Changelog

New here every week. Fixes are on this page too, not just features: if a bug was yours to hit, it is yours to hear about. Older entries are grouped by the month they landed in.

September 2026

One clear notice when a plan ends

There is no free plan, so an account without one now lands on the tier grid instead of quietly using a reduced product. A declined card gives you room to sort it out before anything stops, and if access does end you get exactly one notice explaining it, with a link to the tiers, then quiet. Plans and billing

Today tells you what actually matters

When one task plainly owns your day, Today says so instead of hedging. The headline only names something that is really on today, and ticking a task off confirms it, tells you what is next, and puts it back with an explanation if anything goes wrong. A block ClaroCal placed for you now carries a short line on why it went there. Planning

Your morning briefing can hold your best gap

Reply Y and ClaroCal holds it, and the offer stays good until that gap has actually closed. The morning push now carries the same read on your day that the app gives you, even on a day with nothing on it. Reply with something it does not recognise and you get a menu back rather than silence. Reminders

A friendlier first five minutes

Turn down the Google sign-in and you get an explanation instead of a blank form. Task rows show Edit and Delete without needing a hover, so they work on a phone, and the product reads ClaroCal everywhere, right down to the name on your home screen. Account

August 2026

Rhythms are included from Essential

Adaptive scheduling is part of what $6 a month buys, not something held back for the bigger tiers. Plus adds faster sync and insights, and Power adds SMS briefings. Plans and billing

Confirm a Rhythm and ClaroCal books it

Say yes once and that work lands at your usual time, with the block telling you why and one tap to Undo or Pin. It is a preference, never a shove: on a packed day it simply does not happen. If you keep moving it, ClaroCal pauses the Rhythm and says so once. Modes and rhythms

ClaroCal notices the times you keep choosing

Start the same kind of work at the same time often enough and ClaroCal records it as a Rhythm. The new Rhythms page lists what it is still learning, with what it has seen underneath. Nothing acts until you say yes: it asks once per subject, on the card or by replying HOLD to your briefing. Modes and rhythms

Two Modes instead of one set of business hours

Your week is now stated as work and personal, each with its own hours per weekday, so your day gets planned around its real shape rather than one flat 9 to 5. Briefings, the evening recap, quiet hours and the packed or open verdict on a day all read the same Modes. Modes and rhythms

Booking links follow your Modes

A link points at one of your Modes and offers hours from it, so changing your week changes what guests can book. Edit any weekday on the link and it stops following the Mode until you reset it. Set a two-day lead and the offered window starts later without losing days off the far end. Booking

The week ahead shows the times you will really get

The week grid now previews each block where it will actually land, at the length it will actually be, so a chore shown at 10:45 does not turn up at 5:30pm. Tasks with no time sit in the Anytime row instead of vanishing, the grid opens on today with a hint that it scrolls, and a day left open all afternoon keeps up with the clock. Planning

The time and length you say are the ones you get

Ask for “Dentist, 2:15pm, 45 minutes” and you get 45 minutes, not 45 with a bit added on. A time you set yourself is kept when the block reaches your calendar, “gym 6:30” and “gym at 6” now read the same way, and dragging the bottom edge of a ClaroCal block in Google keeps the longer end time you gave it. Planning

Two-way iCloud calendar sync

Connect an Apple ID with an app-specific password, choose which iCloud calendars ClaroCal plans around, and optionally have it write your blocks back to one. iCloud is polled on your plan’s sync cadence, and your Apple meetings count as busy time everywhere it matters: planning the day, offering booking times, and moving a block out from under a meeting that has just landed on it. Calendar sync

Ending a repeat actually ends it

Stop a recurring habit and the outstanding occurrence clears, taking the held time off your calendar instead of leaving blocks defending something you have quit. Change the rule and the days it no longer names retire, and a series set to repeat until a date now stops on that date. Planning

July 2026

Repeating tasks show one thing to do, not fourteen

Set something to repeat and your list now holds exactly one live occurrence. The rest of the week still shows on the week ahead as an intention, and every future repeat keeps its hour so nothing else can take it. Skip an occurrence, or delete one, and the series carries on. Planning

A missed repeat comes back to today

An occurrence you did not get to used to disappear the moment its day ended. It now moves to today at its own time, holds that slot for as long as it is owed, and says so in your words: “Owed since Monday”. Finish one by text and the series moves on exactly as it does in the app. Planning

Your guests get a confirmation page that explains itself

The booking confirmation now tells your guest where those slots came from: your planned day, not just the gaps in it. It offers them a plan of their own, too. And when a guest cancels seconds after booking, the meeting leaves your calendar with them. Booking

ClaroCal texts now arrive from a name, not a number

Verify your phone and Claro sends you a contact card, so every briefing and reply comes from a saved contact. You can also change or remove a linked number right in your profile, no need to reply STOP. Reminders

Change your tier without leaving ClaroCal

Move between Essential, Plus and Power right in the app. It takes effect immediately, the difference is prorated onto your next invoice, and switching also clears a pending cancellation. Changing your billing interval still happens in the Stripe portal. Plans and billing

Texts that do not arrive now get another go

A briefing that failed to send used to simply never turn up. Claro tries again a few minutes later, with the current message rather than a stale one. If your number stops accepting texts, Claro stops sending, falls back to push, and your profile shows a “texts paused” banner with an offer to relink. Reminders

Insights now arrive during your trial

You no longer have to wait for Claro to notice the shape of your week. As soon as your own history backs a pattern up, it shows on Today, in the week view and in your briefing. Modes and rhythms

Every 14-day trial now runs at full Power

Whichever tier you pick, your trial gives you the Power feature set: 5-minute calendar sync, unlimited booking links, insights and SMS briefings. You move to the tier you chose only when the trial converts, and the pricing page, plan card and onboarding all say so. When a trial ends Claro tells you once, then goes quiet rather than nagging. The old “five briefings in your first week” promise has been retired. Plans and billing

Plainer labels, and a lot friendlier on a phone

“Anchored” is gone. A settled block reads “Scheduled”, a time Claro picked reads “Auto-placed”, and a task reads “Protected” when it is. On phones, the navigation strip fades at its edges instead of chopping labels mid-word, buttons and links are easier to hit, and the sign-in card no longer jumps as the page finishes loading. Planning

Today opens with the verdict on your day

One card, one sentence, one action, naming the single thing today hinges on. It is a read of your day and never moves anything, so opening the page cannot change your plan. Planning

Billing pages now talk about your actual days

When your trial is ending or your plan has lapsed, Claro leads with true, specific things from your own account: the Task you kept moving, how your estimates compare to how long things really take, the days you planned. Where an account is too new for any of that to be honest, Claro says nothing rather than padding. The free 14-day extension is still there, and the email offering it now reaches you whenever you cancel. Plans and billing

Text Claro in more of your own words

DONE and FINISHED now close out whatever you are working on, and Claro names back what it closed. Weekday names and short forms work for checking or moving things, “what’s next week look like” gets a whole-week read, and a brain dump of several things in one text becomes separate Tasks, with one UNDO that takes back the lot. Link your phone and your first briefing arrives right then, not the next morning. Reminders

One quiet tip at a time

Some of the best parts of Claro sit just off the daily path. So now a single small tip turns up beside your day, at most one a week, dismissible for good from any device. The first one: forward any email to plan@clarocal.com and it becomes a Task. Planning

Email signup lands you in the app, not your inbox

Signing up with email used to stop at a “check your email” page. You now go straight into Claro, and the verification email arrives when your first plan does, carrying the plan itself. Phone linking and public booking pages wait until you confirm, and a banner offers you the link whenever you want it. Account

Day one ends with your plan on Google Calendar

First run is three steps: connect your calendar and watch today’s meetings appear, name three things you have been meaning to do, then watch Claro place them around those meetings, keeping a 90-minute focus block clear. “Lock in my day” writes the blocks to Google, and the finale shows your Claro day beside what just landed there. Drafts never fall on a time that has already gone, an evening signup spills to tomorrow and says so, the whole flow reads properly on a phone, and skipping the tour is no longer permanent. Today is now the home screen, replacing the old Dashboard. Planning

Calendar sync keeps running, and deletions stick

Sync keeps itself going, so your calendar stays current without you checking on it. And an event you delete in Google is properly gone from Claro: it stops blocking booking slots, stops appearing in briefings, texts and your day view, and the time it freed is yours to use again. Calendar sync

Three paid tiers: Essential, Plus and Power

Essential is $6 a month with hourly calendar sync. Plus is $10 with 15-minute sync, booking links and insights. Power is $16 with 5-minute sync and SMS briefings. Annual is ten months’ price, every tier comes with a 14-day trial, and there is no free plan. Plans and billing

Referral credit gets announced, and affiliates get a portal

When someone you referred converts, you get an email saying so, and your profile shows referred signups, conversions and credit earned. The credit is $10, a month of Plus, and the copy is straight with you about when it applies if you are not paying yet. Affiliates get a portal of their own with clicks, signups, conversions and earnings, and a signup that arrived on an affiliate link is properly credited. Account

Booking links now catch a double-book

Something you put straight into Google Calendar could still be booked over by a guest. Claro now catches the clash at the moment a booking is confirmed. Your guest keeps the slot they were promised either way, and you get a notice naming the overlap so you can sort it out. Booking

Typed tasks get a realistic length, not a flat 30 minutes

Not everything takes half an hour. Claro now reads the title and prices the task from it, so “brush teeth” gets 5 minutes and “clean the litterbox” gets 10. Quick-add shows the number in a chip as you type, and that is exactly the length Add will write. A duration you type yourself always wins. Planning

Recurring tasks that keep their time

Say “clean the litterbox every day at 9am” and it stays at 9am. A series can carry a time of day and the weekdays you want, and quick-add shows you the cadence, the time and when it ends before you create anything. On Google Calendar it shows up as one recurring event: edit it there and the change comes back, delete the series and it is gone for good. Planning

Move a block, and it stays moved

Every pending task now opens an edit dialog with a scheduled time, so you can move it yourself or hand it back to Claro. Drag a Claro block in Google Calendar and it stays where you dropped it, planning goes around it, and deleting a task takes its block with it. Tasks that only have a due date sit under “Due, not yet placed” instead of looking scheduled. Calendar sync

Apply to the ClaroCal affiliate program

There is now a public affiliate program: read the terms, send an application, and a person reads it. Approved partners get a link that credits them for 90 days after a click, commission tracked in real money, and payouts once the balance passes $25. Plans and billing

Blocks roll forward during the day, on your terms

A block you did not get to used to sit there until tomorrow. Now Claro moves it along once its time has passed, then settles when there is nothing left to move. You also choose what happens when a meeting lands on your work: “hold my day” moves only what the meeting hit and never pulls anything earlier, while “cascade” slides that block and everything after it so your planned order survives. Planning

Your blocks land in your timezone

Auto-placed blocks now use your timezone, wherever you happen to be. Claro picks it up from your browser the first time you sign in and never overrides one you set yourself. Blocks also settle instead of shuffling all day, and no two of them land on the same slot. Calendar sync

Choose which notifications reach you, and where

Your daily plan can arrive as a push notification if you would rather not use SMS, and there are three more to pick from: a nudge before a block starts, a note when your plan changed under you, and a heads up when a guest books you. Each has its own switch in your profile, with the daily plan and booking notices on to start. Adding a phone number asks for your consent before the first text. Reminders

Run your whole day by text message

Text MENU and Claro replies with a numbered list you can answer with a single digit: today’s plan, tomorrow’s plan, or an undo. UNDO reverses the last thing Claro changed, and you can move work by name (“move deep work to 4pm”, “snooze standup 30m”), with a list to pick from when the name fits more than one task. Reply PIN to a nudge and Claro asks what time to pin it to. Reminders

Help, rewritten in plain English

The help pages are now five short sections: getting set up, connecting Google Calendar, how Claro plans your day, your daily plan, and billing. Written to be read once and answer the question. Account

New ways to get a task into Claro

Quick-add has a microphone now: talk at your phone and Claro splits what you said into separate tasks for you to confirm. Type something like “clear my afternoon” or “move the report to Friday morning” and you get a proposal to approve, never a silent change. You can also forward an email to plan@clarocal.com from your verified address, or connect Claro to Claude or ChatGPT with a key from your profile and add, complete and reschedule tasks by asking. Planning

An evening recap, and a word about who you are meeting

Briefings now come in the evening too: what you finished, what rolls to tomorrow, and tomorrow’s first block. Your morning briefing also carries a short line for each booked meeting, naming your guest, whether they have been before, and one open task that mentions them. Reminders

Copy your availability from any booking link

Every active template booking link now has a Copy availability button. It works out when you are really free and writes it into a message you can paste into an email or a chat, with each time carrying its own booking link. Booking

Claro shows you what it has picked up

A quiet “Claro has learned” card on Today counts the days you have planned and the tasks you have finished, with a few recent insights. The new Review page adds a 13-week planning heatmap, this week’s finished minutes by category, and how many long blocks you saw through without moving. Claro also learns how long your work really takes, pads future blocks to match, and says so out loud when it placed a block badly. Planning

Annual billing, referral credit, and a trial you can extend

Pay annually and you pay ten months’ price. Invite a friend with your own link: they start with extra trial days, and you get a month of credit once they subscribe. And if you cancel during the trial, there is a one-click link that gives you another 14 days. Plans and billing

A guided morning ritual for planning your day

The planner is a proper morning pass now: Claro drafts the day, you accept or defer each block against a visible time budget, and “Lock in my day” writes it to your calendar. Deferred work rolls to tomorrow with no guilt attached, and you can pull overdue items back in. A birthday or a PTO banner no longer swallows the whole day’s open time. Planning

A calmer app, and automation settings that do what they say

The app moved to the Clear Day look: cream surfaces, forest green ink, a sidebar with live task and booking counts, a real Monday to Friday week grid, and a command bar on K. The automation settings now do what they say, so you can switch automatic placement off, put a buffer around bookings, and decide whether guests can take weekend slots. Planning

Exactly what ClaroCal reads on your calendar, said plainly

ClaroCal asks only to manage calendar events and read your free/busy, not for the run of your whole calendar. Your profile has a Data and privacy card spelling out what is read and written, that your data is never sold, advertised against or used to train models, and how to revoke access with Google. The signed in app now carries Privacy, Terms and Support in the footer. Account

Dates follow your timezone

Dates are now stored and shown against the timezone on your profile. A task with no time lands in your morning, routines you set up during onboarding sit where you put them, and a weekly series keeps its weekday through the daylight saving change. Planning

The app is quick again on an account with real history

Pages now load what the screen actually shows, so Claro feels the same whether you signed up last week or last year. Long task lists arrive a page at a time, and coming back a second time is close to instant. Planning

Booking links, so people can take an hour without the email thread

A template link works out your open times live from your calendar every time someone opens it, and a one time link lets you drag the exact windows you are offering before it burns on use. Claro offers times it knows it can plan around, never anything you marked booking protected, and two guests cannot both take the same slot. A confirmed booking goes on your calendar as a fixed meeting that nothing later will move. Booking

Your tasks reach your calendar, or you hear about it

If a calendar write does not go through, Claro keeps trying rather than quietly giving up. If it genuinely loses access, the Reconnect banner appears so you know about it, and signing in without granting calendar access is caught right then instead of later. Calendar sync

Plan changes and payments show up right away

Subscription changes and paid invoices now land in your billing as soon as they happen. Plans and billing

June 2026

One task, one calendar event

Every task keeps a single event on your calendar now, so the duplicate blocks are gone, and deleting one in Google brings back a clean replacement rather than a second copy. Ticking a task off records when you actually finished and ends its block there, and the “Due today” count matches the list underneath it. Calendar sync

Install ClaroCal on your phone or desktop

Add ClaroCal to your home screen or dock and it opens in its own window, with no browser chrome around it. Lose signal and you get a proper offline screen instead of a browser error. Mobile

Your briefing names the one thing the day hinges on

Rather than reading your whole day back to you, the morning briefing picks the thing everything else depends on and gives you a verdict on it. On a paid plan you can text straight back to add a task, move one, defer it or drop it. Reminders

Connecting Google Calendar sets you up in one go

Connect Google and your primary calendar is ready: added, set as the default for task blocks, and syncing before you have left the page. Reconnecting later does exactly the same thing. Calendar sync

Claro is now ClaroCal, in cream and forest green

The product has a name and a look. The site, the app, the emails, the favicon and the share card all moved to cream and forest green together, and the purple is gone. Blocks written to your calendar now carry a [ClaroCal] prefix, and events already synced under the old one keep working. Account

Quick to open, and busy while you are away

Pages load in a fraction of a second wherever you are, and your calendar sync, morning briefing and daily replan carry on whether or not the app is open. The daily replan got sharper too: overdue tasks find a fresh slot, pinned tasks keep the time you gave them, and anything with a due date is placed first. Planning

Edits you make in Google Calendar show up in Claro

Move something in Google Calendar and Claro picks it up, once and promptly. Your day settles down as well: when a new meeting arrives, fewer blocks have to shuffle out of its way. Calendar sync

Type a task the way you would say it

Quick add reads plain language, so “gym tomorrow at 7” becomes a task with a time attached. Tasks carry a category, Today lays them over your real calendar events across morning, afternoon and evening, and a new Upcoming view groups what is ahead by day. Today also stops hoarding finished work, so the few things still open are the ones you see. Planning

March 2026

Text Claro to add a task or ask what is next

Verify your phone number and you can text Claro directly: add a task in plain language, ask what is on today, or answer the follow up question it sends back. The replies sound like Claro, not like a form letter. Reminders

Claro spots your patterns and says one useful thing

Once a week Claro reads your own history for real regularities: the time of day a kind of task keeps landing on, the day a habit tends to slide, the task that has moved forward five times. When there is something worth saying, one insight rides your morning briefing, and you can reply to drop that task, pin it, or give it a break. Modes and rhythms

A morning text that reads how full the day is

Your briefing now arrives by text at the start of your working day and adapts to the shape of it. On a packed day Claro moves low priority work to tomorrow, and on an open day it pulls work forward from the days ahead. You decide how forward it gets, from proactive to passive, on your profile or by texting back. Reminders

Move a block in Google and Claro follows

Drag, rename or resize one of Claro’s blocks in Google Calendar and the task updates to match. Delete the block and Claro finds the task a new time instead of losing it, and blocks stay put rather than bouncing between the two calendars. Calendar sync

Manage your calendars, and hear about it when one breaks

Add a calendar from a dialog, remove it again with a confirmation, and get a useful prompt on the page when you have none connected yet. If Google access is lost, the calendar is marked disconnected and a banner across the app tells you so. Calendar sync

First things go early, and focus blocks stay whole

High priority work is placed in the morning where it can be, low priority in the afternoon, and Claro will not carve up a free stretch of 90 minutes or more just to squeeze something in. Give a task a specific time and that block is pinned, and dates on your tasks now tell you when the work is scheduled instead of shouting at you in red. Planning

Calendar changes now reach Claro in seconds

A meeting someone drops on you lands in your plan within seconds instead of waiting for the next pass. Regular syncing keeps running underneath as a safety net, every 15 minutes on a paid plan. Calendar sync

February 2026

Guided setup, and a way back into your account

Signup asks what you want Claro for, then a three step checklist walks you through connecting a calendar, creating a task and watching it land on your calendar. Skip it if you would rather get straight on. Getting started emails check what you have already done before nudging you, and a forgotten password can be reset from the sign in page. Account

December 2025

Today view, and a dashboard that keeps up

The new Today view groups your day by time and lets you add a task without leaving it. The dashboard gained status and weekly activity charts, stat cards and a one tap complete circle, and lists update in place instead of reloading the whole page. Planning

November 2025

A daily briefing that reads your actual day

Claro writes a short briefing from your pending tasks and calendar and puts it at the top of the dashboard, so you are not piecing the day together yourself. It refreshes when your tasks change, and there is a button for when you want it rewritten right now. Reminders

Recurring tasks that keep themselves going

Set a task to repeat and Claro creates the occurrences for you, each one placed on your calendar like any other task, with a marker on the row so you can tell a series apart at a glance. Upcoming occurrences top themselves up, today included. Planning

September 2025

Priority and essential tasks, and a second chance for late work

Tasks now carry a priority and an essential flag, and essential work can be placed outside your usual hours when that is the only way it fits. If a task’s time passes, Claro looks again: ordinary work tries the rest of today and then the next working day, while essential work gets an after hours slot the same day. Planning

Add a task and Claro finds it a time

New tasks get a block on your Google Calendar automatically, 30 minutes by default, with one tap date and time presets. Quick add was rebuilt so the essentials fit above the fold, and crossing a task off trims its block back to the time you actually spent. Planning

Claro plans around the meetings you already have

When something lands on top of one of your blocks, Claro moves that block to the next slot that actually works instead of leaving you double booked. When time frees up, later blocks are pulled earlier into the gap so the day closes up behind you. Planning

Connect Google Calendar and start syncing

Sign in with Google, connect a calendar and choose the one Claro should write to. Your connected calendars are listed in settings, and a Sync now button pulls everything in when you would rather not wait. Calendar sync