Google Calendar: Get Organised 4+

I use various Gmail and Google Workspace accounts and this puts them all together well. Has nice functions like pulling in events from Mail etc. The goals feature is pretty neat and even syncs with Apple Health for fitness related bits. Being able to use Google maps for event locations gives you good and accurate time to leave notifications.

The one thing I would love to be added is event templates. If you have the same types of events that you put in your calendar all the time because you have appointment based work, it takes too long to enter in events. This feature that I get in third party apps is essential to me. I’d love to see it built in to this app.

Another thing that could be improved across Google calendars services generally is appointments. They could be so good, but they currently miss the mark.

It is a nice improvement over the Apple one which I used less. This one puts in data without me having to do anything which means I can rely on it more. There are just two things I have come across that it seems to be lacking which I would like implemented. The first is that I would love if you showed the day and the date on the icon. Now I glance at my phone and all I see is 31 which is wrong and to be honest it bothers me. The other thing is something I really hope you will implement but I don’t have high hopes. You currently search my gmail for receipts/data etc to add into calendar but I have another email account (through another provider) I would like to be included in your searches. Any way this could be done? I realise you might not want to do this as it’s not gmail but you could lay the ground rule that the main email account must be gmail for it to work.

I’ve recently come over to everything google after upgrading to Google Home and love this calendar app as a replacement to my loved Apple stock one. Issues and why it’s only getting 3 stars, the app on home screen should and this I believe should be a minimum, display the current date and not just a ‘31’ as that’s just pointless!! Secondly I’ve also setup a t family calendar as we had on the iPhone stock one and although I like the app my wife doesn’t so I’ve setup the google onto her stock Apple app but it takes ages to update if I add something in to the diary it seems to take a good 10/15 mins to hit hers! Not the end of the world but annoying when the Apple one is instant. I also get notifications when we add stuff on the stock app and we don’t with the google setup which I think should be in the next upgrade. As I say I like the app and like the google eco system but needs a lot more attention to be awarded a 5 rating.