When comparing Calendars 5 vs Office 365, the Slant community recommends Calendars 5 for most people. In the question“What are the best calendar apps for iPhone?” Calendars 5 is ranked 5th while Office 365 is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Calendars 5 is:
Calendars 5 uses the reminders that already exist, and can add new reminders with Siri.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Syncs with iOS reminders
Calendars 5 uses the reminders that already exist, and can add new reminders with Siri.
Pro Unique portrait week view
Unique and efficient way to display weeklong agenda in portrait view.
Pro Natural Language Input
Calendars 5 makes it very easy for users to create an event by just typing it in human language.
Simply write something like 'Meet Ben tomorrow at 5PM at Starbucks' and Calendars 5 will parse everything, creating an event for tomorrow, inviting Ben from the address book and picking the Starbucks on the map.
Pro Pleasant and intuitive interface
The choice of font size, color and user interface widgets are all esthetically pleasing.
Pro Notification center
The new notification center puts all the info in one place, and lets users choose from several different views.
Pro Repeating tasks is easy
The UI provides a very simple approach to repeating events or reminders. Users can choose from daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, number of weeks, or by specific days.
Pro Supports Drag-and-drop of events to reschedule
Moving the date of an appointment is easy.
Pro Easy to transition from MS Office
Office 365 is laid out the same way with a similar ribbon interface that will be instantly comfortable to long-time Microsoft Office users.
Pro Excellent integration and compatibility with MS Office desktop applications
Pro Allows for real-time collaboration
Multiple people can work on the same document at the same time.
Pro Speech to text dictation
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Pro No installation required
Cons
Con The Calendar does not clearly show dates
Con Limited map compatibility
Calendars 5 only uses Apple's Maps app, so Google Maps is out of the question.
Con Proprietary
Uses proprietary software.
Con Dependant on having an Internet connection
Con Cloud dependent
Does not edit local files, they have to be synced first.
Con Unusable for business in the EU
Cloud applications are mostly incompatible with the EU general data protection regulation.
Con Has only a fraction of Microsoft Office functionality
Office 365 is not a complete replacement for Microsoft Office. The most advanced functionality still can only be found on the desktop.
Con Expensive
$35/user/mo.