Issue 1 · October 30, 2026
It's gotten a lot more helpful, and a little more fun.
Someday Soon turns "we should get together" into a date on the calendar. This is what changed lately: your calendar and your plans now talk to each other, answering is easier, friends are here, and the Home page has some personality.
Plans and your calendar
Connect Google Calendar, and it does the rest
Connecting is optional, and it's the only way we ever see anything from Google. Once you do, a few things happen on their own.
Times that clash with your calendar aren't offered
Someday Soon reads when you're busy, only to leave those times out. It never keeps your event titles.
Offered times are held for you new
When you make a plan, each time you offer goes on your calendar as a tentative event, so nobody books over it. When someone says yes, that same event turns confirmed and the others disappear. Nobody is invited and nothing is emailed.
Reminders and the address come along new
Choose when Google reminds you (10 minutes to 2 days before), or keep your own defaults. Add an optional address to a plan and it goes on the event too.
If you move an event yourself, it notices new
Move or delete the event in Google and Someday Soon asks what you want: keep the plan, put the event back, move the plan to the new time, or cancel. It never changes a plan on its own.
Your calendar suggests open time new
If you're usually free on Tuesday evenings, Someday Soon notices and offers to add it to your open time, with the reason ("free in 7 of the last 8 weeks"). It only looks at when you were busy, never what for, and nothing is added unless you tap Add it.
Answering is easier
A yes can just be a yes
Plans confirm themselves new
When a guest taps one of your times and changes nothing, the plan is confirmed right away and you get a notification and a "Just accepted" card on Home. If they suggest another time or offer to host, you still approve with one tap. Prefer to approve everything yourself? There's a switch in Account.
Nothing to download, no account to make
Guests answer from a private link. The page now says so plainly, and anyone who asks for an invite and joins gets six months of Pro free when we launch in 2027.
See what your guest sees new
Each invitation has an "Open their page" link, so you can check exactly what they'll see.
Friends
Plan around each other's free times new
If you and a friend both have accounts, you can connect. It's built to be private from the start.
Nobody can search for you. A friend has to type your exact email or phone, and only if you turned on "let friends find me". It was off until you said so. If it is off, a lookup looks the same as someone with no account. Update, Oct 31: accounts made from now on start with it on, sign-up says so plainly and lets you switch it off, and accounts made before that kept the setting they had.
You choose what to share. Each of you decides separately whether the other can see when you're free: free times only, never what you're doing. Either of you can stop any time.
Plans fit from the start. When you plan with a friend who shares, the times offered are the ones that work for both of you.
Add a guest who already has an account and Someday Soon offers to send the request. Your phone's bottom bar now has a Friends tab.
Make it yours
Your own kinds of plan, and your own tabs
Quick plans new
Add your own kinds of plan (Movie night, Sunday lunch) with a name, a usual length and the questions its invitation asks. Rename the built-in ones, hide the ones you never use, and bring them back any time. Plans you've already made are never changed.
Plans, sorted new
Your plans page has tabs for Sent, Approved, Drafts and Cancelled, each with a count.
An address that's checked new
Type an address and tap "Check address" to see whether it's a real place. Only the address is sent, only when you tap, and the Privacy page says so.
Phone numbers tidy themselves new
Type 6066195030 and it becomes (606) 619-5030.
The fun part
Need an idea? We have 116
The idea card on Home now cycles by itself, and each idea arrives in a way that suits where it comes from. The button says exactly what tapping does, in the idea's own voice. Here are a few, set in the fonts they use:
Friends that riff together stick together. Pretty nice!
Invite them to second breakfast. And elevenses. And luncheon.
Accio, friends! Summon someone for coffee.
Invite them over, then panic about the turkey.
Hold on to your butts, the potluck is starting.
Engage! A video call across the stars (or states).
X marks the spot: a pirate play date.
Words typed out, gold ink, sparkle, a stomp: each world has its own arrival. Turn on "reduce motion" on your device and they all hold still.
Safer and smoother
Little things that matter
Sign in with your fingerprint or face new
Passkeys: one tap, no password to remember. Your device keeps the secret, and we only keep a public key that can't sign anyone in. Passwords and two-step sign-in are still there.
A nudge when someone says yes new
Home can ask whether to turn on notifications, with your browser's own permission popup. Say "not now" and it won't ask again for two weeks.
Easier to use on any screen
We checked every screen size from small phones to big monitors: bigger tap targets, readable text, and a wider desktop with card grids and an Account side menu. The phone has a tidier bottom bar with a New plan button in the middle.
Cancelling stays quiet
A plan you cancel before anyone confirmed it no longer offers to text people. Nothing was promised, so there's nothing to take back.
Our promises haven't changed. No ads, no trackers, and we don't sell or share anything. The Privacy page lists every outside service and exactly what it sees, and automated tests keep that list honest.
Calendar data is used only to offer free times, to suggest open time you can approve, and to add, update and remove the events for plans you make. It is never used to train an AI model.
Coming soon: a quick video that walks through connecting your calendar, and more ways to answer and plan together.
Made with care for families who keep meaning to get together. Hospitality first, quietly.
Every change, in order: release notes