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Tempo

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Your calendar, rewritten every morning so you make fewer decisions

Launched Week 33, 202646k viewsFreemium · from $8/mo
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About Tempo

Tempo reads your calendar, tasks and energy patterns, then rebuilds your day into focused blocks before you wake up. It is not another planner you have to maintain — it maintains itself, and it defends your deep-work time against the meetings that would otherwise erode it.

Features

  • Overnight rescheduling

    Your day is rebuilt at 4am against fresh calendar state — no morning triage.

  • Meeting defence

    Auto-decline or counter-propose invitations that would fragment protected focus blocks.

  • Energy-aware placement

    Learns when you actually complete demanding work and places it there.

  • Honest capacity

    Refuses to overbook. If the day is full, Tempo tells you what will not fit.

  • Two-way calendar sync

    Conflict-aware sync with Google, Outlook and CalDAV. Your manual edits always win.

  • Keyboard-first

    Every action reachable without a mouse. Opens in under 200ms.

The story

1 min read

The problem with planners

Every planning tool asks you to do the planning. That is the part that is hard, and it is the part that silently stops happening around week three.

Tempo inverts it. Overnight, it looks at what is on your calendar, what is on your task list, when you have historically done your best work, and it produces a schedule. You wake up to a day that is already arranged.

How it works

Tempo runs three passes over your day:

  1. Protect — deep-work blocks are placed first, in the windows where your completed-task history says you actually focus.
  2. Fit — tasks are slotted against real available time, not aspirational time. If it does not fit, Tempo says so instead of quietly overbooking you.
  3. Defend — incoming meeting requests are auto-declined or counter-proposed if they would fragment a protected block.

The third pass is the one people tell us changed things. Protecting time is easy. Defending it is the actual work.

What it does not do

Tempo has no team features, no shared boards and no analytics dashboard for your manager. It is a single-player tool by design. Everything we would need to add to make it a team product would also make it worse at the one thing it does.

Under the hood

Scheduling runs as a constraint solver, not a heuristic — which means when it cannot fit your day it can tell you precisely which constraint failed rather than shrugging. Calendar sync is two-way and conflict-aware, so an edit you make in your own calendar app is never clobbered.

Pricing

Free for one calendar. Pro adds defence rules and multi-calendar.

Free

Free

  • One calendar
  • Overnight rescheduling
  • Focus blocks
  • Web and macOS
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Pro

$8/month

  • Everything in Free
  • Meeting defence rules
  • Unlimited calendars
  • Energy-aware placement
  • Priority support

Team

$12/month

  • Everything in Pro
  • Shared availability
  • Admin controls
  • SSO
  • SOC 2 report

Changelog

  1. v2.4

    Meeting defence goes multi-calendar

    Defence rules now evaluate across every connected calendar at once, so a personal appointment can protect a work block and vice versa. Also: counter-proposals now suggest three slots instead of one.

  2. v2.3

    Constraint explanations

    When Tempo cannot fit your day, it now names the specific constraint that failed and offers the smallest change that would resolve it.

  3. v2.2

    CalDAV support

    Fastmail, Proton and self-hosted CalDAV servers are now first-class alongside Google and Outlook.

Frequently asked questions

Does Tempo work with Google Calendar and Outlook?

Yes. Tempo syncs two-way with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook and any CalDAV server. Sync is conflict-aware: if you move an event manually, Tempo treats that as an override and will not move it back.

Will it decline meetings without asking me?

Only if you turn defence rules on, and only for the specific windows you mark as protected. The default is to flag conflicts and suggest a counter-proposal, not to act on your behalf.

Is my calendar data used to train models?

No. Calendar content is never used for model training. Scheduling runs against your own history in your own workspace, and you can export or delete everything at any time.

What happens if I stop using it for two weeks?

Nothing breaks. Tempo keeps rescheduling in the background, and your calendar stays valid because Tempo only ever writes real events. There is no separate system to fall out of date.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. One calendar, unlimited rescheduling, no time limit. Pro ($8/month) adds meeting defence rules, multiple calendars and team availability lookups.

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