Your meal plan in your calendar (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook)

Tap Add to my calendar and your weekly meal plan shows up in the calendar you already use: Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Dinner sits right next to your appointments, and one tap opens the recipe.

Quick start

1. In Plan, tap Add to my calendar. In the iPhone, iPad or Android app, it's the calendar with a + icon at the top of your plan.
2. Turn the option on, then choose what shows up: meals, their times and your batch cooking session.
3. Tap Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook (or Copy link for any other calendar), then confirm.

It's available on every account, free ones included. From then on, your calendar keeps up with your meal plan on its own.

What you see in your calendar

• One event per planned meal, like "Dinner · Maple-glazed salmon", at the time you picked.
• The recipe's total time and a link that opens it in the Olivi app if it's installed, or on the website otherwise.
• Your batch cooking session, if you turn it on: it only shows up in weeks with at least two meals planned in the 7 days that follow, and its description lists those meals.
• Two weeks back and five weeks ahead.

A separate calendar for your cooking

Your meal plan doesn't get mixed in with your appointments: it lands in its own calendar, called "Olivi". There's nothing to create, it shows up on its own when you subscribe. Your cooking stays apart from everything else, in its own colour, and you can hide it in one click when you don't need it.

In Google Calendar and in Outlook, you'll find it under "Other calendars"; in Apple Calendar, in the list of calendars (under "Subscriptions" on a Mac).

• Show or hide it: check or uncheck Olivi in your list of calendars. Nothing is lost: it comes back as soon as you check it again.
• Change its colour: in Google Calendar and in Outlook, use the three dots next to "Olivi"; on iPhone, tap Calendars, then the (i) next to "Olivi". Outlook also offers you a colour and an icon when you subscribe.
• Remove it: in Google Calendar, open the Olivi calendar's settings and unsubscribe; on iPhone, Calendars > (i) > remove the subscription; in Outlook, the three dots next to "Olivi" > remove. To shut off the link as well, see Turn it off below.

Olivi's events are marked free: they don't take up your time and don't block invitations or meetings.

Choose what shows up

• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner: each one turns on or off, with its own time. At first, only dinner is on, at 6 p.m. Breakfast (7:30 a.m.) and lunch (noon) start off.
• Batch cooking session: off at first. Once it's on, you choose the day, time and length. By default, Sunday at 1 p.m., for 2 hours.

Times follow the time zone of the device that turned the option on.

Add it to your calendar

Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac)

Tap Apple Calendar: the Calendar app opens and offers the subscription. Confirm and you're done. On Android, pick Google Calendar instead.

Google Calendar (Android, iPhone, computer)

1. Tap Google Calendar: the Google Calendar website opens in your browser. Google requires this step, even on Android.
2. Sign in to your Google account if asked, then confirm adding the calendar.
3. Your meal plan then also shows up in the Google Calendar app, on Android and iPhone alike.

Outlook

1. Tap Outlook: Outlook on the web opens so you can confirm.
2. Sign in if asked, then confirm.

Any other calendar (Proton, Fantastical, Thunderbird…)

Tap Copy link, then paste it into your calendar's option for subscribing to a calendar by web address (URL).

On iPhone, which one should I pick?

• Do you check your schedule in Google Calendar or Outlook? Pick that one: your meal plan will show up on all your devices, computers and Android included.
• Do you use Apple Calendar? It shows the meal plan on Apple devices only, but it updates faster.

Updates

When your meal plan changes in Olivi, your calendar follows on its own. Each calendar decides when to check again, not Olivi:

• Apple Calendar: a few minutes.
• Outlook: a few hours.
• Google Calendar: up to a day.

So a last-minute change can show up late in Google Calendar. When in doubt, Olivi has the up-to-date version.

Your privacy

• The link is personal and secret: a long key nobody can guess. Keep it to yourself.
• It only shares your planned meals: no name, no email, no allergies, no notes.
• It can't be used to sign in or to change anything, and opening a recipe requires being signed in to Olivi.
• Search engines never read these addresses.
• Olivi writes nothing into your calendar: your calendar comes to read the meal plan. The app never asks for access to your calendar.

Create a new link

Shared the link by mistake? In the panel, tap Create a new link: the old one stops working right away. Then add the new one to your calendar, and remove the old "Olivi" calendar, which no longer updates.

Turn it off

• In your calendar: delete the "Olivi" subscription (or unsubscribe). That's what removes the events.
• In Olivi: tap Turn off meals in my calendar in the panel. The link stops working. Deleting your account stops it too.

To stop everything cleanly, do both.

FAQ

Can Olivi see or change my other events?

No. Olivi has no access to your calendar. Your calendar reads the meal plan, in a separate calendar called "Olivi".

I changed tonight's dinner, but Google Calendar still shows the old one. Why?

Google checks subscribed calendars on its own schedule, sometimes only once a day. The change will get there. For faster updates, Apple Calendar is the quickest.

Some meals are missing from my calendar.

Only the meals turned on in the panel show up (at first, just dinner), and only once they're planned in Olivi. The calendar covers two weeks back and five weeks ahead.

Is this only for the Essential plan?

No. Your meal plan in your calendar is available on every account, free ones included.