For engineering managers and team leads
Know who's on vacationbefore you promise a release date.
Forgot is a team calendar for engineering managers and team leads. Drag in vacations, on-call weeks and project work, add a release date and see who's out that day. Your team gets a read-only link and a weekly email, and never has to sign up.
The demo needs no account. The trial needs no card. Then $9 once, yours for good.
- Half days and tentative dates
- Group by team or time zone
- Read-only link for your manager
- Runbook on every on-call week
- Works in any browser
- Mac menu-bar app
Start from an example
Don't start from a blank calendar. Copy one that's already filled in.
These are real Forgot calendars, moved to this week. Play with one right here, no signup. When it clicks, make it yours, rename the people and drag the bars to match your team.
Mobile 4.0 launch
Engineering manager, 13 people on 5 teams
Oct 19192021222324252627282930311MeganTylerChrisJordan+9 more
Megan's trip to Cabo lands on code freeze, and the warning names her.
Platform team, coast to coast
Remote infrastructure team, 10 people in 6 time zones
Oct 19192021222324252627282930311DavidLuisNateKayla+6 more
David is the secondary on-call the week he's at a wedding, right on the Postgres cutover.
Customer Support PTO
Support lead, 16 agents on 4 shifts
Oct 19192021222324252627282930311AmandaDerekLaurenAnthony+12 more
Three of the four early-shift agents are out in the same week.
You commit to a release date. Then you find out your backend lead is on vacation that week.
The trip came up in standup a month ago and never made it onto the OOO calendar. On-call is in a spreadsheet, project work is in your head, and the release date is in a Slack thread. Forgot puts all of it on one calendar, so you see the conflict while the date is still easy to move.
A shared spreadsheet called “Team OOO 2026 (FINAL) v3” with mixed date formats, color codes, question marks, a #REF! error and five tabs of copies. Next to it, the same week in Forgot: Ryan Brooks is away at a conference Tuesday to Friday, and Forgot warns that he is away on Release day.
- Can we still ship on Friday?
Add the release date. If anyone is away that day, a warning appears: “Ryan Brooks is away on Release day.”
- Who can pick up this urgent bug?
Click today's date. You see who's out, who's on call, who's deep in a migration and who's free.
- Who's out next month?
When your manager asks, send the read-only link. It always shows the current calendar.
How it works
Add your team, drag in who's out and mark your release dates.
Drag across someone's row and pick Away, Focus or Responsibility: a vacation, a design system migration, a week on call. Not confirmed yet? Mark it tentative.
Not an HR tool. Not another spreadsheet.
HR leave tools make your whole team sign up. Spreadsheets go stale. Forgot is the calendar you keep for your own team and share with a link.
| Forgot | HR leave tool | Spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What your team has to do | Nothing, or send dates through one link | Sign up and request time off | Nothing, if you keep it updated |
| Getting started | Type in your team, one per line | A rollout to every employee | Build the template yourself |
| On-call, project work and release dates | Same calendar as time off | Usually time off only | Only if you add them |
| Flags who's out on release day | Yes, with names | No, it doesn't know your release dates | Only if you check by hand |
| Price | One payment, no subscription | Per person, every month | Free, plus your time |
Forgot for Mac
Who's out today, right in your menu bar.
The Mac app shows a count like “2 out” next to your clock. Click it to see who's away, who's on call and who's back when, and drag in changes without opening a browser. Press Control-Command-L in any app for who's out and the links for what's on the calendar now, like the runbook during an on-call week. Included with your license.
From the maker
I've led dozens of software teams over 12+ years. In weekly meetings I kept hearing the same thing: “Hey, I'm on vacation next week.” “Oh, I didn't know. Who's going to handle X then?”
Forgot is the simple calendar I wanted in those meetings: who's out, what we're working on, and the dates we agreed to.
Petar SlovićMaker of ForgotRead the story Pay once. Early buyers pay less.
One lifetime license, sold in batches of 20. The price goes up only when a batch sells out. No subscription and no per-seat fees, whether your team has 5 people or 50.
- Now
Batch 1
Founding
$9
20 licenses
Batch 2
Early access
$19
20 licenses
Batch 3
Launch
$29
20 licenses
Batch 4
$39
20 licenses
Then
Regular
$49
No limit
Lifetime license
$9 once
- Unlimited calendars, up to 50 people each
- Read-only links, calendar feeds and Notion or Confluence embeds
- A weekly “who's out” email and a daily Slack or Teams post
- Works in any browser, plus the Mac menu-bar app
- 14-day refund, no questions asked
Secure checkout on Gumroad, which handles sales tax and VAT. See pricing for details.
Questions
Still unsure? Email hello@forgot.dev
Does my team need to sign up or install anything?
No. Only you edit the calendar. Your team and your manager open a read-only link in any browser, with no account. Want your team to send you their dates? Post the request link: each person picks their name and marks their days, and you accept them in one click.
Can I try it before I buy?
Yes. Sign in with Google or GitHub. No password, no card. You get the full editor for 14 days. After that your calendars become view-only, with all your data kept, until you buy a license.
Does it sync with Google Calendar, Outlook or Slack?
One way. Every calendar has a feed you can subscribe to in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar, so who's out shows up next to your meetings and stays up to date. It can also post who's out today to a Slack or Microsoft Teams channel every weekday morning. Forgot never reads anyone's calendar or Slack, and it doesn't connect to HR tools. You add time off yourself with a drag. The upside: nobody on your team has to connect an account or change how they ask for time off.
What does it cost? Will the price go up?
One payment for a lifetime license, with no subscription and no per-seat fees. Licenses sell in batches of 20 at $9, $19, $29, $39, then a regular price of $49. The price only goes up when a batch sells out. Right now it's $9.
How is this different from an HR leave tool like BambooHR?
Leave tools need every employee onboarded, an admin to approve requests and a monthly fee per person. In Forgot nobody signs up: your team can send dates through one link and you accept them on the calendar, with no approval chains. It also covers on-call, project work and release dates, and you pay once. It doesn't track PTO balances or accruals.
Is it a resource planner like Float or Runn?
No. There's no per-seat pricing, no setup project and no utilization math. It answers the everyday questions fast: who's out, who's on call, who's on which project and whether the release date is safe.
We track time off in a spreadsheet. Do I start over?
No. Import it: drop in the Excel or CSV file, or paste the rows from Google Sheets. Everyone on it gets a row and their days off come along, with codes like V, S or ½ read as vacation, sick or a half day. You check what it found before the calendar is made.
Can I keep the runbook, the release checklist and the on-call schedule in it?
Yes. Add a link to a bar, a release date or a code freeze, and choose whether it shows just there or on every bar of that type. The on-call runbook shows on every on-call week, the release checklist on every release date. Links are only for you: they never appear on share links, embeds, calendar feeds, Slack and Teams posts or emails. On a Mac, Control-Command-L opens them from any app, and the Chrome extension opens them over any tab with Ctrl+Shift+L.
Is my team's data private?
Only you and anyone you send a share link to can see your calendars. Links are unguessable and you can turn them off anytime. Mark a bar or a whole type, like Sick, as private and the link shows only that the person is out. There are no leave balances or HR records in Forgot, just dates on a calendar.
What happens after I pay?
Gumroad handles checkout, including sales tax, and emails your receipt and license key. Sign in at forgot.dev with a Google or GitHub account on the same email. If you started a free trial with that email, your calendars are still there. Changed your mind? Email hello@forgot.dev within 14 days for a full refund, no questions asked.
Where does it run?
In any modern browser, on any computer. On a Mac you can also download Forgot for Mac: it shows who's out today in your menu bar and opens today's plan in one click. In Chrome, Edge, Brave or Arc, add the extension for who's out and your links over any tab. Your trial and your license cover both.
Why is it called Forgot?
Because the vacation that clashes with a release usually wasn't a secret. Someone mentioned it weeks ago, and everyone forgot by the time the date was set. Put it in Forgot when you hear it, and nobody has to remember.
Check who's out before you promise the next release.
Try it free for 14 days, then pay $9 once. No subscription, and nothing for your team to sign up for.
No card needed for the trial. 14-day refund if you buy, no questions asked.
