Most of us have calendars scattered everywhere — work, personal, the kids' school and teams — and the ones you'd most want to share, like a locked-down work Outlook or Exchange calendar, are the ones you can't. Calends merges the calendars your devices already sync into Apple Calendar into one master calendar that lives right inside Apple Calendar — share it with anyone or keep it private. It never logs into your accounts, so even locked-down work calendars can finally join, with nothing for IT to block.
No logins · No servers · No subscription · Mac · iPhone · iPad · Free for 30 days, then $19.99 once
Calends pulls together everything already in your Apple Calendar — every account, every subscribed feed — and merges it into clean, shareable calendars. Build as many as you need, each showing exactly what its audience should see.
Every school, sports and activity feed you subscribe to — plus both parents' schedules — merged into a single family calendar that's on everyone's devices.
Hand your partner your complicated work life — on-call, clinic, shifts, travel — as one calendar they simply subscribe to and always see.
Mix and match so colleagues and assistants see only what they need — or share busy-only, so they see when you're free to meet, never the details.
Name it, give it a color. Calends creates it as a real calendar right inside Apple Calendar (in your own iCloud) — it shows up alongside your other calendars, on every device.
Check any calendars Apple Calendar can see: iCloud, work accounts like Outlook or Google, subscribed feeds, calendars shared with you.
Share the master from Apple Calendar like any calendar. Calends keeps it filled, deduplicated, and current in the background.
Calends isn't another calendar app to live in. The master it builds is an ordinary calendar inside your Apple Calendar — you keep using Calendar exactly as you do now. And your source calendars are never modified: Calends only ever writes to the master it maintains, so delete one anytime and every source stays exactly as it was.
Most calendar-sync tools route your accounts through their own servers and charge every month. Calends stays entirely inside Apple's ecosystem — and you buy it once.
| Typical sync services | ✓ Calends | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Sign in to each work or Google account with OAuth | No logins — it reads the calendars already in your Apple Calendar |
| Work accounts | Third-party access often blocked by company IT | Nothing for IT to approve — if Apple Calendar can see it, so can Calends |
| Where your data lives | Synced through the provider's servers | Only in your own iCloud and on your devices |
| Price | Recurring monthly subscription | One-time $19.99, after a 30-day free trial |
No analytics, no tracking, no third-party services — Calends talks only to Apple's EventKit and your private iCloud. The whole policy takes two minutes to read.
No. A master is a completely normal calendar — you share it from Apple Calendar, and recipients simply subscribe like they would to any shared calendar. Calends is only needed on the side that builds it.
Nothing new touches your work account. Calends doesn't log in, doesn't ask for OAuth grants, and has no server — it reads the work calendar your Mac or iPhone already syncs through Apple Calendar and writes an ordinary iCloud calendar. If Apple Calendar is allowed, there's nothing left to approve. And with busy-only mode, colleagues see when you're committed, never what.
Never. Calends copies events into the master it maintains and only ever writes there. Your sources — including work accounts and subscriptions — are read, never touched. Delete a master anytime; sources are unaffected.
Calends works through Apple's built-in Calendar app — but you don't have to switch to it. Your work or Google account can live in Apple Calendar and in Outlook or Google at the same time; adding it to Apple Calendar is a quick, free step in Settings and removes it from nowhere else. Many people add Apple Calendar just to use Calends.
On the device where you tick a calendar, Calends records exactly that one, so two calendars with the identical name — most often a work Calendar, or a Holidays or Birthdays feed that shows up in more than one account — are no longer confused. Because a calendar's identifier is specific to each device, that exact match applies only where you made the pick: on your other devices, tick the right one there too. To fix it everywhere at once, give one a distinct name in Apple Calendar (say Work — Outlook) — best done on a Mac, since iPhone and iPad usually won't let you rename a work (Exchange) calendar.
No. Calends is free for 30 days, then a single $19.99 purchase unlocks it for good — across Mac, iPhone, and iPad, with Family Sharing included.