What changed, and when

Version 2026.11.48 · November 3, 2026

Reminders that say the right day

A reminder for a plan later today says tonight or today, not tomorrow.

New

• The steps at the top of making a plan look better: a short bar for each step that fills in as you go, with the name of the step you are on above them, in place of a squeezed row of numbers.
• Choosing who to invite is quicker. The list starts with the people you invite most, and a search box finds anyone else by name, family or group. No more scrolling a long alphabetical list.
• Accepting a friend request now lets you see when each other is free, with no checkbox to tick: that is what friends are for, and either of you can stop on the friend's page. Friends are easier too: the Friends page now starts with what needs you (requests, suggestions) and your friends, and the privacy switch moved to the bottom. If you ask someone who already asked you, you become friends. You're told when someone accepts. Your guest list marks who is a friend or already has an account, with an Add friend button, and Share has a Share button for your phone's share sheet.
• Suggested friends: people on your guest list who already have an account show up on the Friends page, with an Add button and a Request all button. They still choose whether to accept.
• Accepting a friend request puts each of you on the other's guest list, so you can plan with them right away.
• Picking a time starts on the hour: tap an empty time box and it opens at the next :00, not at the minute it is now.
• You hear when someone answers a group plan, not just when everyone has. To keep it quiet, answers that arrive close together are one alert (at most one every half hour).
• Calmer group plans. The plan page no longer shows the same "text the people who haven't answered" list twice, and the group link says plainly to tap your own name.
• Text each person, from a list. On a group plan, everyone is listed with a Text button next to their name: tap it and your messaging app opens to just them with their own link. Some phones only open a group text to one person, so this is the surest way. Unanswered people come first.
• The address box finds more. If a place's name isn't on the map, it now falls back to the street, and places near you come first. Nothing about where you are is sent.
• Texting a group is simpler. "Text everyone at once" now sends just the link. If you'd like to say something first, type a message and it goes before the link, ready to send or copy.
• A cleaner Conversation. Each message now has a round photo (or initials) beside it, like a chat. There is one small reaction button on each message: tap it and a popup lets you pick a reaction. Reactions people have chosen sit underneath as little pills with their faces and a count.
• For the person running the app, while we're in testing: Admin, People shows who is using it: the day each person last used the app, the plans their family made in the last 30 days, and whether they answered the pricing survey (never what they said). One button turns it off and erases it, which is the plan for launch.
• For testers: an Open staging button on your Account page. If you've been added as a tester, one tap signs you into your own test account on the practice site. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing there touches your real plans. For the person running the app: switch people on as testers in Admin, People; they're told in the app.
• "Move this plan" is now "Change the date or time", so it says what it does. It works as before: on a confirmed plan you offer new times, everyone is told and picks again, and the same event moves once you approve one.
• Know when a plan changes. If you have an account, you're now told when a plan you're on changes, with what changed: "Time changed to Sat, Nov 21, 6:00 pm", "Location changed to 12 Elm St", "Details updated", "Jub started a thread: Dessert", "Jib replied to your message", "Jub reacted 👍 to your message". Changes a few minutes apart arrive as one notification that lists each. Replies and reactions go only to the person they answer. Choose how it reaches you under Account, Notifications, "Plan updates and messages"; quiet hours apply. Guests without an account see "New since you last looked" at the top of their invitation, and get an email if the place changes and you have their address.
• React with an emoji. Under each message in a plan's conversation, tap the small + to choose one of six: 👍 ❤️ 😂 🎉 🙏 😢. Tap one someone else chose to add yours, tap yours again to take it back, or pick another to change it. One per person per message. Guests can react from their link too, and holding or hovering over a reaction shows who chose it.
• A conversation on every plan. On a plan's page, and on each guest's invitation, there's now a Conversation: send a quick message ("Running ten minutes late!"), or give it a title to start a thread ("Who's bringing dessert?") that people reply to. Guests read and write from their own link with no account, under the name on their invitation. On a group plan everyone invited sees the same conversation; a switch on the plan turns it off for that plan. You can delete your own messages, and the host can delete any. It stays open until a week after the day.
• Details for your guests, and you can change them later. The note you write when making a plan is now "Details for your guests", with room for more (1,000 characters, and line breaks are kept). On the plan's page, "Change the details or the place" lets you add or fix the details and the address after the plan is made. Guests see them on their invitation, including once it's confirmed; a long one folds under "Details from ..." so the invitation still starts with the question. Web addresses can be tapped.
• Nudge from inside the app. When someone hasn't answered after two days, tap Nudge and Someday Soon sends it for you: a notification for a friend with an account, an email for a guest whose address you have. "Text instead" is beside it when you have their number, and a guest with only a phone number still gets your text. Never more than two nudges, and nothing is sent unless you tap.
• For the person running the app: make a sign-up link on Share. Each one lets one person start a family, works once and lasts two weeks, and has a Copy button so it can be sent by hand (the way a tester gets into staging, which sends no email). Unused links are listed there and can be removed.
• A new look: Peach Sorbet, soft orange and pink, made for Kaylee. Find it in Account, Your look, under Everyday. Buttons, links and the selected choice turn orange with a pink tint, in light and dark.
• Weekly busy times. On the Busy time page, Every week lets you add something regular, like church or practice ("every Wednesday 7 to 8 pm"). It's taken out of your open time, so you don't have to split a free window by hand, and Real days shows it in grey with a link.
• Plan something now fills in the date. Tap it on a birthday (or Plan here on a free day) and the plan opens with that guest chosen and, once you pick the kind, "I know the date" already set to that day. If the day has free time, its first start and end time are filled in too.
• Birthdays for everyone on a guest's page. When you add a person to a guest-list entry you can give their birthday (month and day), and each person listed there has a small control to add, change or clear it. They show on your Home calendar like the main contact's.
• The overlap warning now covers a friend's plans too. When you make a plan, the last screen also tells you if the time clashes with a friend's plan you're going to (one you said yes to, or one that's confirmed with you in it), naming the plan and who's hosting.
• Protect your own time. In Scheduling settings, under "Advanced: protect my time", set a minimum notice (nothing sooner is offered) and a most-plans-in-a-week limit (a full week offers no more times). Both are off until you set them. A time you type yourself is only ever given a note, never refused.
• Add your own photo. On Account, You, Your profile, choose a picture from your phone. It shows in your header and on Account, in the family list, on your friends' Friends page and profile, and next to your name on the invitations you send. Your family always sees it; friends and guests see it unless you switch off "Show my photo to friends" or "Show my photo on invitations". Remove it any time.
• Add your own family's birthdays and anniversaries. On Account, Family, there's now "Our family dates": add anyone (you, your spouse, the kids, the grandparents) with a month and a day, no year. They show on your Home calendar every year, and only your family sees them.
• Share contacts straight from your Android phone. With Someday Soon installed on your home screen, open your Contacts app, select people, tap Share, and choose Someday Soon: you land on the list of who's in it, ready to add (with their birthdays, anniversaries and photos). You can still choose a saved contact file on the Guest list's Import contacts page.
• Import contacts now brings in their photo, if the contact card has one. It's shrunk to a small avatar and shown on your Guest list instead of their initials. Only your family sees it, and a Remove photo button on the guest's edit page takes it away.
• Import contacts, with their birthdays and anniversaries. On the Guest list, choose Import contacts and pick a contact card (.vcf) from your phone. You'll see everyone in it, tick the ones you want, and they're added with their phone, email, birthday and anniversary. People already on your list only get a birthday or anniversary they were missing; nothing you've saved is changed. We don't keep the file.
• Open time can say who comes along: Just me, Me and the kids, or The whole family, any that work. Tick them on a window, or pick "Free for" above the week grid (and in the setup) before you tick. When you make a plan, each time you're offered says who it's free for, nothing is hidden, and you say who's coming on the Extras screen. Your guest's invitation tells them ("Sarah and the kids"), so they know whether to expect the kids.
• Tapping a cell in your usual week no longer makes the page jump: only the week changes, and the Usual week, Real days and person switches and the week arrows update in place too.
• See your week on the Open time page. "Usual week" is a grid of your free times: tap a cell to switch it on or off. "Real days" shows one week at a time with when a guest could actually be offered a time, in green, and what took the rest, in grey: a plan, time away, a plan-free day or your calendar (hours only). Each grey block links to what caused it. In a family with more than one login, pick Everyone together or one person's own week.
• Birthdays and anniversaries. On a guest's page in your guest list, add their birthday (and, for a couple or family, an anniversary): month and day only, never a year. They show on your Home calendar with a little cake, with a Plan something link. Only your family sees them. The calendar's key (what each mark means) now folds away under "What the marks mean".
• The Home calendar says what's next: "Next up" names your next confirmed plan, whatever month you're looking at. A group's reply-by day shows on the calendar with a small clock, and "Replies due" in the week.
• Mark a day plan-free. In the Home calendar's week view, tap Mark plan-free on a day you want to keep empty: it gets no open time and is never offered. Tap Undo to put it back. Days you've set as away on the Busy time page show there too.
• Start a plan from the calendar. In the week view, a day you're free has a Plan here link that opens the plan builder with that day's open time first and the first time already ticked. In the month, tap a day's number to open its week.
• The Home calendar shows when you're free. In the month, a green bar marks days with open time. In the week, each day says when you're free, and when your connected calendar says you're busy (just the hours, never what it is). Not set up yet? The week view points you to where to add when you're free.
• On the Home calendar, a small ! marks a day with something waiting on you, such as a time a guest asked for, and the plan says "Needs you".
• On the Home calendar, the times of a plan you've made show with diagonal stripes (Held), from the moment you make it, before and after you send it. Confirmed plans stay solid. A time turns into an outlined Maybe only when a guest answers Maybe.
• Making a plan now tells you if the time clashes with another plan you already have, even one you made but haven't sent yet. It's a note on the last screen, under "Worth a quick check": it never stops you.
• Set up your open time step by step. Tap when you're usually free (mornings, afternoons and evenings for each day, with quick picks like Weeknights or Evenings and weekends), add any days off or time away, and look at your week before it's saved. Find it on Home's setup card, or on the Open time page. You can skip any step, and change everything afterwards.
• The calendar on Home has a Week view. Tap Week to see one week as seven days, each with its plans, times and whether they're confirmed or still a maybe; Month takes you back. On a phone the week is a roomy list, so you can read it.
• A group link can ask for a passcode. Turn it on when you make a group plan, or later on the plan's page: it makes four digits for you, and you send them to the group on their own. Without the code, a link that gets out shows nothing and lets nobody in.
• Achievements: a new page in Account with shiny badges you earn, each with the day you earned it. First Plan, Five Alive, Perfect Ten, Twenty Strong and more for plans you've made; Event Planner for your first group plan; Rain Check for moving a plan to a new time; Tester; Founding Soonie for everyone who signed up before 2027; and a badge for every year you've been here. Badges you've already earned are there from the start, with the real day.
• Earn a badge and an "achievement unlocked" banner slides up with a little chime, then goes away by itself. Prefer quiet? Turn the chime off in Account, You, Your profile.
• Friends have a profile: their name and family, their badges, and their email or phone only if they choose to show them (Account, You, Your profile). Email and phone start hidden. The "Tester" label beside a friend's name is now a badge on their profile.
• Friends invited in the app: your plan shows "Message sent in the app" instead of a Text button, then when they opened it (only friends see this; nobody else's opens are kept). If a day goes by after they opened it with no answer, nudge them in the app with one tap.
• Set up Helping Hands while making a group plan, before you send invitations. Guests can sign up to bring something after they vote.
• Plans over several days: when you know the date, set when it starts and when it ends, each a day and a time. A weekend visit reads "Friday, November 27 – Sunday, November 29" on the invitation and is on every day of your calendar.
• Choose how each kind of notification reaches you: in the app, by email, or both (Account, Reminders and alerts). In the app is the default, and it only emails when none of your devices has notifications on, so nothing arrives twice.
• A friend's plan you said yes to now shows in your Plans ("You're invited") and on your Home calendar, and opens your invitation.
• Invite a friend without a link: when you're friends on Someday Soon, they're told in the app with a tap straight to the invitation. No copying and pasting.
• Accounts for one: sign up as "Just me" and guests see your own name, not "the Shaw family". Add someone later and it becomes a family. Already on your own? Account, Family settings, "Just me".
• Want to support Someday Soon? The footer has a link to Ko-fi. It uses your chosen colors, and guests only see their invitation.
• Need a little time to check before answering an invitation? Say Maybe. The host will know, and you can update your answer from the same link.
• When you're offering a few times, choose dates and times yourself from the calendar instead of setting up open time first. We'll flag conflicts for you to check, but you can still choose those times.
• Know when a plan starts but not when it ends? Leave End time blank. The End day starts on the same day as Start day, and you can change it for a longer visit.
• Soonies who have completed five plans they created earn a Tester badge beside their name on the Friends page. Golden Tickets are now given manually.

Improved

• A calmer Extras screen when you make a plan. Need some extra help? and Ask the group something? are optional, so they start closed with no form in them. Open one and tap "Add a need" or "Add a question"; after the first it reads "Add another". The trash takes one away, after asking. And guests are no longer asked "Could you bring something?" on their answer: Helping Hands is where they sign up to bring things.
• A tidier plan page that tells you what's new. Need some extra help?, Remind the group, Ask the group something and Conversation now start closed every time you open a plan. When someone else has done something in one since you last looked (a message or a reaction, a vote, a sign-up to bring something), it says so beside the title: "2 new". Open the section and the count clears. It's counted for each person, so your spouse still sees what's new to them.
• A guest sees the question first. The times and the answer buttons are at the top of an invitation; the host's questions and Helping Hands sit below, folded until opened, and open by themselves once you've answered.
• Every button is now the same comfortable height. On a phone, the Renovation timeline runs down the page and the Plans tabs wrap onto a second row, so neither scrolls sideways. The little dots on the calendar are just markers on a phone: open a plan from the list underneath.
• Offering a few times? The End time is optional, just like when you know the date. Say when each one starts and leave the end open, like 6 pm on Friday for a weekend stay.
• Account is now a short list: You, Sign-in and security, Notifications, Connections, Family, Your plan, and Help and about. Each opens its own page with only those settings, and each row says what is set right now. Time zone, breathing room and auto-confirm moved to Open time, where they belong.
• "Come as you are" now says what it means, when you choose it and on the invitation: no dressing up and nothing to bring, just come.

Fixed

• Disconnecting Google Calendar and connecting it again now puts your upcoming confirmed plans back on your calendar. Before, they were left off and the plan no longer said it was on Google. If the event from before is still there, the plan is linked to it again, so you never get it twice.
• Connecting Google Calendar after you'd already confirmed a plan left that plan off Google, while its page said "On your Google Calendar". Connecting now sends your upcoming confirmed plans (and the times you're holding for plans still out) to Google, and anyone already connected is caught up within the hour. Thanks, Malachi.
• Three on/off switches on a plan's page did nothing when flipped: "Let guests add answers", "Let guests add things to bring" and "Guests can see and join the conversation". They save as soon as you flip them now.
• The Nudge button and Home's "waiting for" line no longer cut a name like "The O'Briens & Sons" down to "The".
• The newsletter only goes to people who had an account before its day. If you join mid-month, your first one is next month's. Its subject is now simply the month, like "November Newsletter".
• On a phone, a group plan's page no longer runs off the side of the screen when someone in the group has a long name. The button that closes a message, the Directions link and the footer's Terms link are also easier to tap.
• Adding a lot of people from a group link in a row no longer ends on a blank page: if you add too many at once, it now says to wait a few minutes and try again.
• Answers guests had given that went missing after Wednesday's update (their picked times and group votes) are back, and Plans shows your friends' plans again. We are sorry: nothing you did caused it.
• Connecting Google Calendar on iPhone now starts with a regular page link, so Google opens in the same tab.
• Said yes to a plan while signed in, from someone who isn't your friend in the app? It now shows in your Plans. (Open your link once while signed in and an earlier yes shows too.) Their invitation offers a one-tap friend request, so the next ones arrive in the app.
• On a group link, an email or phone we already have no longer looks required: it says "we have it", and if that's everything the host asked for, you're told you're all set.
• A reminder for a plan later the same day said "tomorrow". It now says tonight, today or tomorrow, as it should, and guests' reminders no longer list the time zone.
• One inbox, one account: signing up with another spelling of an address that already has an account (Gmail ignores dots and +tags, so rachel.perkins@gmail.com and rachelperkins@gmail.com are the same inbox) now says to sign in instead of making a second account.
• A Golden Ticket no longer shows the "free trial ends" message: it is free for life, so there is nothing to count down.
• You stay signed in: the app no longer signs you out each time you close it. You are signed out only after 30 days of not opening it, or when you tap Sign out. Links on the old address now open the main address, so there is one place to be signed in.

Version 2026.11.7 · November 2, 2026

Say every time that works

When you're offered a few times, tick each one that works. The host sees which times work for whom, and picks.

New

• Make Home yours: "Edit Home" (under the greeting on Home) lets you move each section up or down, remove the ones you don't need, and add them back. The calendar now sits below "Need an idea?" to start with.
• Clear cancelled plans: on Plans, Cancelled, "Clear all" takes them off the list (or clear one from its own page). Nothing is deleted, and your history stays.
• A calendar on Home: this month's plans on their days. Confirmed plans are filled in; plans still waiting on answers show as maybes on each day they offered. Flip between months, and tap a plan to open it.
• Change your family name from the top of Account ("Change the family name"). A name like "Contreras Fam" is tidied to Contreras, so guests see "from the Contreras family".
• The guest list is one table: each entry is an Individual, a Family or a Group (each with its own colour, icon and shape), with who's included and when you were last together. Filter by type, search by any name (including the people in a family or group), and page through. When you add someone, you choose which it is.
• "Who should host?" now sits right with the times on an invitation. When you're open to either place, guests choose "I'll host" or "We can come to you" and can add a note; you see the votes counted on the plan. A guest who hosts confirms 2 days before, or that morning when the plan is sooner (no setting to fiddle with).
• Offered a few times? Tick every one that works: both, one, or neither ("Neither works for you?" is right there, no reason needed). The host sees each time with who can make it, and chooses one.

Version 2026.11.2 · November 1, 2026

A monthly newsletter

What's new, once a month, on the 1st. Nothing else.

New

• A newsletter once a month, on the 1st: what's new, nothing else. Opt out in one tap at the top of any issue, or in Account.

Version 2026.11.1 · November 1, 2026

A link for the whole group, and a home of its own

Someday Soon moved to its own server, and group plans got simpler: one link anyone can join, a plain yes or no, and texts that sound like you.

New

• Releases have numbers now: the year, the month, then which release of the month (this is 2026.11.1). The number is at the foot of every page, and links to what changed.
• Groups: on a group's page, add several people at once, and on Android choose several from your contacts in one go (also when making a group; this now works, it did not before). You're in your own groups, but you never have to vote: a plan doesn't wait for you, and you aren't nudged or reminded as a guest.
• Helping Hands suggests as you type: a list of over 600 common things to bring (mains, sides, desserts, drinks, supplies, games and more), each with a rule of thumb worked out for your group ("Enough for 20: about 40 hot dogs"). Change the hint as you like, and save your own items and hints to reuse; your list is private to your family.
• No list yet? For a group plan, "Just make a link": name it (Game night), pick times, and post one link anywhere. Anyone with it adds their name and votes. Choose whether the people who join are saved as a group on your guest list, or keep it a one-off (and save it later if you like). You never appear as a name to pick.
• Someday Soon moved to its own server (DigitalOcean, Toronto). The privacy page says so, and backups run every night.
• Drafts save themselves once you've chosen who: no more Save for later.
• Friends are in the Who list now. Choosing one puts them on your guest list.
• An open-link plan keeps taking names after you confirm, until the event is over.
• Just make a link: once you name it, you go straight to choosing times. Suggested times are a plain hour now, and the usual lengths are gone from plan types and settings.

Improved

• Group plans: Group text only shows once someone else with a number is in the group (it used to text just you), and copying the message to send it yourself counts as sent.
• Group plans on Home show how far the voting has got ("2 of 2 have voted", and when voting closes) with a Review everyone's votes button, instead of one person's pick to approve. The plan page no longer shows a one-person Approve box next to the group's votes.
• The Directions link has its map pin on the left of the word, instead of above it.
• Helping Hands is clearer for big groups: the page shows how many people are invited, the organizer says how many people should bring each thing and can add a hint in their own words ("Enough for 20 people"), and each person can say how much they'll bring, shown next to their name and in their reminder.
• Asking a group for contact details is two simple ticks: Require a phone number, Require an email, with a note on what each is for (we send email reminders; a phone lets you text them in one tap).
• Clearer: on the Who step for a group, "Skip the group: just make a link" says plainly that you don't need to choose or add anyone first.
• A group plan with just one date doesn't ask anyone to vote: each person says "Yes, I'll be there" or that they can't make it.
• The vote-by day is on the times page, and only once you've picked two or more times. "If it doesn't work, show them other times" isn't offered for groups.
• On a group plan's page, "Need some extra help?" (Helping Hands) and "Message the group" (reminder emails) are folded until you want them.
• Texts read like you wrote them: no "It's Zack", no time zone, and the day says tonight, tomorrow, this Friday, or the date.
• Making a plan: the times step asks first whether you know the date. Know it? Just the day and time. Still figuring it out? Choose a handful and let people pick.
• Group plans: one group text, a list to text one person, and everyone's answers folded away.
• Guests answer with Yes or Can't make it, one under the other; the details are just who's coming and anything to know.
• Days of notice for a guest hosting only shows when a guest might host.
• One date: guests see a plain "I can't make it" (no asking for other times), your page says "Can make it", and you show as hosting and coming.
• Groups meet at your place or somewhere else, and wording across the plan, review and link pages now fits a group, an open link, or one person.
• Cancel plan is a pop-up now, with the reason inside it.
• "Remind the group" is what it says now, and a shared group link reads "Please RSVP".

Fixed

• Fixed: a button you tapped, then came Back to, could stay dimmed with "…" and not respond. Going back now always finds it ready.
• Sturdier: a deliberate attempt to break every page found and fixed five crashes (odd addresses, hidden characters in a form, a date sent in the wrong shape, an account saved with no time zone, an extremely long name), and a vote-by day can no longer be set after the last day on offer.
• Fixed: buttons that save and come back to the same page (Get my calendar link, and the rest of Account) now land on their own section instead of jumping to the top.
• Open links: the first yes no longer books the plan and closes the link, so everyone can still add their name. You confirm when you're ready.

October 31, 2026

Share to Someday Soon, and shortcuts on your phone

On an Android phone with Someday Soon installed, you can send a message straight into a new plan.

New

• Help that fits your phone: an iPhone is shown how to put Someday Soon on the Home Screen (which is also how notifications reach an iPhone), an Android phone gets an Install button and a tip for sharing a message straight into a plan, and the calendar link leads with Apple Calendar or Google Calendar to suit. Home asks once what kind of phone you use, and what you say wins over the app's guess; change it any time in Account.
• A small badge at the foot of every page: Made in Kentucky, live since Oct 28, 2026, with a count of which day it is.
• For whoever runs Someday Soon: when someone asks for an invite you get a push and an email (a number, never their address), and the Activity page has a Waiting for an invite section with a Send invite button that emails them a one-time link and then forgets their address.
• Apple Calendar (and any calendar app): in Account, Calendar, get one private link and add it once. Every plan you confirm then shows up on your calendar by itself, and moves or goes away if the plan does. It only shows your plans; it can't see your calendar.
• Save a plan you started for later. "Save for later" is on the steps of making a plan; saved plans wait at the top of Plans (and on Home) to pick up exactly where you left off, with everything still chosen.
• Making a plan is now one decision at a time, with a progress bar and a check on each step: one person or a group, who, what, when, a few optional extras, then a last look. Going back keeps everything you chose.
• Golden tickets for the earliest members: an account that started before 2027 and carries a plan all the way through earns a free plan for life, awarded when the new year begins. Home shows a goal to work toward until January 5th.
• A thank-you note from Zack, shown once the first time you open Home.
• Share to Someday Soon: select text in Messages (or any app), tap Share, and choose Someday Soon. It opens a new plan with the text as your note, and fills in who and what kind of plan when the text clearly names one person and one kind. Nothing is saved until you say so.
• Press and hold the app icon on Android for New plan, Guest list and Your plans.

Improved

• Links that used to be plain underlined text are now small buttons (Cancel, Add a busy day, Sign in, and more); Privacy and Terms stay as links. The Who step of making a plan has a clear "Add someone new" or "Add a group" button.
• Pricing: the site shows no prices for now. The basics of Someday Soon will always be free, and guests never pay.
• The "you've earned a golden ticket" card on Home goes away once you have looked at the ticket.
• Fixed: "Change times" on the last look of a plan said the page was out of date and led to a page that could not be found. The same fix covers "New recovery codes" on Account.
• Planning with a group: add a group of friends to your guest list (a book club, a team). Each person gets their own link. Your plan page shows how many can do each time and who, which time is winning, and who still has to answer, with a one-tap Confirm. Each friend marks every time that works for them (works, if needed, or can't), and a group can offer up to six times. Nothing is booked on the first answer; when one time works for everyone, it confirms itself.
• Choosing a look now applies it straight away; there is no button to press.
• Drafts save themselves: once you get past choosing who and what, the plan is kept as a draft that waits on Home and at the top of Plans, with everything still chosen. Making the plan removes it.
• Adding a group is now two steps: the group and its details, then its people (nine at once, or several at once from your phone's contacts). You are in the group already as the main contact; make someone else the main contact whenever you like.
• Adding someone to your guest list from the plan builder takes you straight back to your plan.
• Examples now use cartoon families (Homer Simpson, The Flintstones) instead of real names.
• Where to meet: a new "Somewhere else" choice (a restaurant, a park, a church) with the address below. Choosing our place fills in the address saved in Account, and their place fills in theirs; anything you typed is left alone.
• Texting a group: one "Hey everyone" message to the whole group with one shared link. Each person taps their name there and picks their own times; someone who wasn't added can add themselves with their name (and a phone number, if they like) and answer too. Texting people one by one still works.
• The email that invites someone who asked for it is now a personal note from Zack, with his photo (and a joke), a thank-you for testing, and a closing quote.
• For whoever runs Someday Soon: the alert choices on Activity fold away once set, and say what you picked in the heading.
• Group plans: after someone picks their name on the group link, they confirm their email and phone (what we have is shown hidden, never whole). When you plan a group get-together you choose what to ask for: optional, an email, a phone, either, or both.
• Helping Hands, for group plans: list what you'd love a hand with (side dishes, drinks, folding chairs) and how many you need. Guests sign up for items right after they vote on a time, you can sign up too, and the group link stays open until the event so people can still change their minds.
• Reminders you schedule: for a group plan, choose when guests with an email are reminded (a week before, 2 days before, the day before, the morning of, or your own number of days) and at what time. The email has the time, the place and what each person is bringing.
• Links inside a sentence ("see the renovation", "Edit your open time", "Report a bug") are plain underlined links again, instead of small buttons in the middle of a paragraph. Stand-alone actions stay buttons.
• Addresses suggest themselves as you type: pick one from the list and it's marked as checked on a map. The Check address button is gone. Only the text of the address is sent, through our server and with nothing about you; the privacy page says so.
• Group plans give slow friends time: a group is no longer cut off two days after the first answer. You can set a "please answer by" day (guests see it); if it passes with answers missing you're told once and you choose, and one alert tells you when everyone has answered, instead of one alert per person.
• The Forecast link is gone from plans for now: it looked up today's weather at the address, and what you want is the forecast for the day of the get-together.
• Plans you started in the builder wait in the Drafts tab on Plans (with the count), and still show on Home.
• Group plans, the poll: your approval link for a group is now a poll of who voted for what, with a button to choose any day (choosing it books your calendar and closes voting). Set a "vote by" day when you set the event up; voting closes at the end of it. Guests of a group see your name instead of "the Stone family".
• Group plans, nudging: the plan page offers one text to everyone who hasn't answered ("Hey everyone" with the shared link) and a button for each person. Nothing is sent by itself.
• Building a group from your guest list: when you make a group, or later from its page, tick people from your guest list and their name, phone and email are copied in. The originals stay as they are.
• A better "are you sure?": cancelling or deleting a plan, throwing away a draft and the like now ask in a clear dialog in the app's own look (the safe choice is the big button), instead of the browser's plain box.
• The front page now tells the story of plans for a whole group (getting a D&D campaign started, nailing down a time for a book club), and How it works explains how groups work.
• Repeat: the last day only appears once you choose how often a plan repeats, and the same goes for custom reminders and a quick plan's invitation questions (in person only).
• The date picker now opens above the button at the bottom of the screen on a phone, instead of sliding underneath it.
• "A short visit" is gone from what guests can expect (the times already say how long), and the review no longer warns that a time is outside your open time: if you set it up, it's fine.
• Merry Christmas: a small Santa and sleigh now and then crosses the screen. Autumn Leaves: a few leaves blow gently past. Both stay out of the way, and are still when your device is set to reduce motion.
• Merry Christmas also hangs strings of blinking lights along the top of your cards.
• Gather 'Round: a cartoon turkey runs along the top of your cards, with a hunter after it with his gun. Once they are off the edge, the hunter comes running back with his gun in the air and a giant turkey after him. Only one chase happens at a time.
• Gather 'Round, more of it: little pies sit on the corners of your cards with steam rising, the running turkey gobbles, a Thanksgiving parade (a pumpkin, a pie, an acorn and corn balloons, handlers walking beneath, a banner out front) crosses the top of the screen once each visit, and a big turkey balloon drifts slowly across the sky. Still, with no steam, parade or balloons, if your device is set to reduce motion.

October 30, 2026

Friends, your calendar's suggestions, and a livelier Home

The biggest day so far. Plans and Google Calendar now work together, friends can plan around each other's free times, and the idea card on Home came alive.

New

• Friends: connect with people on Someday Soon by their exact email or phone. Lookup is exact and optional (from Oct 31 it is on for new accounts, with a clear choice at sign-up), requests must be accepted, and each of you chooses whether to share when you're free (free times only, never what you're doing).
• Planning with a friend who shares offers only the times that work for both of you.
• A guest who already has an account is offered a friend request when you add them to your guest list.
• Your calendar suggests open time: when you're usually free (like Tuesday evenings) you can add it with one tap. Nothing is added unless you say yes.
• Offered times are held on your Google Calendar as tentative events, and become the confirmed event when someone says yes.
• Choose Google Calendar reminders for your plans, and add an optional address that's checked on a map and put on the event.
• If you move or delete an event in Google, Someday Soon asks what to do. It never changes a plan on its own.
• Plans confirm themselves when a guest takes an offered time unchanged, and you're notified. There's a switch in Account to approve each one yourself.
• Quick plans: add your own kinds of plan, rename the built-in ones, and hide the ones you never use.
• Sign in with a passkey: your fingerprint, face or device PIN.
• Home can ask to turn on notifications, using your browser's own permission popup.
• The Plans page has tabs for Sent, Approved, Drafts and Cancelled.
• The Need an idea card cycles by itself with 165 ideas, each in a font and an animation that suit where it comes from, and a button that says exactly what it does.
• What's new and release notes, in the app.
• Gentle prompts (off unless you turn them on): an occasional, quiet question on Home like "Who might be alone at Thanksgiving?", never more than one a week.
• Memories: leave a short private note on a plan that happened, and Home looks back on this day in earlier years ("One year ago today: Dinner with Jib and Jub"). There's a switch in Account.
• Gentle goals (off unless you turn them on): a private Your year page, and an optional monthly goal for how many households you'd like to see. No streaks, no comparing, nothing lost by turning it off.
• A kind host's checklist on a plan that's on: what your guests need, in plain suggestions. Only you see it.

Improved

• For the person running the site: the Activity page can now tell you when something new happens, by push and email, instead of you checking. New sign-ups by default, or everything, or nothing. It is only about your testers, with counts and a link, and waits until morning overnight.
• New people are now told about the looks and the reading settings: a new stop on the house tour (The paint swatches), a line on the sign-up screens about the Aa button, and a quiet card on Home that you can close for good.
• New looks in Account, under Your look: Clear Colors (made for color blindness, with a symbol and a different edge on every success, warning and problem), Autumn Leaves, Gather 'Round (for Thanksgiving), a Christmas look that teases you for being early until Thanksgiving and then becomes Merry Christmas, and Dreaming of a White Christmas (gently falling snow). The snow stands still if your device is set to reduce motion. The existing colors have new names to match the brand: Evening Violet, Porch Light, Herb Garden, Morning Sky and Sunday Rose.
• The buttons in the top bar (light or dark, and Reading and display) now sit in a row on a phone, with a clearer Aa icon.
• Tables fit your phone: the privacy page's "what we keep" table and the Activity list become a card per row on a narrow screen (and at large text sizes), with every field labelled, instead of making you scroll sideways. Anything that still scrolls sideways shows a soft shadow on the edge that has more to see.
• The privacy page now compares what the big platforms are documented to do with your data (tracking across the web, training AI on your posts, face and voice data, ads, hard-to-cancel subscriptions) with what Someday Soon does, with a source for every line.
• Reading and display: choose a font made for easy reading (Atkinson Hyperlegible for low vision, Lexend, OpenDyslexic, or a plain Arial/Verdana-style font), a larger text size (up to 150%), and more space between letters, words and lines. It is in the top bar and the footer of every page, works for guests with no account, previews as you choose, and follows you to your other devices when you are signed in. The biggest size with the widest spacing still fits a small phone.
• For the person running the site: the Activity page is about your testers only. Your own family is left out of every number and list.
• Invite links make friends: when someone signs up through your invite link (or the free-join link a guest gets after answering your plan), they become your friend automatically. The sign-up screen says so first, and nothing is shared until you each choose.
• A QR code for your personal invite link, in Account, so someone can scan it in person. Put the same link on an NFC sticker and a tap opens it too.
• A pass over the wording so it matches how things work now: finding friends is on to begin with, guest details can be changed until a plan is confirmed, and the Renovation page says which rooms are already built.
• If your Google Calendar is connected and the plan is already on it, the Add to my calendar button is replaced by a quiet "On your Google Calendar", so you never add it twice. Guests keep their Add to calendar button.
• The front page now says plainly who needs what: you need a free account on the website (nothing to download), your guests need nothing, Google Calendar connects today, and Apple Calendar and an iPhone app are planned.
• New accounts can be found by friends who type their exact email or phone, so connecting is easy. Sign-up says so plainly, it is optional, and you can switch it off at sign-up or any time on the Friends page. Nobody can browse or search for you, and nobody already on Someday Soon was switched on.
• Easier to find: every public page now has its own clear title and description in search results, and the front page tells search engines what Someday Soon is.
• Pages load faster on repeat visits: the stylesheet, scripts and fonts are now kept by your browser for a year instead of an hour.
• Shorter invite links: new links are 37 characters instead of 49, so they look tidier in a text. Links you already sent keep working.
• Save your own address in Account and an address for each person on your guest list. On a plan, one tap (Use our address, Use their address) fills in the address. Both are encrypted, and nothing is filled in unless you tap.
• The front page is shorter and shows the real thing: screenshots of what your guest sees, in light and dark, one main button to ask for an invite, and prices on their own Pricing page.
• The Need an idea? card on Home has a small Hide. It collapses to a slim row, and Show ideas brings it back. It remembers your choice.
• For the person running the site: the Activity page shows how far families get (signed up, added a guest, connected a calendar, sent a plan, a guest answered), as counts only.
• The front page shows a taste of the idea card, the humor included, so people can see what the site is like before they ask for an invite.
• Fifty more ideas on the Home card, from shows, movies and games you know (Friends, Bluey, Ted Lasso, Frozen, Pokémon and more), each credited.
• A plan with an address has Directions and Forecast links, for you and for your guests. They are plain links: nothing is looked up unless someone taps one.
• Account puts the settings most people want at the top (your name, look, reminders, calendar, friends and people) and tucks the rest into four panels: Family settings, Sign-in and security, Extras, and Plan and sharing. Open one when you need it.
• A guest who answered a plan can join Someday Soon for free with one tap, instead of asking for an invite: being invited to a plan is the invitation.
• On/off settings are sliding switches now (Friends, reminders, auto-confirm, gentle prompts, goals and On this day) instead of checkboxes.
• Small repeated actions are icons with a tooltip: edit, hide, show, delete and remove, copy message, show the QR code, open their page, and cancel a request. The words are still there for screen readers.
• A copy and clean-up pass across the app: shorter sentences, a few grammar fixes, and less on the screen (Catch-ups tucks its snooze options away; the time-zone list shows the common ones first).
• Gentle motion throughout: cards lift when you point at them, buttons press down and folded sections fade open. All of it is short, plays once, and is off if your device is set to reduce motion.
• A wider desktop with card grids and an Account side menu, bigger tap targets and readable text on every screen size.
• The phone's bottom bar now has Home, Plans, New plan, Friends and More.
• Phone numbers format as you type: (606) 619-5030.
• Each invitation has an Open their page link, so you can see what your guest sees.
• Times on the offer step read 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm instead of 18:00.
• The guest page says nothing needs downloading and no account is needed to answer.

Fixed

• On a friend's page, Share when I'm free (and Stop sharing) are real buttons now. They looked like plain text, so it wasn't clear you could tap them.
• If a phone's notification service is down or slow, a guest's answer is no longer affected, and the rest of your family and devices are still told.
• Tapping Make this plan twice in a row (easy to do on a slow connection) no longer makes two plans with two different links for your guest.
• Signing out is safer on a shared computer: pressing Back afterwards no longer shows the last person's pages.
• Starting a new plan is quicker for families with a long guest list: it no longer looks each person up one at a time.
• An address or title containing a semicolon now goes into the calendar file correctly, so it shows in full in Apple, Outlook and Google calendars.
• Accessibility: tables that scroll sideways (the privacy page, Activity) can now be reached with the keyboard, and Home's side notes are no longer mislabeled for screen readers. An accessibility scan of 15 pages, in light and dark, now comes back clean.
• On a phone, the Add button on a guest's "Add details" row no longer wraps onto two lines.
• Looking up someone in your own family on Friends (a spouse with their own login) now says they are already in your family, instead of "we couldn't find anyone".
• Once a guest's time is confirmed, their page is calm: the time, Add to calendar, and a Can't make it anymore? button with an optional reason. Backing out tells the family, and cancels the plan when nobody is left coming. Before, saying you couldn't make it saved a note but changed nothing.
• Automated probes for files like .json or .yml now get a plain "not found" instead of an error.
• Calendar events no longer list you as a guest awaiting a response: it's your own calendar, so nobody is added to the event.
• When a plan is confirmed, its Google Calendar event no longer keeps the "Waiting for an answer. Not confirmed yet." note.
• Every idea on the Home card now fits every screen size, from small phones to wide monitors: nothing runs off the edge, long buttons wrap, and the reference always sits underneath the button at the bottom right.
• The newsletter's sample ideas fit on a phone, a link in Account no longer sits inside another link, and the edit and remove icons on a catch-up card stay at its top right.
• A plan cancelled before it was ever confirmed no longer offers to text people.
• The idea card could show words from one idea with another idea's button after you came back to the page.
• Busy time from Google Calendar is kept for a few minutes (without event titles) so pages stay quick.