# Calendars 5 by Readdle — user reviews > 53 indexed App Store user reviews of Calendars 5 by Readdle by Readdle Technologies Limited, rated 4.74/5 from 38,057 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calendars-5-by-readdle/id697927927/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calendars-5-by-readdle/id697927927.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 31,801 · 4★ 4,317 · 3★ 963 · 2★ 319 · 1★ 657 ## What do users think of Calendars 5 by Readdle? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 🚀 Seamless integration with other devices and calendars - 💡 Comprehensive features like color-coding and task management - 🎨 Beautiful and customizable visual design - ⏰ Reliable reminders and notifications **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches - 🔍 Lack of search functionality - 🗓️ Automatic date/time parsing can be frustrating - 📱 Limited support for multiple time zones - 💻 No desktop/Mac version available **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to edit or interact with some events - Inconsistent behavior when adding event titles - Sync issues between devices - Crashes and freezes on launch **Most requested features** - Search functionality for past events - Customizable alarm/reminder options - Support for more time zone settings - Desktop/Mac app version - Improved integration with other productivity apps ## Newest reviews (14 of 53) ### 4/5 — I have a genius but maybe impossible idea…? *2022-09-14, version 5.24* I used the Google calendar app on my iPhone/Apple Watch for several years before seeking an alternative. (There is/was a long sync delay, which ultimately became a deal-killer problem.) I’m adjusting to Calendars 5, and while I’m generally liking it with some frustrations (Google Meet is pretty clunky via Calendars 5, for instance), I have found that I have a larger problem…a problem I can only assume others are battling as well. Due to a near constant bombardment of texts, events, reminders, etc., I find that I’m missing important meeting simply because I my human senses are becoming deaf to my phone and watch alerts. I just don’t notice them anymore. This literally happened just today. Happens all the time! What I find myself doing (and my husband does this too) is setting phone/watch alarms when I know that I HAVE to be somewhere on time. There has to be a better way! And I suspect there is…it just may not have been invented yet. Genius/Impossible(?) idea: somehow create a setting that enables calendar alerts that you have to actually turn off at the time of the event, like an alarm. THAT would get my attention! Possible? 🤔 ### 4/5 — Almost perfect *2020-10-24, version 5.19.3* This is one of my favorite calendar apps for the iPhone. There are only 4 reasons I don’t use it as my only calendar app... 1) When you Export or Share, it doesn’t include Tasks, only Events. That makes it almost useless for me as I have Tasks every day that need to be included when exporting. 2) Also when you Export or Share, you cannot use the List view, which is my favorite. You can only use Day, Week, or Month. Week and Month cut off details from each event, and Day requires one for per day no matter how few events you have, which is a waste. So List view makes the most sense when exporting/printing. 3) They don’t have any location based reminders. This is a big one. The native iOS calendar and reminders app have these. Other 3rd party calendar apps like Informant get around this by simply adding the ability to use the iOS event or task editor when adding new items, so you can enter options for when it’s time to leave based on traffic and current location, or when you arrive to or leave a location, etc. This is massively helpful. 4) The widget and every view mode in the app cut off every event/task title after just 1 line, so you can’t see the full title. There should be an option for the Widget and List view to allow you to show 3-5 lines of text before being cutoff. (Not in the Week, Month, or Day views, as those have time blocks with limited space. But the List view and Widgets are not limited to time blocks, so should be able to show more) ### 5/5 — Latest update won’t allow single time event *2020-06-15, version 5.18.1* I’ve used this app for years and loved it and now with the latest update when I put something on my Calendar for say Monday June 15th at 2pm it make an automatic time frame of ending the following day at 2am so that my monthly calendar looks like I have an event that lasts for 12 hrs when it’s just a Drs appointment. It clutters up my screen and when I try to change the ending time so that it all falls during the same day it automatically changes the start time. Sometime all of the automation app developers add doesn’t really help. It add something that I need to remove do what would be a simple task. If something isn’t an “All Day Event” that doesn’t automatically make it a several day event. It just means it’s an appointment for a specific time. An event that lasts several days should be the exception that I need to go a little further to do. Most events are a specific time not several days. Several days are for a block of time that I will be out of town for work or a vacation. It’s made the app a pain to use. ### 5/5 — Been Using for YEARS- still love it *2020-04-14, version 5.17.7* I've been using the Readdle calendars 5 app for years now. My husband and I both have the app so we can share the calendar more fluidly. We each can view our own work calendars, but share our family calendar. It will link just about any calendar you have and any you sync into iOS/Google. The app is intuitive, but what I have always loved is the variety of color, how you can set all-day events and most importantly the way the month and week views look. It is so much easier to view than the iOS calendar that makes you dive in further to see what you have planned. I recommend the app to all of my friends who are looking for something new. It is definitely worth the expense so they will keep creating more useful apps and updating this one. ### 5/5 — Worthy Fantastical replacement *2020-02-01, version 5.17.4* Like many coming by here these days, I was a loyal Fantastical user for years, and never had a reason to look at other calendar apps. Turns out that while I wasn’t looking, Readdle went and made a nice one (I’m also a Spark and Documents user, so I’m not surprised). I’ve already moved Fantastical from the top left of my 1st screen to the trash, and haven’t looked back. Calendars 5 has the polish of those apps, and most if not all of the functionality of Fantastical that I loved. There are even things I like more, like the list view, which is a lot less jumbled. The iOS widget is also cleaner, and the Watch app, with only a little testing so far, seems pretty configurable. The week view is a little strange, but it’s not a view I use much. A comment below nearly scared me off, around problems connecting to work Exchange servers. Note that that user had issues with connecting *directly* to the server — in other words, entering the credentials directly into Calendars 5 to get items directly from the server, bypassing the iOS internal calendar database. Calendars 5 allows this in addition to using the internal database — in other words, if you can see a calendar on the native Calendars app, you can see it in Calendars 5. For what it’s worth, I can connect to my work’s Exchange server just fine either way. Readdle, please learn from Fantastical’s experience and don’t screw up a good thing! ### 4/5 — One of the Best *2020-01-25, version 5.17.3* Besides Timepage, a calendar app that I tend to switch back and forth with Calendars 5, this calendar is nearly one of a kind. I love the functionality of the calendar, and how it looks like a calendar, and how you can integrate your tasks with it as well. It truly is one of the best calendar apps out there. With that being said, one bug that needs to be fixed is the tasks. If you don’t complete a recurring task on time, or forget to check it off, and you do so the next day or some time in the future, it duplicates the task. This is minor, so something I can look past on. Another bug I noticed is not being able to create calendar event if you include someone’s name in the event title and they don’t have an email address. The app glitches, and I can’t see/set any other information (such as time, location, recurrence, etc.) because the drop down menu for that person’s name remains on the screen. This needs to be fixed so that when adding someone’s name to the event title, you can bypass the email address insertion prompt. Lastly, one feature request I have is a “Time To Leave” alert, where the calendar can read traffic reports from, say, Google Maps or Apple Maps, and alert you for when you need to leave based on how long it will take you to get to your destination. Otherwise, this app is fantastic, and, as mentioned before, one of the best out there! ### 5/5 — Best app, extremely quick response *2019-07-09, version 5.15* I resisted digital calendaring for years, but would now never return to paper. Intuitive and easy, with just the right amount of bells and whistles. Update—my green color was replaced by pink! I sent an email reporting my calendar was all pinks and purples, and I needed to have green back. Same day received response from Nadia S. from the Readdle Support Team—I was thinking I’d hear back in a week or so. She explained thoroughly and clearly how to put the green back into my calendar. I am absolutely delighted! I’m one of those that days of the week, numbers and letters of the alphabet have corresponding colors. Monday and 2 are blue. Thursday’s always been green, and 3 is orange, of course. Even appointments are red. Don’t you agree? I am indebted to Nadia S. for her amazing support! ### 4/5 — Update: Will now load and appears to be working properly. *2019-07-08, version 5.15* Update: After deleting and re-installing several times over the last week, the app now seems to be functioning again. I did not receive any contact from the developer after submitting the crash log, and I was offered no insight as to why this happened. Changing the rating to four stars because I have used it for over five years with good experiences. In my mind, a five star app that I need daily can’t mysteriously crash for a bunch of people and be inaccessible for a week. Update: Developer responded with a generic response of sending the crash log. I had already sent the crash log a few days before receiving this response and have received no subsequent response. This has been a week without the calendar I’ve used for over 5 years. Very frustrating. How do I NOT choose a different calendar at this point...? I cannot even open the app since the most recent update. Crashes immediately. Please fix. This app is crucial to my day. **Developer response:** We are sorry to hear about the matter. Would you be so kind to provide us with Calendars 5 crash log so we could take a look into your request? To send us the crash log, just follow the steps below: 1. Open the iOS Settings app > Privacy, scroll down and tap Analytics > Analytics data. 2. Find the latest Calendars 5 crash log and send it to us. Thank you. Kate ### 4/5 — 5 star love for years is lately a 3 - disappearing and duplicated events. *2019-06-18, version 5.14.5* I don’t recall exactly how long I’ve been using calendar 5, but as soon as I saw that it would show events on my phone by the event’s name instead of representing them with a tiny dot, I was hooked. I have loved calendar 5 and recommended it for years. It’s easy to use, provides a lot of options for me to personalize events for each member of our family, invite other people to events and so much more. I haven’t had a single complaint...until just recently. Over the last month or so, certain events don’t show up at all and other events are listed more than once in the same day. I have several Gmail accounts, as I always have, so I checked those settings, even though it has never been a problem before. No matter how I adjust the settings, certain events won’t show up, and other events keep showing up as duplicates. My calendar 5 is now completely cluttered in addition to no longer being accurate. 😞 I am hoping that I am really just missing some super obvious fix, but if I am not, I am not sure how I can continue to use this app. After all this time, I am not ready to look for a new calendar app. Please help me, developer! ### 5/5 — A native look. Premium experience. *2019-04-06, version 5.14* Looking to make the best of my schedule, I sought different apps to meet my needs. And found it! Calendars 5 is a a combination of FANTASTICAL and THINGS. Where FANTASTICAL uses iOS native apps to port reminders and events, it lacks luster and customization. THINGS is pleasant to look at, but it forces you to work outside your native iOS apps, meaning you have CALENDAR events and REMINDERS and you get the pleasure of having a separate set of THINGS CALENDAR EVENTS and THINGS REMINDER TASKS. It’s a nuisance because events and reminders are not being synced through native apps so you are forced to buy a MAC and iPad version in order to be fully synchronized across all your devices. CALENDARS works with iOS. It looks amazing across iOS and Apple Watch. Plus, 1 app purchase gets you the iPad, iPhone, and the Watch app. And because it works with iOS everything syncs smoothly. I recommend CALENDARS 5 very much. It has a 1 week free trial before you have to do a full purchase of it. There are no subscriptions, and 1 purchase gets you all 3. There is no Mac version, but because everything syncs so well, whatever I add to CALENDARS shows on my Mac and iOS devices and vice versa. ### 5/5 — Happy customer *2018-12-11, version 5.12.5* Love this app. The only thing that needs to be updated is when you type “Friday” or a day of the week into the description it automatically moves the date of the event and won’t let it be a different day. For example if I type “Family Christmas Party” it sets it to Dec 25th even if that is not the day of the party. I have to remove the word “Christmas” from the description. This can be frustrating. Also if I put something on the calendar for the 1st week on Thursday each month. If the week starts on a Friday then that month gets skipped altogether instead of just selecting the first Thursday. If it is not in the first week it gets skipped. Otherwise I love the app. Just wish those two things could get fixed. Otherwise I ### 5/5 — I love your app! *2018-12-01, version 5.12.4* I recommend your app to everyone bc they all see my calendar open and say, “ooh, my calendar doesn’t look like that, how’d you get that?” I won’t go thru my list of likes, I just feel like you guys really thought if anything and it’s much appreciated! Only feedback I’d have is something that came up today and may already exist, I just don’t know about it 😀. A search feature would be SUPER helpful..maybe include parameters for date searches (ie from this date to that date) My great example lol..I wanted to see how many times I got my haircut this year for budgetary purposes for next year. Kinda trivial, I know, but I can think of tons of other searches I could do with this feature! Just my two cents for whatever it’s worth. Keep up the great work! ### 5/5 — Calendars 5 Rocks! *2018-11-26, version 5.12.3* Being such an anal, organized person, it has been close to impossible to find an app for scheduling on my phone. Nothing has been able to compare to my old-fashioned hard copy agenda or even supplement it properly. Even though I’m keeping the paper planner, Calendars 5 has become my primary agenda. It links multiple accounts and calendars correctly without duplicates. The colors are beautiful and allow color coding your tasks and appointments easy to do and easy to read. The ability to set up recurring events and have them portrayed accurately on a schedule for an infinite amount of time is a game changer! I love this app and you will, too! ### 5/5 — The best calendar app out there *2018-09-12, version 5.11.10* I've been using it this app for the past 4 years and have seen it's improvements along the way. I have also gotten other friends, family, co-workers to use it too...it's that's great. But...if there's a couple of suggestions I could make they would be 1) please make it possible to remove world holidays I don't care about? It's valuable space on the monthly view especially when there's mutiple events that day 2) Is it possible to add in a search feature? There's times when I want to look up an appointment or previous engagement and a search feature would be a fantastic help instead of scrolling through each month! Other than those couple of minor suggestions, I'm completely happy and love the newsletter update emails. Thank you for creating such great Apps! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointed and Upset *2022-12-07, version 5.24.7* $30 is a lot for a calendar app, especially when there is a perfectly functional free version. I paid because of all the glowing reviews about how I could have a wonderful integrated Tasks+Calendar experience. I also liked that my money was going to a Ukrainian company. They need it. Unfortunately the app fails in two mission-critical areas. #1 You cannot manually force the app to fetch/refresh. Any calendar/task list that does not come from a "push" server will only update every 15mins at best. An instant deal breaker all by itself. #2 You cannot add a task from the Apple Watch. Seriously? I can add an event, which I will never-ever need to do using my watch, but cannot add a task? Weak. Making a quick to-do by hitting a button on my wrist has value. BOTH of these features are available in GoodTask, which is $10 and also has a free-trial. Now I've paid $30 to integrate that experience with my calendar and got...nothing. I feel ripped off. ### 2/5 — Want to love, but can’t *2022-04-07, version 5.21.11* Calendars 5, like all Readdle apps is really nice, and definitely well thought out. I use many of their apps, including Spark, Documents… the thing that drives me crazy about Calendars 5 is the way the app breaks lines of text, especially in day view. It neither hyphenates, nor pushes whole words (that don’t fit) to the next line. I find this ugly, and hard to read/understand my events. I’ve written in to Readdle support so many times on the issue, that I’ve lost count, and always get the same useless response. There’s never a fix for this issue, so either they don’t care, or don’t see it (both of which are ridiculous). Until Readdle starts helping, listening to, and understanding their customers, I can’t rate this app higher than 2 stars. I’ll continue to use Fantastical for now. ### 2/5 — What the what? *2018-08-21, version 5.11.10* I would give this five stars if it wasn't for the fact that I live in the USA but yet I have MUSLIM holidays showing up on my calendar and I have no option to change it!! I understand that there are other nationalities, religions, etc. probably using this app too, however, if it is not a United States of America, nationally recognized holiday, I do not want to see it on my calendar. There are far too many religions and beliefs in this world to put them all on the calendar! If you do not want to discriminate and leave them out, then fine, create settings that allow you pick and choose what religion or countries holidays to show on your calendar. As an United States, Christian, European descent citizen, I do not need or want to know holidays of those that think I am an infidel that should be converted or killed. Do you list every pagan and Jewish holiday? How about all of the Buddhist holidays? What makes the Muslim holidays superior to the rest that they are included? ### 2/5 — Loading and refreshing times are a problem *2018-06-30, version 5.11.7* App is frequently unusable for sometimes as long as nearly a minute (of course based on connectivity - I do recognize that - but I’m referring here to instances when connectivity is strong via WiFi and data connectivity) as it refreshes all data at every launch or open. Can’t view anything in detail. Can’t tap anything. Can’t stop the refresh. I’ve tried all setting combos: on or off background refresh does nothing. Additionally, interactions can sometimes be awkward at various touch and tap points leading to unintended views and items moving or shuffling around. These are deal breaker problems. If you are trying to check items on the go and need key info from your calendar quickly, frustration levels are high. Hopping from meeting to meeting and needing room, floor, or time info is critical for me. I’m often stuck having to stand and wait for the app to fully load before I can view any items. I rely on my calendar but cannot rely on this app. It’s a great app when fully loaded! However, these items kill the whole experience and need for a paid calendar app. I’ll have to delete this app and go back to default calendar apps until this is fixed. **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for reporting this issue to us, though I'm sorry to hear that you have to experience it. Please send us he detailed logs from the app, so the dev team could look into the matter: Open Calendars 5 >Go to Settings > Support > Detailed logging toggle on > Please repeat this issue > Once again go to settings > Support > Send Feedback (please make a note 'For Olga from AppStore'). Thanks for the help in advance! Olga. ### 2/5 — Potential, but I still don't use it *2017-11-17, version 5.11.4* I'm a long time Fantastical user. Before that it was WeekCal. I'm always looking for the next great calendar app. This has potential if they will fix the annoyances. The main annoyance is that I use Outlook/Exchange at work to manage my calendar and tasks. When I do that there are extra spaces/fields that show up on this app that shouldn't be there. For example, EVERY calendar entry or task entry shows the the Notes field whether I put anything there or not. It is usually just blank but it shows up on the app and clutters the display and takes up space. I reported this bug 6 months ago and despite promising to fix it have done nothing. I'm disappointed and wish I hadn't bought this app. I'll stick with Fantastical. Update: It has been about a year now. I’ve emailed them several times about the bug mentioned above. I guess they don’t care. I’m giving up. I never switched to this app and now I never will. Fantastical it is! ### 3/5 — App is inconsistent *2023-01-30, version 5.24.11* The app is nice when it works, but I’ve had problems where I can’t edit anything, you tap on it, nothing, you hold it, and it just highlights it if you ask to edit it. When you click edit it does nothing. This can get very frustrating to edit. I’m using an iPhone 11 Pro Max. I just wish they gave you an option to dumb down the interface and an option to give you turn off stuff. Like how it automatically tries to kick a contact in when I use the term “With” just allow me to turn off all the stuff I don’t want, it just feels bloated. When it does kick out a suggestion for a contact you don’t have an option to exit out of it, it just looks like you have to use it. I don’t want that. Just make the UI less cluttered and with less pop us and it’s fine Edit: the fact I sat outside a college in 7 degree weather tells you hot disappointed I was after paying for the app and it’s built like this ### 3/5 — Random timing of notifications *2020-01-03, version 5.17.2* This would be by far my favorite calendar app based on interface and usability but for the fact that it randomly sends alerts at the wrong times, sometimes days after the event has already happened. I have contacted the developer about this a couple of times, but the problem has persisted. If they ever fix this, the app will be close to perfect. I hope they will also release a Mac OS version. UPDATE: the app is still failing to send alerts in a timely fashion. A few days ago, I received an alert for an event that had occurred 3 days earlier. I again notified the developer. This is the only app of any kind that I use that has this problem, so I really don’t understand why the problem has not been fixed. I have lowered my rating from 4 to 3 stars because of the developer’s lack of responsiveness for well over a year in fixing this bug. ### 3/5 — Confusing lack of integration with Readdle's own Spark app *2018-11-04, version 5.12.2* I've enjoyed Calendars 5 and it is quite nice visually, but I don't understand why there isn't any basic integration with Readdle's own Spark application, whose calendar is far weaker in functionality and usefulness. Forever they've existed as totally standalone apps but I feel like this doesn't make sense logically. On a separate note, I find Calendar 5's event creation area to be irritating. Specifically, I'm referring to where you enter in the event's title and it will use entered times to automatically calculate start and end times. If I'm taking a college course, I can't put "INFO 300", because Calendars will interpret this as a time, 3:00. To me, it makes this functionality redundant and it makes sense to enter the event title and times into Google. To me, this app is only useful for viewing my schedule, and not creating it. Finally, I think Calendars' limited support for multiple accounts is also quite weak, as forcing the user to rely on using the iPhone's internally added accounts past the one account you use to sign into Calendars is annoying. ### 3/5 — It works but could be better *2018-08-13, version 5.11.10* I picked this planner because I prefer a monthly layout. You can get the monthly lay out when you first open which I love. I few things I don’t like - when you type in an appointment like for example I have a niece and her name is Wednesday so I tried typing “Wednesday’s Birthday” and it keeps reverting and making me put the Birthday on a Wednesday. There is no way around this. Also if you try to type like “bring 2 pens” it forces you to place it at 2pm and also removes the “2” from the description! I run into this issue more then I’d like. I like color coating my appointments which it does allow you to do but I wish there was a way to make set colors like blue is birthdays, green is days off, yellow is school etc but it doesn’t have this capability yet. Each time you have to try and remember what color is for what after you type in your description. ### 3/5 — UPDATE: get locations and some modern looks *2018-01-29, version 5.11.5* Making an appointment could have a better interface. You have to select a time from preset choices and save it after each step, then go back and edit location, reminder, etc. However, my big problem is the lack of locations. I put a lot of concerts on my calendar and the app doesn’t have Nationwide Arena (an NHL team plays there, so it’s kinda a big place) but does have a 50 person mom and pop bar that’s in a back alley. How is that? If you’re going to have location as an item to add to an event then it should be like any map app and have common locations. Even entering an address doesn’t always work. I have to save it as a “Custom Location.” Finally, there is no date on the app icon. Yes you can turn a badge on that shows the date but in this day and age the app should easily show the date. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Still gets 5* *2024-06-13* I’ve been using Calendars 5 for a decade from way back when it was App of the Day on the AppStore. It’s been amazing and useful everyday since. For that I give it 5 stars and this won’t matter in a couple weeks when they pull the app for the AppStore. It’s unfortunate that the team has decided to move away from this great app but I do believe that they’re other offering is just as great. It’s just not great for me… Subscriptions are just not my thing and marking any purchase, lifetime of subscription, for an app I already had a paid version of will never be my thing! Maybe if they offered to unlock the paywall for people that already had Calendars 5 I’d keep using the alternative Calendar. But that does not appear to be the case and so as they sunset the Calendars 5 application so ends my use Readdle’s Calendars… sad face. ### 5/5 — The best ever…… *2023-07-15* I am totally not a tech geek, that being said, I have and love using technology that was never available to me in the 1970’s, 1980’s or 1990’s. I honestly can can say, without this App, I would be lost. I use it on my iPhone & iPad. Every time that I have a scheduled appointment or an activity, I easily immediately put the function into this App and it automatically taps my Apple Watch to remind me of the upcoming appointment. I use the month view from my phone & tablet to see what I have scheduled in the future and I have never been late or missed a function. I am currently trying to get my mother out of the 1950’s and welcome her to the App. The developers get back to you with any answers to your questions right away and the updates they put out are relative to everyday’s trials and tribulations. I really don’t spend any time writing reviews, but I have to honestly say that this App works great on all my apple devices and are honestly a game changer. I recommended in the past for the developers to develop this App for my MacBook Pro and they did!!!!!!! Only drawback is it is a separate subscription. I do not like that aspect of it but I can still use it on my computer, I just cannot add any new upcoming events from my computer (free version). I have to update the calendar from my iPhone or iPad to have it sync across the board. Buy this App, you will be glad that you did. You will never miss an appointment again. **Developer response:** Hello there, thank you so much for taking your time and reviewing the Calendars app. We’re happy you enjoy the app as much as we do! Have and amazing day. Dima ### 5/5 — App is inconsistent *2023-06-05* The app is nice when it works, but I’ve had problems where I can’t edit anything, you tap on it, nothing, you hold it, and it just highlights it if you ask to edit it. When you click edit it does nothing. This can get very frustrating to edit. I’m using an iPhone 11 Pro Max. I just wish they gave you an option to dumb down the interface and an option to give you turn off stuff. Like how it automatically tries to kick a contact in when I use the term “With” just allow me to turn off all the stuff I don’t want, it just feels bloated. When it does kick out a suggestion for a contact you don’t have an option to exit out of it, it just looks like you have to use it. I don’t want that. Just make the UI less cluttered and with less pop us and it’s fine Edit: the fact I sat outside a college in 7 degree weather tells you hot disappointed I was after paying for the app and it’s built like this 2023 edit: after a few updates and better weather I’ve spent some time with this app and it’s one of my most productive apps now. **Developer response:** Hi there, sorry to hear about that. Please drop us a line at helpspot@readdle.com so we could help you with this 🙌 Please add “from AppStore” to the subject, so we could see your email right away. Best, Anastasiia ### 5/5 — Pretty good but widget is useless *2022-01-15, version 5.21.6* The app is pretty good and intuitive. You can easily see events at a glance, edit etc. The widgets unfortunately are not. What I want is a month view for the widget that can show the events. What I get is a small widget literally just showing what the date is. There is also an “upcoming events” widget that only shows tomorrow. Want to see events 2 days from now? Too bad sucker!! Like I said, it’s a good app, but now I’m looking for a decent widget. EDIT: based on the quick response from the developer, I am really impressed. Also, I’ve used it for about a week now, and my life is better for it. No joke, because I am not missing events like I was with the apple default. Well worth it. ### 5/5 — Top notch *2021-06-14, version 5.20.4* Great calendar app all around. VERY easy to distinguish between different events and categories of event through the wide array of color coding available and the information displayed for each event on the calendar - better than Google calendar or iCalendar in my experience. The task list is also extremely useful for tracking and completely daily and weekly tasks. Only complaint (and it’s a relatively big one) is that I don’t believe calendar events aren’t shareable to non-Caledars5 users, making coordination with other apps/platforms difficult. It would also be nice if task lists and items were shareable to other Caledars5 users, at a minimum. ### 5/5 — Have been happily using Readdle Cal 5 for 5 yrs! *2021-06-09, version 5.20.4* Love this app. I’ve been relying on Readdle Calendar5 App for 5 years. It’s easy to use and works the way my brain THINKS it should work not the other way around (making it a well designed app). The ONLY feature I’ve ever thought missing is the ability to search for an event by name resulting in a list of those name links so I can easily find an event (past/future) without knowing the date or month or year. Having to search for something without knowing the Month or Day is almost impossible. P.S. ATTENTION DEVELOPERS Just noticed my App isn’t syncing my old iPhone with my new iPhone😳 (I’m using two phones same phone # for another couple weeks). Wondering how many events are missing within the last couple months??? ### 5/5 — Five stars..I think! *2020-12-08, version 5.19.5* I’ve had this app since the beginning and after trying every calendar app, this is my go toooo! HOWEVER, of all 347 apps on my phone, I have to say this is the most frustrating. Every time I launch it, it’s a crap shoot as to whether it will open or not. Such as scheduling a doctors appointment before leaving the office, I try an open Calendars 5 and I get a blank screen..it happens all the time. Then I have to reboot my phone. It’s hit or miss. I try an open it, nothing. Then a few minutes later, it opens..go figure! It does it on my iPhone 6 plus, and the adventure continues here on my iPhone 12 pro max. So if you’re the type of person that likes to reboot your phone every time you want to check your schedule or make an entry, then look no further, Calendar 5 should be your choice. ~jd/ ### 5/5 — Love the app after a week of using it! *2020-11-03, version 5.19.3* I have always had trouble with discipline but with this app I have planned my day from when I wake up(6am) until when i go to bed(10pm) mon thru fri. Best app without a subscription, please keep it that way! As for future request, I would appreciate it so much if the team can make the apple watch “vibrate” and/or make a sound when a new event comes up. For instance if I need to walk the dog at 6pm my apple watch will vibrate and I can just lift my wrist up. Currently I can only hear the light notification sound from my phone. It would help so much more because I wouldn’t have to always have my phone nearby and would never have to keep checking it constantly. ### 5/5 — Hope to return to the previous date selection. *2020-09-01, version 5.18.5* The date selection function is designed against humanity. The previous date selection is very convenient and intuitive, I don't know why it must be designed in the form of a scroll wheel. When modifying the date of a time period, the operation is very annoying. I just want to simply shorten the period of time. Modify the deadline. The initial date changes accordingly. A little carelessness will stretch the length of time to one month. It is very annoying to operate, and it greatly affects efficiency. Hope to return to the previous date selection. I have seen many other software’s date selections that have a scroll wheel that turns into a calendar shape. Only you, this software, gets rid of its dross and takes its essence. ### 5/5 — Great again! *2020-08-06, version 5.18.5* With this most recent update the functionality of the location field for events is back to working as it did a version ago. Entering/searching location data is a function that I use a lot and I was very disappointed when the ability to do this was changed to the point of being useless. Now that this functionality is back I have increased my rating of Calendar 5 from three stars to five. I thank the developers for listening and making Calendar 5 a great app. Highly recommended. Previous review: Populating the location field for an event is not as efficient or effective as with previous versions. Why was it deemed necessary to change this feature for the newest version? For my money this is a step backward. I am looking for another calendar app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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