Cal Countdown vs RingCalendar

"Cal Countdown" is a free, simple iOS & Apple Watch app that automatically creates a color-coded countdown to the next event on your calendar and displays it on your Apple Watch face and/or your "Today" screen. The app is primarily intended to be used as a complication on your Apple Watch or as a widget. If your days are anything like ours, packed with various meetings scattered throughout the day, every time you check your calendar, you're trying to figure out one thing: How much time do I have until my next appointment? So, you glance at your watch, note the start time of your next appointment, and calculate the difference between the current time and your next event. We got tired of doing this mental calculation many times a day, but much to our surprise, we could not find an existing iOS application that would do this chore for us. So we decided to build it ourselves. Now, every time we glance at our watch, it immediately tells us what we want to know: How much time do I have until my next appointment? The app's color changes from blue to green to yellow to orange to red as you approach the start of your next event. (6+ hours = Blue, 2-6 hours = Green, 1-2 = Yellow, 30-60 mins = Orange, 0-30 mins = Red) Cal Countdown supports all the different Apple Watch complications. All Apple Watch complications that support multi-color will be color-coded (but not all watch complications support multiple colors.) Using "Cal Countdown" is as easy as it gets. It uses the calendar data already on your phone; no signing in; no entering any usernames or passwords. The app lets you select the calendars you want to include or not in your calendar countdowns. Don't have an Apple Watch? You can still use Cal Countdown on your phone as an iPhone/iPad app with a "Today" widget. Cal Countdown does not require an account. It does not even require an internet connection. The app uses the calendar data already on your iPhone. It's completely secure. Your calendar data remains completely private, and never leaves your phone. Cal Countdown also has the ability to ignore or skip certain events on your calendar. This feature is especially useful if you have shared calendars with your family, friends, or colleagues. We often have events on our calendars that we need to know about, but may not be attending ourselves. If you want Cal Countdown to ignore or skip these events and start counting down to the following event on your calendar, just tap the "Ignore" button, and Cal Countdown will immediately start a countdown to the following event.

When there’s enough room, event names appear directly on the ring so you can understand your day even faster. EVENTS + REMINDERS. TOGETHER. Your calendar events and reminders live in one clear daily view. See what’s happening, what’s next and what still needs to be done without switching between separate apps. EVENT NOTES A calendar tells you when something happened. Event Notes help you remember what happened. Attach: • Text Notes • Voice Notes • Photo Notes to the events that gave them context. EVENT NOTES LIBRARY All your Event Notes now have their own home. Browse notes from across your calendar, search them, filter by type or event date, select multiple notes at once and jump directly back to the original event. MONTH VIEW Zoom out without losing the details. RingCalendar’s Month View gives you a visual overview of busy and quiet days while keeping individual events visible. DAILY REVIEW Revisit the moments you captured during the day in chronological context. RingCalendar keeps your notes tied to the calendar instead of turning them into an isolated archive. APPLE WATCH Keep your day close at hand. View events and reminders, capture Event Notes and use RingCalendar directly from Apple Watch. Day Progress gives you a compact visual sense of what’s coming next. BUILT FOR DIFFERENT WAYS OF WORKING RingCalendar adapts its layout to the available screen, including spacious multi-pane views on larger and Duo displays. Your calendar remembers when. RingCalendar helps you remember.