Calends
Calends folds the calendars you already see in Apple Calendar — work accounts, school subscriptions, the family's teams — into one master calendar. Keep it to yourself on every device, or share it like any other calendar.
Mac · iPhone · iPad · Free for 30 days · $19.99 once, no subscription
Colleagues, assistants, and collaborators need to see your schedule. But most institutions — rightly — won't let third-party scheduling tools log into your work account. No OAuth grants, no browser extensions, no unapproved apps. So you end up copying events by hand, or sharing five separate calendars that nobody keeps track of.
Calends never connects to your accounts. There's nothing to log into and nothing for IT to approve: it simply reads the calendars your Mac or iPhone already syncs through Apple Calendar — Outlook / Exchange, Google, iCloud, subscribed feeds — and builds one ordinary iCloud calendar out of them. Share that single calendar with the people who need it.
Need discretion? Switch the master to busy-only mode: people see when you're committed, never what or who.
The school publishes a calendar. So does hockey, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, basketball, the yoga studio. Each one has to be subscribed on every device — and the one you forget is exactly where you miss the schedule change.
With Calends, you subscribe once. Feed every calendar into one family master, and that single calendar reaches all your devices through iCloud — and your partner's, because you share it like any normal calendar. New practice time? It's just there, everywhere.
And the school's everything-feed? Add a keyword filter so the master keeps only your kid's class trips and concerts — not every grade's cafeteria schedule.
Name it, give it a color. Calends creates it as a real calendar in your own iCloud — yours, on your devices.
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.
Your source calendars are never modified. Calends only ever writes to the master calendars it maintains — delete a master anytime and every source stays exactly as it was.
Keep only the events that match — tame a noisy school or club feed down to the events your family actually attends.
Share that you're booked without sharing what you're doing. Perfect for availability calendars at work.
The same meeting in two source calendars shows up once in the master — with smart rules for which copy wins.
Calends has no backend and no sign-up. Everything runs on your devices and syncs through your own private iCloud.
People you share with just subscribe to a normal calendar — no Calends required on their end.
Calends never edits, recolors, or deletes your source calendars. Its only writing surface is the master it maintains.
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.
Anything that appears in Apple Calendar on your device: iCloud calendars, work accounts (Outlook / Exchange, Google) added to macOS or iOS, .ics subscription feeds, and calendars others have shared with you.
So your source picks stay in sync across every device, Calends identifies a calendar by its name. If two share the exact same name — most often a work Calendar, or a Holidays or Birthdays feed that shows up in more than one account — Calends can't tell them apart, and choosing one chooses both. The fix takes a few seconds: give one a distinct name in Apple Calendar (say Work — Outlook) and the clash disappears. We recommend renaming the calendar that isn't already on your other devices, and doing it on a Mac — iPhone and iPad usually won't let you rename a work (Exchange) calendar, but the Mac will.
No. There are no Calends servers and no account to create. Events live in your own calendars; settings sync through your private iCloud, which only your devices can read. Privacy policy →
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.