How To Sync Google, Outlook And IPhone Calendars

Want to synchronize your Outlook calendar with Google Calendar and your iPhone, With the right setup, all the synchronizing can happen automatically and within an instant behind the scenes, without your moving a finger. Enter an appointment in Outlook, and it will show up in your Gmail and iPhone calendars automatically. Edit the event later in Google Calendar, and the changes will be reflected in Outlook and on the iPhone instantaneously. Later, on the road, delete all commitments for the next 10 days — and they'll be gone from Google Calendar and Outlook right away. Now, in 10 minutes much rather than days, set up Outlook synching with Google Calendar and iPhone Calendar. If you use a free Gmail or Google Apps account:- Make sure iCal4OL is installed.- You can use a different Google Calendar or CalDAV for Outlook add-on, of course; the CalDAV settings from below should still apply. Select the desired calendar in Outlook with which you want to synchronize the Google Calendar calendar under Outlook:- To create and use a new calendar in Outlook:- Click New.

Type the desired calendar's name under Add new Outlook Folder. To start a synchronization run at any time:- Click the iCal4OL system tray icon with the right mouse button. Select Run now from the menu that appears. If you use a Google Apps for Business account, you can also use Google Apps Sync:- Download and install Google Apps Sync. Enter the email address associated with your Google Calendar account under Email:. Type your Google Calendar password under Password:. For full synchronization, make sure 2-way is selected under Sync Options. Click Save.- You can change these settings at any time by double-clicking the Google Calendar Sync system tray icon. Tap Settings on the Home screen. Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Tap Add CalDAV Account under Calendars. Enter the email address you use to log into Google Calendar under User Name as well. Enter your Google Calendar password under Password. Optionally, tap "Google Calendar" under Description.

A lot of things are great about Fantastical 2, but what separates it from the pack the most comes down to its design. Fantastical 2 is incredibly easy to use, fast, and it’s powerful enough for most people. As a basic calendar, you can view your events on a calendar and they’re visualized in a readable and easy to understand way. You can add new events without a lot of taps and the natural language entry means you can type out an event just like you’d say it out loud. Fantastical also offers up just enough options for viewing your calendar to make it useful for a variety of people. You can check out a list view in portrait mode that offers both a week ticker and a month calendar at the top, or flip your phone to landscape view to see a more detailed look at your week. These three views make it pretty easy to glance at your calendar to get a gist of your schedule at any given moment. Fantastical, don’t worry. Sunrise Calendar was our previous pick for the best calendar on iPhone.

It’s free, supports the big three calendar services, integrates weather forecasts, and links up with tons of other services. The problem is the app’s now dead after Microsoft acquired the team who made it. A lot of the Sunrise features are now being integrated into Microsoft’s Outlook app, but the iOS app for Sunrise will never get updated again. As a calendar, it does everything it needs to, but doesn’t go too far out of its way to do anything new. Finally, as far as free options go, it’s worth mentioning Google Calendar (Free). If you’re deep into Google’s ecosystem, the Google Calendar app is great. It shows you events from Gmail, to-dos, and even gives you little added features like flight information. Calendars 5 is a very capable app that includes natural language input, a task manager, and a variety of view options to glance at your calendar. The week view in Calendars 5 is good, better than Fantastical’s in some ways, but the rest of the interface is a bit lacking. Calendars 5 is also a universal app, so if you use your iPad a lot, it’s great to just purchase one app instead of two. App Directory. It’s packed with a ton of features, including multiple views, your choice of navigation app integration, templates, widgets, and more. It’s also quite possibly the ugliest option available, but that hasn’t prevented it from being one of the most popular calendar apps out there.