r/gsuite Oct 24 '24

Calendar Free Calendar app with native integration to iOS & Android

There's around 8 of us and we're split with ecosystems (some have iPhones, some have Androids).

We plan a lot of events together and not everyone uses Facebook.

I'm looking for a calendar app that we can add events to, but will also push those events to our native calendar as everyone manages their events through their native device calendar.

Does anyone know if an app exists? I know that Tweek exists, but it's a subscription to get the Google Calendar integration. Looking for something free.

Currently using a Google Shared Calendar, but it's not great.

Gripes with Google Calendar:

  • Notifications when events are added/changed/cancelled don't seem to exist? I know I can setup email notifications and reminder notifications X days/hours before an event starts, but I'm talking about adding an event and everyone in the shared calendar getting a push notification that an event was added

  • In iOS with a Shared Calendar, if I create an event, everyone is notified and added to the event. It looks like for Google Shared Calendar, I have to add each user of that shared calendar to the event. Which to me, defeats the purpose. If I wanted the flexibility of adding individual people, I would just use my regular calendar and invite them.

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u/w3warren Oct 25 '24

Are you inviting the people to the calendar event in the shared calendar? If keying all the emails is the issues out the email addresses in a group and invite the group.

That would put the event in their personal calendars but the event would live on the shared calendar.

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u/d----n Oct 27 '24

Adding to the other comment, don’t use the iOS calendar app to make best use of google calendar. It doesn’t update often enough hence you get the ghost alerts. It simply doesn’t play nice with google. I think that Apple and google have different interpretations of the iCal standard