Every shared calendar on the market was designed for work and then awkwardly repurposed for your personal life. They give you a grid, a color picker, and call it a day. Nobody has ever designed one from scratch around how a couple, a family, a group of roommates, or three best friends actually coordinate their lives.
So I did. It's called Bunchday.
Bunchday is a calm, beautiful, widget-first shared calendar built for the small groups that matter most. It has a mascot. It has a soul. And it's finally ready for other people to try.
The idea is simple: your closest people deserve better than a Google Calendar invite. They deserve an app that actually feels like them — one where every person in the group has their own character, where your home screen shows a shared countdown to the trip you're all excited about, and where finding time together doesn't mean texting "when are you free?" back and forth for three days.
Bunchday is on iPhone, with a web app that works on Android and desktop. Mac and Apple Watch are coming. No account required — you open it and start. No ads, no data collection, your plans stay on your device.
What makes it different
🫧 It has a character, not just an icon. Every member gets their own Bun — a little round character in a backwards cap, in one of six pastel colors. Bun's mood shifts with your day: calm when you're free, focused when you're stacked, sleepy at night, excited when a plan with your group is coming up. It sounds small. It changes everything about how the app feels.
📅 The Today view is unlike anything else. A glowing rail lights up as your day moves forward. Pinch to zoom seamlessly from a 6-hour window all the way out to a full year. Buffer zones and free blocks are visible at a glance. It's the kind of calendar view you didn't know you wanted until you use it.
👥 Together view — the feature that should have existed years ago. See exactly where everyone's free time overlaps. No more group texts. No more polls. Pick a slot, create the plan, done.
🧠 It thinks ahead. Bunchday reads your email locally — on your phone, never on a server — and surfaces flights, hotel bookings, restaurant reservations, concert tickets, and invitations you've already received. Plans you've already made just appear.
📱 Widgets are a first-class citizen. Shared countdown widgets (everyone's Buns huddled around "12 days until Maya's birthday"). A Next Up widget in every size, including the new iOS 27 full-page widget. Your home screen becomes the calmest, most useful view of your shared life.
The full feature set
- Bunches — shared calendars for couples, families, roommates, friends. Invite by link or QR.
- Month, Year, and Tasks views alongside the Today timeline
- Repeating plans and tasks with a smart Organizer that fits to-dos into your free time and shares the load across the group
- Quick Add — type in plain words ("Dinner with Sam Friday 7pm") and it just works
- Import from any calendar on your phone — iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange, all through Apple Calendar
- RSVP and reactions on events
- Morning brief notifications and day-before nudges
- Six pastel member colors, dark mode with warm charcoal, and motion that respects Reduce Motion
Where it's headed
Cloud sync is shipping next — right now each device keeps its own copy, and I want to be transparent about that. After sync: push notifications for changes by others, Google sign-in on the web app, Mac, Apple Watch, event chat, shared lists, photo memories, polls ("which weekend?"), and Siri integration. This is v1 of a much bigger vision.
Why I'm posting
I need people who actually live in a shared calendar — people who know what's broken about TimeTree, what Cozi gets wrong, what Howbout is missing, what Apple Calendar can't do — to use this and be brutally honest.
- Does it feel calm and clear, or is something overwhelming?
- What do you rely on in your current app that's missing here?
- Bugs, weirdness, crashes — all of it. Don't hold back.
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