Dola, marketed under the domain heydola.com, is an AI calendar assistant that lets people add and manage events by chatting instead of opening a calendar app. Robert Zheng and Haochuan G. founded the San Francisco-based company in 2023, and it now runs inside WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and Line rather than as a standalone app.
Users forward a text message, voice note, screenshot, or photo of a flyer, and Dola parses the details into a calendar event, syncing the result to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or any CalDAV service. Because it lives inside messaging apps people already use, group scheduling works by adding Dola to an existing chat thread rather than sending separate calendar invites.
Dola suits people who coordinate a lot of scheduling over text and want to skip manual data entry, from busy parents managing family calendars to small teams coordinating over WhatsApp. The free tier covers a capped number of events a month; the Pro plan costs $9.99 a month and removes the cap while adding unlimited calendar sync.
