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What are the best Material Design calendar apps for Android?

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Google Calendar vs DigiCal Calendar & Widgets vs WAVE calendar

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Supported Calendars

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E-sites

File Size

13M

Required Android Version

4.0.3 and up

In App Purchase

$1.00 - $3.75 per item

Supported Calendars

Google / Exchange

Publisher

Underwood Apps LTD

File Size

7.1M

Required Android Version

4.1 and up

In App Purchase

None

Supported Calendars

Google

Pros + Cons

Pro
 Integrates well with other Google services

Google Calendar is part of the Google ecosystem, it integrates with services like Google Now, Google Maps and Gmail.
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 Straightforward event creation with autocomplete

All views have an option of adding a new event by tapping the plus sign at the lower right corner of the screen. This opens up a form with the allowing you to add location, start/end times, guests, description, color-code as well as choosing if it's an all day event, how often it repeats, how many and what kind of reminders are needed and setting your availability and privacy settings.
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 Color-coding for events and calendars

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.
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 Clean design

Google Calendar has an easy to use interface, that doesn't overwhelm with options.
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 Free, ad-less and comes pre-installed on most Android devices

Google Calendar is a free Android calendar app without ads that comes already installed on most Android devices.
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 Comes pre-installed on most Android devices

Google Calendar is a free Android calendar app without ads that comes already installed on Android devices that have stock support for Google Services.
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 User- friendly materia design which makes it unique

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Pro
 Has day, 5-day and an excellent schedule view

While day and 5-day views are pretty straightforward and don't differentiate in any meaningful way from what's available in any other calendar app, the schedule view is what makes the Google's Calendar app stand out. Schedule view displays a well designed agenda view with easy access to a month view. The schedule view allows browsing all events by swiping vertically and can open up a month view to half a screen by tapping on the month that can be navigated by swiping horizontally.
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 Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications

Google calendar allows setting how many reminders are needed with each having the ability to set how long before the event the notification should remind and if it should be done via on-screen or e-mail notification.
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 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.
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Pro
 Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client

Through the Google Calendar's web client, it is possible to subscribe to any public calendar. Google also maintains a list of public calendars for various sports events and holidays in different countries and for different religions.
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Pro
 Supports non-Google calendars (requires accessing web client)

Google Calendar can be integrated with any calendar that support iCalendar format, including Exchange and iCloud, via URL, but it has to be done using the web client.
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Pro
 Lots of third-party widgets

Google Calendar comes with a home screen widget, and there are also many third party widgets developed for this calendar app.
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Pro
 Advanced functionality available through IFTTT

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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.
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Con
 Google tasks do not show on Google Calendar 

You can create tasks in your desktop Google Calendar but they will not sync nor show up in your android Google Calendar
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Pro
 Offers creating events from e-mail messages based on content

Google Calendar integrates with e-mail for quickly creating events from e-mails that contain the word "meeting" or dates or times, or any other information about events or plans that it can understand.
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Con
 Setting up non-Google calendars requires accessing web client

There is no ability in the Android app to access other calendars. This limits the usefulness for people that use more than one calendar, such as OSX and iOS users.
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Con
 No weather forecast

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Con
 No natural language input support

The Android app has no natural language input support, while it's available using the web client and in a limited capacity using Google Now.
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Pro
 Clean interface with Material Design theme color options

The app includes a variety of theme options to choose from to customize your calendar views. These customization options also apply to details like text in the hamburger menu and calendar icons.
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Con
 Abandoned

Sadly the developer has abandoned this amazing application - it has not been updated for close to 2 years.
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 Does not sync with Google Tasks

Does not sync with Google Tasks, a separate product is needed for this.
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Pro
 7 different calendar views

Day, week, week agenda, month, month text, agenda (list) and year view makes this a very versatile calendar.
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Pro
 6 homescreen calendar widgets 

DigiCal has 6 polished widgets, one for each view, available both for homescreen. Each widget has 9 themes (5 free, 4 paid) to choose from and allows some customization.
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Pro
 Light and dark themes 

All views and widgets support light and dark themes.
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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.
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Pro
 Straightforward navigation

This side menu, accessed by swiping from the left-hand side, allows accessing weather, calendar views and accounts. It also allows setting a default view by starring it.
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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.
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Pro
 Events can be color-coded with 30 colors 

DigiCal supports the 11 Google Calendar colors and 19 additional colors. Using the extra colors allows for the user to easily see different events scheduled on the calendar without having to read the titles of the events.
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Pro
 Illustrations or photos to match your event

Events get tagged with a photo or illustrations. The locations photos are also a really nice feature.
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Pro
 Events can be copied 

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Pro
 Adjustable calendar view 

It's easy to adjust the calendar view on screen, so it perfectly matches personal preferences. This refers to both size and looks and feel, because you can adjust colors, transparency, lettertype and lettertype size.
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Pro
 Schedule an event in a different start and end time zone 

The calendar app allows you to schedule an event with a local and foreign time zone. Ideal for intercontinental flights.
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Pro
 Weather forecast with optional premium subscription

Once a location is provided the application will display a 3 day weather forecast in either imperial or metric units. A premium weather subscription (USD/EUR 1.50) will expand the forecast to 15 days, add graphs and ability to set multiple weather locations.
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 Each widget can be connected to a separate calendar 

DigiCal has the ability to create multiple widgets with each one displaying a chosen calendar. It allows for a widget on screen for work events, another widget for family activities, and a third for favorite sport team's schedules.
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 Good customer support 

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 Beautiful RSVP screen for responding to calendar invitations

Lovely card based material design for the calendar info screen makes viewing information easy as well as uniform to the standards Google has set guidelines for.
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Pro
 Easily keep track of holidays, (live) sports, tv, finance events

Premium calendar subscriptions available for holiday, sports event, TV shows, public company events and lifestyle.
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Con
 Can quickly become crowded 

The app tries condensing a lot of information at the expense of readability.
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Pro
 Navigation drawer with collapsable calendar accounts and daily weather forecast

Check the weather directly from the navigation drawer Easily switch calendar views Change visibility of your calendars Collapsable calendar acounts
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Pro
 Available in 27 languages 

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Pro
 Easy to manage your calendar invitations  

Great interface for managing calendar invitations.
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Pro
 Illustrations or photos to match your event 

Based on the title event keywords such as locations, activities, an illustration or a photograph will show up.
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Pro
 Easy to add locations in calendar event 

The built-in location map is very handy for looking up a location. You can zoom in and out and pinch to pinpoint a location in the interactive map.
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Pro
 Google Now integration 

Google Now integration provides directions and traffic information.
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Pro
 Actionable notifications 

Notifications can be snoozed and they also provide shortcuts for maps and navigation.
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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.
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Con
 No FAB button (yet)

There are plans to implement the FAB button but for now it is lacking this small detail to make it really Material.
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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.
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Pro
 Available in 10 languages

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Pro
 Integrates with Wave Scheduler for event planning

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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.
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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.
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Pro
 Color-coding for events and calendars

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.
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Pro
 Includes a store for purchasing various public calendars

The app has a store for sports, stock exchange, holiday, religion and other calendars.
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Pro
 Has day and week, month, list and 2 agenda views

While the day and week views are the same as in all other calendar apps, the list, month and agenda (week agenda and month agenda) views are slightly different. The list view is actually the closest to a typical agenda view despite the name. The difference here is that there are two modes of showing that information - default and detailed. The default mode displays date, time, event name and location (if available) and the detailed mode displays extra information such as what calendar is the event part of, who's attending, notes, etc. Month view splits the screen in half with one half displaying a typical month view with color-coded dots next to dates to show which days have events and the other a list of events for the selected day. 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 that day. From here swiping left and right allows moving between days. Month agenda shows a month view with all event names visible.
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Con
 Inconsistent design

There's different branding depending in different 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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Con
 No natural language input support

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Pro
 Has improved common views and two great views that combine month and agenda views

In addition to day, week and agenda views that have improved aesthetics and usability features compared to the stock app, there are also two views that combine agenda and month views in interesting ways. One approach shows a complete, color-coded month with agenda view beneath it and the second shows a complete month that pops up agenda view when clicked on a date.
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Pro
 Actionable notifications

On-screen notifications have a shortcuts for map and ability to snooze them.
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Con
 No natural language input support

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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 duration as well. Both forms have an edit button for a adding more detailed information. This way in addition to selecting an event name and date, there's an ability to add location, start/end times, guests, description, color-code as well as choosing if it's an all day event, how often it repeats, how many and what kind of reminders are needed and setting your availability and privacy settings.
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Pro
 Clean, good-looking design

Google Calendar has an easy to overview interface, that doesn't overwhelm with options. It's based on Google's stock Calendar application with modifications to user interface and functionality.
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Pro
 Free 2-week trial

It has a 14-day trial and costs $2.99 to use full-time.
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Pro
 Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications

Google calendar allows setting how many reminders are needed with each having the ability to set how long before the event the notification should remind and if it should be done via on-screen or e-mail notification.
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Pro
 Color-coding support

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.
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 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.
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Pro
 Polished agenda and month widgets

The app has minimalistic, semi-transparent, good-looking 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 options.
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Con
 No weather forecast

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