Moratine Get it for $4.99

Two hours twenty-two minutes on hold with your insurer.

A bare total is a mood. Knowing you waited seven hours this month changes nothing. Naming who imposed it turns the same number into something you can act on.

Download on the App Store $4.99, one time. iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Moratine

You have been waiting

0:00

since you opened this page

This is how the app works. One tap in, one tap out.

Say who later, or never

Naming the counterparty is optional and happens after the fact, when you have the patience for it. Unnamed waits still count toward your total. Named ones add up into a ledger: who is costing you what, sorted, so the leader is the first thing you see.

An honest record does not require you to do bookkeeping in a waiting room.

A month in Moratine
  1. Aetna2h 22m
  2. DMV1h 19m
  3. Dr. Patel1h 2m
  4. Comcast37m
  5. Chase16m
  6. Unattributed1h 37m

Twenty waits7h 13m

One tap in, one tap out

The moment you are put on hold is a bad time to use an app. Capture is a single tap from wherever you already are: a Control Center control, a complication or Smart Stack button on Apple Watch, a home screen or lock screen widget, or the app itself.

Nothing to categorize, nothing to fill in. Start it when the wait begins and stop it when it ends.

A wait in progress in the Moratine app, two minutes elapsed, with a Stop button.
In the app
The Moratine control in iOS Control Center, showing a waiting state.
From Control Center
The Moratine home screen: seven hours thirteen minutes this month, with the ledger of counterparties below.
The month so far

On your wrist, without your phone

The Apple Watch app records on its own and hands completed waits to your phone when it can, so a wait recorded in a basement waiting room is not lost. A complication shows whether one is running; the Smart Stack starts and stops it.

The Moratine watch app at rest, showing tap to start. A watch face with the Moratine complication showing a running wait. The Moratine card in the watch Smart Stack, showing a running wait and a stop button.

Side by side on iPad and iPhone Duo

With room to spare, Home and History open together: the wait in progress on one side, every wait before it on the other. Stop a wait and it lands in the list beside you. On iPhone Duo, folded is the Moratine you know and unfolded is the two-pane view, and a wait you are editing stays open when you fold or unfold.

Moratine on the unfolded iPhone Duo: a one-minute wait running on the left, the week's history on the right.

What it does not do

  • No streaks
  • No scores or grades
  • No coaching
  • No advice about waiting better
  • No location tracking
  • No motion detection
  • No listening for calls
  • No automatic guessing
  • No account
  • No analytics
  • No subscription
  • No ads

Yours, and nobody else's

Everything stays on your device. There is no account, no tracking, and no server to send anything to. Full JSON export is built in: every wait, every counterparty, readable without this app. One purchase, no subscription.

Download on the App Store $4.99, one time.