Why I built Volao.
I became a freelancer to be free. Free to choose what I work on, who I work with, and how I structure my days. But every time I tried a scheduling tool, it felt like I was handing over my entire calendar — for something I only wanted to do: share when I was free.
Calendly wanted my Google account. Cal.com wanted my OAuth tokens. SavvyCal wanted to know who I was meeting with. All for the simple purpose of showing someone my free hours.
This can be different. Not by building yet another cloud app — but by working with the system that's already on my Mac.
Apple Calendar was already syncing my iCloud, Google, and Exchange locally. Volao is built around that. It reads your calendar via EventKit, sends only your free time blocks to the server — never titles, attendees, or notes — and generates text, a link, or a webcal feed you can share in one click.
The name comes from volar — Spanish for to fly. Because that's what I wanted back. Light. Independent. Focused on my work, not the tools around it.