Top 10 Calendar Apps for Mac #1. Fantastical 2. Fantastical 2 is highly expensive, but it does prove its worth by letting you organize your schedules, plan your events in a much better way.

Calendars are useful tools. Even paper ones are great for remembering dates, taking out the trash, and keeping track of family birthdays. Some of the first mobile apps were datebooks and calendars. They’re useful to this day for exactly the same things as their antiquated paper ancestors. Surprisingly, the technology behind calendars has changed very little over the years. Most calendar apps are still just massive datebooks with customization features.

Still, there are plenty of great ones out there. Here are the best calendar apps to keep you organized! Any.do is a combination to-do list and calendar. It has the best of both worlds. That includes the large overview of the calendar with the in-depth functionality of to do list tasks.

It also supports Facebook, Google, and Outlook calendars. That makes it great for multi-platform fans. The UI is Material Design and it looks nice.

About the only downside is the price. It does require a subscription.

That makes it hard to recommend to those who need something cheap and simple. This is more for the hardcore productivity people. TimeTree is one of the few good free calendar apps. It doesn't have a ton of features. However, it does work great for couples, coworkers, and similar types of people. It has better sharing features than many.

The app also features reminders, widgets, advanced sharing and invite features, and support for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and Outlook Calendar. It's excellent for stuff like keeping track of trash day or family events. The app has advertising. Otherwise, it's free to download and use. Calendar apps are great. However, some people just need a basic solution. Sometimes, other apps include a calendar as part of their functionality.

Those calendars aren't as powerful, but they get the job done for basic stuff. Some email apps like Newton or Outlook have calendars.

Widget packs like Beautiful Widgets and HD Widgets have calendar widgets as well. Even some to-do list apps like TickTick have calendars built-in.

There are far too many list here. We recommend looking around for apps that cover multiple bases. That's a good start for basic calendar usage. Of course, the stock calendar apps on most phones do a good job for the basic needs.

They can do recurring tasks (usually), remind you of upcoming holidays, and create appointments and events. They don't have the extra features like the above calendar apps, but some people just don't always need them. Plus, most of them integrate with Google and Facebook Calendar at the very least. They're also free and pre-installed. That means they won't take up anymore space like a third party app would. Give them a try first.

There was a time when I managed my calendar by keeping a Post-It note with important meetings written down on it. That hasn’t worked since the late 1990s, though. Today, I rely on Google Calendar to keep my appointments in sync between my Mac and my iOS devices.

I use and Apple’s Calendar on my Mac, Fantastical on the iPhone, and Calendar on the iPad. I’m okay with my approach, but some Apple power-users I spoke to had alternative approaches that are worth considering. Jacqui Cheng Jacqui Cheng is the editor-in-chief of. Antivirus for mac mountain lion. Like me, she uses Google Calendar as the “main hub” for all her calendar syncing. “This started back when I still had an office job and was using a Windows PC to program on,” meaning iCal and iCloud weren’t even options at the time.

Because all the major calendar apps sync with Google Calendar now, “it’s too much of a mess for me to extract into anything else.” Jacqui says that she uses her Mac and iPhone equally for adding appointments. “On the Mac, I just use the Google Calendar page on the Web, because I usually already have it open.” On the iPhone, she uses Apple’s Calendar app, which has Google sync built in as an option. I’ve often expressed my affection for Siri (whom I call my best friend in New Jersey), and I use the voice assistant to create appointments fairly often. Jacqui, however, only uses Siri for that purpose “very occasionally.” But Jacqui has ended up with a few too many appointments that say something like “Tell Maude avocado Wednesday three P” whose original meaning eludes her. Jacqui has other complaints about the modern state of calendar management, too. “Syncing in general can still be an issue,” she says, “especially when there are multiple people in a household who might have their own calendars and shared calendars.” She explains that her shared calendar situation with her husband is “a disaster,” since he relies on iCloud.