When comparing Cal vs DigiCal Calendar, the Slant community recommends Cal for most people. In the question“What are the best calendar apps for Android?” Cal is ranked 4th while DigiCal Calendar is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Cal is:
As long as Facebook is already set up on the device, Cal integrates with it with a single click to show all birthdays.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can import Facebook birthdays with one tap
As long as Facebook is already set up on the device, Cal integrates with it with a single click to show all birthdays.
Pro Clean interface with beautiful background images
The app displays agenda as a combination of events and to-do list items and uses different background images for each calendar day based on chosen themes.
Pro Integrates with Any.do for task management
Cal integrates with Any.do to-do list app for task management.
Pro Integrates with Waze, Uber and Google Maps for navigation
Cal uses Google Maps to show event location, Waze for real-time traffic information and Uber for hailing a car to the event.
Pro Clean widget with event creation
Cal has a good-looking resizable widget that has a shortcut for event creation.
Pro Nicely designed actionable notifications before, during and after meetings
A feature called HeadsUp will show pop-up notifications on phone's homescreen specifically designed for meetings. The content of the pop-up will change based on whether it's before, during or after a meeting.
Before a meeting it will show shortcuts for getting a taxi or a car, seeing attendees, getting directions and notifying other attendees if the user is late via e-mail or Skype. During a meeting it will give shortcuts for setting the phone on vibrate, taking photos, video or audio-recording, adding tasks that will be synced with Any.do or e-mailing a summary. After the meeting it offers sharing task list and scheduling a follow-up.
Pro Predictive text
While adding an event the app will offer suggestions, help invite other people, pick a location, allow making a note and set it as a recurring event if needed.
Pro Voice entry support
Cal allows adding events simply by speaking.
Pro Events can be copied
An easy way to move and copy every event to another day or moment.
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.
Pro Google Now integration
Google Now integration provides directions and traffic information.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pro Actionable notifications
Notifications can be snoozed and they also provide shortcuts for maps and navigation.
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.
Pro Light and dark themes
All views and widgets support light and dark themes.
Pro Available in 27 languages
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.
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.
Pro Good privacy protection
Although the company doesn't have a privacy policy stated on their webpage they are seated in the netherlands which mean they fall under a much stricter privacy protection than companies in the US.
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/online-privacy-law/netherlands.php
Pro 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.
Pro Good customer support
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.
Pro Weather forecast with optional premium subscription USD/EUR 1.50
Once a location is provided the application will display a 3 day weather forecast in either imperial or metric units.
A premium weather subscription will expand the forecast to 15 days, add graphs and ability to set multiple weather locations.
Pro Smart image matching
Based on the title event keywords such as locations, activities, an illustration or a photograph will show up.
Pro Easy to manage your calendar invitations
Great interface for managing calendar invitations.
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
Cons
Con Cal may give your personal and non-personal information to thrid parties
In the privacy-policy of any.do the following is stated:
"We may share your Personal Information to third parties (with or without compensation) including potential and actual advertisers, sponsors, our third party service providers and partners. We use commercially reasonable efforts to only engage or interact with third parties that post a privacy policy governing their processing of Personal Information."
and
"Use of Non-Personal Information. We may collect Non-Personal Information in order to provide and operate the Service, including for statistical and research purposes; to enable us to further develop, customize and improve the Service based on users’ common preferences and uses; to create and provide our business partners and affiliates with aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-Personal Information. We may also disclose Non-Personal Information (with or without compensation) to third parties, including advertisers and partners. We are not aware of the identity of the user from which the Non-Personal Information was collected."
Con Not actively developed any more
Last update was January 2016, and any.do includes a calendar by now.
Con Forces creating an Any.do account
An Any.do account as well as the app has to be used to create tasks, that then will show in the calendar, but cannot be created from the calendar. This can be not only inconvenient but also quite slow.
Con Shallow Any.do integration
Any.do tasks can't be managed from within the app, it requires the user to switch applications.
Con No natural language input support
Cal does not support natural language input, though it may get added in the future.
Con Can be sluggish and buggy
Cal has issues with freezing, sluggishness and other buggy behaviors.
Con Lacks weather information
There is no way to add a weather calendar to the normal calendar view, meaning no weather integration.
Con Can quickly become crowded
The app tries condensing a lot of information at the expense of readability.
Con Google tasks are not integrated into DigiCal Calendar
