DigiCal Calendar & Widgets vs Google Calendar

The app includes a variety of theme options to choose from to customize your calendar views. These customization options also apply to details like text in the hamburger menu and calendar icons.

Day, week, week agenda, month, month text, agenda (list) and year view makes this a very versatile calendar.

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.

All views and widgets support light and dark themes.

DigiCal allows for Google Calendar integration as well as Exchange, making for an easy to use app for businessmen as well as regular users.

This side menu, accessed by swiping from the left-hand side, allows accessing weather, calendar views and accounts. It also allows setting a default view by starring it.

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.

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.

Events get tagged with a photo or illustrations. The locations photos are also a really nice feature.

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.

The calendar app allows you to schedule an event with a local and foreign time zone. Ideal for intercontinental flights.

Once a location is provided the application will display a 3 day weather forecast in either imperial or metric units.

A premium weather subscription (USD/EUR 1.50) will expand the forecast to 15 days, add graphs and ability to set multiple weather locations.

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.

Lovely card based material design for the calendar info screen makes viewing information easy as well as uniform to the standards Google has set guidelines for.

Premium calendar subscriptions available for holiday, sports event, TV shows, public company events and lifestyle.

1. Check the weather directly from the navigation drawer
2. Easily switch calendar views
3. Change visibility of your calendars
4. Collapsable calendar acounts

Great interface for managing calendar invitations.

Based on the title event keywords such as locations, activities, an illustration or a photograph will show up.

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.

Google Now integration provides directions and traffic information.

Notifications can be snoozed and they also provide shortcuts for maps and navigation.

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.

The app leverages Google Maps when adding location for an event by offering suggestions as well as offers opening Maps to help get directions to an event via shortcut on a reminder notification.

Google Calendar is a free Android calendar app without ads that comes already installed on Android devices that have stock support for Google Services.

Google Calendar has a monochrome base design that's accented with colored-coded events and image banners that separate months in schedule view.

The app has 5 different views - schedule, day, 3-day, week and month.

Day, 3-day and week views split up the days horizontally and hours vertically. Month view lays out all days in a grid and displays up to 3 events in a day.

Schedule view displays an agenda view that allows browsing all events by swiping vertically. Additionally, the way events are displayed in the agenda view is context-aware. For example, adding an event called "gym" will display the event on a background with a dumbbell.

All views except for month view can be split horizontally to display a condensed month view at the top that can be navigated by swiping horizontally.

Events can be added from any view by clicking the red plus button that's available at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Google Calendar integrates with e-mail for quickly creating events from e-mails that contain the word "meeting" or dates or times, or any other information about events or plans that it can understand.

Google calendar allows setting how many reminders are needed with each having the ability to set how long before the event the notification should remind and if it should be done via on-screen or e-mail notification.

Google Calendar is part of the Google ecosystem, it integrates with services like Google Now for creating events, Google Maps for directions and Gmail for pulling information about planned flights.

The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.

All views have an option of adding a new event by tapping the plus sign at the lower right corner of the screen. This opens up a form and allows the user to add a location, start/end times, guests, description, color-code as well as choosing if it's an all day event, how often it repeats, how many and what kind of reminders are needed and setting the users availability and privacy settings.

Whenever you enter agenda / event title with the keywords (when available), the event will show up interesting flairs whenever the keyword inside the agenda / title you typed matches the flairs that are available inside the system, examples such as haircut, cycling, swimming, coffee, movie etc.

Through the Google Calendar's web client, it is possible to subscribe to any public calendar. Google also maintains a list of public calendars for various sports events and holidays in different countries and for different religions.

Google Calendar can be integrated with any calendar that support iCalendar format, including Exchange and iCloud, via URL, but it has to be done using the web client.

Google Calendar comes with a home screen widget, and there are also many third party widgets developed for this calendar app.

IFTTT offers over 198 channels to plug into the users Google Calendar.