Leave a Review Proton Calendar
Needs to be better
Calendar is Proton’s weakest link. Tried to use this as a family calendar but encountered several issues that just made us revert back to Google.
My spouse was unable to make edits to calendar entries either from both the app or the website despite giving her full edit permissions. There also seems to be a sync issue when giving an entry a custom color where I can see it from my account but my family only sees the default color. This makes quick color identification a no go. Also, the app itself just straight up doesn’t allow you to make edits or entries at times.
I like Proton’s other services but this calendar needs major work.Show lessRaven19x
Widgets Make the World Go Round
Could you guys add widgets? If you’re familiar with the base calendar from iPhone, it has a widget that displays the date on the left, then if there’s anything planned that day is displayed below that date, and on the right it shows upcoming events. That’s the main reason I haven’t completely switched to Proton calendar, because I like being able to swipe left and seeing my upcoming plans for the week.
Now if it has something to do with the app needs to decrypt to be able to view my calendar, then that makes sense. Otherwise please add widgets, that would be awesome.Show lessAbrekkrrie Boiled Turkey
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for your review! We've passed along your request for a widget internally with the team. If you have any additional suggestions, feel free to contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact to let us know.Calendar Works Well
This app works well. However, it is missing a few MAJOR things that I hope to see in the future.
1. Please add a busy/available tag for each event. This allows me to use scheduling services. It would be nice if events are default as busy, but have the option to be “available” so that when a scheduling service sees the event, it opens that slot.
2. Creating an event that span over multiple days. The UI isn’t great for this. It would be nice to have a graphical date picker, as opposed to the current scrollable text date picker. I like to see the day I’m picking (Mon, Tues, etc), instead of just the number date.Show lessJustikun
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to review our app and share your suggestions with us! We’ve passed this directly to the team. 🙂 If you have any additional suggestions on what we can to do improve, please feel free to contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact to let us know. We always appreciate our community’s input.A bit bare bones but I have hope.
Unfortunately while this does the job if you exclusively use protonmail. But like many others I use gmail for work and I won’t be able to connect this app to view work calendars or edit my shared family calendars with those that won’t switch to protonmail. For me it renders this app unusable for now. I requested this feature and I have seen my voted features eventually get implemented so there’s hope. This is a pretty big ask but I think itd make this far more useful.
I don’t need work email on my phone but my calendars all need to be in one place to be useful personal encrypted plus control over shared public calendars.Show lesshendricksmd
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to follow-up on your review! We are always listening to our user's input and try to prioritize implementing features based on the requests we receive. The ability to edit shared calendars is also highly requested and we'll make sure to add your vote to help our team with prioritization. Stay tuned for updates!Improving
I am a Proton Unlimited subscriber because I love the platform and their commitment to privacy.
Pros:
-Simple/attractive UI
-Solid basic calendar features
Cons:
Requires a little extra effort and a few workarounds to tailor this calendar to your personal needs.
Birthdays:
-automatic Integration of birthdays from our contact lists is preferable here but still notably not an option.
Workaround:
-In the meantime, I just created a ‘Birthdays’ calendar and manually added each one myself.
US Holidays:
-Currently, there are a lot of holidays( of which I’m used to being alerted to via iCloud calendar) that are not included in this feature.
Workaround:
-I disabled Proton’s built in ‘Holidays’ calendar and created my own, manually inputting each one.
Thankfully, you can add calendars from other platforms via URL (note that these cannot be altered in the Proton app and this feature has its limitations as it is not updated or synced in real time).
Overall, Proton’s commitment to privacy and putting their users first as well as their continuous improvement to the platform, for the most part, alleviates any reservations I might have otherwise had. I didn’t mind putting in a little extra effort to tailor the app to my needs.
That being said, I hope they continue to listen to user feedback and implement new features sooner rather than later.Show lessJDoctober
Developer Response
Hi! We appreciate the extensive and detailed feedback! Your suggestions have been noted internally to help our development team with prioritization when implementing new features. We'd love to get your input if you have any additional suggestions on what else we can do to improve, feel free to reach out to us at https://proton.me/support/contact and we'd be more than happy to document your feedback. Our community's input is really important to us.Getting Better
It is important to remember that Proton is fighting and an battle. It is much more difficult to create an application, in which everything is by the full secure and encrypted, yet the features remain user-friendly and shareable. They have achieved the most important part: security. Yes, I do wish the app had biometric protection. But my phone is protected, so access to calendar is not on top of my worries. Since being encrypted prevented from being easily synchronized with the iPhone calendar ecosystem, at the very least, I am hoping very hard for a variety of widgets.Show lessVirtualPanther
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to review our app! Our community's feedback is really important to us. The features you've mentioned have been requested before, and we'll document your vote internally for them to help our team with prioritization. If you have any additional suggestions on what we can do to improve, contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact to let us know.Been using a few months
I’ve been using proton for about a month and weaning myself off Google. So for the time being I’m trying hard to overlook many of the lack of convenience items that come with going with a non big dawg in the calendar space. In general the app does what I need it to do and it’s encrypted so that’s why I’m continuing to use it. Here are the three big features that are missing:
1) I cannot add events from proton mail into proton calendar. This is super annoying and sometimes I go to my laptop just so do this in bulk before I delete emails, or I manually add it on my phone.
2) I cannot add participants in the app. Similarly now I often have to go sit down at my computer to add participants to an event.
3) this is more nitpicky but I find it cumbersome to have to scroll through 60min when setting a time for an event. Almost all of my events are at x:00 or x:30, occasionally at x:15 or x:45. It is actually too much to have to swipe multiple time to change a start time from x:00 to x:30. If a user needs to set it to something weird like x:37 they can type it and the scroll wheel should just have round numbers in it.
Otherwise the value prop of encryption, in addition to knowing this is a growing and developing product is keeping me here and I assume some of these will be resolved over time.
Small thing - I like the logo-ing and the purple:).Show lessbusydonthavetime
Developer Response
Hi there! We appreciate the honest feedback. The features you've mentioned are on our roadmap for the Proton Calendar iOS app, and we're adding your vote to them as well to help with prioritization. Our community's input is important to us and we rely on it for future improvements. If you have any additional suggestions on what we can do to improve, contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact to let us know.I Want To Love Proton
I have been a paid member of Proton for 5 years. I have tried to be patient with their products as I know implementing the type of privacy and security Proton offers is difficult. I don’t expect all the features and consistency of the big tech alternatives. I just want to be able to edit repeating shared events. I pay for the family plan and it should be fairly straightforward for me to be able to share repeating events with my family members and be able to edit a specific event in the sequence, or the whole event with people also using Proton. I can understand sharing and editing an event with someone using Google Calendar not being easy to implement or a top priority, but if I can’t modify shared events to people within my own plan then Calendar is completely useless and I’m just wasting my money.Show lessMrAbominable
Developer Response
Thank you for the honest feedback! We've documented your votes for these existing requests to help prioritize them. If you have any additional suggestions on what we can do to improve our app, contact us here: https://proton.me/support/contact.Incredible company, pointless app
The calendar app is little more than a calendar viewer. To use Proton Calendar app on your iPhone requires you run an instance of it in the web browser if you want anything more than viewing your events. You still have to schedule from the web version. No quality integration with the email app. I rate Proton 5 stars as a company and am a paying subscriber. Unfortunately, I could not use Proton for my business as its productivity tools are incomplete and do not support non-web true functionality. I hope I get to up this rating to 5 stars one day, however, Proton has been unable to make any significant improvements to the calendar app. TestFlight version doesn’t provide anything special to test. 👎👎 Two thumbs down, unfortunately.Show lessSchoncher
Developer Response
Hello! We appreciate the honest review and we'll pass along your feedback to the team. Our team is working hard on improving the Proton Calendar app for iOS and incorporating most of the functions that are already available on the web app. We always value our community's input on what we can do to improve, and if you have any additional suggestions on what we can do to improve the Proton Calendar app, feel free to contact us at https://proton.me/support/contact to let us know.Glitchy, Tuta has better cal integration
While I appreciate Proton led the charge on privacy and an alternative to Gmail, I think they are now too big to provide timely service. Their new product rollouts are buggy (protonpass) and I have lost my trust in the company. Calendar app defaults to silly multi day format when entering a new event. Support asking for subjects of emails after protonpass glitch locked me out of my own accounts. I bought 2years on Nov 1st renewal and now I want a refund. One company now can block me out of everything (drive, etc). I am discovering Tuta thanks to Proton’s new glichiness. Outdated recovery documentation and poor support forced me to find an integrated mail/cal app, which is cheaper and I’d rather have my files in dropbox and password in third party services. Speaking from this recent nightmare experience, all eggs in one basket is a security issue and Proton has jumped the shark in doing one thing and doing it right. Some kind of customer service or support could change this review and opinion.Show lessalexiamoc
Developer Response
Hi. We're sorry to hear about your experience with Proton's services. Could you share your ticket number with us here so we can track and follow-up on your customer support request?
