# Timezone.io review (2026): is the free plan enough? > World clock, time zone converter, team boards and a time API Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Timezone.io is a reference site for the current local time, UTC offsets and daylight saving dates of every time zone, country and major city, with a converter for comparing two places. It also offers shared team boards that group teammates by local time, and a JSON API serving the same data to developers. - **Category:** Calendar & Scheduling - **Made by:** timezone.io - **Website:** https://www.timezone.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a calendar or scheduling app: it has no events or booking pages. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Timezone.io has a free plan, and paid plans start at $20 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The reference site, converter and team boards are free to use. The API's Free plan gives 100,000 requests a month at 5 requests a second, with every endpoint and commercial use, and needs no card. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | API plan: 100,000 requests a month, 5 requests a second, every endpoint, commercial use allowed, no card needed. | | Developer | $20 per month | API plan: 1 million requests a month, 25 requests a second, and 10% headroom before requests are refused. | | Business | $100 per month | API plan: 10 million requests a month, 100 requests a second, a 99.9% uptime SLA and priority email support. | Read from https://www.timezone.io/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Timezone.io before buying. ## Key features - **World clock by zone, country and city:** Pages for every time zone, country and major city show the current local time, UTC offset and daylight saving dates, computed from the IANA time zone database. - **Time zone converter:** Compare the time in two places, with the offset between them spelled out. - **Team boards:** A team shares one public link, and teammates add themselves without an account. The board groups everyone by local time and has a slider to see who is awake at a later hour. - **Time zone API:** Endpoints look up the zone at a latitude and longitude, convert a time to up to ten zones with daylight saving gaps flagged, and list the candidates behind an abbreviation such as CST. - **Clear plan limits:** Every API plan has every endpoint, so plans differ only by request volume, per-second rate, support and SLA. ## Good for - Distributed teams that want one page showing everyone's local time - Developers who need time zone lookups and conversions from an API - Anyone checking the current time or daylight saving dates in another place ## Worth knowing - It is not a calendar or scheduling app: it has no events, invitations or booking pages, and it runs in the browser only. - The pricing page says monthly API quotas are not enforced yet, and that accounts will be emailed before they are. - Paid API plans are billed monthly through Stripe and are non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise. - Descriptions on zone, country and city pages are AI-assisted drafts that the site says are fact-checked and reviewed by a person. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Timezone.io shows local times, UTC offsets and daylight saving dates for every zone, with a converter and a free API of 100,000 requests a month. But it isn't a calendar, it has no events or booking, and the pricing page says the monthly API quotas aren't enforced yet. - **Value for money: A.** The reference site, converter and team boards are free, and the API's free plan allows 100,000 requests a month with commercial use. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free outright for the site, and the API's free plan needs no card. - **Features: D.** One narrow job: time zone data, a converter and team boards, with no events, invitations or booking. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record; it's a website you open and read with nothing to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with a JSON API for developers. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Timezone.io's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among calendar and scheduling apps - Timezone.io's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 78 of the 114 other calendar and scheduling apps we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 94 of 114) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $20 a month, against a middle price of $8.13 for the category: 69 of the 85 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 70 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/calendar ## Keep it, or make your own? **You could make this.** A calendar at its plainest is events on a grid. What Timezone.io does at its core is calendar, and that is the kind of thing an AI app builder makes well. You would give up one thing, listed below, and little else. It costs $240 a year. An AI app builder starts at about $20 a month on our listings, and you only need it while you build. - You could make: Calendar: an app builder makes this well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Calendar, Public API ## Alternatives - [World Time Buddy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/world-time-buddy): Visual time zone converter and world clock for planning calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/timezone-io-vs-world-time-buddy) - [Every Time Zone](https://toolgpa.com/tools/every-time-zone): Visual time zone timeline for finding a meeting time across places. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/every-time-zone-vs-timezone-io) - [Savvy Time](https://toolgpa.com/tools/savvy-time): World clock and time zone converter for planning meetings. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/savvy-time-vs-timezone-io) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.timezone.io - https://www.timezone.io/pricing - https://www.timezone.io/about - https://www.timezone.io/team Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/timezone-io Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).