HEY Calendar 4+

Solid first release

Looking forward to where this goes.

I don’t know if this is on the roadmap.. but I definitely want to see integration with existing calendar services such that I can add new events and edit existing events on Apple / Google calendars. IMO it will really hinder my uptake if I can’t fully sync with my family calendars.

Innovative thinking again!

UPDATE #2: sadly for this update I had to knock a star off. We still don’t have 2-way integration or syncing and we still don’t a good location set where we can view maps and set travel times etc. I wanted to replace the outdated Apple option but I use locations and travel times all the time so for me the Hey calendar still lacks the functionality I would personally want. For me it’s still not a viable replacement for Apple calendar. There are also a few issues with ics files and invites syncing but the developers have been great in supporting my queries. Just not there yet for me ! UPDATE : really poor and slow syncing issues are the big let down for this app, so disappointing all worked well until I went to link my Apple calendar so, so slow to sync events across so updated my review. It needs a few other things sorting like map integration for event locations and the back background on the week view is not in tune with the rest of the app. Most important is the ability to read and write to other calendars. All being said a great calendar to go with best email out there

Developer Response ,

Sorry for that trouble with the sync times! Can you drop our team an email? We'd be happy to take a look at what's happening there. ✉️ support@hey.com

Great on its own terms

Lots to praise about this app, in fact, most of it is praise worthy! Great design, good UI and UX, but it falls flat on integration between the email and calendar.

As a Hey Email user, I was so excited to finally have a calendar to go along with the email. The dev makes a big deal of having their own servers and control of the information, but their services still misses basic date related emails that google workspace captures easily, like flights and trains or classes. Moreover, the calendar doesn’t search through locations on a map service to match and enrich location input in the events. And lastly, because the calendar account doesn’t work at all with other apps and calendar links don’t open directly in Hey Calendar on iPhone, I have to manually recreate calendar events I receive from event companies that offer a ‘download for other calendar’ button on their confirmation screens.

If I could use a workaround, like adding calendar events through Apple calendar quickly due to easy integration with iPhone, that would solve it for now.

I find this app and this side of the Hey service creates more friction, not less, in my personal calendar. And it walls it off needlessly from my work calendars. It asks more of a user, not less. Not sure that’s a good direction, when Hey Email asks less of users than other emails and is rightly praised for that.

Hope it can improve in the future because I’m a huge Hey Email fan.