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What are the best scheduling/calendar apps that syncs across desktop and iOS/Android?

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Best scheduling/calendar apps that syncs across desktop and iOS/Android	Price	Last Updated
-- Google Calendar	-	May 21, 2018
-- SyncMate	39.95	Dec 29, 2018
-- Pocket Informant	-	May 28, 2018
-- Fantastical	$4.99	Jun 29, 2018
-- Outlook	-	Mar 9, 2016

Google Calendar

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Good cross-platform support

Gcal has apps on all the major platforms and a solid webapp. See More

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Doesn't sync Google To Do

Doesn't sync Google To Do from WEB to Android See More

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Free

It's free. See More

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Doesn't work well with Facebook events

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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. See More

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Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client

Through 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. See More

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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. See More

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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 and allows the user to add a 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 the users availability and privacy settings. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. See More

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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. Month view lays out all days in a grid and displays up to 3 events in a day. Schedule view displays an agenda view that allows browsing all events by swiping vertically. Additionally, the way events are displayed in the agenda view is context-aware. For example, adding an event called "gym" will display the event on a background with a dumbbell. All views except for month view can be split horizontally to display a condensed month view at the top that can be navigated by swiping horizontally. Events can be added from any view by clicking the red plus button that's available at the bottom-right corner of the screen. See More

SyncMate

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Fantastical

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Expensive for a single utility app

Fantastical on OS X costs $49.99 and an additional $4.99 if you want to use it on iOS. See More

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Supports multiple calendar platforms

If you're locked into using an Exchange account, Google Calendar won't work without 3rd party syncing options. Fantastical works flawlessly with Exchange and with Google Accounts so you can have both. It also supports iCloud, Office365, Yahoo, and Facebook calendars. See More

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Only supports iOS and OSX

Fantastical doesn't support web, Windows or Android. See More

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Fantastical can comprehend natural language

You can copy and paste a line from a meeting note and Fantastical can copy down and present the relevant information See More

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Beautiful and highly polished design

Outlook

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Designed to be used with your email as well

Outlook isn't just a Calendar app, so the UI is a lot more complicated and has unnecessary components if you don't plan on using it for your email as well. See More

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