How it works
Connect a Google calendar in Settings → Google Calendar and beanies pushes your family activities straight into the calendar you already use. It is one-way: beanies stays the single source of truth and your activities flow out to your calendars, never the other way around. Make every change in beanies; the calendar simply mirrors it.
It covers the whole family
A connected calendar is shared across your family. Every family activity is pushed to it, no matter who added it, so a connected calendar always shows the full family schedule, not just your own events.
What gets sent
beanies sends the activity’s title, date and time, and packs the extra details it tracks (who is going, drop-off and pick-up, instructor, cost, and notes) into the event’s description, formatted to read cleanly. Every event beanies creates is marked “Synced from beanies.family” and links back to the activity in the app.
Editing and removing
- Edit an activity in beanies and the change syncs to your calendar.
- Change or remove just one session of a repeating activity — reschedule it, edit only that session, or delete only that session — and only that one event on your calendar updates; the rest of the series stays exactly as it was.
- If you edit a synced event directly in Google, beanies restores its own version on the next sync, so always edit in beanies.
- Disconnect a calendar any time in Settings; beanies removes the events it added and stops syncing. Your activities stay safe in beanies.
One small difference for a single session of a repeating activity: beanies writes your change to your calendar once, but doesn’t keep re-asserting it. If you then hand-edit that one session directly in Google, beanies will put its version back the next time you change that session in the app — not automatically. (A whole activity, by contrast, is restored on every sync.) Either way, beanies stays the source of truth.
When it syncs
Syncing happens while beanies is open on any of your devices. Add an activity on your phone and it appears in your calendar shortly after; if the app was closed, it catches up the next time you open it.
Your privacy
beanies only ever creates and updates its own events; it never reads or changes anything else in your calendar. Events go from your device straight to your own Google account and never pass through a beanies server.
Reconnecting when access lapses
Every so often Google asks you to re-approve access — after a password change, a long gap, or one of Google’s periodic security refreshes. When that happens, beanies tells you right away: a reconnect prompt appears and a notification lands in the bell, so a lapsed connection is never silent. Until you reconnect, new activities simply wait; nothing is lost.
Reconnecting is one tap on any device — your phone, the installed app, or a desktop browser all work the same way. Tap Reconnect on the prompt (or open Settings → Google Calendar and tap Reconnect there), approve access with Google, and syncing resumes on its own. The prompt and the notification clear themselves the moment the connection recovers.
Reconnecting is completely safe: beanies stays the single source of truth, nothing in your calendar is deleted, and your family’s activities are untouched. It simply hands beanies a fresh key to keep pushing your schedule out.
Connecting a calendar lets beanies keep it in sync from any of your family’s devices, and the connection is shared with your family the same way your other family data is. Connect only the calendars you’re happy for your family to sync to.