
What I like most about Google Calendar is how effortlessly it helps me schedule and stay organized. With shared calendars, our team can see one another’s availability at a glance, so setting up meetings doesn’t turn into a long back-and-forth email chain. It also integrates closely with Gmail and Meet, which means invitations, video links, and any attached documents are pulled into a single event. The “Find a time” feature removes a lot of the guesswork when coordinating across busy schedules.
I also appreciate the color-coded calendars, which make it easy to separate campaigns, client meetings, and deadlines. Reminders and notifications help ensure important items don’t slip through the cracks. Appointment scheduling pages are another big plus, since they let clients and prospects book time directly, and the mobile app syncs quickly across devices. Overall, it’s intuitive and reliable, and it takes almost no training, which makes adoption easy for the whole team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The biggest drawback is that Google Calendar is intentionally simple, which can make it feel limiting when you have more complex scheduling needs. Once you start managing multiple calendars, the view can get cluttered fast, and it becomes easy to overlook an event when several overlapping calendars are shown at the same time. Time zone support generally works, but coordinating across regions can still be confusing, especially for recurring meetings.
A few of the more helpful capabilities—like appointment scheduling with payment or booking-page customization—also depend on which plan you’re on. Notification settings feel a bit scattered as well, so people may end up with too many alerts or, on the flip side, miss important ones. Shared calendar permissions require extra attention, too: it’s easy to grant broader access than you meant to, or to end up with teammates who can’t see the details they actually need.
None of these issues are dealbreakers, but they do mean Calendar works best when the team aligns on clear naming conventions, consistent color coding, and sensible sharing norms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.


