Calendar App Tempo Will get Smarter With New iOS eight Widget And End Of Day Notifications

Calendar App Tempo Gets Smarter With New iOS 8 Widget And End Of Day Notifications

Tempo, the smart calendar for iOS borne from the equivalent group as Siri, has turn into the most recent app to reap the advantages of choices in iOS eight as a result of it objectives to become your phone-based personal assistant.

The free app now includes a smart widget that brings an abstract of key notifications and information to the homescreen. The thought proper right here is to make that overview merely obtainable to all the time, so no opening apps or digging into menus is required.

Tempo has moreover now gotten ‘night time notifications’ which serve up important information to “put collectively for the next day with ease.” These new notifications cowl what’s on the horizon for tomorrow, and provide a sort of debrief of the current enterprise day and its most salient elements.

Tempo AI, which raised $10 million ultimate yr, wants its app to be a personal assistant, fairly than solely a calendar. In that respect, night time notifications are an crucial and indicative new addition. That focus may set its apart from others like Cue, Daybreak, Timeful, Accompli, Lowdown that compete inside the crowded calendar app space.


Going worldwide is one different key aim for Tempo, and this exchange offers 9 new languages to the app interface, they’re Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish. It has moreover gone reside in an extra 27 nations in Asia, having expanded all through Europe equally once more in September.

Whereas iOS monetizes at a greater charge than Android, the Google-owned platform has greater worldwide attain. It will be fascinating to see how and when Tempo AI approaches Android. It is clearly is an important automotive for reaching big audiences outside of the U.S. market, even when the primary viewers is enterprise clients, as is the case with Tempo.