Optional integration
Calendar integrations in Echo
Connecting Google Calendar or Apple Calendar is optional. Echo reads calendar data to show your calendars and upcoming meetings and let you associate notes and memos with those events.
What Echo accesses
Echo reads calendar names and settings and event details such as titles, descriptions, locations, meeting links, times, organizers, attendees, and RSVP status. A Google connection also provides the Google account identity associated with it and is scoped read-only. Apple Calendar requires macOS's full Calendar permission, but Echo does not currently use that access to create, edit, or delete events.
How Echo uses it
Echo uses this information to display your calendars and upcoming meetings, help you choose which calendars appear, and associate the personal notes and memos you create with the right event. Echo does not use connected Calendar data for advertising, marketing personalization, sale to data brokers, or training generalized AI models. When you use hosted transcription for an event-linked session, Echo may send the event title, description, location, and attendee names to the transcription provider as keyword hints that improve name and term recognition. Hosted AI may receive an event name when you chat from an event-linked note. If you ask it about your schedule, Echo may also send matching event titles, times, locations, meeting links, and descriptions so it can answer.
Where it is stored
Calendar data is stored in Echo's local application database on your device. The desktop app requests Google Calendar data directly from Google, and your Google refresh token stays in the operating system credential vault. Apple Calendar access is controlled by the operating system's Calendar permission. Echo's backend does not store provider credentials or Calendar connection metadata. Calendar-derived keyword hints are sent only when you use hosted transcription for an event-linked session. Hosted AI may receive an event name from an event-linked note or matching event details when you ask about your schedule. If you enable Cloud Sync or share a note, event context attached to that note may also be included in the content you choose to sync or share.
You stay in control
You can choose which calendars Echo displays. You can disconnect Google from Echo's Calendar sidebar or revoke Echo from your Google Account permissions. You can revoke Apple Calendar access in your operating system's Privacy & Security settings.
For the complete data-use, sharing, retention, and deletion terms, read the Echo Privacy Policy.