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Apple iCal is great for an Apple World
May 27, 2022

Apple iCal is great for an Apple World

Adam Prose | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal)

We use iCal to coordinate private and shared availability times of our employees to help manage our time better. We have private as well as shared calendars setup and populated with the relevant information needed to plan our upcoming day, week, and sometimes month. Apple iCal allows us to not only plan for the time consideration of the event in question, but the travel time and prior preparation time needed for the event as well. We have notifications setup for reminders before, day of, and time to leave to ensure we are where we need to be.
  • Visual Organization
  • Time Management
  • Notification
  • Integration with Apple devices
  • Populating locations of events can be harder sometimes
  • Location of event may also not be in the correct place (down the street one direction or another from actual location)
  • Populating via another software can be tricky as well
  • Mostly intangible positives such as being on time
  • Having a realistic idea of your daily time commitments
  • Communicating those realistic time commitments to customers so they are not waiting on you.
Google Calendar and Apple iCal offer basically the same thing. If you have Google devices, Google Calendar is going to work better for you. If you have Apple devices, Apple iCal will work better. Both have issues with cross platform support, however, Google Calendar on an Apple device at least works whereas Apple iCal on a Google device is difficult to setup and difficult to manage.

Do you think Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) again?

Yes

Especially if they use apple devices, I would recommend this over other cloud based calendars for its tight integration with apple devices. You can generally add events by simply highlighting the relevant information and adding to the calendar. Or Apple mail will often automatically detect an event and give to the option to add it to your iCal with a single click of a button.