colorCal+ Calendar app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 3888 ratings )
Productivity Lifestyle
Developer: Don Miller
1.99 USD
Current version: 2.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 15 Feb 2010
App size: 2.72 Mb

colorCal+ is a flexible, quick, and easy-to-use calendar to help you plan, document, and track your days!

The built-in Calendar app is a great multi-function appointment calendar, but it is way too much and way too complicated if you just want to quickly mark an entire day as being special. And if you want to mark a series of special days, Calendar becomes painful to use. colorCal+ lets you effortlessly mark any day, or even a series of days, with any meaning you want, without struggling with an endless parade of screens, fiddling with on-screen keyboards, or tapping buttons one after another.

Once you have picked one of your calendars, and one of five special marks, you can mark any day in colorCal+ with just a tap! And if you want to mark several days in a row, just sweep your fingertip across those days. Thats it! No other screens, no keyboards, no buttons, and no pain! And its just as easy to remove the marks!

And its so easy to switch and flip between months and calendars. Just swipe up or down, or right or left, on the calendar!

colorCal+ lets you create an UNLIMITED number of calendars that you can create with ANY color you wish. Each calendar includes its own set of marks with individual meanings that you choose. You can also write a brief note for every day for every calendar. Now you can create DOZENS of separate colorful calendars for tracking your health, your "special" days, your work schedules and shifts, employee schedules, your days with the kids, your exercise routines and workouts, your moods, your kids music lessons, and hundreds of other uses you have not even imagined.

Each of your calendars lets you manage one aspect of your life, but sometimes you want to see if there is an overlap of events or activities for all of your calendars. colorCal+, with just a tap, even lets you see a special calendar view showing on what days your calendars overlap.

And theres even MORE!

colorCal+ lets you look ahead or back four months at a time, and see marks for all four months at a glance! Also, for either the single-month view or for the four-month view, you can email a picture of the calendars, and for the single-month view you can also send along a list of the marks for that month. Send your calendar to your friends, your boss, your employees, your family, etc.

The backup/share option helps to make sure that everything you have entered in colorCal+ is safe from disasters by enabling backup and sharing of your calendars to email or to others who want your calendars on their iPhones.

A demo video is available on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKbyv4ihlQk or on our website at http://www.eNATAL.com/colorCal

FEATURES:
- UNLIMITED number of fully-customizable calendars
- Pick ANY color for your calendars
- Five customizable marks for every calendar
- Write a note for every day for every calendar
- Every day can be marked with every mark
- Look ahead or back four months at a time
- Email photos of calendars
- Email lists of calendar marks
- Lists sorted by date, calendar, and mark
- Lists searched by time periods
- Calendar lock to avoid stray marks
- Sound effects and animated help
- Backup/Share all of your calendar information
- And MANY other easy-to-use features!

NOTE: colorCal+ does NOT synchronize, interface, or share information with ANY other calendar application or service (e.g. iCloud).

Pros and cons of colorCal+ Calendar app for iPhone and iPad

colorCal+ Calendar app good for

There are more options than the "years" application, but the user interface is less clear. Im not a fan of the color scheme used, but you can change colors used in the app. The most important thing you have to know is that you can not see several calendars is the year view, which limits the power of the app. However, the author informed me (and I saw a demo) that this functionality will be available in the next update). By the way, the support is very responsive.
I think this is a great calendar. I hope the developer considers adding some upgrades such as: - adding the ability to set times and alerts and with that ability being able to view the calendars in day view showing times and week views when you want it - enabling you to change the colors of individual marks withing each calendar - enabling you to choose specific calendars to not show in the "All calendar view" I will use the regular calendar that comes with the IPHONE for the above mentioned items, however this is a great app to get an overview of your calendars.
I really like this app! A major point besides its flexibility and simplicity, is that it doesnt sync with any other calendar. Ive got enough of those!! You can make as many personalized calendars as you want, and color code them each as well. I have to give you people 5+ stars on this one. Well done!
This is the calendar app that I have been waiting for. I bought the xoCal prior to this because it was the best there was at the time, and this app is 100 times better (xoCal was worth the $). FINALLY a calendar app that you can view a month at a glance, see multiple activities at a time plus see muliple notes for any given day. LOVE IT!!!!
I looked through hundreds of apps to find one that would serve my needs,I ran across this calendar and was amassed by how much it offers "Just Incredible". I use this for a look ahead on my schedule no other app has this feature that I know of. It is a Great to make your own marks to identify your scheduling needs,and on top of this reviewI had a request of the author to make a change to benefit me even more,and he did the change with light speed and without hassle. So I have the perfect calendar It is AWSOME!
Love this app and so glad I kept looking for an organizer. Just how I organize my written cal at home! Get it!

Some bad moments

I deleted xoCal that Ive had and used daily for years because it started crashing when I tried to open it. I downloaded this version, hoping it was my same, trusty calendar I used to rely on. Well, I cant figure how to make it function even after reading the instructions. Theres $1.99 up in flames!
Due to my trusty simple to use xoCal crashing it forces you to purchase this app for $1.99 in hopes of getting back the same user friendly calendar app we once had for free! What a huge disappointment and waste of $1.99 this app is absolute trash and Ill be deleting it after this review. I would have rather payed the $1.99 just to have my old xoCal work again!! "Warning" Buyers Beware and save you money!!!