DropCal FAQ

DropCal turns things you send it — emails, texts, photos, PDFs, screenshots — into calendar events. Forward an email to add@usedropcal.com, or text the details (or a photo of a flyer) to +1 (203) 275-0889, and you get back a calendar invite. No account, no app, works with any calendar.

Someone you know forwarded a message to DropCal — a practice schedule, a party invite, an appointment confirmation — and cc'd you or added you so you'd get the event too. DropCal only sends invites when a real person asks it to. If the event looks wrong or unexpected, check who sent it (their address is on the invite) or just decline it — declining is harmless.

Someone in your group added DropCal's number, +1 (203) 275-0889, to the thread so that events mentioned there — practice schedules, dinner plans, a photo of a flyer — get turned into calendar invites for everyone at once.

DropCal only texts the group when a member sends something that looks like an event, or when it needs to ask a question to finish one (like a missing time zone). It doesn't join in on normal conversation.

Text STOP to +1 (203) 275-0889 and DropCal stops messaging you. That works per person — it stops DropCal's messages to your number and changes nothing for the rest of the group.

If the group wants DropCal gone entirely, whoever added the number can remove it from the thread. Changed your mind later? Text START to the same number.

DropCal reads what you send it for one purpose: building the calendar event. The details — what's collected, how long it's kept, and your rights — are in the Privacy Policy. DropCal never sends anything on your behalf except the invite you asked for, and never contacts the people on an event except to deliver it.

When DropCal's number is in a group thread, messages sent to the group are delivered to it — that's how group texting works, for every member. DropCal runs quick checks on each message and only fully reads the ones that look like they contain an event; ordinary back-and-forth is set aside and never gets a reply.

It keeps what it needs to build events and run the service, not a transcript of your conversation — the specifics are in the Privacy Policy.

When your calendar isn't connected, DropCal delivers events as a link on usedropcal.com. Tap it and you get a page showing the event details, with buttons to add it to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook — or to download the standard calendar file that works everywhere else.

Links expire after a while; if one has stopped working, send the event details to DropCal again for a fresh one.

Texting CONNECT to +1 (203) 275-0889 — in a direct thread with that number, not in the group — gets you a link to connect your Google Calendar. Once connected, events DropCal makes for you land straight on your calendar, no link to tap. In a group, connected members are added to the shared event as real attendees.

Text DISCONNECT anytime to go back to receiving links.

No. Forwarding to add@usedropcal.com or texting the number works with nothing set up. If you use Google Calendar, you can optionally connect it — then events land directly on your calendar, with everyone cc'd added as real attendees, instead of arriving as a file or a link.

All of them. The .ics file DropCal returns is the universal calendar format — Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, and everything else opens it. Direct-to-calendar writing is available for Google Calendar today, with more providers planned.

Emails (including long threads), photos of flyers and schedules, PDFs, screenshots of texts — if a human could read the date from it, DropCal usually can. Multiple events in one message become multiple invites. Locations are matched to real addresses.

Times and time zones are worked out from context and never guessed — if DropCal can't tell the zone, it asks you instead of shipping a wrong time.

Nothing right now. DropCal is in an early period while it grows; if that changes, forwarding a normal email will stay free.

Reply in the same thread — email or text — or write to hello@usedropcal.com with what you sent and what you expected. Real humans read it (well, one real human; see below). Wrong times are usually a time-zone ambiguity in the original message, and adding a city or time zone fixes it.

DropCal is built and run by one person — Adam, a product manager doing the engineering. Questions, feedback, and bug reports go to hello@usedropcal.com and get read by the person who wrote the code.