Google Calendar

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “let AI read it and tell AI to make a google apps script to update the Google calendar. Damn!”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “I receive Google Calendar invites from scammers a couple of times a week and those show up in my invitation list just like anything else”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “exporting to Google Calendar, in particular, has worked well”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “the Google Calendar don't run (really do need to find a replacement calendar)”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “Export Google calendar from here, import same files to there" but nope, that did not work at all”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “my two biggest sources of daily spam are Google Calendar Notifications”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-07

• “I gave up on using a google calendar cli project because of all that lack of normal UX”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “some apps still add events to the (apparently default) Google calendar even after I disabled Google Calendar app”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “the built-in calendar (Google calendar) doesn't support drag and drop for adjusting event times. It made the calendar app excruciating to use - everything takes many more taps than iOS”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-01

• “Google Calendar doesn't seem to provide a nice API where you can just say "give me the events for these days", instead you can only download all of your events in iCal format. It's then extremely non-trivial to convert that information into "what is happening today".”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-22

• “google calendar really sucks, but it's like cancer, can't get rid of it it has 4 week view, but cannot slide the weeks without manually changing the url. at the end of the month, cannot see the next few weeks, which sucks.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-31

• “OAuth security reviews - Would have taken months for Google Calendar integration”

  NEGATIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-01-12

• “a better UX than Google Calendar/Trello - I just talk to it and ask it things”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-11

• “you ned to give Gemini full access to your Google Calendar (again) to get it to save your appointments or reminders. You can't use it with non-Google calendar.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-16

• “Syncs across devices. Notifications. Share with Family & Work. Repeating tasks. Supports notes and attachments. Multiple Lists (calendars). Free.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-11

• “Every little action in Google Calendar has an associated toast/snackbar to go with it that tells you exactly what you just did and asks if you want to undo it. Like wtf? I can't use my calendar app without these stupid toasts flying in and out and trying to draw my attention to read some irrelevant text.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-12-08

• “just look at meeting notes on Google calendar. I would expect that to include these notes but I'm not sure”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-01

• “Google Calendar (we use Workspace at my current org) doesn't even have solid support for good meeting invite commentary”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-01

• “Google Calendar is the single most indispensable feature of the entire Google suite for me”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-09

• “still have to rely on Google for calendar for work-related things”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-15

• “I started just sharing my google calendar directly with my language partners. It worked well and we actually met without much texting.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-21

• “I dread opening Google Calendar and parsing 4 overlapping boxes”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-01

• “Google calendar first let you enter fuzzy text to get calendar events added”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-03

• “I used Google Calendar and later Fossify Calendar and both failed me.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-19

• “I wish Google Calendar had it built in. I have to keep manually adjusting start times and it's a pain.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-05-15