How Timepool works
Three steps, no accounts, and about ninety seconds of anyone's attention.
1. Propose a window, not a time
Most scheduling goes wrong because the organizer guesses first. They pick three slots, everyone answers "none of those work", and the thread starts over. Timepool inverts it: you say roughly when — a weekend, next week, the back half of March — and let the answers tell you which specific hours are actually live.
Drag across the calendar to pick candidate days, then set the hours worth considering and how finely to slice them. Fifteen-minute slots suit a doctor's office; an hour suits dinner.
2. Share one link
You get a link like timepool.app/e/kX7mQ2aB. Send it however you already talk to these people. Whoever opens it types a name and drags across the grid to mark when they're free — no sign-up wall, no app install, no handing over an email address to find out when book club is.
There's a second shade of answer too: if needed. It's for the hour you could do but would rather not. It counts for half, which is usually exactly how much it should count for.
3. Read the water
Every response stacks up into a heatmap — the more people free at a time, the brighter it glows. Underneath, Timepool ranks the actual windows by how many people they work for, merging neighbouring slots so you get "Thursday 2:00–4:00 PM, all six of you" rather than four rows repeating the same fact.
When you've decided, lock it in. Everyone holding the link sees the answer at the top of the page and can add it straight to their calendar.
About time zones
This is where most scheduling tools quietly hurt you. Timepool stores every slot as an absolute moment in time rather than as wall-clock text, then renders it in whatever zone the person reading it is actually in. If you set up a Chicago event and someone answers from Berlin, they see Berlin hours, and the two of you are talking about the same instant. Daylight saving transitions inside your date range are handled rather than fudged.
What happens to the data
Events delete themselves sixty days after their last date, responses and all. There are no accounts, so there's no profile accumulating anywhere — see the privacy page for the specifics.