Cronicular

Walkthroughs

Step-by-step guides to get you up and running with Cronicular — your year on one dial.

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Meet the dial

Your whole year lives on one rotating face. Instead of paging through weeks, you spin through time.

  1. Open Cronicular — you land straight on the dial, showing the current year as a ring of months.
  2. Drag the dial round to move forward or back through the year.
  3. Pinch out to zoom in — from the full year, down to a month, week, or single day.
  4. Pinch in (or tap the centre) to zoom back out to the whole year.
  5. Tap any date on the face to see what's on that day.

Add an event

Events are the things that happen at a time — meetings, plans, reminders. You add them straight onto the dial.

  1. Spin the dial to the date you want.
  2. Tap that spot on the face to start a new event.
  3. Give it a title, and set the date and time.
  4. Choose which ring (calendar) it belongs to — for example Work or Home.
  5. Save. The event now sits on the dial, colour-matched to its ring.

Anchors — the fixed points

Anchors are the moments that don't move: birthdays, deadlines, trips, anniversaries. They sit on the dial as markers you can always see coming.

  1. Open the side drawer (swipe in from the edge, or tap the menu icon).
  2. Choose to add an anchor.
  3. Give it a name and a date.
  4. Save — it pins to the dial at that point in the year.

Living rings

Rings let you layer your life around the dial — work, home, fitness, a shared calendar — each its own colour, so you can read the shape of your year at a glance.

  1. Open the side drawer and go to your rings (calendars).
  2. Create a new ring, name it, and pick a colour.
  3. Assign events and anchors to it as you create them.
  4. Toggle any ring on or off to focus on just what you need right now.

Apple Health on the dial

Bring sleep, workouts, and activity straight onto the face of your year, to see how the rhythm of your body lines up with your plans. Your Health data stays on your device — it's never sent to our servers.

  1. Go to Settings inside Cronicular.
  2. Turn on Apple Health.
  3. When iOS asks, grant permission for the data you want to show.
  4. Your sleep, workouts and activity appear as a layer on the dial.

Themes

Recolour the whole dial to match your mood or the season.

  1. Open Settings, then Themes.
  2. Pick from Daybreak, Graphite, Sundown, Midnight, or Paper.
  3. The dial restyles instantly. Unlocking the full app gives you every theme.

Views & the drawer

The dial is for the year you're building; the drawer is for the detail you need right now.

  1. Switch between the full dial, a clean minimal view, and a linear timeline depending on whether you want the big picture or the detail.
  2. Open the side drawer for today's events and the things needing your attention, without leaving the dial behind it.

Sign in, sync & unlock

Your dial follows you across devices, and the full app is a one-time unlock — no subscription.

  1. Sign in with Apple — no separate password to remember.
  2. Your calendars, anchors and rings sync across iPhone and iPad automatically.
  3. Cronicular is free to use with light ads. A single one-time purchase (£2.99) removes ads, unlocks every theme, and adds unlimited rings.
  4. To remove your data entirely: Settings → Account → Delete account.

Still stuck? Contact support and we'll walk you through it.