When comparing Jorte vs Sunrise, the Slant community recommends Sunrise for most people. In the question“What are the best free calendar apps for Android?” Sunrise is ranked 5th while Jorte is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Sunrise is:
The interface is easy to use. The app's main view combines an agenda view with a two week view above it. This lets you keep an eye on your high level schedule over the next few weeks while also seeing the highest priority upcoming events. The two week view can be expanded into a month view by swiping down on it. Swiping to the right from the main view gives access to a 3-day view that's split into hours. Agenda view includes various informative details such as information about upcoming weather conditions, a countdown for upcoming events and contextual icons, such as "meeting", "movie", "food", "flight" to events to help get a quick overview of what's planned at a glance. It also looks good with a monochrome base design that's accented with colored icons, titles and profile pictures.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Google Calendar integration
Syncs easily with Google Calendars.
Pro Highly customizable user interface
Jorte has a very powerful and easily customizable user interface. The user is in control of every available option within the Jorte Calendar, which is designed to resemble and be used like a personal information organizer.
Pro Lots of highly customizable widgets
Jorte Calendar does have a variety of customizable widgets available for use.
Pro Task management
Pro Widget has actual text
The widget has the actual events listed on the widget in text so that they are readable. Using the full sized month widget gives a very easily readable screen that allows the user to not have to enter the app to see their events.
Pro Labeled menu buttons to open and close sections
Pro Google Maps integration
Pro Search, including Google Voice Search support
Pro Ability to highlight certain dates
Pro More themes available in the marketplace
Jorte has a cloud based service that offers icons and themes for purchase.
Pro Great interface
The interface is easy to use. The app's main view combines an agenda view with a two week view above it. This lets you keep an eye on your high level schedule over the next few weeks while also seeing the highest priority upcoming events. The two week view can be expanded into a month view by swiping down on it. Swiping to the right from the main view gives access to a 3-day view that's split into hours.
Agenda view includes various informative details such as information about upcoming weather conditions, a countdown for upcoming events and contextual icons, such as "meeting", "movie", "food", "flight" to events to help get a quick overview of what's planned at a glance.
It also looks good with a monochrome base design that's accented with colored icons, titles and profile pictures.
Pro Integrates with many third-party apps
Sunrise will automatically pull important information such as Facebook events, Asana tasks and Evernote reminders and add them to the calendar. Currently Sunrise integrates with Facebook, TripIt, Asana, Producteev, Evernote, GitHub, LinkedIn, Songkick, Foursquare, Twitter, and there are new integrations added on a regular basis.
Pro Allows easily creating events using natural language input
The application allows natural language input for events. For example, typing in "Lunch with Stuart Kearney at 2pm" will set the appointment and even send and invite to Stuart if needed.
Pro Google Maps integration
Sunrise integrates with Google Maps to display the location of an event, making it easy to find where to go for any appointment.
Pro Gives weather updates
Sunrise will show inline weather updates for current and next day.
Pro Widget support
Sunrise Calendar includes a widget for use on Android devices that displays the agenda view and allows adding events. Widget's agenda view also includes details such as context-aware icons and location information.
Pro Pulls information about people with which meeting have been scheduled
The app will show information about people with which meeting have been scheduled. The information is pulled from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Pro Can send event invites from within the app
Sunrise makes it very easy to send invites to events from within the app by using the contact list on the device.
Pro Adjusts timezone based on location
Sunrise will display the event information and notifications in users current timezone.
Pro Includes calendars for holidays, sports, TV shows and more
As part of "Interesting Calendars" Sunrise includes over 25,000 calendars covering things like name days, holidays, sport teams (with score updating in real time), and TV shows.
Pro Helps quickly schedule one-to-one meetings
Sunrise includes a feature called "Meet" that's designed to help two parties that wish to schedule a meeting to find a time that works for them both. Sunrise user can select available times for a meeting and then send a URL to the other party that will allow the other party to select one of the available times.
Cons
Con Very confusing
It's confusing. One gets very lost just trying to do one small task. Likely caused by language barrier.
Con Ridiculously expensive
$30/yr just to 'borrow' their app is too much.
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 Hard to use
It's hard to use and the design looks old.
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.
Con Nasty customer support
Customer support displays entitled behaviour.
Con Free version allows just one new calendar creation
Using the free version means being limited to only one account in the calendar. For some it may not be too much of an issue, but to others is a pretty big con.
Con Can't swipe left/right from one month to another
Con Discontinued
Sunrise was discontinued in August 2016 with promises that Microsoft Outlook would gain some of its features
Con Missing search in Android version
Sunrise lacks search in Android version making it very hard to use.
Con Widget is not customisable
There is no way to change the layout etc of the widget for Sunrise. Some other calendar apps offer a lot more control over what data is shown in their widgets.
Con Likely no longer in development
Shortly after Microsoft’s appquisition of Sunrise, development stopped. The future of the service itself is uncertain.
Con It requests extra permissions
Requests access to everything not just the calendar.
Con Can't quickly distinguish between multiple calendars
Dev dictates that everyone's calendars should look the same and to this day refuses to provide an option to color code individual calendars.