What's new

On the list, from your feedback

• Add your own eventsfrom your feedback

  The most-requested feature: family events you type in yourself, right next to the school ones. Planned, no promised date yet.

October 8, 2026

• Clearer terms, a receipt, and easier-to-see details

  The pricing page now says plainly, right under each button, that a plan renews until you cancel and what it costs. Every new subscriber gets a confirmation email with the same facts. The privacy policy now spells out the sign-in cookie, the phone-notification services, and exactly how long each thing is kept. The missed-newsletter note can be turned off on the Automatic tab, every email carries our mailing address, focus outlines and faint labels are easier to see, and the Terms say who ClearWeek is for.

• Pricing page: the buttons no longer freeze when you are signed out

  Tapping a plan on the pricing page before signing in used to leave the button stuck on "Opening secure checkout" until you reloaded. Now the buttons say "Sign in to continue" when you are signed out, and the plan you picked follows you through the email sign-in and back to checkout, even if you open the email on another device. A reported bug, fixed the same morning.

• One plan per family, and a thank-you after you pay

  If your account already has a plan, the pricing page now says so and points you to Settings instead of starting a second subscription. After a payment, ClearWeek says thank you and tells you where to go next; if you leave the secure checkout without paying, the pricing page says plainly that no charge was made.

October 3, 2026

• Skip a card before you add all

  Each scan result now has a "Skip this one" button. A skipped card stays out of the "Add all to calendar" file, so a wrong date or the Curriculum Night session you are not taking never reaches your calendar. A date whose printed weekday disagrees with it now gets a note above the list as well as in its title.

• A printed time zone is kept

  When the newsletter prints a zone next to a time ("7 PM Eastern Time" for a remote meeting), that zone now wins for that event: the card says "7 PM Eastern", and the Google Calendar link and .ics entry carry it. With no zone printed, the school's own zone is assumed, as before.

• The add button always shows the count

  "Add all 15 to calendar (.ics)", or "Add 11 of 12" once you have skipped something. The "check the date" notice now follows what you chose: it says whether that card is in or out of the file right now.

• A doubtful date waits for you

  When a printed weekday does not match its date, that card now starts out skipped. Read it, check with the school, and press "Include again" to add it. No date is ever guessed for you.

• Sessions you pick one of say so

  When the newsletter says "choose one session", every session now carries "(choose one session)" in its title, so two Curriculum Night times never read as two appointments. Skip the one you are not taking before you add all.

• Why a to-do sits on the next day

  A task the newsletter asks for without a date still lands the day after the newsletter, so your reminder fires. The card and the calendar notes now say so plainly: placed there for the reminder, the school gave no date.

• Deadlines keep their cutoff time

  "Due Friday, October 9 by 3 PM" now shows 3 PM on the card and in every calendar export, instead of an all-day item that lost the cutoff.

• News from the school is not a to-do

  "Sign-up links go out next Friday" is the school telling you what it will send, so it no longer becomes a task. To-dos the newsletter asks for without a date now wear a "To do" label instead of "Due", with "no due date given" still in the title.

• Weekends the school counts

  A range the newsletter says includes its weekend ("closed Friday through Monday, including the weekend") now lists every day. School-week ranges still skip Saturday and Sunday.

• Google Calendar links carry the time zone

  "Add to Google Calendar" links now name the time zone, so a 7 PM meeting stays 7 PM at the school even on a relative's calendar in another zone. And when the newsletter gave no end time, the calendar entry's notes now say a 30-minute placeholder was used.

October 2, 2026

• Forwarding rules that survive a new sender

  When a different teacher or office manager sends the newsletter, a forwarding rule that names one person quietly misses it. The Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud guides on the Automatic tab and the Help page now walk you through a rule on the school's whole email address, the part after the @ sign, so anyone at the school matches. The Gmail steps start from the search bar, which puts the text in the right box for you. The "has not seen a newsletter" note now says the same.

September 25, 2026

• RSVPs with no due date, said plainly

  When a newsletter asks you to RSVP or sign up but never says by when, ClearWeek no longer guesses a date. It adds "RSVP needed" marked "no due date given" the day after the email arrives, so that evening's reminder reaches you, with a nudge to check the email or ask the school. If a later newsletter gives the real date, the item moves there.

• No made-up end times

  An event listed as "3:30 PM" now shows "3:30 PM (no end time given)" instead of an end time the school never printed. A later newsletter with the end time fills it in. Calendar exports still need an end, so they use 30 minutes and say so in the event notes. Older events that showed a made-up "12 PM to 12:30 PM" when the newsletter gave no time now show All day.

• Due dates, not just events

  Permission slips, fees, RSVPs, and things to send in now show up on their due date, marked Due, with new icons for forms, payments, and items to bring. Before, a line like "permission slips are due Thursday" could be skipped because nothing happens at school that day.

• Events that last several days

  Spirit week, a book fair, or a break now appears on every school day it covers, marked Day 1 of 5, Day 2 of 5, and so on. Only the first day sends a reminder, so a long break does not ping you every evening.

• A heads-up when a date looks off

  When a newsletter says "Thursday, October 2" but October 2 is a Friday, ClearWeek keeps the date as printed and adds "check the date" to the event, so you know to confirm it with the school.

September 22, 2026

• A note for quiet weeks toofrom your feedback

  The Sunday week-ahead notification now arrives even when nothing is coming up. If your ClearWeek calendar has no school events for the week, you get a short note saying your child's week is clear, so a quiet Sunday never leaves you wondering whether notifications are working.

September 1, 2026

• Find an event fast

  A search box and an icon picker now sit above your events on Home and Calendar. Type a word or pick an icon such as Picture day or No school, and past events join the results so you can check when something happened. The search runs on your device and is never sent anywhere.

• Smarter event iconsfrom your feedback

  Event cards now pick clearer icons: a crossed-out school for closures, books for curriculum night, a friendly pair of glasses for Grandparents Day, a dumbbell for fitness events, and the camera you already know for picture day.

• No more invented timesfrom your feedback

  When a newsletter mentions an event without a time, ClearWeek now shows it as an all-day event instead of guessing lunchtime. And when the same event appears in two weekly newsletters under slightly different names, it stays ONE event on your calendar.

• Events with two sessions

  When a school offers the same event at two times (like curriculum night with an early and a late session), each session now appears separately, labeled Session 1 and Session 2, so you can pick yours.

September 2, 2026

• Phone notificationsfrom your feedback

  Plus and Pro families can turn on notifications in Settings: an evening nudge when something is happening tomorrow, and a Sunday summary of the week ahead. Your calendar reminders keep working underneath. On iPhone, add ClearWeek to your home screen first; Settings shows the steps.

• Sync across devices

  A new optional switch in Settings stores your saved data with your account, so signing in on a new phone brings your children, events, and colors back. Off by default; turning it off deletes the stored copy.

August 27, 2026

• Subscriptions are here

  ClearWeek Plus and Pro can now be purchased on the pricing page, with secure checkout by Stripe. Yearly is the default (it is about a third cheaper), your subscription follows your sign-in on every device, and you can update your card or cancel anytime in Settings. Beta families: your founding code works at checkout on the Pro yearly plan, and subscribing picks up your pipeline exactly where the beta leaves off, same forwarding address, same calendar feed.

August 18, 2026

• A warmer welcome on big screens

  The desktop front door got a new look: the ClearWeek story told on one calm page, from a note in the newsletter to events on your family calendar, with sample events clearly marked. Phones keep the same quick start as before, and nothing about scanning or your saved events changed.

August 17, 2026

• ClearWeek notices when a newsletter goes missing

  Email forwarding can break silently: this week our own school changed one letter in its subject line and the forwarding rule quietly stopped matching. ClearWeek now watches for the gap. If about a week goes by without a newsletter arriving, you get a short email with your forwarding address and a one-minute fix, instead of finding out later that events never made the calendar.

August 8, 2026

• Pick your child's icon, no typing neededfrom your feedback

  A beta parent told us the Emoji box in Settings was a mystery, and they were right. It is now a row of icons you tap: pick one and it shows in the little circle next to your child's name on every event. Skip it and their first initial appears there instead, same as before.

July 31, 2026

• ClearWeek is on Instagram

  Say hello at @clearweekapp for beta news and a look at what is coming. Following along is optional: everything important still lands right here and in your email digest.

July 30, 2026

• ClearWeek settles into big screens

  On a laptop or desktop, ClearWeek now uses the room: navigation moves to a left sidebar, Home adds a week-at-a-glance summary with a month calendar beside your list, and the Automatic tab shows forwarded newsletters as a proper table with received times. Phones stay exactly as they were.

• A clearer front door

  The welcome screen now opens with what ClearWeek is here to do: your child's school week, made clear. Same scan box, same privacy promises, calmer first impression. Families already using ClearWeek see their week exactly as before.

July 29, 2026

• Clearer This Week view

  The home page now shows the current week first (today through Sunday, on your school's clock), with a Coming up look-ahead below so dates like the first day of school stay visible. If this week has no events, it says so plainly instead of jumping ahead.

July 20, 2026

• Extra safety copies of your data

  As promised on this page: the Automatic tier's data is now copied every night to encrypted backups kept for 30 days, separate from the live database. We also ran a real restore drill to prove the copies work.

July 16, 2026

• Pricing announced: flat, per family

  As promised, well before anything changes: Plus will be $4.99 a month or $39 a year, and Pro (the Automatic tier) will be $9.99 a month or $79 a year, always flat per family, never per child. Everything stays free through the beta, and families who join during the beta get their first year of Pro for $39. Details and honest answers on the new pricing page.

• Watch ClearWeek work, in 60 seconds

  The help page now opens with a one minute demo video: a school newsletter becomes calendar events with reminders, start to finish on a phone. Made for anyone who would rather see it than read about it.

July 14, 2026

• Your school's time zonefrom your feedback

  Every account now has a school time zone setting (Automatic tab, under Subscribe your calendar). Newsletters mean "noon at school," so event times follow your school's clock and your calendar app shows them correctly wherever you are, including for families outside Central time.

• Clearer security buttons

  The buttons that replace your private forwarding address and calendar link are now labeled as resets, tucked under a Security heading, and explained in the help page, so nobody clicks one by accident.

July 13, 2026

• Times fixed in subscribed calendarsfrom your feedback

  A family spotted a noon event showing as 7 AM in Google Calendar. The calendar feed now declares its time zone explicitly, so subscribed calendars show the right time, always. Found and fixed the same day.

• Help guide and one-account-per-familyfrom your feedback

  A new help page explains all three tiers and the questions real families hit first, including why spouses should share one account's calendar link instead of making a second account.

• Plus data backup and restore

  Plus families can download a backup file of their children and saved events in Settings and restore it on a new device or browser.

• Sign-in outage fixed

  Sign-in links broke for a few hours after a configuration slip on our side. Fixed the same afternoon, and the code now protects itself against that whole class of mistake. Being honest about misses is part of the deal.

July 12, 2026

• SchoolSync is now ClearWeek

  New name, new look, same promise: school newsletters, on your calendar. Navigation moved to a bottom tab bar (Home, Calendar, Newsletters, Settings) so the everyday screens are one thumb-tap away.

• Feedback boxfrom your feedback

  Settings now has a feedback form that goes straight to the team. Much of this page exists because parents used it.

• Forwarded the wrong email? Fixed in one tapfrom your feedback

  Live family testing shaped a set of protections: delete any forwarded email (and only the events it created) instantly, re-forward it later and it processes fresh, and each row in your pipeline now expands to show exactly which events that email produced.

July 6, 2026

• Automatic events, visible everywhere

  Events from forwarded newsletters now appear in Home and Calendar alongside your saved ones, marked with an Auto badge, so signed-in families see everything in one place.

July 1, 2026

• ClearWeek Plusfrom your feedback

  Beta parents asked for color coding and per-child tagging, so Plus added child profiles with colors and icons, saved events on your device, a day-by-day list, and a month calendar.

• The Automatic tier

  The big one: forward a school email (or set a one-time rule) and events appear on a private calendar feed your whole family can subscribe to. Includes change alerts when a later newsletter moves an event, and a digest email when new events arrive. No passwords, just a sign-in link by email. ClearWeek never sees your inbox, only what you forward.

June 16, 2026

• ClearWeek is born (as SchoolSync)

  First release: paste or upload a school newsletter, AI finds every event, you review them and add them to your calendar. Privacy first from day one: free scans are processed in memory and never stored, and the AI provider does not train on newsletter content.