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Tally reads the week already in your calendar and adds it up: how many hours are booked, where they went, and how much unbroken time you had left. It is a mirror, not a planner — it never changes your calendar.
Why does it ask for full calendar access when it only reads?
Because iOS does not offer a read-only calendar permission. The choices Apple gives an app are write-only or full, so anything that needs to read your events has to ask for full access. Tally asks for it and then only ever reads: it has no code that creates, edits or deletes an event, and nothing in the app can add one. The permission prompt looks broader than what the app does, and that is a limitation of the system rather than a hint about our intentions.
What counts as a meeting?
Any event in the calendars you have left switched on, for the current week, Monday to Sunday. Tally sorts them by how many people are invited: one other person is a one-to-one, several is a group meeting, and nobody else is a solo block. All-day events are left out of the hours total, because an all-day marker is usually a label rather than eight hours of work.
What is the longest clear stretch?
The biggest single gap between meetings inside your working hours — the one genuinely uninterrupted run you had. It is worth more than the total, because four separate hours between meetings and one unbroken four-hour block are very different weeks, and only one of them lets you finish something.
The percentage looks wrong.
It is measured against the working week you set in Setup, not a standard 40 hours. If you told Tally you work 30 hours and have 24 booked, that is 80%, not 60%. Move the slider in Setup and every figure recalculates immediately.
Can I leave a calendar out of the audit?
Yes — Setup lists every calendar on the iPhone with a switch beside it. Birthdays, holidays and subscribed sports fixtures are the usual ones to turn off, since they are not time anyone booked with you. Tally treats "every calendar is switched off" as its own state rather than reporting an empty week, so you cannot accidentally read a hidden calendar as a free one.
Who takes your time — how is that ranked?
By hours booked, not by invitations sent, which is why the list is often a surprise. Meetings you organised yourself are left out, so it measures demand on you rather than your own habits. It needs organiser names to be present on the invitations; events you made yourself have none, so a calendar full of self-created blocks will show an empty list. This one is part of Pro.
Does it work offline?
Yes, entirely. Your calendar is already on the iPhone and Tally reads it there. The only moment the app touches the network is when you open the subscription screen, because prices have to come from the App Store.
Tally Pro is $3.99 for a month, or $19.99 for a year — $1.67 a month taken over the year. Every plan opens with 7 days free. It adds the full archive of every week you have opened, your own categories matched on the words you actually use, and the ranked list of who takes your time. This week's audit is free forever and is not trimmed or time-limited.
Apple charges your account when you confirm, then again at the start of each new period unless you have cancelled first. Cancelling is done in Settings › your name › Subscriptions, and has to happen at least 24 hours before the period ends to stop the next payment. Free days you have not used are forfeited if you begin a paid period early.
Tally says calendar access is off.
Turn it back on in Settings › Tally › Calendars. If you tapped "Don't Allow" the first time, iOS will not ask again — the switch in Settings is the only way back.
It says nothing is booked, but my week is full.
Open Setup and check which calendars are switched on. If the events live in a work account that has not finished syncing, or in a calendar you have excluded, Tally cannot see them. Tally shows a separate message when every calendar is switched off, so if you are reading "nothing booked" then at least one calendar is on and genuinely looks empty for this week.
Trends is empty.
Tally records a snapshot of a week when you open the app during it, so history builds from the day you start rather than backwards. There is nothing to chart in the first week. It is not reading your past year and never will be — only the current week is ever fetched from the calendar.
I paid but Pro is not showing.
Open the subscription screen and tap Restore purchases. That asks the App Store directly and fixes it in almost every case — most often after restoring to a new iPhone. If it does not, email below and say which Apple Account made the purchase.
Email allenjoshsamson99@gmail.com. One person answers these, usually within a couple of days. Tell me your iPhone model and iOS version and it will be a much shorter conversation.
Tally measures booked time. It does not know whether a meeting was useful, and a light week is not the same as a productive one — the numbers are a starting point for your own judgement, not a score.