DateDrop
Drop a perfectly formatted date and time anywhere, instantly. Pick your time zones, pick a format, and take the result with you — by hotkey on the Mac, by a tap on iPhone and iPad.
Or pick it up in a bundle with over twenty other apps. Also available on Setapp.
What it does
Type it in plain English
“next Tuesday 3pm”, “in 30 minutes”, “friday 5pm”, “3pm to 5pm” — type, hit Enter, done. Range phrases fill in both ends. Works in your device’s language wherever the system date recognizer supports it.
One hotkey, anywhere
Bind any combo. DateDrop pops up over the active app — no window switching, no copy-paste gymnastics. Works everywhere.
Date, time, or range
Drop just a date, just a time, or a full start-to-end range. Toggles switch instantly and every zone follows along.
Flexible formats
Long, Medium, Short, Day of Week, ISO 8601, RFC 2822, Unix timestamp — or write your own pattern. Live preview shows exactly what will land on the clipboard.
Multi-zone aware
Add as many time zones as you need. Inline or stacked. Great for scheduling across teams in different cities.
Favorites, ready to go
Your most-used cities appear as one-click chips. Even aliases like “NYC” or “SF” work. No hunting through long pickers.
On iPhone and iPad
The same date, in your pocket.
DateDrop is a native iPhone and iPad app too, running the same formatting engine as the Mac. On iPad every time zone sits in a sidebar; on iPhone the ones you starred are one‑tap chips. With no app to type into, it ends in Copy or Share rather than Insert.
It adds a Format Date action for Shortcuts, so Siri can ask for one. Same App Store purchase as the Mac app — buy it once and it’s on all your devices.
Screenshots
The Mac app, shown here. Insert is available on the direct-download build; the store build offers Copy only, per Apple’s guidelines, as do the iPhone and iPad apps.
Get DateDrop
On the App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad — one purchase covers all three — or a free-trial direct download for the Mac. Requires macOS 13, or iOS 17 on iPhone and iPad. Buying more than one app? DateDrop is included in my bundles, along with over twenty other apps. Also available on Setapp.
Support
Questions, bug reports, or feature requests? Email ben.dansby@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply, usually within a day or two.
For how-to documentation, see the DateDrop documentation.
For privacy questions, see the privacy policy.