Time Zone Challenge - 5 Tools

The special feature of working in remote teams is the existence of different time zones. Usually, it is a challenge for teams to cope with that.

The need of time zone apps is essential now as it helps to see when a team meeting could be organized, taking into account time zone and working hours of each member. Dealing with this every day by yourself is a useless and time-wasting thing.

So, now we want to provide you with 5 best tools that help you do that stuff easily. Let’s go!

Option 1 - Spacetime.am

We’ve already told you about Slack, one of the best apps for online communication. So, Spacetime.am is its bot. There are such characteristics:

• A quite simple and modern design
• The possibility to see the time, location and weather 
• The tool chooses the time that suits everyone on its own, so that the members will automatically see changes in their schedule  
• The possibility to work in any system, comfortable for you 
• Sign up for free and add all your team there (from 5 to 500 members)
• Has visual calendars with meeting overlaps

Option 2 - Time and Date Meeting Planner

Time and Date meeting planner is an app for planning meetings with people from different time zones. You can easily download it on App store and use it with your phone anytime you need. Among the features there are:

• Traffic light method for calculating the best meeting time
• 5000+ locations all over the world
• Public holidays, shown in the app
• The line, which goes through green parts of time to help you to choose the right time
• Sharing the meeting using different ways (email, duplicate, in your calendar, online)

Option 3 - There

There - is an extremely convenient tool for solving a time zone trouble. A so called all-inclusive app. Why? Because it has such functions:

• The possibility to learn what each member is doing at the moment 
• “Magic find” of the most comfortable time for the meeting following teammates’ schedules
• A page with the nearest plans of each and their suggestions about the time and day of conference
• Time, place and activity of everyone, shown on one page
• Office storage that helps to see all the team on the map
• The possibility to connect Slack or Twist
• Works both online and offline

Option 4 - Timezone.io

Timezone.io is one of the most popular apps, which people use to save time they spend on googling zones of people’s locations. It has such qualities:

• Ease of use
• Effective and fast work
• The possibility to invite the whole team via email or with one link
• One page shows where the person is now and what it is there, so that you can learn who is available at the moment
• Saves lots of your personal time 

Option 5 - Onetime

Onetime is “a clock that shows your favorite time zones on one simple dial.” And it’s really designed as a clock. We can name these pros:

• Simple and creative design, which is not just beautiful but also convenient
• Timetravel tool that helps to “fly through time” and find the hours, which work for everybody
• The possibility to set, change and delete necessary cities
• The possibility to share the meeting time with colleagues using app “share” feature
• Considered user’s interface

Well, that’s it. Manage the time zone problem with one of these tools and make the work easier. It is worth it!