In betaTan Buddy
Tan without the burn.
Every other tanning timer counts minutes, and minutes are meaningless — twenty at UV 3 and twenty at UV 9 are completely different amounts of sun. Tan Buddy reasons in UV dose instead, using your skin type, the tan you already have, the sunscreen you're wearing, and even the surface you're lying on, then converts back to minutes only to tell you when to get up. Sol, the little sun on the front, gives you a day-by-day plan with rest days built in, buzzes when it's time to flip, and is straight with you that no tan is damage-free.
Everything you need, nothing you don't
The details that make Tan Buddy feel effortless.
It counts UV, not minutes
Your dose is worked out from the live UV index, your skin type, your tan, and your SPF.
A session that watches for you
Put the phone down — it buzzes to flip, to reapply, and to stop.
A plan with rest days in it
Pigment develops out of the sun, so the programme builds a tan across days, not one afternoon.
Dose against your burn limit
Every session charted under your threshold, plus a seven-rung tan ladder and progress photos.
Honest about the risk
Built to give you less sun than you'd otherwise take, with a monthly mole check that is never paywalled.
No account, no server
Everything stays on your iPhone. The only thing that leaves is a coordinate, to fetch the UV forecast.
See it in action
Tap any screen to open it full-size.
Built with a modern stack
- SwiftUI
- Swift 6
- WidgetKit
- ActivityKit
- StoreKit 2
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