HoursideRelease notes
Hourside 1.0.0
Initial production release. Android 12 or later.
Download Hourside 1.0.0 for Android
Android 12 or later. 2.7 MB.
SHA-256: 7a1c152c7e6d1fb9e7bb3a2cc1f7776f01a3b409928dd5eaad6af653fc579490
What’s included
World clocks with local dates, city labels and contact hours. A time-zone planner for comparing the same moment across cities. List, comparison and timeline widgets for your Android home screen. Light, dark and system appearance.
This release adds a Settings panel, manual JSON backup and restore, saved widget templates, and offline privacy, terms and third-party notices. The app has no accounts, ads, telemetry, billing or automatic downloads.
Back up before changing phones or apps
Use Settings to export a backup before uninstalling Hourside, clearing its data or changing phones. Your export is a readable file, so store it somewhere you trust. Automatic cloud backup is disabled.
Exports include cities, labels, contact hours, your reference time zone, appearance and widget templates. Android’s home-screen widget placements cannot be transferred. After restoring a backup, add your widgets again.
Moving from an early preview
For existing preview users only. This file updates the old preview app; it is separate from the production download.
Download preview migration update 0.3.1
Android 12 or later. 2.6 MB.
SHA-256: da87ee8d7e3cad338366577ea445d0232262e9f475d70ecb0b323d9891a564ac
The production app has a new Android application identity: com.bigsmallservices.hourside. It installs separately from the earlier app.elsewhere.clock preview. Installing production does not move preview data automatically.
If your preview has no export option, you need the compatible migration preview first. Keep the original preview and its data until you have exported a backup and checked your restored cities in production. Follow the migration guide.
Install the migration update over your old preview, export its JSON backup, then install production Hourside and import that file. Add your home-screen widgets again using the imported templates. Do not uninstall the preview until you have checked the imported cities and settings in production and kept a safe copy of the export.
Updating Hourside
Updates are manual. Download a newer production APK from this website and install it over your existing production app. Keep the installed app in place; uninstalling it removes its local data. Back up first.
Hourside does not check for or install updates in the background. Read the update instructions.