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Add to SafariWhen comparing WeekCal vs Lightning Calendar, the Slant community recommends WeekCal for most people. In the question“What are the best calendar apps for Mac OS X?” WeekCal is ranked 10th while Lightning Calendar is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose WeekCal is:
Week Calendar includes templates, which are files containing one or more events that can be duplicated from week to week. With each event, information such as address, time, or duration can be copied as well. This comes in handy for routine events like work, school, or exercise.
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Pros
Pro Templates
Week Calendar includes templates, which are files containing one or more events that can be duplicated from week to week. With each event, information such as address, time, or duration can be copied as well. This comes in handy for routine events like work, school, or exercise.
Pro Dropbox attachments
Week Calendar supports dropbox file attachments in collaborative calendars so other people are able to quickly see files relating to an event.
Pro Action menu
With the action menu, users can use up to 40 kinds of automated actions.
Pro Easy to move events
Just like with apps on the home screen, events on Week Cal can be moved with a tap and hold gesture.
Pro Quickly see relevant info
Week Calendar displays a day's events just by tapping the date. The data can be tapped directly from year view.
Pro Custom color
Best thing is being able to set different colors, if you have multiple events during the day it really helps to set different colors to easily get an overview for school lessons as an example.
Pro TextExpander support
Pro Dense week view
Pro Free, open source
Lightning Calendar (just as Thunderbird) is completely free and open-source meaning that anyone can use it as well as look through the code or even use the code for their own projects.
Pro Easily keep track of tasks
Bundled in with the calendar options is a tasks option that makes for an easy way to keep track of tasks in the same location as ones events.
Pro Cross-platform
Wherever Mozilla Thunderbird can be installed, the Lightning calendar can follow:
Windows
Linux
MacOS
Cons
Con New PRO subscription
Pro subscription needed to get same functionality that existed for previously paid customers.
Con Issues with repeating events
When making templates, multiple repeating events can't be duplicated from within the same file.
Con Available only as part of Thunderbird
No standalone version of the calendar app is available. And if you're just interested in Lightning Calendar and not Thunderbird, the app will have additional functionality and interface elements that will get in the way of using the calendar.
Con Does not always clear old events from the display, even when the event has been deleted
When accessing Google Calendar, every check shows that the event does not exist anymore.
Con No full CalDAV support
CalDAV support is more hackish than working reliably. E.g. certain fields are not supported, or alarms can lead to duplication of events or changes being reset. As CalDAV support is not truly built-in, and the extension does not have a high quality.
Con Requires third-party gmail integration
And it's not supported in 60+. Use the old versions if you want anything to work.
Con Not for all the versions
You have to downgrade Thunderbird just because Lightning didn't upgrade to the last beta version.
Con Long term availability/ support
Although Thunderbird has an impressive track record and many years of reliable service, its continued existence has been doubtful more than once). For now, all seems good, but it would not be surprising if tomorrow it turns out Thunderbird "has left the building".
Con GUI makes you feel like it's 1995, and not in a nostalgic way
