The hard part of making a plan was never the plan. You already know it: tacos, Thursday, 7, El Rey, the climbing crew. The hard part is the ninety seconds between knowing it and sending it — the form, the date picker, the time wheel, the “who’s invited” screen. Ninety seconds is exactly long enough to think “eh, I’ll do it later.” So we built Crumb.
Just tell Crumb the plan
Crumb lives in the “Tell Crumb the plan…” bar at the bottom of Flaky’s home screen. Type the plan the way you’d text it to a friend:
- “drinks thursday after work”
- “climbing sat 10am at the gym”
- “roast sunday 6 at mine”
- “tacos thursday 7 at El Rey with the climbing crew”
Crumb reads the what, when, where and who and lays it out as a card. Look right? Tap Create. Not quite? Tap the card to tweak it, or just tell Crumb what to change. Nothing is created until you tap Create — so you can type half a thought and see what happens.
It’s still the Flaky cadence — my plan, on this day, at that place — just in one breath instead of five screens.
It copes with how people actually talk
- Bubbles by name. “with the climbing crew” invites the whole Bubble at once.
- Loose times stay loose. “around 7” or “7-ish” keeps the time open instead of pretending you meant 7:00 sharp.
- Missing day? Crumb asks “When is it?” — once. It doesn’t interrogate you.
- Nobody named? That’s a complete plan. The link is the invite, and friends can RSVP from their browser without the app.
Why “Crumb”?
Because a flaky croissant leaves crumbs. Crumb is the little amber croissant in the corner of the screen, and it has exactly one job: turn your sentence into a plan.
Crumb isn’t an AI — on purpose
Crumb is a set of rules that runs on your phone. When you type “dinner friday at 8 at Luigi’s with Sam,” that sentence is read right there, on your device. It isn’t sent to an AI company, it isn’t sent to our servers to be understood, and the conversation isn’t saved. Once you tap Create, you get an ordinary Flaky event — invite-only, like everything else in Flaky.
Two things do leave your phone, and only when you ask for them: if you open the place editor, the place goes to Google to suggest real addresses (the same as the regular event form), and if you send a note to Flaky’s team, we get it exactly as you wrote it. It’s all in our privacy policy, section 1.5.
The trade-off is honest: Crumb does one thing. It can’t see your other events yet (so “same as last week” won’t work), Flaky doesn’t do repeating events yet, and Crumb understands English only for now. When it can’t do something, it says so plainly and offers to open the regular form.
Ask it about Flaky, too
Not ready to make a plan? Crumb answers the questions people ask before they trust an app with their friends: Who can see my plans? Do my friends need the app? What happens to my contacts? Is it free? The answers say what the app actually does — the same facts as the privacy policy, minus the legalese.
Tell us what Crumb gets wrong
Crumb is new, and it will misread things. When it does, tap the ? at the top of Crumb — “Help us make Flaky awesome” — pick Something broke, Idea or Other, and write it. Real people on the team read every note. If Crumb says it can’t do something yet, there’s an “Add this feature” button right there.
Just tell Crumb the plan.
Crumb is in the latest version of Flaky, free on iOS and Android.
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