See your people more.
A private app for seeing the people you already know, more often. The whole thing is:
A group is the hard case, so Posy does that part too: offer a few days, see who's in for each, and pick the one that works. Nobody has to run the thread.
It has never been simpler to know what everyone's been up to. The story, the group chat, a thumbs up on a photo from Tuesday.
Knowing isn't the same as seeing.
We've confused being connected with being together.
Everything in Posy starts one of these two ways. The difference is whether anyone is being asked.
| Nobody's askedPost free time | You're askingMake a plan |
|---|---|
| What you'd say out loud | |
| “Saturday morning is free. Anyone around?” | “Dinner Thursday — you three.” |
| Who sees it | |
| Your friends — all of them, or aim it at the ones you'd want to see it. | Only the people you pick. |
| What it asks of them | |
| Nothing. Nobody was asked. | An answer. |
| How it ends | |
| A plan, once someone grabs it. | A plan, once they're in. |
Yes — a progressive web app, which means it installs from the browser rather than from an app store. Once it's on your home screen it opens and behaves like any other app on your phone: its own icon, its own window, and it can notify you.
It works on a desktop browser too, but it shines on your phone — which is where plans actually get made.
On iPhone, in Safari:
Tap Share at the bottom of Safari
Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen
Open Posy from the icon from now on
On Android, open Chrome's ⋮ menu and choose Install app or Add to Home screen.
Yes — for an invite, an answer, a reminder before a plan, and for free time. You’ll be asked to turn them on, and you can always do it later under You.
Free time is the quiet one. A friend’s post only pings you if it starts within the next 12 hours; anything further off waits for a single 8am roundup, which is sent only on mornings when something new came up. Nothing arrives overnight, and free time can never send you more than three notifications in a day.
One catch worth knowing: on an iPhone, notifications only become possible once Posy is on your home screen. Add it first, then turn them on.
Not really. A calendar manages your time. Posy helps you spend it together.
It isn’t for tracking appointments, school events, or the family schedule — though you can block off time you’re not available, so friends can’t add you to plans then. What if I already have something booked?
Posy is invite only.
The way in is a link from someone who already knows you, and it's meant to stay that way. The people here should be the ones you actually plan with.
Nobody is suggested to you.
Posy will never recommend or suggest people. There's no feed and no ‘people you may know.’ The only new face you come across is someone actually on a plan with you — and adding them is always your choice.
Posy never reads your calendar.
It only ever sends. Being busy isn't the same as being unavailable to a friend. You say when you're free; Posy doesn't guess.
The way in is a link from someone who already knows you — there is no sign-up page. Once you're in:
Add Posy to your home screen
Tap share in Safari, then Add to Home Screen. It's the only way your phone can notify you about a plan.
Invite your people
Friends → Invite your friends → Share. One link works for up to 50 people, so a group chat is fine.
Start with 5–10
The people you'd actually see on a Tuesday. Posy comes alive as your real circle arrives — you can always grow from there.
Yes, and not as a setting you have to find: by default no one can see anything, and access opens only to the people each rule below allows.
Anything marked in the app is in that “only you” group. Every one of these is walled off in the database itself, not just hidden in the app.
By phone number, by a link you send, or by tapping their name on a plan you're both already on. Then you say what they are to you — and the only thing those words decide is who can see your free time.
Family
Then how you're related — spouse, parent, sibling, child, other.
Sees free time
Friend
Then how you'd describe it — close, casual, new. That's what a free time post can aim at.
Sees free time
Partner
Always sees your free time. No post can leave them off it.
Sees free time
Acquaintance
Someone you plan around something you share — the preschool group, your street — rather than a friendship. Still invitable to any plan.
No free time
A group you're all in together — book club, the preschool lot. Someone shares a link, everyone who opens it is in, and joining says nothing about anyone in it. No friendships, no sorting, nobody to place. Anyone in a circle can bring someone else in, and anyone can leave without the circle being told.
It is the fast way to arrive with your people already here, instead of adding them one at a time.
No — never. The words are for sorting your own list.
Your screen · only you
What you called them, and the tags you put them in, never leave your phone.
Grace knows the two of you are friends — she had to accept you. Everything past that is yours. And it runs both ways: she has her own word for you, and posy doesn't show you that either.
Your own words for the people you know — the neighborhood, preschool parents, book club. They let you invite a whole tag at once without having to add them all individually, and a free time post can narrow to any of them. Only you see who's in a tag, or what you called it.
“Walking the neighborhood” can go to close friends who actually live nearby — not to everyone on your street, and not to a close friend across town.
Whether the other person agreed. A circle is agreed upon — everyone in it knows they're in it, and can see who else is. A tag is your own private read on someone: they never agreed to it, they can't see it, and there is no shared circle of "mom friends" to walk into.
Which is why they do opposite jobs when you post. A tag narrows a post to some of the friends you already have. A circle widens it to people who aren't your friends at all.
No. Posy never asks your phone where you are. The only place it knows about is one you typed.
Your home city
Under the You tab
Austin
You typed it. You can change or clear it.
Seen only by people you've added. It's what lets free time sort by city when your friends are spread out.
Your live location
Never asked for
No permission prompt, ever.
Not tracked, not stored, not shown — there is nothing to turn off.
Friends never see your schedule — at most they see a hint, at the one moment it matters: when they're picking people for a time.
You have a plan then
They can still add you — plans fall through, and sometimes you can make both. They're never told what the plan is, or with whom.
You've blocked it off
They can't add you at all, and no reason is shown — “not available” is the whole message.
Blocking time off is under You → Edit Availability — a vacation, a weekly commitment, a day you want quiet. It’s in the only-you group: nobody sees what you blocked or why, you just won’t be offered plans then.
Because the hard part of seeing people was never the seeing — it was the asking. You're not inviting anyone; you're saying you're around. It shows up on your friends' boards, and nobody is asked for an answer.
Saturday
9am – 12pm
Free all morning
Open to: friends · close · Neighborhood
Every post starts open to all your friends and family, and you can narrow it: family, or friends at the levels you pick, and tags on top. Nobody is told they weren’t on it.
You can also send a post to a circle, and then everyone in that circle sees it — friend or not. That is the one way something of yours reaches someone you haven't added, and it only happens for a circle you picked yourself, on that post.
Yes — on any friend's page there's a switch for each direction: whether they see your free time, and whether you see theirs.
By default your Free time board shows the friends who live in your city — say, Austin. Any city your friends have on their profile will be an option to select. Got a friend group in Houston? Next time you're headed that way, turn Houston on and see what they're up to — in time to snag some of it.
Every post is set one of two ways when you make it — your call:
Just one person. Whoever grabs it first, it’s the two of you — and it disappears for everyone else.
Whoever's free. It stays up until it starts, and everyone who joins is in it together.
Here's what each one looks like on your friends' screens:
Just one person
It's the two of you. For everyone else the tile is simply gone — no notice, no name, nothing to answer.
Whoever's free
It stays up until it starts, so anyone who sees it can come along — and they can see who's already in.
Either way, you can change your mind after someone's claimed it. And in the one-person case, nobody ever learns who took it — for everyone else the tile is simply gone.
For the times you already know what you want: dinner Thursday with Anna, Priya, and Valerie. A plan asks — everyone you pick gets the invite and gives an answer.
Posy tells you instead of deciding for you. While you're picking people, a friend with something scheduled around your time wears a small clock — you can still invite them, in case plans fall through or they can make both.
Picking people · Thursday 7pm
Priya's clock never says what the other plan is — “around then” is the whole message. She's one tap to add, same as Anna.
The one time you can't. Valerie marked herself not available — a vacation, a weekly commitment — so she can’t be added, and nobody is shown why. That works in your favor too: block off your own time, and friends won’t be offered you for plans then.
The kind you pick decides what the plan asks of the people on it. Same questions, asked of all three:
Open Invite
“Heading to the playground at 3 — join if you can.”
One-on-One
“I'd like to see Priya. Coffee this week?”
Group Plan
“Poker night only works with six of us.”
Wanting to see someone is a different wish from wanting company. A One-on-One is for when it’s this person you want to see — so it goes to them, and only them. If you don’t mind whose company it is, that’s free time: you post the hours you’re free and whoever’s about can take them. Nobody gets asked and quietly passed over.
The threshold, filling — and what happens when it doesn't
Group Plan is the one with machinery worth watching. Set the smallest number that makes a thing worth doing; the last frame is the ending nobody writes copy for.
1 · Some things need a crowd
Guys poker night
Needs 6 to be worth it
Answers by Wednesday
Set the smallest number that makes it worth doing.
2 · You're one of the six
1 of 6. The host counts toward the threshold — you’re not asking five people to join you, you’re asking for five more.
3 · Two days on offer
Everyone answers for the days that work, not for the plan.
4 · Saturday pulls ahead
5 · You settle it, and it's on
Saturday 14th · 7pm
Guys poker night
Six coming
The host picks the day. Everyone's calendar can have it.
6 · Or it doesn't reach six
Wednesday came
Poker night is off
Three could come. It needed six.
Nobody had to be the one to call it. That’s the whole point of the number.
Offer two or three days and settle on one once the answers are in. Cap the size or leave it open, and pick the date everyone needs to answer by.
If there's still room once that date passes, you can let the people coming bring someone too.
No — typing isn't for everyone. The headline field on Post free time and Make a plan has a little mic. Tap it and say the whole thought — “dinner Thursday at 7 with the neighbors” — and the subject and time land already set. Worth a quick read-over before you send it: the mic hears you exactly, typos and all.
Your social life, on your terms
Posy is invite-only — ask a friend to bring you in.
See your people more.
