FAQs

Onin is a privacy-first social calendar app, for you and friends. Invite your friends, add events to your calendar, create group calendars, and plan together in the chat.

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Onin is designed to help friends, family, and partners plan any event: a coffee date, dinner, party, weekend away, or once in a lifetime road trip. Whilst the app is wonderful with friends, it’s also a private space to schedule things just for you: events, reminders, and to-do’s.

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Onin is for your eyes only. We secure your chats, calendar events, and profile with end-to-end encryption. This means that nobody but you can see your private information, not even Onin. We believe privacy is a human right, and will always value privacy above all else.

Onin is currently invite-only. We’re controlling the roll out to ensure that everybody has the best possible experience possibly. You can join the waitlist now here.

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If you know somebody using the app, they can invite you and give you early-access now.

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Please note Onin is currently only available on iOS. We’re working hard to bring the app to Android and Web as soon as possible. Those on the waitlist will be first to hear. Vote for Android here.

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Onin uses phone numbers to help you easily connect with people in your contacts. We use phone numbers instead of emails as this is simpler for friends and family who rarely communicate by email. Your phone number is only visible to other users that already have it in their contacts and we will never share your phone number to those who don’t.

Yes, the app is completely free. We will never compromise your privacy to monetise the app. In the future, we plan on releasing a premium subscription that offers Onin super-fans a premium range of features to make planning their personal and social life even easier.

Two-Factor Authentication is a required extra layer of protection used to ensure the security of your account, beyond just your phone number. You can add an email as a secondary authentication method in Settings. Here’s how:

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From your Calendar or Chats tab:

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1. Tap your Profile Photo in the top left of the screen
2. Tap Privacy & Security
3. Tap Authentication Methods
4. Tap Add Email
5. Enter your email and tap Next
6. Re-enter your email and tap Done

Privacy is at the heart of Onin, and we will always go the extra mile to keep your data, conversations, and events secure. It’s why we’ve chosen to be end-to-end encrypted from day one. Onin is the most private calendar by default available on the market today.

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With end-to-end encryption, your messages, photos, documents, calendar events, profile image, name, and mobile number are kept private. This is because end-to-end encryption ensures that only you can see the contents of your messages and calendar events. All of this happens by default within the app, and you don’t need to do anything to enable this.

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From the Calendar or Chats tab:

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1. Tap your Profile Photo in the top left of the screen
2. Tap the blue Invite Friends to Onin
3. Tap the blue Invite next to the name of the contact you’d like to invite
4. Send them a text to invite them to Onin

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There is currently no limit to how many contacts you can invite. Bring your friends along!

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You'll get a notification when they join.

From the Calendar or Chats tab:

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1. Tap your Profile Photo in the top left of your screen
2. Tap External Calendars
3. Tap Allow Access (this allows Onin to see events from your other calendar)
4. Select the calendars you’d like to see in Onin by tapping the outlined circle next to their name
5. Tap on the blue Settings back arrow in the top left to return to Settings

From the Calendar tab:

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1. Tap the blue plus icon in the top right of your screen
2. Select your participants by tapping the circle next to there name
3. Or, tap the blue Skip in the top right corner if the event is just for you
4. Select a Category by tapping on one of the category icons
5. Tap Title to add a title for your event
6. Tap Starts to add the date and time your event starts
7. Tap Ends to add the date and time your event ends
8. For all-day events, tap the toggle icon to the right of All-Day
9. Tap Location to add the location of your event
10. Select to add the event to an existing chat, or to create a new chat
11. Tap the blue Add in the top right corner to finish

From the Calendar tab:

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1. If not today, tap the date on your calendar
2. Tap on the event shown below your calendar
3. To change the title or category, tap the blue Change Title & Category‍
4. To change the date or time, tap the arrow next to the current schedule
5. To change or add a location, tap the arrow next to the current location

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You can also make changes to events from inside chats by using Onin's Keyboard Calendar.

From within the chat:

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1. Tap the gray calendar icon below the Message bar to open your Keyboard Calendar
2. To only see events with the person/people in your chat, tap Shared
3. Tap on the event you'd like to edit
4. Follow the steps described above to make changes

1. From the Calendar tab, tap the blue plus icon in the top right
2. Or, from the Chats tab, tap the blue create chat icon in the top right
3. Tap New Group Calendar
4. ‍Select your participants by tapping the circle next to there name
5. Tap the blue Create in the top right

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This has created a new group calendar. To schedule events in your group calendar:

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From the Calendar tab:

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1. Tap the blue Plus icon in the top right
2. Select your group
3. Enter the details of your event
4. When finished, tap Add

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From inside the Group Calendar:

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1. Tap on the blue plus icon top right to go to Add Event
2. Enter the details of your event
3. When finished, tap Add

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These events will live within your group calendar. All participants of the chat will be able to see these events in their calendar and make changes to the event info together.

From the Chats tab:

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1. Tap the blue create chat icon in the top right corner
2. Select the participant from your contacts
3. Tap Create

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If your friend is yet to download Onin, you can invite them. You'll be notified as soon as they join.

Perfect for events when you want to keep the chat outside your of your existing group calendar chat or direct message.

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From the Calendar tab:

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1. Tap the blue plus icon in the top right
2. Select the participants
3. Select a Category by tapping on one of the category icons
4. Tap Title to add a title for your event
5. Tap Starts to add the date and time your event starts
6. Tap Ends to add the date and time your event ends
7. For all-day events, tap the toggle icon to the right of All-Day
8. ‍Tap Location to add the location of your event
9. ‍Tap on New Chat
10. ‍Tap the blue Create in the top right

To access your calendar from your keyboard:

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1. Enter any chat
2. Tap the gray calendar icon below the message bar
3. Scroll to see all your upcoming events
4. Tap Shared to only see events between you and the chat participants
5. Tap on any event to see the event details and make changes
6. Tap the blue New Event to add a new event to your calendar

From the Calendar or Chats tab:

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1. Tap your Profile Photo in the top left of the screen
2. Tap Privacy & Security
3. Tap the red Delete Account

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Please know that once deleted, this cannot be undone.

We require your phone number to sign up to Onin for two main reasons:

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1. Most people only ever have one phone number but have many other identities like email or third party accounts. As your Onin account is universal, working with all your calendar accounts across your working and personal life, this single unified identity best represents your Onin account.
2. Phone number confirmation on iOS and Android is a fast and easy sign up method, you don't need to leave our app to verify it. With other methods like email, you have to leave our app and might not receive verification emails.

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Your phone number is never made public and is only visible to contacts that already have it.