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BusyCal 3.0 — The most powerful calendar app for Mac and iOS
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I use Google Calendar wrapped as a Mac app using Fluid – http://fluidapp.com/ – it's free! Never going back to anything else.
@nivo0o0 if someone creates a Sunrise clone (full experience), you will have my money and I'm am openly telling you to spam me when it's released.
@nivo0o0 Anybody trying Any.do / Any.do Calendar? Had left that to go to Sunrise.
@nivo0o0 @tomfme @jeremykovac @dnuzum @jphenow @aplrst @absolut_zer0 @mbesto @quad_bx Guys, don't be sad. We were just as disappointed as you... so we decided to build the replacement app we needed!
We're launching Kin: you can already try the desktop web beta on http://www.kin.today 🎉
iOS is in private beta with friends & family, you can expect a more public beta before the end of Sunrise 😉
@felixtarcomnicu yeah! I also wrap Trello, Google Keep, Pipedrive, Airtable, Remember The Milk, Typeform, and Soundcloud with Fluid. Mac apps for everything to stay hyper-organized.
Are there any iOS calendar apps (including this one) that pull in Meetup and Eventbrite events like Sunrise does? I haven't seen that functionality anywhere else.
@nickstravelbug no social calendar integrations yet but if you use gmail/google apps, it automatically creates calendar events from emails. You should check out meet calendar app, hunted today!
This is a great app. I downloaded soon after it became available. They still have some bugs to work out, but as far as I know, it is the only app to sync with exchange categories. It does not do color sync yet on iOS but I have to assume that will be available in a future update.
@bullstern I've been using Simpliday for the past month and so far pleased with it. I'd give it a "B"
@bullstern I was an early sunrise user. Couldn't find an alternative that has the same rich experience for mobile, so I'm building @meetnucleus, in private beta right now.
Could someone just build a Sunrise clone with the Meet feature? Please? You'd have my money if you did.
@troblous Yay! This calendar dev stuff seems difficult to accomplish and I think Sunrise is the only one that got it right. At least that I've seen.
Longtime Sunrise user and I just bought Fantastical 2 for iOS and doing the free trial of the Mac app for now. I'm trying to see what makes this calendar app the most powerful? Sunrise has(d) incredible integrations. I knew if I added agreed to to go anything I didn't have to think about it, it just ended up in my calendar. Does this calendar have any integrations besides Wunderground?
@nickstravelbug @jowanza @jowanza Our app Kin (http://www.kin.today) includes both Meetup and Eventbrite integrations 😉
@troblous Thanks I just requested an invite. It's looks like it will be similar to Sunrise with all of the integrations.
Very responsive and helpful support, solid developer, best calendar I've used over time. Works well for iOS too.
Pros:Integrated Calendar, To-Do's and weather, brilliant view and list options
Cons:I'd like a night/dark mode ... ;)
Since the new version, my favorites 2 features are the tag option, that add different color to events and the note option that allow to add quick note on them. Overall, love the app
@sfzhu I guess my issue is that we are seeing a ton of innovation with email clients. I love my CloudMagic client while Polymail is helping to redefine email as well. I gladly paid for Cloudmagic which was reasonably priced and it solved a lot of problems for me. I have yet to see a Calendar that has the same effect. Regardless of how it's subsidized, Innovation is innovation. Sunrise has proven that.
@zedsq
You say "Regardless of how it's subsidized, Innovation is innovation." As a consumer, it totally fine to say that — that's how capitalism works! However, if you want to talk about why apps in certain markets are successful and why certain others aren't, it definitely does help to look at all the details. And when you look, you see that email and calendar both have to play catch-up to the pre-installed apps so much, only to find a niche consumer base. (And yes, I consider Cloudmagic and Polymail be used by only a niche consumer base – just wait a few years and see if these apps are still around.)
"Sunrise has proven that." Have they? I think most of us agree that Sunrise is great, but they probably were not sustainable; otherwise, they probably would have not agreed to be bought by a company that eventually killed their product.
Competition is good, but the high turnover rate of mail and calendar apps has shown that it's hard to be sustainable – you're using apps free courtesy of VC money, but VC money won't last forever.
What's funny is that Apple's Calendar and Mail apps might owe their success to open standards – ICAL, IMAP, POP, SMTP, and friends; otherwise they'd only support much fewer mail providers. Perhaps Apple owes it to the developer community to open source their a larger portion of their app codebase?
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