If we had to mention a calendar app that's exceptionally well-developed in terms of both usability and design, Cal would surely come to mind immediately . This calendar app has taken a significant leap forward with its polished visual interface and important features, making it one of the best apps of its kind for Android. Other alternatives include Agenda, Business Calendar, and Today Calendar, each offering unique advantages.
But if we had to name a calendar that had everything, we'd be hard-pressed to find one until the arrival of Sunrise, starting today. An excellent calendar, it stands out from the others by incorporating a companion app on the web, since none of them have this functionality, ultimately requiring you to use Google Calendar to view your schedule from your computer.
Sunrise for Android offers a huge number of features: calendar view, weekly and monthly views, Google Maps preview for maps and directions, contact photos, weather information, and Facebook event and birthday integration. It also has a calendar widget for your home screen that lets you schedule events quickly and easily. Sunrise updates with Google Calendar and even uses autocomplete for event locations.
While we can say that this is one of the most comprehensive calendars available , Sunrise isn't entirely perfect, as support for Exchange and tablets won't be available until this summer. There's no search bar, so you can only see one year ahead, and the monthly view doesn't show which days are booked.
Sunrise's web link is calendar.sunrise.am , and there's also a Chrome app that works offline. While not as fast as Google Calendar, it has all the features of the mobile app, such as Foursquare event history and contact avatar photos. The web app also includes event search, various pop-up windows with maps to click on events, and the ability to join Google Hangouts directly from the calendar.
One feature you might miss is the inability to create events simply by typing them, as you can in Google Calendar. Otherwise, this is a brilliant calendar app.
We could say that Sunrise is the only true cross-platform calendar application , since Google's does not allow customization in each application for all the ones you are using.
And that's not all, as Sunrise plans to integrate new services into the platform, such as GitHub or Trello, for tracking projects. You can even add interesting calendars now, like those of your favorite team or a band's concerts.
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