Overlap by Moleskine Studio Reviews

by Jchaselubitz

It launches with some cities on the screen. You can remove these cities, but there is no way to then add others. I accidently figured out that dragging left to right adjusts the base time when doing a time zone comparison, but that's not particularly useful when you can't add the cities you want.

You can't just have an "add city" button, then a visual slider the user can drag back and forth?

Also, this thing keeps trying to schedule events, which really isn't helpful given that most calendars support multiple time zones.

by Stevets

I wondered why my computer ran hotter after installing this ap. Running Activity Monitor, I found that this app was responsible for 20-30% of my energy impact and, over the past 12 hours, was the #1 ap consuming energy on my computer, even beating out Google Chrome. All that energy, for what is essentialy just a clock. Rediculous!

by Jacksw71

Seriously, I’ve downloaded and reinstalled Overlap three times. Each time it will not open, crashing immediately after the splash screen. iPhone X with latest iOS (13.6). How does Apple let apps like this in their store??

by Mobycat

Some of my keys do not work on Overlap. It's not a hardware problem. They work perfectly fine on other apps (and writing this review).

These letters will not work for me: t, d, g, l, c, n. They work perfectly for this review.

Also - why is UTC not an optional time zone?

by ITunesZombie

I tried adding the following locations' timezone, and none of them worked:
Bengaluru
Bangalore
Hyderabad
New Delhi
India

The only thing I could find that actually was allowed was this:
Mumbai

I can't fathom how they think it's a good idea to be so restrictive in what you can enter into the search box when trying to add a new timezone. It literally just ignores keystrokes if it's not in its (apparently tiny) list of cities.

by D Mann

Looks nice, but the worst setup I've encountered. Shockingly bad compared to the rest of Moleskine's excellent apps, all of which I'm an avid user.

by Fairly Incredible

I don’t get Overlap at all. The rectangles change between two slightly different shades of aquamarine? How do I see when a time zone is available or not? Sliding left and right is a neat color picker I guess, if you like aquamarine?

Surprisingly difficult to use, especially because the onboarding tutorial is so long and annoying.

by CC95051

Overlap seems to work well and I have had no problems with crashing or anything like that. It was a little bit of a challenge to figure out the interface because it's not as intuitive as some of the other Moleskine apps though, at least not to me.

The bigger issue for me is the "Why" of Overlap. I live overseas and work with suppliers and customers in Europe, Asia, and North America, so I'm constantly dealing with timezones and meetings. Most computer OS clock applets seem to have this functionality and it's as well implemented. So, I don't really see why Overlap is, and what a future development direction for it is. It's not really solving any problem and it's not substantially better than what most everyone already has with their computers out of the box.

by DeederMc

I tried to customize the cities and ended up with five copies of Los Angeles—can't figure out how to remove them (or any city.) Tried using the "support" button couldn't figure out how to send. Abandoning.

by Cynar Midori

I can't type in the cities I want to add because not all of the keys on my Mac work? UX doesn't seem to work as a desktop app.

by ____joey____

Why would an app with simple timezone functionality need access to my entire contact book?

Overlap does do what it says it does

by NorthMcCormick

Overlap ROCKS. I swear I have not used a simpler app. My colleagues are always strugging to pull up complicated tables on sites (which have their place) but when I use this on screen share to find a time for my team in 8 different timezones, they're always impressed (as am I) to see how easy it is to use.

However, that being said... It really needs some mac optimization. Overlap is so sweet but here's what I would do to give it a 5 star rating and make it something I talk about all the time:
- I have 9 timezones on my mac app and my screen can't fit more. It is hard to know there are more, and then when I scroll I can't see the ones above again. A 'collapsed' or mini mode where you can see maybe 30 timezones would be super handy
- It would be neat to be able to place markers and have them scroll with the timezones so I can jump to my '9am' meeting or my '5pm' meeting times to figure out a schedule
- I'm not sure the collapse button or ... button work in the mac app (maybe that's the feature I'm asking for?)
- Add keyboard shortcuts for the mac

by Ms_Mikki

I’m in EST New York the time is 1 hour behind

by Maui Kid

Typical Moleskin App!
5 stars and useful. Looks great and works well for a new app. Thank you for making this available.

by Samgonzalez12

I use this to schedule things with my friends whom live in differnet countries and it's so awesome and easy to use, thank you for it!

by Bec.erickson

Overlap is beautifully designed yet simple and easy to use. Great for scheduling international meetings with minimal effort or confusion.

this app does exactly what it’s meant to in a beautiful way!

by Jude 3isa

I struggle a lot I have family and friends from all over the globe and Overlap helps plan out everything. Thank you so much <3

by Coldnebo

Overlap is exactly what I was looking for. A simple intuitive way to set availability, label and compare across timezones.

For example, I use PilotEdge, which is a service that is open 8a-11p PDT, I’m in Boston EDT, and I use real aviation weather forecasts which are expressed in Zulu GMT time. I need to know for a given local time, will PilotEdge be available with current weather. Or, I want to plan a flight for later and need to know availability and the zulu forecast to look up.

this app does this simply and beautifully.

The only improvement I’d like to see is the option to set a specific clock (like UTC) into 24 hr mode. Several other clocks for iOS set 12/24 hr for all clocks, but I think it would be nice to handle this separately per each clock as another aspect of conversion. For example, PilotEdge operating hours are expressed in 12hr format, while briefing data is in zulu 24hr format. Going back and forth is another mental conversion that could be eliminated.

Thanks!

by Slight Amateur

easy to arrane meeti in multiple time zones!

by Find-the-joy

Very nice, especially with the demise of TimeScroller (RIP Dashboard).

by Andrew_elias

Can’t reorganize my time zones freely. I have to delete and add them again.