How HangTime works

A hang is an invite to do something with a friend or group. Pick your people, choose a time, add a message, and send it. Everyone you invite can chat about it before deciding. Pick a place, activity, whatever you and your friends are feeling like — then set the hang.

The people list shows who you follow, with the friends you hang with most at the top. You can also search anyone on HangTime by name or username.

No exact time in mind? Flip on All day and just pick the day (or a range of days).

When you send to a group, you choose how it gets locked in:

Anyone can lock it in — the first person to accept makes it official and it lands on calendars. Everyone else can still join any time before it starts.

Everyone must accept — it only becomes official once every person says yes. If anyone declines, the hang is called off.

Forgot someone? While a hang is still pending, open it and tap Add people to invite more.

Once a hang is accepted, it becomes an event on your calendar and the chat carries over, so nothing gets lost in the switch.

You control who can send you hangs in Edit profile: anyone, followers, mutuals, close friends, or nobody. It's your time to hang — use it how you see fit.

Find time looks across your calendar and your friends' calendars and surfaces the windows when everyone is actually free, including work schedules, not just events. No more guessing on when your friends are free to hang out.

Free time mode shows open slots on a given day. (If your group has their work schedule imported via iCal, this mode is probably the better option.)

Days off mode highlights whole days when nobody works — handy when your group has irregular or shift schedules.

Tap any day on the planning calendar to see the breakdown: who's free, who's busy, and who hasn't shared a schedule — including you, since your own work hours count too.

Find time only uses what each person has chosen to share. If a friend keeps their availability private, it simply isn't factored in.

You can also browse a friend's calendar and tap any day to send a hang for that date directly.

Every event you create has a privacy tier:

Public — anyone on the app can see it.

Open — visible to your followers.

Closed — visible to your close friends.

Private — just you, and people you invite.

For events others can't see, you also choose what shows on your calendar in their view: a busy block (they know you're booked, not why) or free (the time looks completely open).

All-day events block your whole day in Find time — that's the point, so friends don't plan over your trip. For something like a birthday that shouldn't block the day, set it to show as free.

One rule overrides everything: if you invite someone to an event, they can see it — even if it's private.

Your availability tells friends when you work and when you're free, without you having to say it every time.

Work schedule — set your typical week in Edit profile: which days you work and (optionally) your hours. If you mark yourself as working but don't set hours, your availability is blocked for the whole day. If you set hours, only those hours are blocked.

Day overrides — life isn't always typical. Mark a specific date as working, off, or unavailable, and it wins over your usual schedule for that day.

Who can see it — choose anyone, followers, close friends, or only me. "Only me" still powers your own planning; it's just hidden from everyone else.

Available hours — a general "when I'm usually up to hang" window. Find time uses it to avoid suggesting 7 AM coffee to a night owl.

Dots and lines — a dot on a day means an event that day. A multi-day event shows a dot on its first and last day with a line connecting them. All-day events cover their whole day; timed events show their times when you tap in.

Briefcase marks — days you work show a small briefcase, and days you've marked unavailable are tinted grey. These come from your work schedule, not from events. You can hide the briefcase marks on your device in Edit profile if you prefer a cleaner grid — hiding them doesn't change your availability, just the view.

You'll see briefcase marks on a friend's calendar too, if their availability sharing includes you.

Overnight events (the 24-hour rule) — an event that's under 24 hours and crosses one midnight (a night shift, a party that runs past 12) can show on both days, or be counted toward just one — your choice, in Edit profile's overnight settings. This changes only how calendars look, on yours and on any calendar you view. It never changes the actual event times, and it never moves the briefcase work marks. Events 24 hours or longer always show on every day they cover.

You can subscribe to an outside calendar — Google Calendar, Outlook, a work scheduling app — so its events show up as busy time on your HangTime calendar. Find the calendar's iCal URL in that app's sharing or export settings and paste it in Edit profile.

Tap sync any time to pull in the latest events.

HangTime never reads your phone's built-in calendar. Subscriptions only use the link you paste.

Privacy is important to us. Every imported iCal URL on HangTime is encrypted.

Treat your iCal URL like a password — anyone who has it can see that calendar. If a link ever leaks, generate a fresh one from your calendar provider.

Follows are one-way: following someone doesn't make them follow you back. When you both follow each other, you're mutuals.

Close friends are a smaller circle you mark yourself, from a person's profile. They can unlock more: you can limit who sends you hangs to close friends, and share your availability with close friends only.

Private profiles — if you make your profile private, non-followers see only your name, username, avatar, and follower counts. New followers have to request, and you approve or decline from your Hangs tab. People who already followed you stay.

If you own an event, you can invite more people after it's created — open the event and tap invite. They get an invitation they can accept or decline; nobody is ever added to an event without saying yes.

You can also share an invite link from the event. Send it anywhere — a text, a group chat — and anyone who opens it sees a preview of the event and can join with their HangTime account. If they don't have an account yet, it'll take them to download the app so they can make one. HangTime is better with friends, so let's build a circle together.

In person? Tap Show QR on the event and hold your phone up — anyone nearby can scan it to join on the spot. The QR is the same invite link in scannable form, so resetting the invite link also retires any QR that's been scanned or photographed.

Changed your mind? Owners can cancel pending invitations, and attendees can leave an event at any time.

Every hang and every event has its own chat, shared by everyone involved. When a hang becomes an event, the chat carries over — one conversation from "wanna hang?" to "on my way."

Reactions — double-tap a message (or press and hold) to open the reaction bar and pick an emoji. You get one reaction per message; pick a different emoji to swap it, or tap the same one to take it back.

Reactions appear on the corner of the message. Tap one to add yours to it; press and hold a message to see the faces of everyone who reacted, and tap them for the full list.

If someone reacts to your message, you'll get a notification (if you have them on).

Reporting a message — press and hold it and choose Report message. Reports come to us, not to the sender.

Block someone from their profile using the ••• menu. Blocking removes any follows between you in both directions, cancels pending requests between you, and stops all new contact. They won't be notified, and they'll no longer see your profile.

Blocking doesn't rewrite history. Past group chats and shared events stay as they were. It stops new contact going forward.

You can manage blocked accounts in Edit profile.

Reporting — report a profile from the same ••• menu, or report a message by pressing and holding it. Reports go to us, not to the person, and we review every one. You can block at the same time you report.

HangTime can notify you about new messages and reactions, hang requests, event invitations, and follow requests — the things that involve your people.

You'll be asked when you set up your account. You can change your mind any time in Edit profile — and if you've denied permission at the system level, you'll need to re-enable HangTime in your device's notification settings first.