It's the same app that's been on F-Droid and GitHub. Same privacy, too: no account, no ads, nothing sent to us.

Mostly, we want to say thanks. To the people who installed KashCal early, reported the bugs we swore weren't there, sent patches, and donated to keep it going.

Get it on Google Play, or anywhere else you'd rather.

KashCal needs it for one thing: syncing with a CalDAV server on your own network. We implemented the new permission, and while wiring it up we noticed KashCal's permissions had ended up spread out, each one surfaced only where its feature lived: contacts near birthdays, notifications near reminders, and now local network near sync. There was nowhere to see them all at once.

So we put them all on one screen. It is called App permissions, and it is in your account hub.

Where it is​

Tap your initials in the top right to open the account hub, then look under the Privacy & Security section. "App permissions" opens a full screen listing every permission KashCal can use, one row each. If you moved to Android 17 and your sync to a local server needs switching back on, this is where you do it.

What each permission is for​

The reason for a permission sits with the permission, not in a policy page you have to go find. Tap the info icon on any row and it says, in one sentence, what that access gives you. These are the words in the app:

• Notifications. So KashCal can remind you about your events. Without it, reminders stay silent.
• Contacts. Suggests guests as you add people to an event, and shows contact birthdays. Your contacts stay on your device.
• Calendars. Shows events from the other calendars on your device next to your own.
• Local network. Reaches a calendar server on your home or office network. Android 17 asks for this separately from internet access.

Each reason names a feature you use. Turn a permission off and only that feature stops. The rest of the app keeps working.

Granting, and changing your mind​

Each row ends in one of two things. A permission is either Allowed, with a check next to it, or it shows an Allow button.

If it is already granted, tapping the row takes you to that permission's own page in Android settings. Not the general app screen, the exact one: Notifications lands on notification settings, the rest on the app's permission details. Adjust it there, come back, and the list updates to match, because it re-reads the current state each time it opens.

If a permission is off, Allow requests it in the app. And if you had earlier told Android not to ask again, Allow takes you straight to the settings page for that permission, so even one you fully denied is a tap away from turning back on.

Only what applies to your phone​

The list shows only the permissions that apply to your version of Android. Notifications became a permission you grant in Android 13, so on older phones there is no such row. Local network is new in Android 17, so it appears only there.

The list does not ask for anything​

Opening it requests nothing. KashCal still asks for a permission when a feature first needs it, contacts when you turn on birthdays, calendar access when you connect a device calendar, with the reason in front of you and the option to decline. The screen is for reviewing and adjusting the whole set afterward.

Next to "How your data stays yours"​

Right below App permissions is a link called How your data stays yours. A permission list tells you what KashCal can do on your phone. The privacy page tells you what it does with any of it: no account, no server, no trackers, events in a database only KashCal can read, and passwords encrypted with a key that stays on your device. Every permission maps to a feature, and because the app is open source, the full list is in the manifest for anyone to read.

Here's the short version of where we landed. You reach for a calendar in small, unglamorous moments, to jot down that the dishes are your job tonight or that the dentist moved you to Thursday. A good one makes those moments easier and doesn't add a chore of its own. Everything below is a version of that idea, and you can see each part of it in KashCal.

It's a pleasure to open, not a chore​

You'll open your calendar thousands of times this year. It should be a small pleasure each time, not something you brace for. So a good calendar cares how it looks and how it moves, because that's most of how it feels to use.

KashCal is built on Material 3 with full Material You support, so on Android 12 and newer it takes its colors from your wallpaper and looks like it belongs on your phone, not ported from something older. It runs edge to edge. Its dark mode is designed dark, not a washed-out flip of the light one. Scrolling, pinching, and swiping move the way the rest of your phone does. The small touches add up: type "lunch" and it finds you a plate, press and drag an event to a new time, pinch the timeline to stretch the hours to the density you like.

And it gives you the day in whatever shape you need. Seven views, each built for a real job: a readable agenda for the morning, an hour-by-hour day for a busy one, the whole month when you're planning ahead, a year when you're looking further out. You switch between them in a tap.

It gets out of your way​

The best calendar is the one you barely have to open. Every time you stop to consult it is a small tax on the plan you were making. So the good ones fade into the furniture.

KashCal puts your day where you're already looking: a home-screen widget that shows today at a glance, so "am I free Thursday?" is answered without opening anything at all. When you do open the app, it's there right away, on the day you're on, ready for the next thing. It gets in, does the job, and leaves you alone.

It shows you your whole life, not a slice of it​

Your days don't live in one place. Family plans are on iCloud, work is on a server your company runs, holidays came from a link you subscribed to years ago, and birthdays are hiding in your contacts where you'll forget them until the day after. A calendar that only knows about one of those isn't showing you your schedule. It's showing you a corner of it and letting you assume that's all there is.

A good calendar gathers the corners. KashCal puts iCloud, any CalDAV server, the calendars other apps already keep on your phone, birthdays from your contacts, and subscribed feeds onto one screen, then gets out of the way. The point isn't the length of that list. It's that after you connect them once, you stop holding the running total in your head.

It lets you write like a person​

Nobody thinks in form fields. You think "coffee with Sam tomorrow at 3," and then a calendar makes you translate that into a title box, a date picker, a start time, an end time, and a save button. That translation is friction, and friction is where plans go to die.

A good calendar meets you in plain language. In KashCal you type "Coffee with Sam tomorrow 3pm" and watch it turn into a real event as you go, the title, the date, and the time each landing where they belong. Type "Standup every weekday at 9am" and it repeats. What matters isn't how clever that is under the hood. It's that you can catch a plan in the two seconds before it slips your mind.

It doesn't live in someone else's cloud​

For most calendars, the app on your phone is a window onto an account somewhere else. Your events live on a company's servers, and the phone shows you a copy. It only exists because you signed in, and the day you stop signing in, it's empty.

KashCal starts from the other end. Your calendar lives on your device, and it works with no account at all: install it, start adding events, done. Connect iCloud or a CalDAV server when you want your events on your other devices, and KashCal is offline-first about it, so everything you do lands on the phone the instant you do it and catches up with your server later. A plane, a basement, a dead signal, none of it stops you from writing down a plan. The sync is something you add to a calendar that already works, not the thing holding it up.

It's yours​

That independence has a quieter payoff. A calendar knows your interviews, your doctor's appointments, your "lunch??", and who you're seeing on Friday night. That's about as personal as data gets, and because KashCal has no account and no servers of its own, there is, quite literally, nowhere for us to send it. Your events stay on your device and sync only with the servers you chose.

Yours to trust, too. Every permission the app asks for is listed with the reason it needs it, and it asks in context, when you turn on the feature that needs it, not all at once at the door. The whole thing is open source under Apache-2.0, so "we don't track you" is something you can check rather than a promise you have to take.

And yours to make your own. Tap the avatar in the corner to open the account hub, set your initials, and under Make it yours dress the app the way you like: light or dark, your accent color from your Material You wallpaper or a wheel of 92, even a different app icon on your home screen. It reads in 67 languages, following whatever your phone is set to. A calendar you look at every day should feel like it belongs to you.

So, what makes a good calendar?​

Not the length of a feature list. A good calendar is a pleasure to open, gets out of your way, shows all of your time in one place, lets you write like a person, doesn't live in someone else's cloud, and stays yours because it is. Most of that is invisible when it's done well, which is probably why it's easier to ask the question than to answer it.

That's what we're building. If you want to see whether we got it right, install KashCal, it's free, and there's no account in the way. Then tell us the part we missed, because someone asking a good question is how this one started.

We came out the other side with nothing to fix. Here's the walk-through, because a claim like that is only worth as much as your ability to check it.

The list is mostly about data you collect. We don't.​

Read the checklist end to end and a pattern shows up. Most of it exists to keep apps that hoover up sensitive data from mishandling it: minimize what you request, explain why, don't leak it, don't hang onto identifiers you don't need. Our answer to most of the list isn't a clever mitigation. It's that the data isn't there to mishandle.

There is no KashCal account and no KashCal server. No analytics library, no crash reporter, no ad SDK compiled into the app. Nothing phones home, because there is no home to phone. That clears whole sections of the checklist before we start.

Permissions you can account for​

The first checklist wants the minimum, requested in context rather than sprung on you at the door. Every permission KashCal holds maps to a feature you can point at: sync, contacts for birthdays and guest suggestions, calendar access for the calendars other apps keep on your phone, reminders, reaching a self-hosted server on your own network, and the optional biometric lock that screens the app behind your fingerprint.

None of it is requested at launch. Turn on birthday events and it asks for contacts, with the reason in front of you. Connect a device calendar and it asks for calendar access. Decline, and the rest of the app carries on; a refused permission switches off one feature and nothing else. There is no microphone, camera, phone-state, or broad storage permission anywhere, because nothing in the app uses them.

Location it never asks for​

A whole section of the checklist is devoted to handling location with care. KashCal skips the conversation: it requests no location permission of any kind. The location on an event is text you type, not a reading pulled from your phone. Nothing to minimize when there was nothing there.

Your data, and where it goes​

This is where a calendar app carries real responsibility, so it's where we spent the most time.

Your events sit in a database on your device that other apps can't read, and they stay put until you connect a server to sync them. KashCal is offline-first: everything you do lands on the phone instantly and catches up with your server later, so a basement or a dead zone never stops the calendar. The only copies that leave the device go to the server you connected: iCloud, Nextcloud, Fastmail, any CalDAV server. When you connect one, its password is encrypted with AES-256, and the key lives in the Android Keystore, hardware-backed on phones that support it. That password never lands in a log. Where we log a username to debug a sync, we print three characters and mask the rest.

Encrypted credentials are left out of Android's cloud backup and its phone-to-phone transfer. The key is tied to the original device, so a copied backup carries nothing another phone could decrypt. When KashCal shares a file, like an exported .ics, it hands the other app a one-time link to that file, not a door into its storage.

KashCal also supports plain HTTP connections, so more self-hosters are welcome. Plenty of people run a calendar server on a box in the next room, on a local address, or behind a proxy that already handles encryption a layer up. An app that refused anything but HTTPS would shut those setups out, and they're the people who care most about owning their own data. We'd rather include them. The default still leans safe: type a server address with no scheme and KashCal fills in https for you, so reaching for plain HTTP is a deliberate choice you make by typing it.

Nothing that follows you around​

Another checklist is about identifiers: avoid the permanent ones, prefer the kind a user can reset. KashCal reads none of the permanent ones. Not the IMEI, not the serial number, not the Android ID, not an advertising ID, and it ships no ads library that would come looking for them. Your account inside the app is a value the app makes up for itself, and it's gone the moment you remove the account.

The controls Android hands the user​

The last checklist is about playing nicely with the system's own privacy features. With no microphone, camera, or location access, there's nothing for Android's Privacy Dashboard to flag against us in the first place. The sensitive permissions we do use, contacts and calendar, only ever fire from something you just tapped, so the reason is never a mystery.

Why it came back empty​

Running a privacy checklist and finding nothing to fix isn't a trophy for clever engineering. It's what happens when the app is shaped so the risky data never arrives. You can't leak a location you never read, or lose an identifier you never stored, or hand a tracker data it was never given.

None of this asks for your trust. KashCal is open source under Apache-2.0, and the F-Droid build is compiled from that public source. The permission list is in the manifest. The encryption is one class you can open. The absence of tracking is the absence of a dependency. Every line above is a file you can read.

Read how privacy works in full. Then, if you like, go check the list yourself.

Then most calendar apps make you take it apart. Title in this box. Tap the date field. Spin a time wheel. Open a second screen labeled "Repeat" and hunt for the right radio button. You arrive knowing exactly what you meant and leave having filled out a form about it. KashCal just reads the sentence.

Type it the way you'd say it​

Turn on Smart event add and type one line. KashCal pulls the pieces out as you go and shows a live preview, so you watch it get things right before you save:

• Dates, however you phrase them: tomorrow, next Friday, March 15, 3/15/2027.
• Times, exact or spoken: 3pm, half past 3, 2pm to 4pm, or just morning.
• Location after the word at: Lunch at Olive Garden files the place, not the title.
• Tags with #: Deep work #focus keeps the tag and drops the rest into the event.

Nothing to tap through. The sentence is the form.

The repeats that used to need a dialog​

Recurring events are where "just fill out the form" gets especially tedious, so this is where typing pays off most. KashCal now understands the awkward ones:

• every weekday, every 2 weeks, monthly until December
• 2nd Tuesday of the month for the meeting that never lands on the same date
• last Thursday of the month, the one your old calendar could not express without a calendar of its own
• last day of the month for rent, whether that month ends on the 30th, the 31st, or a nervous 28th

Say it plainly and KashCal sets the repeat. No radio buttons were harmed.

A place for the part that isn't scheduling​

Sometimes the event carries a thought that is not a time or a place. Add it after a space and //, and everything past it becomes the note:

Call plumber tomorrow 3pm // ask about the leak under the sink

KashCal only reads the part before the // for the schedule, so words in your note never quietly move the event. Paste a link like https://... and it stays put, because the space before // is what marks the note.

It looks and works, well, fantastic​

Typing your events instead of tapping through pickers is the trick a certain famous iPhone calendar showed off for years, and Android users have asked for it for about as long. KashCal does it, on Android, for free, with no account and nothing leaving your phone. Type a sentence, watch the preview, save. That is the whole feature, and it feels a little bit magic every time.

Read the full list of phrases in the smart event add guide, or see it in one picture on the feature page.

Say it once. We got it.

Instead we built a feed whose only job is to put a note on your calendar that asks for nothing. No time, no place, no task. We called it Unscheduled Thoughts, and we are giving it away. Probably no calendar company has put out a joke as a subscription feed on purpose. We are not proud. We are a little proud.

The opposite of an appointment​

Everything else on your calendar wants something. Be here at nine. Leave by ten. Call the dentist you have been avoiding since the last note about the dentist. A calendar is a to-do list that learned to wear colored blocks and bill by the hour.

Unscheduled Thoughts is the one entry that wants nothing back. Every few days it adds a single all-day note and then leaves you alone. Some are kind ("You are not behind. Time is just ambitious."). Some are less kind ("You rescheduled it again. Bold. Committed. To not doing it."). One simply notes that "'Gym' has repeated weekly since March. The event is the consistent part." It means well, mostly.

It lives in the all-day row and marks itself transparent, so it never blocks your day and never argues with the meetings that do. Your free time stays free. It is a note in the margin, not another thing on the pile.

Why the scheduling people built anti-scheduling​

We are the kind of people who fold calendar-feed lines at 75 characters because a spec from 1998 said to. We put that same seriousness into a feed that exists to tell you to drink water ("Coffee is an argument, not water"). Every note is a clean, standards-compliant calendar event carrying no productivity value at all.

A calendar is very good at telling you what is on. It has nothing to say about how you are holding up while you get through it. We sell the first part. Unscheduled Thoughts is a small and unserious go at the second, on the one screen you already check more than you would admit.

So take it as a gift, and we mean it. It is free. No account, nothing to install, no data leaving anywhere, because it is a plain calendar feed with nowhere to phone home to. We could not spy on you if we tried, and we did not build the part where we try. It is not here to sell you our app either. It works in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and KashCal. Bring whatever calendar you already resent. This one comes with no strings, and with no us.

Subscribe in about ten seconds​

Point any calendar app that does subscriptions at this address:

https://kashcal.onekash.org/unscheduled-thoughts.ics

In KashCal it is one tap. Our latest release opens webcal:// links straight from the feed's page, which is a fancy way of saying the button finally works. New notes arrive on their own every few days. No push notifications, no badge, no "you have not opened Unscheduled Thoughts in a while."

It is the only calendar invite you will never have to decline, reschedule, or pretend you did not see. Add Unscheduled Thoughts to your calendar. It asks you for nothing, which by the standards of your calendar makes it the kindest thing on there.

No account, because there are no KashCal servers​

This isn't a privacy setting you switch on. It's the shape of the app. There is no KashCal account to create, no KashCal server anywhere for your events to pass through, and no analytics, telemetry, or ad SDK riding along inside. There is, quite literally, nowhere for us to send your data, so there is nothing for us to collect. A privacy policy is easy to write when the honest version is "we don't have your data and never did."

Your calendar lives on your phone​

Your events sit in a secure database on your device that other apps can't read. The only things that ever leave your phone go to servers you chose: your events sync to your own calendar server, iCloud, Nextcloud, Fastmail, or any CalDAV service, and an RSVP goes to the organizer who invited you. Nothing else goes anywhere.

And when you're offline, none of that matters. KashCal is offline-first: everything you do lands instantly on the device, and it quietly catches up with your servers when there's a connection. A plane, a basement, a dead zone, the calendar still works.

Passwords that can't be lifted from a backup​

When you connect a calendar server, its password is encrypted on your device with AES-256, and the key lives in the Android Keystore, hardware-backed where the phone supports it. The key is tied to that one device, so a stolen backup can't be replayed onto another phone to reach your accounts. The trade-off is honest: move to a new phone and you re-enter your passwords. We think that's the right side of the line.

Permissions you can actually reason about​

KashCal asks only for what a feature in front of you needs, and it asks in context, with a plain reason. Contacts is for suggesting guests and showing birthdays. Calendar access is for showing the calendars other apps already keep on your phone. Decline any of it and the rest of the app keeps working. No all-or-nothing gate at the door.

Free, and open about it​

KashCal is free and open source under Apache-2.0, so "we don't track you" isn't a promise you have to take on faith. The source is right there to read. If we ever added a tracker, someone would see the commit.

Get KashCal free on F-Droid. No account, no ads, no catch. Read how privacy works in full.

Your calendar was never anyone else's business. Now it's built that way.

Type a #tag, get a chip​

Add a tag in the event form, or fling a #dentist straight into smart event add and watch it land as a colored chip. That chip then follows the event around the day, week, and agenda views like it owns the place. Tap the event open and the tags are right there in quick view, quietly confirming that yes, this is a #focus block, and no, it is not the third #standup of the day you had every right to skip.

Start typing and KashCal hands back the tags you already use, ranked by how often you reach for them. It is the only known cure for "Errands" quietly fracturing into "errands," "ERRANDS," and one deeply confident "Errnads" by Thursday.

And if you decide tags belong above your notes rather than below, the row's little ⋮ menu will move it, and we will pretend that was our idea all along.

The honest fine print​

Tags currently work on the events KashCal syncs itself: your iCloud and other CalDAV calendars. The device's own calendars, the Google, Samsung, and Exchange ones Android politely shoves through the door, are still tag-free for a release or two while we teach them manners. Rather than let your tags quietly vanish into the void, we simply hide the tag row on those events for now.

This is version one of roughly several. More tags, more places, more tricks are queued up.

While we had the tweezers out​

A few papercuts, gone:

• Events with no length, the ones you pin to a single moment, used to disappear entirely in the day and week views. They now show up as the small blocks they always meant to be, and no longer draw on top of each other when they overlap.
• Emoji in a synced description arrive as the emoji you sent, instead of a puzzled little box.
• A garbled duration from some other app can no longer bend an event's end time back to before it started.

Everything in this release​

• Event tags: colored chips on events, shown in the day, week, and agenda views and in the event quick view, on iCloud and CalDAV events for now
• Create tags from the event form with usage-ranked suggestions and inline # autocomplete in the title
• Add tags from Quick Add by typing #tag, persisting across create and all edit scopes
• Reorder the form tag row above or below notes from its ⋮ menu
• Tidied the event-form layout, and moved the location field up under the title
• Fixed zero-length and very short events vanishing or overlapping in the day, 3-day, and week views
• Fixed emoji and other extended characters in synced descriptions rendering as a stray box or wrong character
• Fixed a malformed event duration producing an end time before the start
• Fixed self-hosted CalDAV/ICS sync hanging on "Preparing to sync" over LAN or VPN networks

Small labels, better plumbing, fewer papercuts. Tag it and move on.

The agenda knows what month it is​

The top of the agenda now shows the month you're actually looking at, and keeps pace as you scroll, so August rolls into September without you wondering where the summer went. It's the same month header the week and month views use, now doing an honest day's work over here too.

And there's more of it to scroll: ninety days ahead instead of thirty, because your future has a way of arriving whether we render it or not. A full quarter, in one list, no swiping to the next screen to find out what October is holding.

A timeline that remembers​

The day, 3-day, and week timelines have been persuaded to stop having amnesia. Pinch to zoom the hours in or out to the density you like, and it now stays exactly where you left it after you close the app, rather than resetting to the default overnight and pretending the two of you never met.

It restores the zoom and the scroll position together, so you reopen at the same time of day, at the same size. This is per-device UI comfort, so it isn't dragged along in your settings backup, it just makes the phone in your hand feel like the one you were using yesterday.

Back from 1969​

The month and full-month views had a charming habit of opening in December 1969 if you arrived from the agenda without tapping a day first. Lovely for nostalgia, useless for dentist appointments. It now opens in the current month, having been gently reminded which decade we are all living in.

Everything in this release​

• Agenda now shows the next 90 days of events instead of 30
• The agenda top bar shows the current month and updates as you scroll, replacing the static "Agenda" title
• The day, 3-day, and week timelines remember your pinch-to-zoom hour height across app restart
• Fixed the month and full-month views opening on December 1969 when no day was selected yet

No confetti this release, just a calendar that stops tripping over its own feet. Sweating the small stuff is our whole personality.

Want the flashy bits instead? Take the KashCal Challenge: find the one thing your old calendar can't do, tag #KashCal, and dare a friend to match it.

Your color, everywhere​

So this release we got out of the way. Pick your accent from all 92 colors, and it runs through the entire app and, for the first time, out onto your home screen widgets too. Every widget wears it, down to a proper raised add button. You'll find it under Settings, then Appearance.

Prefer the old magic where the color follows your wallpaper? Automatic keeps your Material You colors exactly as they were. Nothing changes unless you want it to.

Every color is contrast-checked as it lands, so whatever you pick, the text on top of it stays readable, in light mode and dark.

Calendar You​

Our marketing team, several donuts deep by mid-afternoon, has decided to call this Calendar You. We did the math on 92 colors, one calendar, and infinite you, and we could not find the flaw, so it is approved. Please clap.

Two smaller kindnesses​

While we were in a generous mood, the week and 3-day views learned to stay put. Reopen the app and you land back where you were looking, not scrolled off to some default hour like nothing happened.

And moving an event to another calendar no longer quietly eats a title or note you edited in the same breath. What you typed is what you keep.

Everything in this release​

• Accent color picker: theme the whole app and all home screen widgets with any of 92 colors, defaulting to KashCal Teal
• Automatic accent keeps your Material You and wallpaper colors
• Every home screen widget recolors to your accent, with a raised add button
• Week and 3-day views restore your last scroll position across app restart
• Moving an event to another calendar preserves title and note edits made in the same save

Ninety-two colors. Still one calendar. Now unmistakably yours.

Pick your colors​

KashCal now has a proper theme picker. Stay on System, pin Light or Dark, or switch on KashCal Teal, our own palette that follows your phone's light and dark setting while keeping the brand green front and center. It runs through the whole app, contrast-checked so text stays readable on every surface, light or dark. You'll find it under Settings, then Appearance.

Wear your support​

The second choice is the icon on your home screen. If you've chipped in to keep KashCal free and ad-free (or you'd like to), you can now wear it: a gold Supporter icon with a little heart on the calendar card. Pick it under Settings, then App Icon, in whichever flavor you like. Keep the KashCal name, or go incognito with the same icon labeled simply "Calendar."

Whether you're already a supporter or about to become one, here's a thank you from us.

Everything in this release​

• New theme picker in Settings: System, Light, Dark, or KashCal Teal
• KashCal Teal palette follows your phone's light and dark setting and is applied app-wide, with contrast checked for readability
• New supporter app icon: a gold card with a heart, chosen under Settings, then App Icon
• Two supporter variants, sharing one icon: one keeps the "KashCal" name, one shows a discreet "Calendar" name on the home screen

KashCal, the calendar you already love, now in your colors and wearing your badge.

Supporting open source has always felt good. Now it looks good too, right there on your home screen. Not a supporter yet? Join in. It's quicker than your coffee order.

With TalkBack on, you can now move through KashCal by ear. Jump between headings, hear sync and offline status the moment it changes, and get told when a sign-in or a save fails instead of wondering why nothing happened. Events announce what they are, so a cancelled event says "cancelled" out loud rather than just looking faintly sad about it (it wears a line through it now, for the sighted crowd too). Bottom sheets say their name as they open, the drawer tells you which view you're in, and a subscription can finally be deleted with a real action instead of a swipe nobody could find.

While we were teaching it manners, we sent the languages out to live where they belong. KashCal now advertises all 67 of them to Android, so on Android 13 and up you pick the app's language in system settings alongside everything else, instead of spelunking through ours.

Two smaller dignities came along for the ride. Rotating your phone in the middle of an event no longer throws the whole thing away, and typing a title now capitalizes the first letter like a grown-up.

Same calendar. Now it works with the screen off, the phone sideways, and your eyes shut.

Everything in this release​

• Full screen-reader (TalkBack) support: headings, spoken status, event state read aloud
• Cancelled events are now crossed off (#276)
• Set KashCal's language from Android system settings (Android 13+, 67 languages)
• Delete a subscription with an accessibility action, not just a swipe
• Rotating the device no longer discards the event you're editing (#286)
• Event titles auto-capitalize the first letter (#285)

KashCal is free and open source. Get it on F-Droid or read the docs.

We keep meaning to invent something important. Then July 22 rolls around, the annual Pi Approximation Day party starts (the one where 22/7 gets to cosplay as π and nobody files a complaint), someone gets ideas, and we end up improving the calendar again. Here is what escaped this time.

Exact minutes, finally​

The 5-minute time wheel is lovely right up until you need "3:47," at which point it just shrugs. So there is now a keyboard button on the time picker: tap it, type any minute you please.

Events already sitting on an odd minute show the exact time as tappable text instead of quietly rounding themselves to the nearest five while you looked away. Your 8:52 standup stays 8:52.

A lighter download​

In honor of 22/7 being a wonderfully compact stand-in for something infinite, we went hunting for fat to trim and found the app hauling a crate of packing peanuts. We cleaned house. KashCal is now roughly a third smaller to download and install. Same calendar, less luggage.

Everything in this release​

• Type an exact minute. A keyboard button on the time picker lets you enter any minute instead of snapping to the nearest five. Odd-minute events now show their real time as tappable text.
• Roughly a third smaller. Trimmed redundant packaging so the download and install footprint shrink, with no change to what the app does.

Still just a calendar. Now a slightly better one. Happy (approximately) Pi Day.

KashCal is free and open source. Get it on F-Droid or read the docs.

It is also the app that is wide open when you hand your unlocked phone to a friend to "just look at the photo."

KashCal now has App lock. Turn it on, and opening the app throws up a curtain.

KashCal

Locked

Unlock

Flip it on in Settings and your next open is a lock screen, not your week. Unlock with fingerprint, face, or your PIN. No new password to invent, no "please create a 6 digit KashCal code." Your phone already knows how to check it is you. We just ask it to.

It is one more way KashCal stays private by default: no account, no trackers, and now a lock on the door. Here is how App lock works.

New here? Get KashCal free on F-Droid. No account, no ads, open source.

Your calendar. Your eyes only.

The list​

• A new event from Quick Settings. Drop a KashCal tile next to your flashlight and Wi-Fi toggles. Pull down from the top of the screen, tap it, and you're typing a new event, even over whatever app you were in. The fastest way to catch a plan before it slips.
• Plain-language events. Type "Yoga every Tuesday 7am at the studio" and it becomes a real recurring event, with the time, the place, the repeat, and the title each landing where they belong.
• Share an event as a card. One tap turns any event into a designed card and a tap-to-add file, sent together in any chat. Your friend taps once to drop it on their own calendar. No screenshots to retype, no invite that drags in extra apps.
• Real CalDAV, out of the box. Nextcloud, Radicale, Fastmail, Baikal, Zoho, SOGo, Stalwart, and more, syncing two ways with no middleware app, no relay server, and no second thing to install. Your phone's Google and Outlook calendars ride along too.
• iCloud on Android. Sign in once and your iCloud calendars sync both ways, shared family calendars included. No bridge, no export-import dance.
• Time insights, on-device. Busiest day, meeting-free days, weekend load, your next free block. It works the numbers out on your phone, no work account and no cloud crunching your schedule.
• Seven views, your way. Month, month-full, agenda, day, three-day, week, and year. Pinch to zoom, drag to reschedule, and color any event from a curated palette or the full color wheel.
• Private and free. No KashCal account, ever. No ads, no trackers, no analytics. Credentials are encrypted with the Android Keystore, and the whole thing works offline from first install. Free and open source under Apache-2.0.

None of the above is a trial, a teaser, or a "pro" tier. It's the whole app. Found the one thing your old calendar couldn't do? That's your challenge entry.

Take the challenge​

1. Get it, then brag. Install KashCal and find the thing your old calendar couldn't do.
2. Post it. A screenshot or one line, anywhere you hang out, tagged #KashCal.
3. Dare a friend. "Mine can do this. Can yours?" Then pass it on.

Lines to steal​

Pick the one that's true for you, copy it, and post it wherever you already hang out: Reddit, Mastodon, X, Lemmy, a group chat. Tag it #KashCal and dare a friend to match it.

My calendar opens a new event from the Quick Settings panel, before I've even left the app I'm in. Can yours? #KashCal

I type "dinner with mom friday 7pm" and my calendar just makes the event. No form. Free, open source, no account. #KashCal

Finally syncing my iPhone family calendar on Android with no middleman. #KashCal

Found an Android calendar with real CalDAV out of the box, on-device time insights, and a 92-color wheel. No ads, no trackers, no paywall. #KashCal

92 colors, each with a real name. Yes, "peru" is a color. We were as surprised as you.