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

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5 Options ConsideredPricePublisherFile Size
Google Calendar
Google IncVaries with device
SyncMate
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Pocket Informant
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Fantastical
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Outlook
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Google Calendar

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Stuart Kearney
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Good cross-platform support

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Gcal has apps on all the major platforms and a solid webapp.
Yoshiyuki
Peter Pan
Top Pro

Free

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It's free.
FantasticPakhet
Top Pro

Color-coding for events and calendars

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The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.
Yoshiyuki
FantasticPakhet
Top Pro

Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client

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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.
FantasticPakhet
Top Pro

Supports non-Google calendars (requires accessing web client)

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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.
FantasticPakhet
Top Pro

Straightforward event creation with autocomplete

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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 m...
FantasticPakhet
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Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications

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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.
FantasticPakhet
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Offers creating events from e-mail messages based on content

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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.
FantasticPakhet
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Comes pre-installed on most Android devices

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Google Calendar is a free Android calendar app without ads that comes already installed on Android devices that have stock support for Google Services.
FantasticPakhet
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Integrates with Google Maps for directions

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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.
FantasticPakhet
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Integrates well with other Google services

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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.
FantasticPakhet
Top Pro

Clean design with 5 different views including an excellent schedule view

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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....
Yoshiyuki
Peter Pan
Top Con

Doesn't sync Google To Do

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Doesn't sync Google To Do from WEB to Android
Stuart Kearney
Top Con

Doesn't work well with Facebook events

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SyncMate

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Pocket Informant

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Keith Norris
Top Pro

Excellent 30 day calendar view with tiny text so you can read the appointment names

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Francisco
Keith Norris
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Has Project Management functions

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Francisco
Keith Norris
Top Pro

Has Calendar and Tasks features

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Francisco
Keith Norris
Top Pro

Single purchase for iPad and iPhone version

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PoisedAmergin
Top Con

Subscription

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In order to get all the features, you must have a subscription.
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Fantastical

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John Cromwell
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Supports multiple calendar platforms

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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.
Endi Sukaj
Cheshire3
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Fantastical can comprehend natural language

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You can copy and paste a line from a meeting note and Fantastical can copy down and present the relevant information
Stuart Kearney
Top Pro

Beautiful and highly polished design

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Cheshire3
Top Con

Expensive for a single utility app

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Fantastical on OS X costs $49.99 and an additional $4.99 if you want to use it on iOS.
Stuart Kearney
Top Con

Only supports iOS and OSX

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Fantastical doesn't support web, Windows or Android.
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Outlook

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Stuart Kearney
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Designed to be used with your email as well

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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.

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