✦ Burnoff for iPhone
Local events that help you make sense of the world — in your pocket
The Bay Area is full of conversations that feed your inner nerd — lectures, book talks, science nights, civic forums, salons. Burnoff gathers what's happening at more than 100 Bay Area sources into one place, refreshed every day. The app adds a personal layer the website doesn't have: recommendations chosen for you.
Everything lands in one place
All the details in one place
Every event opens with the details you need: what it is, when and where, a map of the venue, the event source. One more tap puts it on your calendar.
✦ Recommendations that know what you're curious about
The app's real magic, for supporters who subscribe: your phone keeps a page about you — interests, goals, ideal times and places, anything you want to add — and Burnoff picks events to match, each with a reason why it fits.
And it's private by design. The page about you lives on your phone only. When it's time to pick, it's shared with the AI anonymously and just for that moment — Burnoff never saves it. Edit anything, delete everything, whenever you like.
A page about you, kept on your phone — edit anything, delete everything.
A new set every Sunday morning — 5, 10 or 20 picks, the top pick argued at length. Want one sooner? 15 more a month.
The same set arrives in your inbox — no app open required. Reply to it and a person reads the answer.
Real events, linked and dated — not vibes. Shown in dark mode, because there is one.
Every pick it makes is kept — marked ✦ in the calendar and gathered in past answers, so a good recommendation never scrolls away.
Ask AI, in your own words
Ask a question the filters can't hold — "something outdoors this weekend that isn't a hike" — and Ask AI reads the whole calendar before it answers. 5 questions a month free; 60 with a subscription, answered with your preferences as context.
Save what catches your eye
Bookmark anything and it waits in Saved — a shortlist for the week that lives on your phone, not on a server. One tap filters the whole calendar down to just what you kept.
A recommendation engine with no database of you
No account. No ads. No tracking. What you save stays on your phone, and your preferences live there too — they travel to the model to choose your picks, and Burnoff never saves them. There's no profile of you sitting on a server, nothing to leak, and nothing to delete but the app itself.
Free to browse, with one honest subscription
Free
The full calendar — browse, filter, search, all four views, saves, calendar adds, and 5 Ask AI questions a month.
Subscription · $4.99/month
✦ The Sunday set of recommendations, in the app and by email · 15 more sets whenever you want · Ask AI with your preferences as context, 60 questions a month.
Until then, everything free is right here — built with love for the Bay Area & curious minds.