| 12 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Publisher | File Size | Required Android Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Business Calendar· · · | 18 | 0 | Appgenix Software | 2.9M | 2.0.1 and up |
| #2 aCalendar· · · | 11 | 0 | Tapir Apps GmbH | 1.7M | 2.1 and up |
| #3 Today Calendar· · · | 26 | 2 | Underwood Apps LTD | 7.1M | 4.1 and up |
| #4 Cal· · · | 38 | 3 | Any.do | 13M | 4.0 and up |
| #5 Jorte· · · | 11 | 2 | Jorte Inc | 8.6M | 2.1 and up |
| #6 DigiCal Calendar· · · | 23 | 4 | Digibites | 116k | 2.2 and up |
Pro Widget support
Business Calendar offers configurable widgets in many sizes for displaying Days, Weeks, Months or Agenda views on a user's home screen.
Pro Smooth zoomable user interface
Business Calendar has a user interface that supports scrolling and pinch zooming.
Pro Search function
Business Calendar has a search function that allows searching the calendar for dates and events.
Con Poor visual design
The design of the app looks a bit dated, something out of the early 2000's. While this does not impede the usefulness of the application, it still is a sore point when compared to some of the other popular calendar apps available on Android.
Con Widgets don't show week numbers correctly on some devices
Widgets on certain devices have been showing week number incorrectly for more than 2 years. The issue hasn't been addressed and there is no sign that it will be. Examples from S4: Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2
Con Poor support
The developers provide virtually no help with issues.
Pro Lots of customization options
The settings menu is rather detailed and includes a good selection of color themes to choose from, possibility to adjust font-size, set beginning and end of day, ability to choose what views to use and more.
Pro Free, ad-less version available
aCalendar is an Android app that comes in free, ad-less version as well as this paid version. This paid version aCalendar+ adds more features like agenda view, home screen widget and the ability to manage Google Calendars. The developer also donates some of the profits from this Pro version to he...
Pro Nice presentation
The three views are very convenient, particularly the week view, which shows the week position inside the month
Con Free version is very limiting
Free version of the application does not include common things like the agenda view, actionable notifications or attendee management among many other more advanced features.
Pro Straightforward event creation
To quickly add an event, each view has an option to either click a plus button somewhere on the screen or long-press a date to bring up a form. The long-press form will allow entering only the event name and assume that it's an all day event, while the plus button form allows setting the event...
Pro Clean, good-looking design with improved common views and two great new views that combine month and agenda views
Today Calendar design is based Google's stock Calendar application with modifications to user interface and functionality. In addition to day, week and agenda views that have improved aesthetics and usability features compared to the stock app, there are also two new views that combine agenda...
Pro Polished agenda and month widgets
The app has semi-transparent and customizable homescreen widgets for agenda and month views. Attributes that can be customized include choosing between light and dark themes, 12 and 24 hour clock, if the widget header should be displayed as well as adjusting opacity level and date range among other...
Con Date on icon removed in redesign
In the older versions of Today Calendar, the icon would have the current days date, sadly this was removed with the redesign of the app.
Con App crashes too often
Though the app is pretty likable, it keeps crashing. It was fine for a time, but about 2-3 months ago, it would just crash without warning. Nowadays, it happens so often that seeking a replacement may be a good probability.
Pro Clean interface with beautiful background images
The app displays agenda as a combination of events and to-do list items and uses different background images for each calendar day based on chosen themes.
Pro Integrates with Any.do for task management
Cal integrates with Any.do to-do list app for task management.
Pro Nicely designed actionable notifications before, during and after meetings
A feature called HeadsUp will show pop-up notifications on phone's homescreen specifically designed for meetings. The content of the pop-up will change based on whether it's before, during or after a meeting. Before a meeting it will show shortcuts for getting a taxi or a car, seeing atten...
Con Forces creating an Any.do account
An Any.do account as well as the app has to be used to create tasks, that then will show in the calendar, but cannot be created from the calendar. This can be not only inconvenient but also quite slow.
Con Cal may give your personal and non-personal information to thrid parties
In the privacy-policy of any.do the following is stated: "We may share your Personal Information to third parties (with or without compensation) including potential and actual advertisers, sponsors, our third party service providers and partners. We use commercially reasonable efforts to only...
Con Shallow Any.do integration
Any.do tasks can't be managed from within the app, it requires the user to switch applications.
Pro Google Calendar integration
Syncs easily with Google Calendars.
Pro Lots of highly customizable widgets
Jorte Calendar does have a variety of customizable widgets available for use.
Con Disorganized
The amount of customization is great, but the app is all over the place. It's disorganized, very un-friendly to users.
Con Lacks military time
There's no option for military time.
Con Expensive icons
There's an icon packs that contain 8 icons. and the devs have the audacity to charge $6 for it.
Pro Provides a lot of information
DigiCal has day, week, week agenda, agenda, month, text month, list and year views. In addition to events and event information, all views include weather information, some views attach other views to it to provide context.
Pro Free, ad-supported version available
There's a free ad-supported version of DigiCal as well as this paid unlock key version that costs $4.95 that removes ads as well as adds more features.
Pro Works with Google Calendar and Exchange
DigiCal allows for Google Calendar integration as well as Exchange, making for an easy to use app for businessmen as well as regular users.
Con Can quickly become crowded
The app tries condensing a lot of information at the expense of readability.
Pro Integrates well with other Google services
Google Calendar is part of the Google ecosystem, it integrates with services like Google Now for creating events, Google Maps for directions and Gmail for pulling information about planned flights.
Pro Integrates with Google Maps for directions
The app leverages Google Maps when adding location for an event by offering suggestions as well as offers opening Maps to help get directions to an event via shortcut on a reminder notification.
Pro Clean design with 5 different views including an excellent schedule view
Google Calendar has a monochrome base design that's accented with colored-coded events and image banners that separate months in schedule view. The app has 5 different views - schedule, day, 3-day, week and month. Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically....
Con No weather forecast
The Android app version of Google Calendar does not show any weather forcast information, even if it is added as an extra calendar in the web application. Being that weather is tied into Google Now, the absence is surprising.
Con Weak default view
Even if month is set as default view, as soon as you touch a day or an event, you have to carefully select twice to get back to month view.
Con Month view shows limited information about the event
Month view does not show how many events there are in each given day or color-code them in any way, only informs of their existence.
Pro Beautiful, well-designed UI
SolCalenar has a mostly monochrome color scheme and includes day, week, month, agenda and to-do views.
Pro Weather information
SolCalendar provides real-time weather information at the top of the screen and gives access to a 7-day forecast.
Pro Integrates with various services
SolCalendar integrates with Google Tasks for to-do list management and with Google Maps & Foursquare for navigation.
Con Not updated regularly
Often broken features or incompatibilities with new versions of Android will persist for many months without comment by the developers, only to be addressed later on, if at all.
Con Pastel colors are not for everyone
The whole app uses only pastel colors which can be thought of as too girly or childish, definitely are not to everyone's taste.
Con Annoying pop-over notifications
Pop-over notifications tend to interrupt or just get in the way. After happening numerous times it gets pretty old.
Pro Integrates tasks with calendar
Informant supports integration between the user's task list with their calendar.
Pro Seamless syncing
Informant syncs seamlessly between mobile devices and PCs, so you can create an event or task anytime on your phone and it will appear on whichever computer you are using. One license includes all devices.
Pro Advanced scheduling options
Every 2 weeks, then edit four weeks in for 'This and following instances' etc., perfect with Google Calendar.
Pro Multiple Flexible Widgets
Allows you to customise the look/feel of the widget, even after it has been created. Show different calendar/task accounts per widget.
Pro Multiple Calendar + Multiple Task Functionality
Allows you to manage multiple calendars and multiple task (Google) accounts with ease.
Pro Open Source
Etar is a fork of the original AOSP calendar.
Pro Material Design
Etar adheres to Google's Material design guidelines, i.e. it looks like a "modern Android app".
Pro Integrates with Google Maps for directions
If a location to an event is added, the app will show a map and allow pulling up Google Maps for directions.
Pro Built-in task manager that can integrates with Google Tasks
Wave allows creating local and Google Tasks to-do items that can be synced across devices and color-coded.
Pro Has day and week, month, list and 2 agenda views
The app has day, week, week-agenda, month, month-agenda and list views. Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically. Week agenda splits the screen in 6 equal parts - 5 parts for work days, sixth for weekend. Double-tapping a day will open a list of events for th...
Con Some basic features require signing up
Paid features include the ability to add attachments and travel time to events and see local weather in calendar.
Con Inconsistent design
There's different branding in different places (Still has e-cal branding in some places). Sometimes looking at an event requires tapping twice while most of the time it's once, a horizontal list of items looks differently based on the views it's accessed through, etc.
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