LONDON: Google finally released a Google Calendar app for iPhone today. Google’s iOS Calendar app takes its styling cues from its Android counterpart. The interface follows Google’s Material Design guidelines, opening into a simple, blocky list of your upcoming events.
Each event is colour-coded based on what calendar it belongs to, and events with additional information attached to them (a location, flight details, etc.) also show up in this view. An event like “Trip to New York” shows a Google Maps image or a photograph of New York as its background; something like “Dinner with Douglas” sports a background illustration of plates and cutlery. This breaks up the monotony of the listed view of your week, and highlights the different types of events you have coming up.
At the top of the app, you can also open up a month-view to select which date to jump to; individual upcoming events aren’t shown here. Or by tapping a three dot options icon in the upper right, you can also switch to a day view or three-day view of upcoming events. There you can also search your calendar for a keyword, and it’ll pull up recent and upcoming events that match. Google Calendar could be use with any and all calendars on iPhone.
Google Calendar for iPhone is clean, swift, and simple; however, if you already use a robust calendar app like Fantastical 2 or Tempo, it likely adds little benefit in terms of useful features. If you’ve just been using Apple’s built-in Calendar app and are a heavy Google user, though, likely be far happier with Google Calendar.
