When comparing SolCalendar vs aCalendar, the Slant community recommends aCalendar for most people. In the question“What are the best free calendar apps for Android?” aCalendar is ranked 10th while SolCalendar is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose aCalendar is:
Tasks get shown in the calendar, although there is also a separate tasks view. It supports Google Tasks and recurring tasks.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Beautiful, well-designed UI
SolCalenar has a mostly monochrome color scheme and includes day, week, month, agenda and to-do views.
Pro Allows adding stickers to mark events
Adding color and monochrome stickers to mark events can help make them stand out.
Pro Works with Google Calendar, Exchange and any calendar that supports CalDAV
In addition to Google Calendar and Exchange, the application works with any cloud based calendar that supports CalDAV, such as iCloud, Yahoo! Calendar or any other third-party service.
Pro Lots of widget options
SolCalendar includes calendar, agenda, day, to-do, countdown and shortcut widgets among others.
Pro Can copy events
Also easily move events between Calendars.
Pro Integrates with various services
SolCalendar integrates with Google Tasks for to-do list management and with Google Maps & Foursquare for navigation.
Pro Weather information
SolCalendar provides real-time weather information at the top of the screen and gives access to a 7-day forecast.
Pro Lunar calendar integration
SolCalendar can be set up to use a calendar based on cycles of the lunar phases.
Pro Holiday calendar for 41 countries
SolCalendar can add holidays from 41 countries to the calendar.
Pro Available in 22 languages
SolCalendar currently is available in Finnish, Indonesian, Italian, Danish, German, French, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Dutch, Polish, Vietnamese, Catalan, Malay, Portuguese, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic.
Pro Good Tasks integration
Tasks get shown in the calendar, although there is also a separate tasks view. It supports Google Tasks and recurring tasks.
Pro Very convenient user interaction
Switching from day<->week<->month views by swiping laterally is a powerful feature.
Pro Lots of customization options
The settings menu is rather detailed and includes a good selection of color themes to choose from, possibility to adjust font-size, set beginning and end of day, ability to choose what views to use and more.
Pro Free, ad-less version available
aCalendar is an Android app that comes in free, ad-less version as well as this paid version.
This paid version aCalendar+ adds more features like agenda view, home screen widget and the ability to manage Google Calendars. The developer also donates some of the profits from this Pro version to help protect the endangered mountain tapir.
Pro Nice presentation
The three views are very convenient, particularly the week view, which shows the week position inside the month
Pro Good fullscreen widgets for all views
The app has widgets for day, week and month views.
Pro Color-coding support
The app has 48 calendar and 12 event colors.
Pro Can add public holidays to calendar from over 35 countries
For the 30+ available languages for the app, there are holiday calendars available to be added.
Pro Lunar calendar support
aCalendar can be set up to use a calendar based on cycles of the lunar phases.
Pro Unique Week overview
Its week overview is very well suiting for tasks and all day events. It shows everything at once.
Pro Drag'n'Drop
Drag'n'drop functionality is available in day view with this paid version of the application.
Pro Useful 3-finger tap to go to today
By utilizing a three finger tap shortcut users can easily got to the today view from anywhere in the app.
Pro Available in 30 languages
There are 3o user made translations available for the app, making for a good calendar to use in different countries.
Pro QR and NFC barcode sharing of events
Using both QR codes as well as NFC, users can share events wirelessly and easily
Cons
Con Seems to be discontinued
It appears that the developers abandoned this app in 2015 or 2016. This is no longer available on the Google playstore anymore and won't work with modern phones.
Con Not updated regularly
Often broken features or incompatibilities with new versions of Android will persist for many months without comment by the developers, only to be addressed later on, if at all.
Con Pastel colors are not for everyone
The whole app uses only pastel colors which can be thought of as too girly or childish, definitely are not to everyone's taste.
Con Cannot find any network connection with most devices, if not all
Features that make this calendar app stand out no longer work due to that issue.
Con Annoying pop-over notifications
Pop-over notifications tend to interrupt or just get in the way. After happening numerous times it gets pretty old.
Con No iOS support
iPhone users are still waiting.
Con Free version is very limiting
Free version of the application does not include common things like the agenda view, actionable notifications or attendee management among many other more advanced features.