What Can I Actually
Finish Today?
A list of errands does not know that the post office closes at two, and that it is twenty minutes away. Errand Run does.
You give it your free window — say, between leaving work and picking up a child — and the errands you are carrying around. It takes the opening hours of every place, the lunch breaks, the last-entry time, the real travel between the stops and a buffer for parking, and builds the route that fits. What does not fit is not thrown away: it goes to the next window that works, and the app tells you when that is.
The Route Explains Itself
Window: 13:10 to 14:40. 90 minutes.
Pharmacy: 8 min drive, 6 min inside, closes 20:00. Fits.
Post office: 11 min drive, 15 min inside, last entry 13:45.
You arrive 13:35. Tight but fits.
Bank: would land at 14:20, school at 14:40. Does not fit.
The order is decided by doors, not by importance: what closes earliest goes first, even when it matters less. Move a stop by hand and the app says immediately what it costs — “moving the post office after the bank means you arrive at 14:05, and it closes at 14:00.”
Honest About Queues
The app never promises that the clinic will take fifteen minutes. Nobody can know that.
It asks for your estimate, records how long the visit actually took, and after a few visits it plans with your own average for that place instead of your hopes. It never shows anyone else's statistics and never pretends to know how busy a counter is right now.
What It Keeps for You
- Places with opening hours, lunch breaks, last entry, parking difficulty and notes.
- Free windows that start and end at real points — left work, must be at the school.
- Measured times: how long that clinic, that post office, that service centre really takes.
- Wasted trips: arrived and it was closed, the terminal was broken, a document was missing. The place card learns from it.
- Deadlines counted in windows, not in days: “three windows left where the office is open” is the number that matters.
Your Account, Your Data
An account exists for one reason: so a new phone finds your errands, places and measured times. Nothing is shared between accounts, nothing is sold, there is no advertising and no analytics. Deleting the account deletes the data — see the privacy page for exactly what is stored and for how long.
The app keeps working without a connection. Edits are made on the phone first and go up when there is a network again.