How it works
Three steps.
- 1
Say how late you are
Tap 15, 30, 43 or 60 minutes, or set your own, and see the rest of your day before and after. With Pro you can also type or say “I’m 40 minutes late”.
- 2
Read the offer
If the delay makes you late for something shared, a row named “Tell the others” stands under the change: who would be told, about which event, and the exact words. Its switch is off.
- 3
Switch it on, or don’t
Keep the plan with the switch on and the words go out, once. Leave it off and the plan is kept just the same, and nobody hears anything.
Before you keep the change
Thu 8 Oct
You’re 30 min behind.
Study runs until 19:30.
Everything else stays as planned.
What Luka and Maja get
Family dinnerEva is running about 15 min late.nowOnly if you switch it on. The switch is off until you do, and nothing is sent before you keep the plan.
In detail
What it does for you.
Off until you turn it on
Nothing is sent by itself. The switch starts off every time, and it stands for the words it showed: when the words change, it is off again.
The words are fixed
“Eva is running about 15 min late.” You read the line before it goes. There is no box to type in, so nothing else can go with it.
Only who is coming
In a circle the notice goes to the members who said yes or maybe. Not to those who said no, have not answered or have left.
Never why
The others learn that you are late or can’t make it, and for which shared event. Not the reason, and nothing else from your day.
When it is offered
Only when you tell TimeLoop you are running late, and only when that delay makes you late for something other people are part of. A fixed event never moves, so the new plan cannot show that you will miss its start. TimeLoop works that out beside the plan: when you would be free, the way there as planned, and when the event begins.
Under five minutes nobody is late and no row appears. From five minutes on, the number is rounded to five and said as “about”. If you would only get there once the event is over, the words are “can’t make it” instead.
Each event has a row and a switch of its own. With more than two, the first two are shown and the rest wait behind one line.
It is offered for a delay and for nothing else. A lighter day, moving the rest to tomorrow, or giving one block more time does not bring the row up.
Exactly what the others see
In a circle, everyone else who is coming gets a notice. Its title is the name of the event, and under it stands one line: “Eva is running about 15 min late.” or “Eva can’t make it.”, with the first name the circle knows you by. A tap on it opens the circle.
It arrives as a notification on every phone that allows notifications from circles, and it is kept in each person’s Activity list either way. Each of them reads it in the language of their own app, English or Slovenian.
Your answer in the circle is not changed, not even by “can’t make it”, and the event stays in your plan. If you are not going after all, change your answer on the proposal yourself.
For an event in Google Calendar, TimeLoop sends nobody a notice. A short note is put on your own answer instead: “Running about 15 min late”. Your answer stays what it was, yes or maybe. The note is on your answer, where the organiser sees the guests’ answers. Whether Google also writes to the organiser about a note is Google’s to decide, and this page does not promise it.
“Can’t make it” goes further there, and the row says so before you switch it on: your answer in Google Calendar becomes no, with the note “Can’t make it”, and the event leaves your plan.
What is never sent
Why you are late. Which thing ran over. What else is in your day. Anything you typed, because there is nowhere to type.
The words are put together on our server from two things, the event and the number of minutes. The app can only choose among the events your delay reaches. It cannot add another one, and it cannot send words of its own.
Looking sends nothing. The before and after can be opened, changed and closed without anyone hearing of it. The words go when you keep the plan with the switch on, and they go once.
Undo brings your plan back and does not unsend. What was said stays said, and TimeLoop tells you so: “They were already told.” A no given in Google Calendar stays a no as well.
Which events it works for
Two kinds, and no others. An event in one of your circles that you proposed or said yes or maybe to, when at least one other member is coming. And an event in a Google Calendar you have connected, set up by someone else, that you said yes or maybe to.
Not an event of your own that you invited guests to. They are told when you move it or call it off, as before, and neither of those can honestly say “I am late”. So nothing is offered.
Not events read from the calendar on your phone, Apple Calendar on an iPhone. They are shown in your plan, and nothing can be sent to their guests from TimeLoop. Outlook is not connected at all.
Not an invitation you have not answered, and not one you declined. Nobody is waiting for someone who never said they were coming.
Free or Pro
Telling the others is free, like every replan made with a tap. So is joining a circle, one circle of your own, and connecting Google Calendar. Telling TimeLoop in a sentence that you are late is part of TimeLoop Pro, like every change made by saying so; the offer that follows is the same.
Questions
Asked before you asked.
Does TimeLoop tell people I am late on its own?
No. Nothing is sent by itself. The offer comes with a switch that is off, and the words go out only when you keep the plan with the switch on.
What exactly do the others see?
In a circle, a notice with the event’s name and one line under it: “Eva is running about 15 min late.” or “Eva can’t make it.”, with your own first name. In Google Calendar, a note on your answer: “Running about 15 min late”.
Can I write my own message?
No. The words are fixed, and you read them before they go. That is also why nothing else about your day can go with them.
Who is told?
In a circle, the other members who said yes or maybe. Not those who said no, have not answered or have left. For a Google Calendar event the note is on your own answer, where the organiser sees the guests’ answers.
Does the organiser get an e-mail from Google?
That is Google’s to decide, and TimeLoop does not promise it. The note is put on your answer in Google Calendar, where the organiser sees the guests’ answers.
What does “can’t make it” do?
It is said when you would only get there once the event is over. In a circle the others are told just that, and your answer stays as it was. In Google Calendar your answer becomes no and the event leaves your plan; the row says so before you switch it on.
Does it work with Apple Calendar or Outlook?
No. Events from the calendar on your phone are shown in your plan, and nothing can be sent to their guests from TimeLoop. Outlook is not connected at all.
What if I organise the event myself?
Then nothing is offered. Guests you invited to an event of your own are told when you move it or call it off, as before.
Can I take it back?
No. Undo brings your plan back, but what was said stays said, and TimeLoop tells you: “They were already told.”
Is it free?
Yes. Telling the others is free, like every replan made with a tap. Saying in a sentence that you are late is part of TimeLoop Pro.
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Last updated 8 October 2026.
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