left. Yours turns what's left into the date you'll finish.
  • A timer on every task. Tap it and go. The time is logged to that task, and time worked without the timer can be added afterward.
  • Every card keeps score. Each stage shows its time worked, its time remaining and a Score, so you can see which part of the project is moving and which is stuck.
PTM 2.0 on a phone. The Project Card for Launch my app: Adjusted Goal Date 06-14-2027, 216 days to go, progress 38 hours of 164, 38 hours 15 minutes worked, Score 87. Below it, the Operations Board with the card Design the UX: 6 hours 30 worked, 7 hours remaining, Score 95, and four tasks (sketch the main user flows, wireframe the sign-in and home screens, pick the color palette and fonts, build a tap-through prototype), each with a timer button and its hours.
Your whole project on one board: every task with its hours, every stage with its time worked, time remaining and Score.

Goal Date

A finish date that keeps up with you.

Every time you work, your PTM logs the hours. Then it puts those hours to use. Every project shows three dates.

  1. Goal Date

    June 1

    You pick this.

  2. Adjusted Goal Date Free

    June 14

    Time remaining on your board, divided by the hours a week you say you'll work.

  3. Pro-Adjusted Goal Date Pro

    September 22

    Time remaining, divided by your real working pace, gives you a true and accurate finish date.

The Pace screen in PTM 2.0 for Launch my app. Goal Date 06-01-2027. Adjusted Goal Date 06-14-2027. Pro-Adjusted Goal Date 09-22-2027, in gold. Stated Pace 4 days a week, 1 hour a day. True Pace 2.75 hours a week, in gold.
If you're drifting off course, your PTM will let you know. While you still have time to do something about it.

Help with the work Pro

Stuck on a step you've never done before? Get help with it.

PTM Pro comes with a Project Agent. It isn't a general-purpose AI. It works from your board, your hours and your goal, so it's specialized in exactly what you're trying to accomplish.

  • It builds your board with you. Describe the project. It asks a few questions, then writes the stages, the tasks and the hours. From then on, it knows your project. All of it stays yours to change.
  • It helps keep your board up to date. It keeps track of what's been done and what's left, and can make adjustments to your board as the project changes.
  • It makes what the project needs. Design mockups. A study plan. A flowchart. Each one is saved with your project.
  • It does deep research. It sends several research agents out at once to find what you're looking for, then helps you sift through what they bring back and put what works to use.
  • It reminds you. You tell it how often, and it helps keep a few days off from turning into a few weeks.
A chat with the Project Agent in PTM 2.0. The request reads: Make me a mockup of the parent's family dashboard using the blue color palette. The Project Agent explains what it assumed, and says the Tidewell parent family dashboard mockup is ready, saved to the project, with an Open button.
As your Project Agent gets to know your project, asking gets simple. One sentence is enough.
The page the Project Agent made: a tap-through mockup of the Tidewell parent dashboard in blues. Good evening, Ana. This week: 14 of 20 chores done, 230 points earned, $23.00 allowance owed. Two chores waiting for approval with Approve and Send back buttons, progress bars for Maya and Leo, and Add a chore and Invite family member buttons.
Make what your project needs.

Also in 2.0

  • A guided first run.Pick your kind of project, from writing something to getting fit, and PTM walks you through it on a ready-made board.
  • Dark or light.Dark is the default. Light is in the menu.
  • Stopwatch Mode.Not sure how long a session will take? Skip the countdown and let the clock count up.
  • No sign-up to start.Open the app and begin. Add an email later, when you want your projects on a second phone.
  • Report a problem from inside the app.Tap, type, send. It comes straight to us.
  • Used PTM before?Sign in with the same email or Google account, and your projects are still there.

What people say about PTM

"…you don't see many apps like this that just keep to their purpose and pull it off without trying to push anything else onto you."
Google Play review, 5 stars, July 2026
"…I've tried so many apps but this one actually feels like it helps…"
Google Play review, 4 stars, July 2026

Both reviews are of version 1, the one on Google Play today. Version 2.0 adds the board and the finish date. Rating and download figures are from PTM's Google Play listing, November 2026.

What's free, what's Pro

PTM Free

  • The timer, and every hour you've logged
  • The board: stages, tasks and hours
  • Your Goal Date and Adjusted Goal Date
  • Light mode and the guided first run

Free, and it stays free.

PTM Pro Pro

  • Everything in the free app
  • The Pro-Adjusted Goal Date, from the hours you really work
  • The Project Agent
  • Reminders when a project goes quiet

$14.99 a month, or $119.99 a year, when Pro launches.

Pro includes a monthly allowance of Project Agent work: about 50 messages, 5 boards and 5 project pages.

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