Calendar apps help plan out upcoming events. When choosing a calendar app there are a few key things to consider: how easy is it to add events, how it helps the planning process, how it helps keep track of everything and what helpful information it can present in each context.
Good apps will allow adding events quickly. Some apps even support natural language input that allows adding events in a conversational manner. For example, typing in “A meeting with Stuart Kearney at 2pm at Philz Coffee” will add an event and set the date and time.
They will provide an easy way of overviewing upcoming events by laying them out in a way that’s both intuitive and information dense. Most will offer homescreen widgets that will give an idea of upcoming events without having to open up the app.
Good apps will provide integrations with various third-party services that add contextual information. Information such as a getting directions to an event using a navigation service or automatically adding events from social networks or email.
Google Calendar
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.
Cal
The app displays agenda as a combination of events and to-do list items and uses different background images for each calendar day based on chosen themes.
DigiCal Calendar
The app tries condensing a lot of information at the expense of readability.
Business Calendar
Business Calendar offers configurable widgets in many sizes for displaying Days, Weeks, Months or Agenda views on users home screen.
Today Calendar
Today Calendar design is based Google's stock Calendar application with modifications to user interface and functionality.
In addition to day, week and agenda views that have improved aesthetics and usability features compared to the stock app, there are also two new views that combine agenda and month views in interesting ways.
One approach shows a complete, color-coded month with agenda view beneath it and the second shows a complete month that pops up agenda view when clicked on a date.
Jorte
The widget has the actual events listed on the widget in text so that they are readable. Using the full sized month widget gives a very easily readable screen that allows the user to not have to enter the app to see their events.
SolCalendar
SolCalendar has a mostly monochrome color scheme and includes day, week, month, agenda and to-do views.
aCalendar
aCalendar is an Android app that comes in free, ad-less version as well as this paid version.
This paid version aCalendar+ adds more features like agenda view, home screen widget and the ability to manage Google Calendars. The developer also donates some of the profits from this Pro version to help protect the endangered mountain tapir.
WAVE calendar
The app will color-code different calendars in different colors as well as allow selecting a different color for each event.