Privacy

Last updated: October 28, 2026

Meantime is an iPhone app for making plans with people, and a web page for friends who don’t have the app. This page says what Meantime holds, why, who else handles it, and how to have it deleted. It’s run by Oluwaseminire Babafemi, an individual, at 1401 Mercantile Ln, Suite 385, Largo, MD 20774. Questions go to hello@joinmeantime.app. If a company takes over running Meantime, this page will name it, and the app will tell you before the change applies.

The short version

• What Meantime holds: what it needs to make plans. That’s your number, the people you add, the plans you make, and the times you mark as bookable.
• What it doesn’t do: sell anything about you, show ads, or track you across other apps or websites. This site and the app have no advertising trackers, no third-party analytics, and no cookies except the one that remembers your name on a group plan’s link.
• Location: Meantime never asks for your phone’s location.
• Ask: your question goes to Anthropic only if you allow it.
• Deletion: you can delete your account in the app at any time.
• Where it’s held: in the United States.

If you use the app

Your account.

• Your phone number, which you sign in with, and any other numbers you prove are yours.
• The name you give.
• Sign-in codes:
  • When you sign in, a one-time code is sent to your phone and expires in ten minutes.
  • Meantime never keeps the code itself. It keeps either a scrambled form of it, or nothing at all, because the service that sends the code holds it.
  • A record that a code was sent to your number is kept.
• Signed-in devices:
  • A signed-in phone is kept as a scrambled token, so the stored copy can’t be used to sign in.
  • A sign-in lasts thirty days from when you last used Meantime, and never more than 180 days.

On your phone.

• So the app opens at once, Meantime keeps a copy on your phone of your current plans, the people on them, and the events you’ve added.
• The copy can’t be read while your phone is locked, isn’t included in backups, and is erased when you sign out or someone else signs in on that phone.

The people you add.

• What’s kept: the name and number you gave for each person, so plans can reach them. They’re visible only to you. They’re kept until you delete your account. Marking someone not suggested keeps their name and number.
• From your contacts: only the people you choose are added. Meantime never asks for access to your address book: the picker is iOS’s own, and it hands back only the people you tap.
• Connecting with someone who also uses Meantime: the app can connect the two of you so plans reach them in the app. It never happens on one person’s say-so. Either both of you already hold each other’s number, or you connect in person, with one phone reading a code the other shows.

Your plans.

• What you plan, when, where and with whom.
• Any words you type into a plan: a title, an “If it rains” or “If it slips” alternative, or a note when you can’t make it.
• Each friend’s answers.

Your link and your free times.

• Your link (joinmeantime.app/yourname): Meantime keeps its address, the line and look you chose, and the times you mark as bookable. Anyone you share the link with can see the times you marked.
• When someone books a time through your link, the first name they type is kept and added to your people, so you know who booked.
• A time you didn’t mark carries no information. Meantime never reads your calendar.

Where you start from.

• A home or work starting point: you can add one by typing a neighbourhood, a stop or a place and picking it. Meantime keeps the words you typed and, when you pick a place, Apple’s name and street address for it.
  • It’s used only to suggest when to leave.
  • Only you see it.
• Place search runs on your phone, through Apple.
• Arrival status:
  • When you make a plan, you can choose to share arrival status for that plan.
  • Meantime keeps that you chose it, for that one plan, until a time worked out from the plan. It doesn’t keep where you are.
  • There’s no standing switch for it.

Notifications.

• What’s kept: if you allow notifications, Meantime keeps your phone’s push token, so it can send reminders and tell you when a friend answers.
• What passes through Apple: each notification’s words, which name the people and the plan, pass through Apple to reach your phone. Meantime doesn’t keep a copy after sending.

What Meantime counts.

• Meantime counts how many different people you’ve seen, from plans that happened. The count only goes up.
• It isn’t shown to anyone else, and it isn’t a score.

Improving suggestions.

• Meantime records which suggestions it showed you and when, so it can check whether suggestions are working.
• It keeps no score about you or your friends.

If a friend sent you a plan (and you don’t have the app)

• What your friend has: your number and the name they saved for you. That information is theirs, kept in their account, and visible only to them.
• Your answer: when you open the plan’s link, Meantime keeps your answer (“That works”, “Not that day”, or another time or place you suggest) and shows it to the friend who sent it. In a group, the others see only how many have answered, never who said no. Your link is yours: anyone you forward it to can see and change your answer. On a group plan’s link, each name can be picked on one phone. If someone else has picked yours, ask the person who sent it.
• Booking from a link: if you book a time from someone’s link, the first name you type is kept and shown to them. If you look for a place to meet, the words you search for and the city the page is set to go to Apple Maps through Meantime’s server, so Apple doesn’t get your IP address. Meantime keeps only the place you pick (its name, address and Apple’s place ID), on the plan.
• No account: you don’t need one, and nothing is installed.
• On a group plan’s link, a cookie remembers which name you picked on that phone. It holds a random code and nothing else, it’s sent only to that plan’s link, and it’s gone when the plan is over, or after 30 days at most. Nothing else about the visit is stored: Meantime doesn’t write down your IP address or browser. A link made for you alone sets no cookie. The company that runs the server keeps its own short-lived request logs (named below).

Events you add yourself

Events you add yourself. When you add something you’re going to from a calendar invite, Meantime keeps only what it is, when and where, and not who sent it. A calendar invite is read on your phone. Only you see the event. While you have it, Meantime doesn’t offer that time to anyone. You can remove it at any time, and it’s deleted with your account.

Screenshots in Ask. A screenshot you add in Ask is read on your phone, and the picture never leaves it. It can show other people’s names and messages. Before you see what Ask will read, Meantime takes out the phone numbers, emails, booking codes and card numbers it finds, and you can delete any other line. What you then send goes to Anthropic with your question and is handled the same way: Anthropic may keep it for up to 30 days, or up to 2 years if it’s flagged for safety. Meantime keeps nothing from it unless you make the plan Ask drafts, and then only what’s on your plan, never the screenshot or its other words. Please add only screenshots you’re allowed to share.

Ask

When you use Ask, your question is sent to Anthropic, the company behind the AI that reads your question and chooses what to show. So is what it needs to answer:

• today’s date and your time zone;
• the first names, places, plans and marked times involved, including your friends’;
• any words you typed into a plan’s “If it rains” or “If it slips” alternative;
• what you choose to send from a screenshot.

Meantime asks your permission before the first question is sent, and you can choose not to. You can change your answer in Settings, under Ask.

Anthropic deletes what Meantime sends within 30 days. The one exception: if Anthropic’s safety systems flag something, Anthropic may keep it for up to two years, or longer if the law requires. Anthropic handles that information under its own privacy policy: anthropic.com/legal/privacy.

If you report an answer, we keep that answer as you saw it so we can look into it, for one year after the report is closed. We don’t keep your question, or what Meantime sent Anthropic to answer it.

The waitlist

When you join the waitlist, we keep your email address, the date you joined, and which link you came from. We use it for one thing: to email you about your invite to Meantime. We don’t sell it or use it for ads.

Who else handles it

Meantime uses these companies to run the service. Each one gets only what its job needs.

• Fly.io: runs the server, in the United States, and keeps its own short request logs.
• Neon: hosts the database, in the United States.
• Twilio: sends the sign-in code to your phone.
• Apple:
  • delivers notifications;
  • draws maps;
  • provides place search and weather;
  • a map image of the place is stored by the server for the friend’s page, so a friend with no app can see roughly where the plan is.
• Cloudflare: forwards email sent to hello@joinmeantime.app. It doesn’t run this site.
• Email: messages to hello@joinmeantime.app are forwarded by Cloudflare to the Gmail (Google) inbox of the person who runs Meantime, who reads them.
• Reports in the app or on a plan’s page are kept in Meantime’s own database, not sent as email. A plan report holds the plan and the reason you picked. An answer report holds the answer as you saw it, the reason and the time.
• A person reads every report and makes every decision about your account. Replies written by software say so.
• Anthropic: answers Ask, only after you allow it (see Ask).

Your texts to friends are sent by your own phone’s Messages app, not by Meantime.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app: Settings, then Delete account.

• First, plans still to come that a friend said yes to are called off, so the friends on them are told.
• Then your account is deleted, at once:
  • your numbers and your name;
  • the people you added;
  • your link and the times you marked;
  • your starting points;
  • your reminders;
  • the plans you made and your drafts;
  • your signed-in phones and push tokens.
• What stays:
  • Your answers on friends’ plans stay with them, as part of their record of their own plans.
  • If a friend saved your name and number, that’s in their account, not yours, so it stays with them.
  • Your link’s address is kept, and nothing else with it, so it’s never given to anyone else and an old link in someone’s messages can’t start pointing at a stranger.
• If the account was barred for breaking the Terms, its number is kept as a scrambled code for as long as the bar stands, even after deletion, so the number can’t be used to sign up again. (See “How long things are kept”.)
• Friends aren’t told that an account was deleted.
• Backups: copies in backups are gone within 7 days.

Without the app: use the form on our Help page (joinmeantime.app/support): enter the account’s number and the code we text to it, and the account is deleted there and then. Proving an account is yours means holding its number and signing in with the code sent to it. An email can’t prove that, so we never delete an account because of an email alone, and we never ask anyone to send us a code. If you no longer have the number, nobody can prove the account is theirs, and whoever holds that number now can sign in and delete it.

You can also ask for a copy of what’s held about you, or for help, at hello@joinmeantime.app. A person reads every message, and we reply within 2 working days.

How long things are kept

• Until you delete it, or your account: everything above, unless a line here says otherwise. Plans are kept while your account exists, because they’re how Meantime knows who you’ve seen.
• What expires on its own, as the code sets it:
  • a sign-in code after ten minutes;
  • an in-person connect code after two minutes to read it, then ten minutes to confirm;
  • a sign-in thirty days after you last used Meantime, and never more than 180 days after it began;
  • arrival status on a plan at a time worked out from the plan.
• Reports are kept for one year after they’re dealt with. Support email is kept until it’s deleted, and we delete it when asked.
• When Meantime hides a plan or bars an account for breaking the Terms, a person decides it, never software.
  • A barred number is kept as a scrambled code, which can be checked against but not read back, for as long as the bar stands, even if the account is deleted.
  • A record of each action is kept until one year after it’s reversed.

Age

Meantime is for people 18 and over.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the app will say so before the change applies.

Contact

hello@joinmeantime.app · Oluwaseminire Babafemi, 1401 Mercantile Ln, Suite 385, Largo, MD 20774

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