Deadline Backsolve: Pace Plan
Today's quota + recovery plans
$0.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Not just "you won't make it." When behind, it computes three fixes: extend by N days, add N min/day, or cut N pages. No ads, no account, offline. One-time purchase.
NOTE: The app interface is currently in Japanese only.
The App Store listing is in English, but the app itself is not yet localized.
When you realize you won't hit the deadline, what you actually
need is the answer to "so what do I change?"
Deadline Backsolve computes the shortfall and gives you concrete fixes:
"push the deadline 3 days", "add 45 minutes per working day",
"cut 4 pages". Real numbers, not a warning label.
■ Three inputs. Thirty seconds.
What, how much, by when. That's the whole setup.
Per-weekday hours and finer settings can wait until later.
■ You only look at today
The home screen says "Today: 8 pages." That's it.
No Gantt charts, no dense tables. Tap "+1 page" when you're done.
■ It follows your real week
One hour on weekdays, three on weekends? Your quota is distributed
by the time you actually have, not spread evenly into a plan
you were never going to keep.
■ It learns your real pace
It starts from an estimate, then switches to your measured
minutes-per-unit once you have logged enough work.
You never have to re-tune the estimate yourself.
■ Recovery plans, computed
- Switch to a later registered deadline (with hours gained)
- Extend the deadline by N days
- Add N minutes per working day
- Cut N units
- Finish each unit within N minutes
- Open up a day you had marked as rest
Tap any of them to apply it to the plan immediately.
■ A focus timer that survives a crash
It stores the start time and takes the difference, rather than
ticking every second. Close the app, crash the app, it keeps counting.
And it never plays a sound effect. Ever.
■ It does not go online
No account. No server. No ads. No tracking.
Your data lives on the device. Move it with a JSON export/import
when you change phones. There is no sync to corrupt.
■ One-time purchase. No add-ons.
Everything is unlocked at purchase. Unlimited projects and logs.
No subscription.
Works for comics, novels, illustration books and merch, but also
for article deliveries, reports and theses — anything with an
amount and a due date. Name the unit whatever you like.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Fixes for issues you reported.
Notifications
- Reminders now appear while the app is open (they did not before).
- If notifications are not permitted, the app says so instead of failing silently.
- It now shows when the next reminder will arrive.
- Settings has a new "Send a test now" button.
- The reminder text is rebuilt each time you open the app, so it no longer goes stale.
New manuscript settings
- Fixed numbers being lost when you tapped Save while still typing.
- Added a Done button to the number keyboard.
- Changing the type no longer overwrites an amount, unit or duration you entered.
- Switching to per-weekday hours now carries over the hours you already set.
- Early/late deadlines are put back in order on save if they were reversed.
Toolbox
- Added a section for other apps by the same developer.
The developer, Daisuke Yamaguchi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Daisuke Yamaguchi
- Size
- 1.8 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Sauna Inc.
