World Time Buddy review

World Time Buddy is an online world clock, time zone converter and meeting-time scheduler. It puts local times for selected locations side by side, so you can compare them without doing the conversion in your head. Hover over an hour to see the corresponding time in the other locations.

You can add, remove and reorder locations, and set one as home. To pick a meeting time, click an hour tile; the homepage says you can share the selection using a link or its listed sharing options. A free sign-in can save settings. The homepage also lists a World Clock Widget and an Event Widget.

That makes the product most useful for checking what a proposed time means for people in different places and passing a slot along. It is not presented in the published material as a full calendar-scheduling system: the described workflow is comparing times, selecting a tile and sharing the result.

The main advantage is the side-by-side view. Once you have added the places you work with, you can scan local hours and see how a time in one location translates elsewhere. That is more direct than looking up cities one at a time, especially when coordinating across several time zones.

The basic workflow also covers the practical handoff: select an hour tile and share the time selection. The homepage says settings can be saved with a free sign-in, and lists both a World Clock Widget and an Event Widget. The published pricing information says paid subscriptions ended on May 5, 2022, and all features are free; it does not list a monthly or annual price. That makes the listed tool easy to try without choosing a paid plan, though the pricing information is marked low confidence.

A Reddit user discussing a team across five countries recommends World Time Buddy for visual time-zone comparison and finding overlap hours. That is a useful fit for quick planning, not proof that it solves everyone’s scheduling constraints.

World Time Buddy’s documented scheduling flow is limited to clicking an hour tile and sharing the selection. The published feature information does not describe calendar syncing, checking invitees’ availability, or sending a calendar invitation. If you need those steps handled inside one workflow, the listed features may not go far enough.

There is also no published cap for how many locations you can compare, or any stated usage limits. We can’t tell from the published pricing information whether a particular workload or number of saved settings is restricted. Paid subscriptions were reportedly discontinued on May 5, 2022; monthly and annual prices are not published, so there is no paid tier to compare here.

Availability is another caveat, though the evidence is anecdotal and concerns the app: a Reddit thread includes users reporting that it was unavailable in their region, including Sydney, and another commenter recalled a temporary outage in the Philippines. That does not establish that the website is unavailable, but it is worth distinguishing the online tool from app access.

World Time Buddy is listed as free, with all features included. Paid subscriptions were discontinued on May 5, 2022, so there is no published tier jump, add-on charge, or monthly-versus-annual billing choice to compare. The pricing information we have is marked low confidence, however, and the site does not publish a current usage limit or a price for a paid plan.

That makes the basic cost simple: $0 according to the available pricing details. It does not tell you whether any usage caps apply, so teams that need guaranteed capacity should confirm that before relying on it. A free sign-in is described as a way to save settings; it is not presented as a paid tier. A free-trial period and paid-plan billing terms are not published. If you are comparing it with a calendar scheduler, weigh the no-cost time comparison and sharing features against the fact that full calendar booking workflows are not part of the stated fit.

For basic time-zone comparisons, switching should be straightforward: add the locations you need, reorder them, and set a home location. The homepage also describes saving settings with a free sign-in and sharing a selected time by link or listed options. We did not find source details on importing calendars, exporting saved settings, or moving data out, so treat portability as unconfirmed rather than assume there is an export tool.

World Time Buddy is a better fit for comparing times and proposing a slot than managing a full booking workflow. That gap may be a reason to move on if you need calendar-based scheduling or published usage limits. The published published material contains no Reddit reports, so we can’t responsibly say what users on Reddit cite as reasons for leaving. Before switching, check whether your saved settings matter and whether the replacement can handle your actual scheduling workflow.