Free on iPhone · no ads, no strangers
PLNS is the easy way to make plans with people you actually know. Post what you're doing, and your friends see it and tap in — no "who's still coming?", no scrolling for the last reply, no plan that quietly dies in a thread nobody checks anymore.
How it works
This is genuinely the whole process. There's no calendar to sync and nothing to configure first.
One line is enough — “grabbing tacos at 7, anyone in?” Quick-start ideas like Coffee or Happy Hour fill in the blank for you, and every other detail (time, place, who sees it) is optional.
It shows up for the people you're actually friends with — never a public feed. Anyone interested taps Count Me In, and you can see the count update in real time.
No headcount to chase, no “so is this still happening?” text. If it comes together, great. If nobody's around, the post quietly expires and nobody has to say anything.
Why people switch to it
Not the going out — the fifteen minutes before it, spent negotiating over text.
Say it once. Everyone who cares sees it, replies with a tap, and it doesn't get buried under unrelated messages an hour later.
Post “I'm Free” and see who's around right now, instead of guessing from who left you on read.
Plans and check-ins expire on their own. It's for what's happening this week, not a permanent record of your life.
No public feed of strangers, no follower count, no algorithm deciding what you see. Friendships are mutual, same as texting.
What you can post
“Want to get dinner sometime?” and “I'm at the park for the next hour” aren't the same message — they shouldn't take the same effort to send.
Something you're doing, posted so friends can come along. “Taking the kids to the pool after nap time.” No time needed, no venue needed, no one put on the spot — you're describing your afternoon, not sending a formal invitation.
A window of availability with nothing attached to it. “Free until about 4.” For when you'd like to see somebody but have no idea what you'd do — which, honestly, is most of the time.
Where you are, right now, for the next few hours. “At Hazelwood, back patio.” It can be left open for friends to join, which is the difference between a status update and an actual meetup.
For the ones worth organizing properly. A date and time, a place, a guest list, and Going / Maybe / Can't Go instead of a headcount you're piecing together from a group chat.
After you post
Most plans don't fall apart at the idea — they fall apart an hour later, when nobody's sure who's actually still coming.
Screens
Real captures, not renderings. Light mode shown; the app follows your system setting.
Getting started
A few ways to add friends — pick whichever's easiest.
It only works if the friends you'd actually make plans with are there too — so once you're in, invite them. It takes one link.
Straight answers
One honest caveat. A post's audience setting — public, friends, a circle, or just you — controls who the app shows it to, and a public plan or event is readable by anyone with the link. Treat it as courtesy rather than a lock: don't put anything in a plan that would hurt if it travelled further than you meant.
Questions
Nothing. PLNS is free on the App Store.
No. Location sharing is a setting you turn on, and it stays off until you do. Without it you can still post plans, run events, and use everything else — you just won't see distances, and check-ins will ask for the place instead of finding it for you.
No. Contact matching is optional, and the matching happens on scrambled codes generated on your phone. The address book itself never leaves the device. Section 5 of the privacy policy spells out the whole mechanism.
It expires quietly and stops showing up. No notification, no record, nobody told that it flopped. Posting something small should be cheap.
Not today. Shared plan and event links open in a browser on any device, but the app itself is iPhone only.
In the app: Profile → Settings → Delete Account. It removes your account and the content attached to it. There's no form to fill in and no email to send.
PLNS is free on iPhone. No ads, no strangers, no account required to see why.
