--- title: iCal Reviews meta_title: 'iCal Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 196 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how iCal works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 196 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-17' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # iCal Reviews **Vendor:** Apple **Category:** [Calendar Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/calendar-software) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 196 ## About iCal iCal is Apple's personal calendar application designed to help users efficiently manage their schedules, appointments, and tasks. It offers multiple calendar views—daily, weekly, and monthly—allowing users to oversee their activities at a glance. With iCal, users can create and manage multiple calendars within a single unified window, making it easy to identify schedule conflicts and available time slots. The application supports online calendar sharing through a .Mac account, enabling collaboration with colleagues, family, and friends. Additionally, users can subscribe to other calendars to stay updated on work schedules, family events, and more. iCal also integrates with iSync, allowing synchronization with Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PalmOS devices, and iPods, ensuring access to the most current calendars on the go. Key Features: - Multiple Calendar Management: Create and manage multiple calendars within a single interface to easily identify schedule conflicts and free time. - Online Calendar Sharing: Share calendars over the Internet using a .Mac account, facilitating collaboration with colleagues, family, and friends. - Calendar Subscription: Subscribe to other calendars to keep track of work schedules, family events, and more. - Integration with iSync: Synchronize calendars with Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones, PalmOS devices, and iPods for on-the-go access. - To-Do List Management: Organize and track activities with built-in to-do list management. - Event Notifications: Receive notifications of upcoming events on screen, via email, or through text messaging to a mobile phone or pager. Primary Value: iCal simplifies personal and professional scheduling by providing a centralized platform to manage multiple calendars, share them online, and synchronize with various devices. It addresses the need for efficient time management and collaboration, ensuring users stay organized and connected across different platforms and devices. ## iCal Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **seamless sync** of iCal across all their Apple devices, enhancing their scheduling experience. (1 reviews) - Users love the **ease of use** in iCal, finding event management straightforward and efficient. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy scheduling** with iCal, making daily event management streamlined and simple. (1 reviews) - Users love the **seamless syncing across all Apple devices** offered by iCal, enhancing their scheduling experience. (1 reviews) - Users love the **clean interface** of iCal, which simplifies their daily event management effortlessly. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **calendar issues** with iCal, as settings are often unresponsive and calendars auto-add without consent. (1 reviews) - Users face **email issues** with iCal, as it unpredictably adds calendars and struggles with setting preferences. (1 reviews) - Users find **integration issues** with iCal, noting challenges in syncing and customization options. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** options in iCal restrict their personalization and usability of the app. (1 reviews) ## iCal Reviews ### 1. Highly Efficient and User-Friendly Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2025 **What do you like best about iCal?** The clean interface and easy event creation make managing my day super simple **What do you dislike about iCal?** It works well overall, but syncing and customization could be improved **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal keeps all my events in one place and syncs perfectly across my devices. It helps me stay organized and never miss an important reminder ### 2. iCal you cal **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary K. | Executive Producer, Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2025 **What do you like best about iCal?** iCal Seamlessly syncs with all apple devices **What do you dislike about iCal?** The settings don't want to take. iCal seems to decide which default calendar it wants and sometime it seems to add calendars from emails without user input **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can invite people to meetings. Schedule appointments and schedule reminders ### 3. Simple and easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erika F. | Lyricist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** I love how iCal talks to Apple Maps; whenever you add to your calendar and add a location, calendar and maps automatically sync up. You can see your next destination on the map within the Calendar app. I love this, because I don't have to separately open Maps and plug in my destinations, because Calendar does it for me! **What do you dislike about iCal?** Personally, there aren't too many downsides; it's simple and sleek. When I open the app on my phone, the appointments, destinations and notes are all laid out. I can see everything I had planned. I'd say the only downside is that you are you're supposed to put a start time and end time; I really do not like how the end time shifts when you change the start time. (I.e. If I have an appointment from 2pm-3pm and I change the start time to 2:15, iCal automatically shifts the end time to 3:15, which is not correct.) I wish they would just stay stagnant! It's so weird, I do not know how to fix it. Maybe in system settings? **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work part time in property management as a tour guide, so I have a lot of appointments/houses I need to be at every hour. All of these places are all over LA: the valley, central LA, and East LA. iCal benefits me when I work this job because I can just input all of my appointments in iCal. When I work the job day of, I can open iCal and I see my day laid out; I can see my appointments, addresses, and notes in one go. I can tap on each individual appointment and see maps on that page, and all I have to do is click on the map and it will automatically open Apple Maps for me. I love how the two apps talk to each other! It makes my job so much easier. ### 4. My favorite calendar tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** It is simple to use and has a really great user interface - simple, clean, clear and easy on the eyes! Does everything I need including manage my personal, family and work calendars. I'd be lost without it. The widgets on my other apple devices are also great to get a quick snap shot. **What do you dislike about iCal?** No downsides at all I aboslutely lve it and its the only calendar I've used in 15 years! **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's super easy to subscribe to my work calendar, import my families google calendar, keep track of my appointments and also my time blocking all in one simple, easy to use place. Having all my different calendars in the one app is super helpful and it syncs immediately across all my devices so I always know whats happening. ### 5. iCal - Apple's great calendar **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brett L. | Marketing Director (Volunteer), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** It natively interacts with my Mac when needing to save appointments from emails or messages. The notifications on my Mac with options to interact without opening the app also is a great feature. **What do you dislike about iCal?** It is not simple to subscribe to external calendars but it is possible **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with multiple clients who share their diaries with me and I can see appointments with different colours all on the same view so easy to see my day and which customers I will be working with. ### 6. A very good barebones calendar **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iyer A. | Business Development Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** It is free, easy to use, lightweight, and can be integrated with the mail app. Apple offers customer support on all products, but I haven't had any issues. It's easily implemented into life / your computer as well if you own multiple products. I do see daily frequency use. **What do you dislike about iCal?** It gets cluttered easily, and it cannot easily send invites. It's good for being free though. But for business I would reccomend something more robust. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to put all my meetings, appts, and holidays in one area. ### 7. Easy and convenient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindy M. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** I love that I am able to connect it to all of my devices. It's easy to create meetings and see them on not only my devices but also other calendars that I have synced to it. I use it everyday and wouldn't change a thing. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Not much, sometimes it defaults to one of my profiles that I wasn't intending to use **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting across multiple platforms and devices for different meetings ### 8. Calendar's Help! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tia'Tateyna B. | Production Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** One thing I like about iCal is its seamless integration across Apple devices. I have an Iphone and MacBook Air... and the ability to automatically sync meetings and reminders wherever I am has allowed me to stay organized and prompt on my daily tasks. **What do you dislike about iCal?** One thing I dislike about iCal is, if I were to switch devices to a windows or android I'd have limited collaboration capabilites. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal solves the problem of managing schedules and events for me. This benefits me because iCal is user friendly and enhances my productivity. ### 9. Simple yet powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Volodymyr S. | Chief Marketing Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** I know it might look very simple at first, but it's actually a great substitute and an all-in-one calendar for all your needs. It can integrate with literally any calendar there is and the best part it works seamlessly across devices. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Might be a bit too simple, but that's Apple's philosophy I guess. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me keep a perfect track of my day, week and month. All invites, meetings and conferences, all there. ### 10. Best Calendar **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georgia L. | O, Consulting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** Easy to use, easy to integrate and thanks to iCloud it connects across my devices, multiple calendars and features. LOVE IT. I use it every day. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Nothing. I really like using iCal across all my Apple devices **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping my multiple client and personal calendar both separate but also together in one place. Easy to see at a glance what is on for the day. Works across all my Apple Devices. ### 11. Easy Schedule Organizer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Derek S. | Principal/Financial Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** ICal syncs across devices and has a simple, fast interface to quickly add, update meeting days and times. The added feature of being able to send invitations to other attendees is seemless and allows for additional ease of use. The ability to color code work meetings from personal meetings is an excellent feature. The ability to set yearly and recurring reminders allows for longer term planning and organization. Multiple view options are also useful. **What do you dislike about iCal?** The user experience is excellent and there's nothing to dislike. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ical solves the problem of keeping personal and business meetings and scheduled organized across multiple devices. ### 12. I use iCal every single day in my personal and work life and it helps me to stay on track **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like that you can automatically add things to repeat as a reoccurring event and how accessible it is across all devices. I'm able to keep track of home life, business, leisure- everything in one place. **What do you dislike about iCal?** This is being picky, but knowing what day you created an event because sometimes you do things in a fast manor and you'll find things in there that you don't remember putting in or could have been scheduled on the wrong day. Maybe having a feature that tells you this note was created on this day and time just in case you need a reference point. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** My organization has greatly improved and I have noticed less stress in my life as I can account for everything in one spot. As my business and professional needs have grown in various settings, so has my calendar so I'm thankful that it keeps me on track. ### 13. iCal-Detailed calendar app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lija K. | Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** The calendar is very much detailed and enables us to save all special days and moments with good reminder features. I use this daily for scheduling my meeting, special days, and day to day task item for reminder. iCal notifies them all very efficiently. User friendly and good interface. **What do you dislike about iCal?** iCal can add more modern features into its interface to make it more attractive for the users. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding on more features and attractive interface would add more benefit to the users and will make it more frequently used app. ### 14. Decent desktop calendar but there are others that are more visually appealing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** works well with iphones - not so much with android. The desktop version is easy to use and integrate. **What do you dislike about iCal?** The features of this calendar are lacking compared to other calendars out there. The mobile version is not very visually appealing but the desktop version is just fine. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** integrating work calendars and personcal calendars into one interface. It works well on the desktop version and integrates well with office and google calendars. ### 15. Best Calendar App **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiffany L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** It is user-friendly, has several customizable options, and allows you to have multiple different calendars on your one iCloud app. **What do you dislike about iCal?** The downsides of using iCal is largely in its glitchiness. Sometimes it is very easy to accidentally move an event time by dragging your finger across the screen, and if you do that, you may accidentally miss an event or reminder. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Honestly iCal is amazing for my organization. It allows me to color code different calendars so my work/school/home calendars are all separated but I can see them all at once. ### 16. Great for Time Management and Communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bethany C. | Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** Being able to send "iCal" appointments and manage responsibilities across departments is beneficial. **What do you dislike about iCal?** The integration with google is not always perfect. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication with colleagues, time management, scheduling ### 17. icalendar experiences **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arianna S. | Student , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** I really enjoy that most apps will automatically add to your icalendar and the icalendar will automatically remind me! I especially like that it can also be a widget on your screen! It's so helpful with organizing! **What do you dislike about iCal?** My only dislike is that sometimes it can be difficult to move the calendar event itself **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping keep me organized! I have such trouble remembering where I'm supposed to be and when, especially with the amount of zoom calls I'm in throughout the day. ### 18. Easy Calendar that integrates with everything **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lola D. | Digital Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** Very easy to set appointments, integrate with my Alexa app, etc. and keep my meetings organized. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Not as easily shareable as Google Calendar. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily organize meetings and integrate them with my apps and across devices ### 19. Daily user of the product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** easy to use and east to integrate into daily life. The support is lively and it really is something that I use often. The number of features are great. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Can be a little old school. Sometimes integrating across other apps can be tough. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping me on track and organized. ### 20. Perfect calendar app for the Mac, third party clients just don't match up **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about iCal?** It justs works and is integrated with the Mac and the Apple ecosystem in a perfect manner. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I'm missing some text analysis features like automatically parsing time and location of a meeting from the text, which other competitors feature. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I rely on my calendar to remember all my meetings across various organizations, and to sync this information successfully between all my devices - my Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. iCal does this great. ### 21. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sajith N. | Assistant Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** iCal is a very user-friendly app, with a simple and intuitive interface. **What do you dislike about iCal?** nothing as such its a good feature. Great to make life simpler **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal allows me to create multiple calendars, so i can keep my work and personal events separate. ### 22. Challenge to incorporate other calendars **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan V. | Workforce Development Board (WDB) Clerk, Government Administration, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** Can be accessesed from numerous Apple devices **What do you dislike about iCal?** Cannot incorporate outlook calendars completely into iCal **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Personal and professional appointments ### 23. Best calendars app ever **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MAYSARH S. | Vendor Manager / Pre-sales Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** Simple and user interface is impressive, well organized **What do you dislike about iCal?** Nothing really may be improving the integration with third parties **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing my business and personal calendar over sll my devices ### 24. Very simple and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2019 **What do you like best about iCal?** It is so convenient and simple, very effective and always keeps me on schedule with everything in my life **What do you dislike about iCal?** There isn’t anything I particularly dislike about it, it is very helpful **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved many time crisis problems due to working remotely and being on my own when it comes to getting things done on time ### 25. Great Calendar **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** The ease of adding events makes this my favorite calendar app. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I wish it were easier to add other iPhone people to your calendar events. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal keeps my schedule organized and I love being able to quickly add or remove my work schedule from my personal schedule. ### 26. Wonderful synced experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** It is a great tool for keeping work and personal calendars organized and synced across devices. It's especially useful for sharing your calendar with family and colleagues as needed. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Sync between devices cannot be "pushed." **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** General organization, communication, shared events ### 27. Robust calendar with solid features for lightweight users **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** It shines in its simplicity, native Mac OS integration and universal access to any calendar platform. **What do you dislike about iCal?** It lacks more modern features like scheduling links and time blocking for tasks. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Works seamlessly in my Apple ecosystem. ### 28. iCal is cool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Linda T. | Education COnsultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** convenient and automated creations in iCal are nice **What do you dislike about iCal?** sometimes the iCal events have too much info taken from emails **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** allows me to have instant created events and links especially for travel ### 29. iCal for Learners **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** I find that this is a great tool for educators of all stripes to use in their classrooms. **What do you dislike about iCal?** This definitely has a learning curve for educators who are not familiar with technology. In addition, it doesn't necessarly transfer over to all subjects. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal is keeping track of all of my meetings and making things a little more organizaed. ### 30. iCal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan K. | High School Teacher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** I love how iCal is useful across all Apple devices. I can enter something from one device and see it on another device. This is very handy. Apple products just work... iCal is one of them. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I really don'd dislike anyting about the priduct. It is great. I guess if I had to choose something, it would be sharing calendars or subscrbing to other calendars can someties be tricky. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal is helping solve problems of keeping this organized for people. Events, wheather work related or otherwise, work really welll when inputed into the calendar. ### 31. Best calendar app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2023 **What do you like best about iCal?** User friendly with clean interface. Simple to use. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Lacks advanced features for complex scheduling **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing schedule and events ### 32. ICal is essential **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark R. | Managing Partner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** ICal is integrated into everything I do. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Nothing, as long as you're an Apple user **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration of business and personal calendars ### 33. iCal syncs easily across devices **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** That it syncs across devices and I can share my calendars with my husband without dowloading a separte app. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I dislike that some features like copy/paste are only available on desktop and not on the phone for duplicating an event. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Syncing my calendar with my husband and team members. ### 34. Easy to use and integrate with work calendars! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lia W. | Office Manager & Legal Assistant, Law Practice, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** I love that I can easily add events from both my personal and work emails into iCal, as well as automatically integrate with our payroll systems to show time off. **What do you dislike about iCal?** There is not anything that I dislike about iCal. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved the issue of having multiple different calendars for different purposes, and can have all my work and personal events in one place! ### 35. iCal for mobile users **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** It is easy to access, even though it is primarily for iOS users it is a great application to handle calendarization, scheduling and programming. I love using it. Kudos!!! **What do you dislike about iCal?** Even though I can easily make programming, scheduling and booking for me and other members of the organization is is quite difficult for non iOS users to get familiar with the application. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling, booking appointments, meetings, air, bus and train tickets programmation too. ### 36. Useful Calendar App with Some Limits **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monica C. | Institutional Administrative Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** It's convenient that the app comes standard with IOS and syncs pretty seamlessly across Apple products. It's most useful for keeping track of dates associated with your Contact Lists like birthdays and anniversaries. I also like the accuracy with which it maps your appointment locations. It then gives you updated reminders (including traffic alerts) so you can make it to your destination on time which is especially handy if you own Apple products like the iPhone or Apple Watch. This feature is one of the main advantages to using the app. However, I feel that features could be added to improve the user experience. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Though the app is pretty functional, it isn't the most visually appealing and lacks customization features. The monthly, weekly, and daily views are a bit clunky on iPhone, especially in my opinion. Also, unlike other scheduling apps, you cannot generate a virtual meeting room as a location or invite others to the appointment as seamlessly. It is also not easy to sync iCal with other calendar applications like Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. Because of this, I find myself, using the aforementioned applications (Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar) much more often than iCal. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** When using iCal, please note that although there are many advantages to using this tool, including accessibility if you mainly use Apple products, it does lack customization features that come standard with other tools like Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** As previously mentions, I mostly use iCal to track and remind me of dates associated with my Contacts. It's a bit too cumbersome to use as my day-to-day calendar since I use Microsoft Outlook and Teams for most of my work-related appointments and meetings. ### 37. Invaluable Scheduling Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary Z. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** Apple's Calendar application is my go-to scheduling platform. It allows users to keep track of important life events with seamless integration between Mac computers and iPhones via iCloud. Various color schemes are available to differentiate types of events. Alerts are relatively customizable, as users can set up to two alerts per event. Perhaps best of all, in addition to adding a location for each event, there exists a large section for notes -- this works perfectly for storing Zoom links (and meeting IDs and passwords) or other small tidbits of information that would be useful to know prior to the event of interest. Users can choose between daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly views of their calendar, adding to the overall customization that Calendar offers. If you are a Mac user, there really isn't a better alternative than to dive deeper into the "Apple ecosystem." **What do you dislike about iCal?** There really isn't much to dislike about Apple's Calendar application. One minor issue, however, exists in the weekly view. In general, this view is great because it features a red line that moves down the day (and week) with time throughout the day -- however, it is impossible to see the entire day (i.e., 7 am-7 pm) in one view, and zooming out isn't an option. Genuinely, this is a minor issue, but it exists nonetheless and is why I personally prefer the monthly view. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** If you are an Apple user, this really should be your solution for scheduling. Its seamless integration across all your devices is reason enough to switch to this software. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apple Calendar solves the problem of personal scheduling. It offers a straightforward solution in a characteristically user-friendly, Apple type of way. Buttons are big, the colors are excellent, and visually the experience is quite pleasing and easy to understand. ### 38. I calendar-great for reminders **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like using i cal to help me set reminders for the day! **What do you dislike about iCal?** I dislike that it's not connected to my email. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have become so forgetful lately, so this really does help me remember important things for work. ### 39. Easy to Access and Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** Intuitively pre-fills information from conversation, or email, or recent map searches. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I've only used it on my phone, not sure about accessibility on PC. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I schedule appointments, set birthday reminders, and add short tasks with locations to take advantage of "time to leave" alert. ### 40. Decent functionality but features could be improved **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like that I can quickly and easily check my upcoming meetings and appointments and search for them by title. I like that I get reminders for meetings (usually). **What do you dislike about iCal?** I dislike that old meetings sometimes stay on my calendar even after they've been canceled and that their reminders continue to go off. I dislike that when you accept a meeting from your phone or propose a new time it screws up the meeting invite. I also dislike the interface with Zoom and WebEx is very poor. In our increasingly virtual world, this must be fixed. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving meeting scheduling and calendar booking. We remained interconnected despite a largely virtual setting. ### 41. Using across all devices. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** iCal auto fetches any events, reminders or meetings from my gmail app to create reminders on the iCal and notifies me. **What do you dislike about iCal?** iCal sometime duplicates same events which are synced through other apps. This has to improve in detecting duplicates. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most benefit is where iCal can be used across other devices with same account. It's used mainly in my iPhone and I can have the same calendar reminders in my MacBook pro ### 42. Love using iCal on a daily basis **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mrs. R. | Mathematics Instructor - Academic Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2020 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like the reminders the best. I am never late or miss meetings now. It is also nice to be able to share appointments with other people as long as you know their email address. Ical is nice to open up and see what is going on for the rest of the week also. You can look at the calendar as a whole or by the week or even by the day. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I dislike the view of the calendar. I like when I can see the entire calendar at once. I wish you could set more than 2 reminders also. I know earlier I said you can view multiple ways but there is just something different when you can see the appointments on the calendar vs just a dot on the day. I actually use an ical widget so that I can see my appointments on the home screen of my phone directly. This helps for seeing future events. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** I like how you can share meetings with other people and make sure that you husband doesn't miss appointments. Make sure the person accepts the invite also. It is nice to have as a record also of the person seeing the appointment, in case they don't show up. I also like using outlook calendar in addition to icloud. We also use outlook at my institution and I like how it is integrated with my email also. Emails are great ways to remind you of events, meetings, and appointments. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't like when the meeting is in my calendar more than once instance. Benefits are the travel time option. This is nice when you have to be somewhere at a certain time but have to drive to get there. I also noticed that somehow facebook events are showing up on my ical which I don't like but it helps me to remember people's birthdays and also holidays. This helps when planning events for the future. ### 43. Super easy to use, great for organization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evelina G. | Lishma Fellow, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** Very easy and clean user interface, and the multiple views and reminders are very helpful. I'd say it's one of the best calendars out there in that regard. The simplicity, customization, and auto-fill in particular are some of the best features. It'll definitely help you with organization and efficiency in terms of your schedule, especially if you're managing multiple appointments per day. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Can only be used with Apple products and devices unfortunately. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** Use the color coding! **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** The color-coding feature can be used for example for urgency or types of appointments, and that can help with clarity and ensuring the most important things aren't missed. I get easily overwhelmed and stressed when I have a lot in my daily schedule, and the ability to edit, personalize, and color-code appointments has actually been super beneficial in making my day more manageable. ### 44. I use iCal Daily for work and personal. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan S. | UL Manager of Global User Operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** Ease of use and the ease of having someone send me a meeting/appointment. **What do you dislike about iCal?** Cross calendars sometimes do not match up. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** I would recommend iCal as it is straightforward to set up and user-friendly. The setup of meetings and appointments is completed with ease. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am keeping my daily calendar up to date. It helps me show my work and personal calendar. ### 45. Keeps my whole life organized **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel M. | Mid Market Relationship Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like the fact that it syncs to Google calendar and that it makes it easy to visualize my schedule **What do you dislike about iCal?** I dislike the fact that some events have trouble showing up on ical. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** Try the feature that notifies you when to leave before an event and lets you know how traffic is looking. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving my difficulties with keeping track of my schedule. I really like the ability to set alarms before an event and how iCal often prompts you when it's time to leave for an event, with traffic time included. ### 46. iCal >> gCal **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pritesh B. | Process Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2020 **What do you like best about iCal?** How easy it is to use this to create new events. You just click and the event forms. Love it! **What do you dislike about iCal?** Sometimes the event has a link to the email but when it goes to my email it won't find the original email. If this could be improved that would be great! **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to solve my efficiency issues and stay organized with my task list. ### 47. Such a useful calendar app in apple products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Habeebur r. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** Reminders and making a notes in it...... **What do you dislike about iCal?** Mostly there is no dislikes in this app. **Recommendations to others considering iCal:** Guys iCal is such a useful and user friendly app for calendar and making a reminders of program , meeting, events, exams, and many more things. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** iCal is helping me like a personal assistant. It's reminding me all my programs and events. So that mostly I'm not missing anything and I'm not disappointing my clients ### 48. Apple Calendar **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle P. | Research Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like how my calendar is right on my phone. It's very easy to add important appointments and set reminders to not miss anything. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I can't think of any downside, this is my favorite calendar to use. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's an easier way to keep up with my meetings. My work phone is an iPhone so it helps me not be late for any meeting. ### 49. Use this everyday **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** I like the options for alerts and scheduling repeat reminders. It's an app I use every single day to keep my home and work schedules in order. I also really like that it automatically fills in similar info and connects to maps. **What do you dislike about iCal?** I dislike that we can't add in more details, I would want to be able to attach documents to a calendar event in my phone, especially when the event is a trip. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm keeping myself on top of the many Zoom calls, meeting and appointments in my life. ### 50. Terrible Application that Apple forces users to use... **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott H. | Business Systems Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2021 **What do you like best about iCal?** Everything about the "ical" is absolutely terrible when compared to ANY other calendar platform. **What do you dislike about iCal?** When I attempt to add an event to my calendar from, e.g., an eventbrite confirmation email, it gives the options for Outlook, Google, and Apple. When I click Outlook, the Apple OS treats it like an Apple Calendar event, even though I already have Outlook downloaded (and have never used the ical in my life!). This is extremely frustrating, and honestly pathetic for a 2.2 TRILLION dollar computer company.. **What problems is iCal solving and how is that benefiting you?** The only problem I have solved with ical is living a long life, as the stress enduced from the terrible application cis literally killing me. ## iCal Discussions - [What is iCal used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ical-used-for) - 1 comment - [Is iCal free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-ical-free) - 1 comment - [View iCal pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ical/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-22+23%3A58%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=936ce2ef-865a-41ad-9627-28502d4b499f&secure%5Btoken%5D=c7cccde87e17972a3fe00c4969ea0f2506f9872151a967dfecaae2933acdb3ae&format=llm_user) ## iCal Features **Calendar View** - Multi-Calendar View - Customizable Viewing **Shared Calendar** - Calendar Collaboration - Multiple Calendar Management **Accessibility** - Screen Reader Compatibility - Keyboard Shortcuts **Integration** - Sync Multiple Calendars - Import Events - Software Integrations **Notifications** - Customized Calendar Notifications - Location-Based Alerts **Generative AI** - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Speech - AI Image-to-Text **Agentic AI - Calendar** - Cross-system Integration ## Top iCal Alternatives - [Microsoft Outlook](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-outlook/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,408 reviews) - [Calendly](https://www.g2.com/products/calendly/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,556 reviews) - [Google Workspace](https://www.g2.com/products/google-workspace/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (45,602 reviews)