The 13 best calendar apps for Android and iOS help you organize a chaotic day

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Fantastical 2

Many of the app’s features are standard fare and just what you’d expect a calendar app to offer, but Fantastical 2 strives to make every process more convenient in order to save time. For example, you can start a sentence with “reminder,” “to do,” or “task” to create reminders, or use phrases like “remind me tomorrow at 3PM,” or “alarm 3PM” to set new alerts. You can also add a geofence to an alert so that it’ll go off when you leave or arrive at a specific location. For example, if you head out to a grocery store, you’ll be reminded of the fact that you need milk and bread.

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Awesome Calendar does a very good job of living up to its name. It’s packed with tons of features that not only make it “awesome,” but also make it invaluable to those that are always on the move and always planning something. It touts itself as being an all-in-one tool, and we’re inclined to agree. Let’s start with the main reason anyone needs a calendar app: to keep track of any and all events in your life. When you create an event and assign it to a day on the calendar, you can then add a note to it, as well as take a picture to help you remember what the event’s about. Just as quickly as you make the event, you can easily share it with others from within the app, or set additional reminders and add a helpful to do list.

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Calendars 5

Calendars 5 is so named because it’s the fifth version of Readdle’s Calendars app, meaning its developer has had a lot of time to invest in this particular app and its features. The current incarnation of the app works with both the iPhone and iPad, allowing you to keep track of your events across iOS devices. It’s a simple feature, but an invaluable one for those deep in the Apple ecosystem who already use the iPhone’s default Calendar app. Of course, a calendar app is nothing without intuitive ways to create new events, schedules, and alerts, and Calendars 5 does it all incredibly well.

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Tiny calendar

If you need a simple alternative to the pre-loaded calendars on iPhone, you can’t go wrong with Tiny Calendar. The free version of this app lets you do all the basic things you need a calendar app to do: Work offline, sync edits and information across devices, see multiple layouts, and create reminders that will notify you either through push notifications or via email. You can use your device’s GPS to add specific locations to events, forgoing the need to look up directions later. Furthermore, you can sync Tiny Calendar with local calendars or Google Calendar, giving you more of an incentive to use it if the stock options are not to your liking.

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Google Calendar

You’ll find the usual options, like being able to set reminders for upcoming events and check your to-dos scheduled for the same day as those events. There are different calendar views to show you what’s taking place on a certain day or during a specific week. Google Calendar also links seamlessly with other calendars you may use, such as Samsung’s S-Planner or Apple’s iCloud. One of the more special things Google Calendar can do, though, is the option to set personal goals. Want to run three times a week, or get in some time to play video games? The app will schedule time for those things automatically.

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aCalendar

aCalendar comes with a few more features that some people may find useful, as in-app purchases. Aside from the removal of ads, aCalendar+ will provide access to advanced settings and task management, add public holidays to the calendar, and introduce several “business features,” like being able to invite attendees, link contacts, and add privacy.

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Business Calendar

Business Calendar 2 comes with everything you’d want from a calendar app, including an event calendar and task management, recurring reminders and events, multiple views, and support for holidays and birthdays. Since it’s an Android app, it also comes with several widgets that can be placed on your device’s home screen to show monthly, week, and day events, or current and upcoming tasks. One unique feature BC2 has going for it is a heat map. When viewing your schedule in the year view, the heat map makes it easier to find free days that don’t currently have any plans, tasks, or events tied to them.

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Awesome Calendar does a very good job of living up to its name. It’s packed with tons of features that not only make it “awesome,” but also make it invaluable to those that are always on the move and always planning something. It touts itself as being an all-in-one tool, and we’re inclined to agree. Let’s start with the main reason anyone needs a calendar app: to keep track of any and all events in your life. When you create an event and assign it to a day on the calendar, you can then add a note to it, as well as take a picture to help you remember what the event’s about. Just as quickly as you make the event, you can easily share it with others from within the app, or set additional reminders and add a helpful to do list.

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Plan

If you like your calendar apps with a good side of extra organizational tools, then you’ve definitely come to the right place. The Plan app for iOS devices is intended to work as a companion app to the main Plan website, which allows users to jot down and track all of their upcoming tasks and create a plan of attack. Plan sees itself as a peace treaty for the office work warfare, and it’s certainly good at that.

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Simple Calendar

Simple might be as simple does, but that doesn’t always have to be an insult. In the case of Simple Calendar, it wears its simplicity on its sleeve, proud for the world to see it in all its glory. Simple Calendar is exactly that — a simple way for you to see all of your upcoming appointments, meetings, or tasks on a simple calendar interface. Where Simple Calendar differs from the other calendar apps in this round-up is its status as a completely open source, ad-free app that’s simply there to do one job and do it well.

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TimeTree

Organizing a family can be a real hassle, and there’s always someone that forgets to do something, no matter how many times you tell them. Help cut down on some of the hassle by using TimeTree to organize your family group. TimeTree lets you put everyone’s schedules on the same calendar, allows them to share tasks, and to create handy notes for later. You can even leave comments in the app to discuss upcoming tasks or events, making it super easy to keep everyone up-to-date.

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