Open source · No ad networks · Private beta
Gatherlight is the home for the things you do together, again and again. The weekly run. The monthly dinner. The cleanup crew that meets every Sunday. We keep the plan going and we keep our hands off everything else.
One email. That is the whole signup. Here is what we do with it.
Plenty of apps say they don't "sell" your data. Read the next paragraph of the policy. Your information can still be shared with advertising and analytics partners as part of a commercial relationship, even when nobody literally buys a spreadsheet with your name on it. Some privacy laws call that a sale anyway. The apps call it something else.
What intel "free" event apps collect and share about you
Add device and engagement analytics and that is a behavioral dataset about your real life. A policy can promise not to sell it and still build it.
What Gatherlight does instead
And you don't have to take our word for it
Gatherlight is open source. The privacy promise is in the architecture, where anyone motivated enough can go check.
Read the codeSame four words, different meaning
"We don't sell your personal data."
Meaning: nobody pays us cash for it. We may still share it with advertising partners, let them collect it from our pages, use it for ad measurement, and run it through machine learning to "understand your interests." If your state calls that a sale, there is an opt-out link somewhere.
"We don't monetize your attention, your behavior, your relationships, or your data."
Meaning: there is no ad network on the other end of this. No profile to share. No model of your social graph to protect from a subpoena. We collect what Gatherlight needs to keep your plan running, and that is it. The code is public, so this paragraph is checkable.
A gathering, not an event
It's Sunday potluck. It happens every week. It has regulars and newcomers, a history, photos, a rotating kitchen, people who organize and people who just bring a dish. Nobody says "I RSVP'd to Sunday potluck, September 27." They say "I'm part of the Sunday potluck."
Event apps model the night. Gatherlight models the thing that keeps happening: one shared home that stays current tonight and still makes sense next year.
Every claim on this page maps to code you can read. Fork it, audit it, run it yourself.
Minimal guest identity, no ad-tech trackers, a plain-language "what we know about you" page with export and delete.
Your gathering belongs to the people in it. Self-hosting and community-run instances are on the roadmap, not a pitch deck.
Dates shift, hosts rotate, venues fall through. The plan adapts and the history accumulates.
How it works
Name it, set the rhythm, send one link. Guests need an email, not an account, a phone number, and a contacts upload.
Times, places, who's hosting, who's bringing what. Changes go to everyone, and nobody has to scroll back 200 messages to find them.
The next one practically plans itself. The history stays with the group, where it belongs, and nowhere else.
Private beta, opening in batches. No credit card, no contacts upload, no "we may share with partners."
Free while in beta · Source on GitHub