The Apple iCloud Calendar (formerly iCal), is the calendar tool associated to Apple's productivity product suite.
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The Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) desktop app is useful as far as convenience goes on a Mac, versus the Outlook website, however it doesn't work as well as Outlook. In my experience, Outlook is more trustworthy and doesn't duplicate and hide events nearly as often (if at all) …
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Chief commercial officer in Sales at Endra (Medical Device, 11-50 employees)
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Google Calendar is a superior product with complete integration with email and video conferencing tools. Overall more suitable for a heavy professional use.
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The both work just great. Still, having a iOS device based company, iCal has been of great ease of use throughout. Also, the interphase with the user is a bit more comfortable to us.
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Ingeniero de soporte a redes in Professional Services at MONARCH MEXICO (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees)
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apple ical has the tools i need at work to schedule everything and now i can sync my Google Calendar there to manage my accounts in one app.I used to miss meetings or be late for a conference because I had my calendars from different email accounts in separate managers and that …
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Service Manager in Information Technology at Bailey Office Outfitters (Retail, 1-10 employees)
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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 …
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For our Mac and IOS users, the use of the native iOS calendar and the cloud associated with it was an obvious choice for us, especially with the distribution of Apple products to our teams out in the field. For android users, it is easy to access the same services using the …
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General Manager in Corporate at Nevada Special Utility District (Utilities, 1-10 employees)
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Apple calendar with family share allows me to communicate my work schedule with my family's various activities to prevent scheduling conflicts. Because all of our calendars are synced among all of our devices, we are able to plan accordingly without the need of scheduling, …
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I prefer iCal for it’s overall design. Many of my colleagues use Google Calendar because it is more common across other organizations. I’ve also used Calendly in the past, which can tie into other calendar systems to help schedule appointments. The overall experience with iCal …
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Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) is great for managing appointments. It is especially helpful when it comes to making changes and resetting calls/meetings for the future. Working with software demos to clients, we commonly see last minute reschedules and this makes the process …
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Google Cal and Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) are comparable. I like the ability to add Google Meetings easily within that app.
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I consider iCal a very basic software when compared to the Google Calendar. The Google Calendar offers more advanced features and is easy to integrate with other software, I've found. Its layout is more up-to-date and it seems to make things easier. I find it's also best when …
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CMO in Marketing at Beyond Intent (Sports, 1-10 employees)
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As a native app for Apple devices, it is great - but I think that Google Workspace (and Calendar) is better, especially as the Meet default for a video call is built in. I have and do use Office 365 - and with Teams you can schedule a video or Teams call too, but I don't like …
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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.
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It allows me to set multiple reminders before a meeting
When I add an address it automatically links to Apple Maps so I can see where i am going and also how long it will take me. I can easiy click on the link and it will start navigation for me, pretty cool
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I would love it to have more visualizations and not just the classic one in a common calendar and that it could be customized
You have the possibility to have a face-to-face call by sharing a link that, in my opinion, could be improved by creating groups of only contacts and limiting access to the meeting.
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As I've said, Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) does not work well when integrated with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook calendars. It's not very usable. Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal) does not stay in sync well at all with Microsoft Exchange/Outlook. You will waste a lot of time manually resyncing your calendars and you will never be able to fully trust Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal).
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For our Mac and IOS users, the use of the native iOS calendar and the cloud associated with it was an obvious choice for us, especially with the distribution of Apple products to our teams out in the field. For android users, it is easy to access the same services using the web-based client, and iCal allows various account types to be added to calendar invites. The iCal application allows the addition of 3rd party email and calendar accounts allow to be seamlessly integrated. All of the calendar accounts can be overlayed along with the native iCloud accounts. Google Calendar by comparison struggled to do all of these things as well, preferring their google Meet as the conference software and preferring Gmail accounts over all other types.
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As mentioned previously iCal provides more info to me than just an appointment
i can add attachments like notes or links to other services inside the appointment and these will synchronise across my devices.
The search functionality in iCal allows me to save items in the notes and then find them at a later stage. An example - I save key information about meetings or activities and then when I am looking for it at a later stage i can jjst search iCal and find it without having to look for documents or through my notes.
There is no default video call setting (like Google has Meet as a default and Microsoft has Teams) this is a problem in that I can't schedule video calls so the work around is that I sync to a Gmail calender and then schedule the video call (Meet) in Google
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