Privacy

Available does not collect anything about you.

There is no account to make and no server of ours to sign in to. Your calendar is never sent anywhere. The one thing the app sends over the internet is your settings, to your own iCloud, as described below, and you can switch that off. On Android, Google's text recognition also sends Google a note of its own use, described under Reading a picture on Android. Without a connection the app works as before.

Your calendar

The app reads the calendars on your phone to work out which days you are free. It reads them while it is open, holds what it finds in memory, and forgets it when it closes. Your entries are not copied into the app's own storage, and none of it is sent anywhere.

The app only reads. It never creates, changes or deletes an entry in your calendar.

iOS does not offer a read-only calendar permission. The choices Apple gives an app are "add to your calendar" or "full access", and full access is the only one that allows reading. So the app asks for full access, but then only reads.

One exception, and it is worth being precise about

If you tell the app that an entry should always leave you available, or always make you unavailable, it has to recognise that entry next time, and the only thing an entry reliably offers is its title.

What gets stored is a fingerprint of the title. It matches the same entry every time and cannot be turned back into the title.

The day card and Entries in your calendars still show you the real titles of your entries. They get them from the calendars already open in front of them, not from the app's own storage.

Marking a single day, or one occurrence of an entry, stores a date and an identifier from the calendar. A line you type over a month stores what you type, because that is your words rather than your calendar's.

What else is kept, and where

The app remembers your settings: your name and letterhead, which calendars to read, your rules, and any day you have marked by hand. On each device they are kept in a file protected by the system's own encryption.

So that your iPhone, iPad and Mac are set up alike, the same settings are also kept in your own iCloud, in the app's private space in your account. That includes your Word letterhead if you have chosen one. We cannot see it: it is stored by Apple the way the rest of your iCloud data is. Your calendar entries are never part of this. You can turn it off on any device, under Sync with iCloud in Settings.

When someone sends you their dates, the app keeps them on that device so you can see the days you are both free. They stay until they are out of date or you clear them, and they are never copied to iCloud.

In Messages, the app remembers which conversations it has already added its line about Available to, so it adds it once. Messages gives the app a code for each person in the conversation, not their name or number. The app keeps those codes on the device for 30 days and then forgets them. Erase all data forgets them straight away.

Deleting the app leaves the copy in your iCloud until you use Erase all data, or delete it under iCloud in the Settings app. Deleting the app deletes what is on that device, except for a key which lives in your iCloud Keychain and comes back if you install the app again. "Erase all data" in Settings deletes everything, that key included, there and in iCloud; another of your devices that still syncs will put its copy back, so erase on each one.

Paying

Both ways to pay, the one payment and the monthly subscription, are handled by Apple through the App Store, and the free fortnight is counted from the App Store's record of when your Apple Account first got the app. We never see your card, your address, or your name. Apple tells the app one thing: whether this Apple Account has paid, or has a subscription that is still running. A subscription renews and is cancelled in your Apple Account, between you and Apple.

Other apps

When you send your dates, iOS hands the document to whichever app you chose: Mail, Messages, or anything else. What happens to it after that is between you and that app.

The app has a part that runs inside Messages, and actions you can use in Shortcuts and with Siri. They read the same file on your phone and work out the same list, and they do not send anything anywhere by themselves. Whatever they make goes only where you send it.

Reading a picture on Android

A picture of someone's dates that has lost its link on the way, as one sent through WhatsApp has, is read by what is printed on it. The Android app does this with Google's ML Kit text recognition, on your phone. The picture is not sent anywhere.

When ML Kit is used it sends Google a note of its own use: the phone's make, model and Android version, the app's name and version, an identifier for that installation of the app, how long the reading took, the size of the picture and any error. It is encrypted on the way, and Google does not pass it on. We never receive it.

The iPhone, iPad and Mac app reads pictures with Apple's own text recognition, which sends nothing.

This website

The website counts how many times its page is loaded, in all and on each day, and that is all we keep: no cookies, no addresses, nothing about who you are.

The pages are served by GitHub, and the count is kept by Cloudflare. Like any web host, they see the internet address a request comes from and may keep it in their own server logs. We do not look at those logs, and keep nothing from them.

A link with someone's dates in it is read by your own browser. The part of the link that carries the dates is never sent to the site.

Changes

If this page changes, the date below changes with it. Nothing is collected by us, so there is nothing to opt in or out of beyond the iCloud switch above.

Asking

Write to [email protected].

Last updated 9 October 2026.