In any view, you can tap the top toolbar (not the status bar) to jump back to the current day, week, or month. Both on the iPhone and iPad, you can also swipe horizontally to advance to the next day/week/month without having to use the scroller at the bottom.
On the iPad, tabs to switch between Tasks, Day, Week, Month, and Year views are always visible at the top of the screen, with a scrollable menu at the bottom to quickly advance to the next day/week/month on the iPhone, tabs are hidden by a hamburger button in the upper right corner, and the app comes with an additional List view that provides a useful summary of events and reminders unified in a single list. Calendars 5 focuses on lists and events rather than pretty UI chrome and pixels, and I think that’s a good decision. On the iPhone, the top navigation bar – where you’ll find the usual shortcuts for different calendar views – blends perfectly with the light gray status bar of iOS 7 on my iPad with iOS 6, the status bar is a standard black, but the app is equally minimal and deferential. Gone are blue toolbars and textured menus, leaving room for whitespace, white modal popups, blue highlights, and even brighter blocks of colors for events. I use both iCloud calendars and Reminders on a daily basis, so I was curious to see how Calendars 5 stacked up to my favorite solutions on the iPhone and iPad: Fantastical, Agenda, and Week Calendar HD.įirst and foremost, Calendars 5 is an iOS 6 app, but it’s been redesigned to match the upcoming iOS 7 aesthetic. It was a solid app, albeit obviously skewed towards Google Calendar.Ĭalendars 5 builds upon Calendars+ by keeping the same basic layout structure and adding local calendar and Reminders integration to the existing Google Calendar support. Calendars 5 is the successor to Readdle’s popular Calendars+, and it’s sold as a new app at $4.99.Ĭalendars+ was a Google Calendar client for the iPhone and iPad that supported events and tasks, had a clean interface with bright color blocks, and used iOS’ native calendar UI for adding and managing events. For this reason, I couldn’t say no to Readdle when they asked me to test Calendars 5, their new Universal app available today on the App Store. I’m always looking for the perfect blend of events and todos in a logical presentation that makes sense for how I organize my day, with support for features like natural language input and custom repeats as well as more advanced functionalities such as URL schemes and app integrations. Of all the apps that I try and evaluate every week, there is one category that I can’t stop testing: calendar and reminder clients.
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