Soonest: Private Calendar

Soonest is a calendar that stays out of the way until something matters, and then makes sure you notice. Far-away days stay quiet; what’s close comes forward: gold when it’s soon, purple when it’s now. Private by construction • No internet permission: Android doesn’t let Soonest open a network connection at all. • No account, no ads, no analytics, no subscriptions. • Your events stay in Android’s own calendar storage, synced only by the accounts you already chose: Google, Exchange, or any CalDAV server through DAVx⁵. No account? Keep a calendar on the phone alone. Up next • One hero for today: what’s happening now or next, with a live countdown, told in words and shape as well as colour. • A video call about to start brings its Join button into the card: Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, Jitsi, Whereby or FaceTime. • When the rest of the day is empty, Soonest says so, and shows what comes after. • The next 7 days at a glance: how full the week is, with free days folded into one line. Type it the way you’d say it “Lunch with Ana fri 1pm @ Luigi’s for 90m”. The words Soonest understood light up, and the day and times move to match. “standup every weekday 9:15 #work !” sets the repeat, the calendar and an important mark too. Left alone, a new event starts in the next free half hour, not on top of something. Typing is understood on the phone, in English. Share when I’m free Pick from the free stretches of your coming week and send them as plain text through the share sheet. You see the message word for word before it goes: no link, no account, no server. Calendar • Day, week, month and year views. Pinch to zoom the day and week; the year is a heat map of how busy each day is. • Full editing: repeat rules, reminders, colours, busy or free, and the right “this event / this and following / all” for repeating events, with undo for deletes. • Links in notes open directly, and the time zone shows only when an event keeps a different clock. And also • Reminders with Join, Snooze and Directions. • Countdowns you start on an event, as a Live Update on Android 16. • A home-screen widget, a Quick Settings tile and app shortcuts. • .ics import and export, and “Add to calendar” from other apps. • On Android 16, assistants can add events for you. Nothing is read back. • Fewest’s palette, or your wallpaper’s colours on Android 12 and later. Light and dark, Android’s contrast levels, and a quieter-motion setting. From the makers of Fewest Fewest is a calm home screen: only the apps you choose, in plain words, with your next event under the date. With Fewest as your home screen, a tap on the date opens Soonest. The same promise in both: no ads, no tracking. Soonest is in English. It works with every calendar app already on your phone, side by side.

First release.