What’s on this weekend? And the one after?
Weekend Buddy lays out the weekends ahead with the working week left out: the dinners, parties, trips and birthdays, and the days that are still yours.
Coming soon to the App Store. Leave your email and you’ll hear the day it’s out, or follow along on Instagram.
Free for iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 or later.
What it does
Your weekends, without the rest of it
The weekends ahead, as a list or as a grid of six to a screen. Free days are washed in colour, so “which day is still mine” reads before you read a word. Monday to Thursday don’t get a row.
Every weekend, day by day
Open a weekend and its days are laid out one under another, each one booked or still yours. The weeknights before it fold into a single line, the week after into another, and a birthday shows as the person, not as an event.
Social weeknights, with the weekend
A dinner on a Tuesday is often part of the weekend’s plans. Weekend Buddy spots the weeknight things that look social and asks before it counts them. Standups and dentists stay out of it.
Birthdays, on the right weekend
Birthdays from your contacts and your calendar, with the weekend you’d actually do something about them: “lands on a Saturday”, or “closest weekend 19 to 20”. A heads-up the weekend before.
Long weekends, stretched to fit
A Monday public holiday joins the weekend before it. Pick from more than 200 countries, and the states and regions of the ones that have their own days. Friday 5 pm to Sunday is the default weekend, and you can set your own.
Pencil something in
A plan with no time and no calendar event. “Beach?” can sit on a Sunday without lying about your availability. Confirm it later, tag it, set a reminder. Or keep a plan in your calendar, if that is where you want it: it goes in once, on your say-so.
Which weekend am I still free?
Find free lists every free and half-free weekend ahead, soonest first, and marks the long ones. Type what you mean: “October”, “long weekend”, “Sunday”, or a friend’s name for the week of their birthday. Share the dates as a line of text or a tile.
On your Home Screen and Lock Screen
This weekend, the next free weekend, or the next six at a glance, in every size. The Lock Screen shows dates and counts, never what your plans are.
A Control Center button opens the next free weekend. Ask Siri “Am I free next weekend in Weekend Buddy”. And a Friday morning summary, once a week, if you want one.
The calendars you already have
If it shows in the Calendar app on your iPhone, Weekend Buddy can read it: iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange and subscribed calendars. There’s nothing to import.
Your plans, tags and settings sync between your devices through your own iCloud.
Your weekends, in your colour
Weekend Buddy is free, with no ads, no account and nothing held back. It’s made by one person, and if it earns a place on your phone there are two ways to help keep it going. Both are on the card near the bottom of the You tab.
- Sunset
- Jacaranda
- Cherry
- Matcha
- Cobalt
Jacaranda is for Brisbane in October, when the streets go purple.
Become a supporter
A$9.99 a year, or A$1.99 a month
Pick the app’s colour from the five above, for every screen, the widgets and the Home Screen icon. It changes nothing else. Cancel any time in Settings.
Leave a tip
A$2.99, A$6.99, A$14.99
A thank you, Saturday coffee or Sunday brunch, once, whenever you like. A tip unlocks nothing. It just helps.
Prices are in Australian dollars. The App Store shows them in yours.
Nothing to sign up for
- No account. There’s no sign-in and no Weekend Buddy server.
- Your calendar is read on the phone. The app doesn’t send event titles, names or photos anywhere.
- Free, with no ads. Anonymous counts of which screens and settings get used help decide what to build next. Supporters pick the app’s colour; nothing else is behind a purchase.
Your weekends, at a glance
Coming soon to iPhone and iPad.