What are the best free calendars for Mac?

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Best free calendars for Mac	Price	Last Updated
-- Google Calendar	-	Oct 8, 2019
-- Calendar	-	Oct 4, 2018
-- SmartDay	-	Jan 28, 2019
-- Calendar 2	Free	Apr 15, 2017

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Google Calendar

Top 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. See More

Top Con

No natural language input support

Yanis's Experience

Keep it simple, use Google ! See More

Top Pro

Calendar widget

Simple and easy to use widget once the app is installed. See More

Top Con

Timezone for Moscow is incorrect

Timezone for Moscow is 1 hour off. This makes the calendar unusable in Russia. See More

Top Pro

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

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Awesome flairs / images view inside the agenda view / event page

Whenever you enter agenda / event title with the keywords (when available), the event will show up interesting flairs whenever the keyword inside the agenda / title you typed matches the flairs that are available inside the system, examples such as haircut, cycling, swimming, coffee, movie etc. See More

Top 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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Con

Setting up non-Google calendars requires accessing web client

This limits the usefulness for people that use more than one calendar, such as OSX and iOS users. See More

Top 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. 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

Top 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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Advanced functionality available through IFTTT

IFTTT offers over 198 channels to plug into the users Google Calendar. See More

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Calendar

Top Pro

Comes directly with Mac OS X

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SmartDay

Top Pro

Aims to provide a complete organizational solution

The app includes a way to manage tasks, take notes, set reminders and manage project from within the calendar. See More

Top Con

Only the web version is free

For Mac OS X, you will need to pay $9.99. However, the web version is free for all users. See More

Top Pro

Calendars can be shared

Top Con

Support is limited

The app support is confusing and hard to navigate. See More

Top Pro

Integrates task-management with the calendar

The app doubles as a task manager and allows dragging and dropping tasks into the calendar on specific days. If a task does not get completed on that day, it automatically gets rescheduled. See More

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Doesn't integrate

Does not support Google Calendar integration. See More

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Lacks natural language input

Natural language input allows creating events in the same way if you had to tell it to a friend. Writing something like "Lunch at 2pm" would add an event called "Lunch" at 2 PM. SmartDay lacks that functionality. See More

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Calendar 2

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What are the best free calendars for Mac?

4 Options Considered

Google Calendar

My Recommendation for Google Calendar

My Recommendation for Google Calendar

Allows subscribing to public calendars through web client

No natural language input support

Calendar widget

Timezone for Moscow is incorrect

Straightforward event creation with autocomplete

Weak default view

Awesome flairs / images view inside the agenda view / event page

Month view shows limited information about the event

Supports non-Google calendars (requires accessing web client)

Setting up non-Google calendars requires accessing web client

Clean design with 5 different views including an excellent schedule view

Offers creating events from e-mail messages based on content

Can set on-screen and e-mail reminder notifications

Color-coding for events and calendars

Advanced functionality available through IFTTT

Calendar

My Recommendation for Calendar

My Recommendation for Calendar

Comes directly with Mac OS X

SmartDay

My Recommendation for SmartDay

My Recommendation for SmartDay

Aims to provide a complete organizational solution

Only the web version is free

Calendars can be shared

Support is limited

Integrates task-management with the calendar

Doesn't integrate

Lacks natural language input

Calendar 2

My Recommendation for Calendar 2

My Recommendation for Calendar 2

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