Free to use, every day
A calendar that knows some hours are harder than others
Google Calendar thinks a job interview and a lunch break are the same thing: a rectangle with a start and an end. For a lot of people that’s just not true. It’s why a day that looked fine on screen can fall apart in real life.
The hours around it are the problem
A hard thing at 2pm doesn’t take up 2pm. It takes up the morning you couldn’t settle and the afternoon you spent recovering. On a normal calendar all of that reads as free, so it gets booked. Usually by you, in advance, feeling optimistic.
The result is a familiar shape: three things in a row, two of them fine, and the middle one leaving you no use for any of them. By the numbers, nothing was overbooked. In reality, everything was.
What Meloa holds for you
Prep time before
A held window before the event where nothing else can be booked. Not a reminder. A real block, so the hour you need to get ready doesn't quietly fill up with something that looked free.
Recovery time after
The same on the other side. The meeting ends at three, and you can't start something new at three. That gap is real, and it only exists if something puts it there.
Travel, both ways
If you have to travel, the trip is its own block on the calendar, including the ride home. That's the one everybody forgets and then resents.
Sized to your rating
You rate the event out of 100 for how hard you expect it to be. The harder you said, the more room you get. A dentist appointment and coffee with a friend stop being the same shape.
All of it is free, forever, with no card. This part has to work for everyone, because protection you have to pay for fails exactly when someone can least justify the spend.
Seeing the day as a shape
A vertical list is a bad way to answer “how much room do I actually have?” The Sun Dial lays the whole day around an arch instead: held time, open space, and the thing you’re dreading, all in one glance. If you lose track of time, or a list of rows never quite feels like a day, this view was built for you.
There are day, week, month and year views as well, and unlimited events on every plan.
Then it asks how it went
The rating you gave before doesn’t just size the held time. Once the event is over, Meloa asks for a second number: how it actually went. After a few events those two numbers become a comparison, and it’s usually the most useful thing the app shows you. Why the two numbers rarely match, and what the 0–100 scale is.
Put the next hard thing on a calendar that plans around it.
Free to use, every day — no card, ever.
Make room for one thing