Stay On Target 1138

Some pilots, at the critical moment, switch off their targeting computer and go with their gut. Yours now tells the time — so maybe leave it on.

A wireframe tunnel. Red range lines closing in. A crosshair that locks on and holds. Stay On Target turns your Android phone and your Wear OS watch into a 1970s vector targeting display, with the time underneath in a big angular red readout. It is, technically, a clock.

Tap RADIO and the radio crackles — short pilot callouts, recorded for this app.

Tap the date and your week scrolls away into the distance as a text crawl: today, tomorrow, and every day after that with something on it. Drag it with a finger to move through at your own pace. Nothing booked? It says so, and it sounds pleased for you.

FOUR UNITS

ANq 3.6 — the tunnel: receding frames and rays, a twelve-second loop of range sweep, lock-on and chevrons. Amber or phosphor green.

T-s7b — the range grid: two gridded gates swinging through space, gold on crimson, a ship marker between them, contacts curving past. The gates fill with your Move, Exercise and Stand.

DS-1 — the orbital approach: a red planet edge to edge, a green moon coming out from behind it as your Move fills, stars lighting with Exercise, a reticle filling with Stand. Close everything and it locks on.

YV-4 — the base tracker: the war room's plotting table. A planet dead centre, a tracker coming round it with a flashing red cone of sight that eats into the green as your Move fills, until it lands on your moon. Stand lights the rim scale, Exercise grows the moon.

Hold a unit for SYSTEMS to switch units. KEY shows what each readout means.

ON YOUR PHONE

The phone app is the console the display is mounted in: each unit on its own screen shape, with the date, clock, Move, Exercise and Stand bars and your next appointment around it. Turn it sideways for the full console, or press FULL and keep only the display. The Mission Briefing crawl plays across the whole screen.

ON YOUR WATCH

The Wear OS watch face carries two of the units: the ANq 3.6 tunnel, and the T-s7b range grid, where the near gate fills in, cell by cell, with today's steps. Touch and hold the face, tap Customize, and pick one. One purchase covers both.

TWO GAMES

Tap GAMES on the phone console. Both are included.

Dust Runners: haul relief cargo across a desert world on a hover speeder. Twenty runs over a day shift and a night shift. Keep right, dodge the haulers, hop the rocks, blind raiders with dust and deliver on time. Three speeders, a garage of upgrades, three stars on every run.

Pilot training simulator: take the controls. Twenty short missions: dogfights, convoy escorts, carrier strikes and low runs down a narrow channel, each with its own sky and its own twist. Earn up to three stars on every mission, replay for the ones you missed, and open the next. The cockpit's targeting computer is the ANq 3.6 from this app.

WHAT IT DOES

• Always-on watch face: the clock keeps time while the animation rests
• Amber or phosphor green on the tunnel — pick your cockpit
• Radio callouts on the console — every unit has its own — silenced with one tap when you're in a meeting and your phone starts talking
• Mission Briefing: your week's appointments as a receding crawl — drag to scrub through it
• Move, Exercise and Stand, steps, resting heart rate and last night's sleep, read from Health Connect
• Countdown timers on every unit, with an alert at zero even when the phone is locked
• 12 or 24 hour, whichever way you were trained
• The watch face runs on its own; the phone app is optional. No account, no setup
• Collects nothing. We genuinely have no idea who you are

Phone app: Android 8 and later. Watch face: Wear OS 4 and later.

Don't get cocky.