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Cats don't live by the clock. They live by daylight. Neko Clock makes sunrise cat 6:00 and sunset cat 18:00, and shows you cat time.
Are the cats outside on their dawn hunt, or napping? How long until the dusk hunt? Neko Clock shows when the cats in your neighborhood get moving, in cat time and by part of the day. Log the cats you meet, and it will learn when you usually run into them.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
Cat time
Sunrise is cat 6:00 and sunset is cat 18:00. Day and night are each split into 12 hours, so a cat hour changes length with the seasons, like Japan's old temporal hours.
On the human clock, sunrise in Tokyo moves from about 4:25 in summer to about 6:50 in winter, nearly two and a half hours apart. In cat time, a cat's day follows the same schedule all year.
- Dawn Hunt — cat 5 to 7. The sky starts to lighten, and mice and small birds start moving
- Nap — cat 7 to 17. While the sun is high, cats mostly sleep in the shade or in a sunny spot
- Dusk Hunt — cat 17 to 19. From late afternoon until dark
- Night Patrol — cat 19 to 5. Cats walk the rounds of their territory
Real stray cats also adjust to feeding times and to the heat and cold. Cat time is a guide to when cats are most likely to be active.
What it does
- Cat time now — the cat hour, the current part of the day, and how long until the next one. It also shows today's cat schedule and the times of sunrise and sunset
- A log of the cats you meet — tap “Met a Cat” and a record opens with the time filled in. Choose how you met (Spotted, Up Close, Fed or On Camera), the cat's name, the place and a note, then save it. You can fix the time later
- By Cat Time — counts the same records by human hour and by cat hour, side by side. Meetings that scatter across the seasons on the human clock show whether they gather in hunting time
- When You Usually Meet — after about three meetings around the same time, it shows when you usually meet. It looks for them in cat time, so the result doesn't drift with the seasons, and it converts it to today's human time
- Notifications — a heads-up before the time you usually meet, or before the dawn and dusk hunts. Only the ones you choose, and they start off
- Look Up — find the cat time for any date and time. For a time that has passed, you can log a meeting right there
- Home Screen widget — the cat hour, the current part of the day, and how long until the next one. Tap “Met a Cat” to open the app with a new record
Location
Cat time depends on sunrise and sunset, so Neko Clock uses a rough location. Use your approximate location, or pick from 122 cities in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Türkiye, the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Italy, Spain, Latin America and more. Moving 1 km only shifts sunrise by a few seconds.
Price
Free to use, with one ad at the top of the screen. A one-time “Remove ads” purchase turns the ads off. No subscriptions, and nothing is locked.
Requirements
iPhone and iPad with iOS 16 or later, and Android 7.0 or later. The widget's “Met a Cat” button needs iOS 17 or later (on iOS 16, tapping the widget opens the app).
Available in English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Italian and Spanish.
Privacy
Your location and your records stay on your device. Ads are served by Google AdMob. See the privacy policy for details.
Contact
The support page covers how to use the app and common questions. If it doesn't answer yours, write to support@beatapper.com.