SoKal

What is SoKal?

SoKal is a free social calendar app designed to help you plan meetups with friends. It syncs with your personal calendar, lets you see when friends are free, and supports coordinating plans without manually checking multiple schedules.

Key Features

• Calendar sync with your personal calendar, so your availability stays up to date when planning.
• Friend availability visibility, helping you quickly find overlapping free time.
• Social calendar view for planning and meeting up, bringing scheduling and group coordination into one place.

How to Use SoKal

1. Get set up in SoKal and connect/sync your personal calendar so your availability is available for planning.
2. Add friends you want to coordinate with.
3. Use the shared scheduling view to see when you and your friends are free, then choose a time to plan the meetup.

Use Cases

• Planning a dinner or hangout where you need to find a time that works for everyone.
• Coordinating a group activity by checking overlapping availability instead of asking each person individually.
• Setting up recurring social plans by using your synced availability to consistently find common free windows.
• Quickly narrowing down options when friends respond with “what times are you free?” and you need an immediate answer.

FAQ

• Is SoKal a free app? Yes—SoKal is described as a free social calendar app.

• What does SoKal sync with? The app syncs your personal calendar to show availability when planning.

• Does SoKal help show when friends are free? Yes. It shows when friends are free to make it easier to pick a time to meet up.

• Do I need multiple calendars to use SoKal? The core workflow relies on syncing your personal calendar and then viewing friends’ availability in the social calendar.

Alternatives

• Shared calendar scheduling tools: General-purpose calendar apps that support inviting people and finding mutual availability, but may not be tailored specifically to social meetups.
• Group Doodle-style poll scheduling: Tools focused on collecting availability responses; they can work for meetups but typically require manual polling and results tracking.
• Event scheduling platforms: Services designed around creating events and managing RSVPs, which may add more event features but shift the workflow toward event pages rather than a social calendar view.