Busy

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Save bucket list ideas and effortlessly find a time with your friends.

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Why Busy?
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Stop the "when are you free?" text chain
Busy reads your calendar (read-only) and instantly shows when your whole group is free. No more back-and-forth messages that go nowhere.
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Go from idea to hangout in seconds
Save activity ideas to your bucket list, poll your friends, find the best time, and schedule it — all in one flow. No more "we should totally do that" followed by nothing.
How it works
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Make a group
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Save ideas
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Find a time
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Poll friends
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Make it happen!
Everything you need
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Smart Scheduling
Syncs with Google Calendar and device calendars to find when everyone is actually free.
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Friend Groups
Organize friends into groups — roommates, work crew, weekend warriors. Plan with the right people.
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Bucket List
Save activity ideas and turn them into real plans when the time is right.
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Down to Hang
Toggle "open to hang" and your friends see you're free — no need to text everyone you know. Spontaneous plans without the hassle.
Google Data Usage Disclosure

About Busy

Busy is a social planning app built by Dane Potter. It helps friend groups coordinate plans by sharing calendar availability, scheduling events, and discovering when friends are free to hang out. Busy is available as a mobile app (iOS) and a web app at busy-app.com.

What Google data does Busy access?

Busy requests read-only access to your Google account through the following scopes:

  • Email & Profile (email, profile) — Used to create and authenticate your Busy account. Your name and profile photo are displayed to friends you connect with in the app.
  • Google Calendar — Read Only (calendar.readonly) — Used to read your calendar events and determine when you are busy or free. This powers the "Find a Time" feature, which identifies mutually available time slots across a group of friends.

How does Busy use this data?

  • Authentication: Your Google email and profile are used solely to sign you in and display your identity to friends within the app.
  • Calendar availability: Busy reads your Google Calendar event times (start and end) to calculate when you are busy. Event titles are only stored if you explicitly enable "show details" in your calendar preferences. No other event metadata (attendees, descriptions, locations, attachments) is ever accessed or stored.
  • Finding free times: Calendar busy/free data is compared across friend groups to suggest times when everyone is available to hang out.

What Busy does NOT do with your data

  • Busy does not sell, share, or transfer your Google data to any third parties.
  • Busy does not use your Google data for advertising, analytics, or marketing purposes.
  • Busy does not modify, create, or delete any events on your Google Calendar.
  • Busy does not access your Google contacts, Gmail, Drive, or any other Google services.

Data storage & security

  • Google OAuth refresh tokens are encrypted using AES-256 encryption before being stored on our servers.
  • All data is transmitted over HTTPS/TLS.
  • Database access is protected by Row-Level Security — users can only access their own data.
  • Calendar data is cached temporarily and refreshed on each sync. Cached data is retained for up to one year.

Revoking access

You can revoke Busy's access to your Google data at any time:

  • In the app: disconnect Google Calendar from your profile settings.
  • In Google: visit myaccount.google.com/permissions and remove Busy.
  • Delete your account: available from the profile screen. This permanently removes all your data including your Google tokens.

For questions about how Busy uses your data, contact us at busyauth@gmail.com.

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