Is there a good app for manage my calendar?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
93
Opportunity /100
94
Demand /100
61
Competition /100
87
Execution gap /100
5
Apps serving it
42
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to manage my calendar, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| removed add stays to calendar | missing-feature | 2 | they removed the option to add stays to your calendar, and that sucks |
| removed add to calendar | missing-feature | 2 | Old version had link to add reservations into calendar. In the new interface, there is no way to add a reservation to calendar. |
| cannot choose which calendar to add events to | missing-feature | 1 | or choose which calendar to add them to |
| confusing interface to place tasks on calendar | ux | 1 | it takes me about 3 to 4 times as long to put a task on a schedule compared with using something like Apple’s calendar |
| cannot create a new calendar from app | missing-feature | 1 | I cannot create a new calendar from the app... the only way I can create a new calendar is to get onto a computer |
| calendar and reminders not combined into one app | missing-feature | 1 | why is there a seperate reminders app? Why can’t apple combine both? |
| requires full access to other calendars to work | ux | 1 | Won’t work unless access is allowed to other calendars |
| paywalled calendar viewing | price | 1 | Why should I have to pay to see a calendar? I will not pay |
| cannot edit recurrence or switch calendar account | bug | 1 | I can't adjust the reoccurrence, or switch the calendar account |
| cannot set default calendar app | missing-feature | 1 | Let me choose the default calendar app |
| no calendar synchronization | missing-feature | 1 | Would have been better if it can be synchronized with my calendars |
| no full calendar view of all events | missing-feature | 1 | I just wish there was an option to see the entire calendar at once with all of my events |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calendar | 4.9★ | 1,515,217 | Free |
| Calendars: Schedule Planner | 4.7★ | 119,621 | Free |
| Google Calendar: Get Organized | 4.5★ | 130,248 | Free |
| Calendar · | 4.6★ | 59,003 | Free |
| TimeTree: Shared Calendar | 4.9★ | 86,118 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 93 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
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