Many individuals employ a digital calendar as a way of keeping track of their lives. It allows them to have a better way of seeing future tasks and goals, along with having alerts and other helpful features. Digital calendars have replaced planners for some people. The standard calendar app for the iPhone, iCal, doesn’t have a lot of the features users really want. Here are 10 of the best alternative calendar apps for your iPhone.
1. Sunrise
This well-designed application is compatible with Google Calendar, iCloud, and Exchange. The calendar has the ability to connect addresses in your calendar alerts with Google Maps. Have a better hold of what to wear for the day with weather attached to events. Sunrise also allows you to get things jotted down in a hurry with their “quick add” feature.
Download: Sunrise - Free
2. Tempo
Tempo is the ultimate application for organizing your day and meetings you have scheduled. The application allows you to connect to individuals in just a few clicks. If you find yourself having to get information for a company mentioned in a meeting, you can get the latest news about this in just a few clicks. With the ability to quickly send messages when running late, enhanced smart alerts, and other integrated apps, Tempo is definitely the calendar app geared toward business users and professionals.
Download: Tempo - Free
3. Cal
Using fast recognition, Cal is able to know who you are looking to meet and where you are looking to go before you are finished with typing. Keeping things simple, Cal draws a lot from the design of the Apple iCal design in terms of Day, Week, Month UI transitioning. Outside of productivity, Cal allows you to stay on top of birthdays and anniversaries as well. With partnership with the Uber app, you can call up a ride seamlessly.
Download: Cal - Free
4. Pocket Informant
Pocket Informant allows you to make use of voice dictation to add tasks to the app. You can organize and manage your tasks based on their importance. Looking at your common tasks, you are even able to get an estimated time of arrival for the meeting or event as well. Being knowledgable of the location, you can also see where your events are based on a map. While there are a lot of features that are premium, including templates and application integration, Pocket Informant, free or premium, is a great option for many individuals looking to organize their life.
Download: Pocket Informant - Free
5. Canary
Instead of having to click around the days of the week to find out when you are available, Canary is able to identify for you which parts of your day that you are available so you can schedule in time for meetings and other events of the day. Once events are creates, swiping actions allow you to interact and manipulate events in your calendar. Lastly, there’s a part of the app called Nest that allows you to visualize the events ahead and when they are about to occur. Canary is a clean and minimalist designed application that you will use everyday.
Download: Canary - Free
6. Calvetica Calendar
Calvetica offers a new way to schedule your life. While not packed with a ton of pictures, the flat and minimalistic design is quite unique, along with the colour scheme that they employ. Minimalism is exemplified in the gestures that are used to get things done. In addition, when you connect the application to your iPhone’s iCal, you are able to make use of the events that are already in iCal.
Download: Calvetica Calendar - $2.99
7. Fantastical 2
Fantastical 2 is an application that works seamlessly with the other programs you use. For example, if you make use of iCal on your Mac, you can connect it with your Fantastical 2 account and have the events push in continuously. This ensures that your Fantastical 2 account stays updated. In addition, Fantastical 2 has all of the other general features that we come to expect from a calendar application these days, including various day, month, and week views, Facebook integration, and gestures.
Download: Fantastical 2 - $4.99
8. Week Cal
Week Cal is one of our favourites because of how it is able to manage and organize all of their features into a way that you will find useful. So often do we find ourselves encountering applications that promise a ton of features, but only a few do we find ourselves ignoring. Week Cal forces you into benefiting from the many great features, including the drag and tap gestures, Google Cal and iCal support, all in a minimalist design that we find all of our favourite top apps are following.
Download: Week Cal - $0.99
9. Agenda Calendar 4
Agenda Calendar 4 is a well-designed application that works as a task manager and calendar, allowing you to stay on top of the events that are occurring in your life. With Agenda Calendar 4, individuals are able to view the number of tasks that they may have without even having to change the date view. They simply can tell by viewing the number of dots that are with the calendar’s date. With the current event you have coming up, you are able to alert attendees through email and SMS. In addition, you can set certain apps to default based on a link that is given or a location assigned.
Download: Agenda Calendar 4 - $1.99
10. Awesome Note
Awesome Note is the application that works to be your ultimate task manager and organizer. Along with being a to-do list and calendar, Awesome Note also works as a reminder system and a place to take notes. Along with a full suite of applications that Awesome Note connects to for synchronization, Awesome Note also backs up your task’s WIFI Web Sharing and iTunes File Sharing. With the ability to also print notes, include drawings, and many more amazing features, Awesome Note is certainly the feature-packed application that you have been looking for, with an affordable price to match.
Download: Awesome Note - $3.99
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