Notion Calendar Reviews

First of all, I got annoyed instantly right when starting to use NotionCalendar . It’s almost impossible to hold and drag to create an event of a specific length, and trying to drag an event from one day to one directly next to it is almost impossible without it jumping multiple days. It’s too sensitive and jumpy.

Also, I generally expected a lot more from NotionCalendar considering it required an invitation just to use it. It basically feels like a dumb downed Google Calendar clone. Unless you just like the design of Cron better, there’s no reason to use it over Google Calendar, or Apple Calendar, for that matter, in its current state. It needs more features to differentiate itself.

desktop version is goated, i would recommend taking some time and ensuring that the product will work better before shipping to iOS because there are going to be a lot of users coming from just natural app store traffic. I give 5 stars for the vision and what i know is possible from the cron team!

I didn’t think that anything would replace the calendar app that I’ve been using for the past few years. As a Notion user, I was intrigued when they acquired Cron and I got a beta. Its the best calendar app I’ve seen and I love how the UI is very “Apple”. The options available open up an entirely set of productivity tools. The virtual meeting features are the bomb!

👍Come for the intuitive UI/UX, stay for the innovative features and functionality!

➕The Cron app is so easy to use, and cuts out all the crud from Google calendar. Creating and managing events is now intuitive again! Plus I can easily add a Zoom conference to a meeting while on the go, while Google calendar doesn’t let me do that on their mobile app.

➖The only downside is that I wish they would have more calendar integrations than just Google. I’m looking forward to updates down the road that will hopefully add more!

👉Don’t hesitate to download NotionCalendar and delete Google’s. You will quickly forget Google calendar ever existed. 😃

I’ve been using Google Calendar for awhile, but I have made the full switch to Cron. It’s got all the functionality of Google, plus a way cleaner interface and quick shortcuts. I high recommend it to anyone!

One suggestion: add a full week view in addition to the one, two, and three day views.

i love cron, i use it on my computer all the time but my only complaint is that there is a limited number of colors. i mainly put my events in google calendar and go to cron for the clean interface. overall a great calendar

As of now from still only has support for google calendars; which is a bit odd considering it’s Apple only software as of writing this. Honestly that’s my biggest issue. Once other calendar variations work, I would give it 5 stars. No fluf, nice interactions, clean ui, easy to use. Not much more I would want from a calendar app tbh.

Cron for iOS get so much right. The 2-day view, a beautifully-designed widget, and just enough details make this Calendar the perfect companion app on iOS.

As another poster said, don’t get the hype. It’s limited in functionality and limited to Google. Deleted events in a recurring event set (from other places, like Google Calendar) is still shown on the calendar even after deleting it again in Akron. No list view. No local calendar support. No support for Caldav. Pretty limited.

I don’t understand the hype. Limited features, customizations and some of my calendars aren’t showing up despite being displayed on the cron mac app. Ive toggled the “eye” button but still not showing up. Day indicators on month view would be nice, too.

UI is nice but nothing great.

I really want to like the cron mobile app but it crashes at least three times a day. I also almost missed a call that was rescheduled since NotionCalendar didn’t update my events in time. Apple calendar support would be nice to have

Best calendar ever. So happy to have not only on the desktop, but also in my phone now

Clean UI and only the essential functions. I'm still excited to see it link to Notion.

Super clean, functional, and makes you want to use a calendar - period!

Downloaded NotionCalendar not long ago. App opens just fine but it crashes when trying to create an event even with the latest app update. Currently using an iPhone 11 with an iOS 16.1 firmware. Hope it eventually gets fixed.

Amazing design and speed! Recommend NotionCalendar for all calendar needs.

Cron is so good and just keeps getting better.

Interesting and pretty UI, but events from my connected accounts are all hours off, and there’s no timezone setting anywhere. It’s unusable.

crashes or shows a black screen within seconds of launch. Only happened after 4th use. Now unable to use it at all.

Yo you asked for access to my email, contacts, and calendars and then logged me out saying I’m not a user. I’ve never seen an app take all that data just to do nothing. Never even got to the calendar view…

If your goal is to match the other main calendar apps then 1) you need to allow a way to use it without signing into Google (because why would I use Cron if I have to also use Google? That’s just extra work on my part) and 2) you need to add more features. For example, add tasks to the calendar with the ability to color-code, add a notes section (like Google Keep), let me view by week on NotionCalendar , etc. These are things that will put you on the same level as the others. If you want to beat them, then you need even more features, such as specific features for students. Cron can become a great, superior app but there is a LOT of work to do before that can ever happen.

The overall UI is smooth and clean. The color tones blend well together, making the events easier to distinguish and navigate. Love this a lot.

One thing that I think is very strange is how there are no weekly and monthly view modes. It would be nice to have a better idea of what my week will look like and what day of the month an event will occur (like someone’s birthday). I’m not sure if this is purely meant to distinguish Cron from Google Calendar, but it’s an annoying oversimplification.

My second suggestion (less of a priority than ciew modes) is to add a task bar somewhere. Maybe have a separate tab for that so that it’s possible to make a to do list.

I understand that NotionCalendar is in the early stages and look forward to improvements. Will definitely up my rating after adding weekly and monthly view modes.

I like the design of NotionCalendar more than Google Calendar or Apple’s native calendar app, and it seems to be better at staying in sync with your actual calendar.

Unfortunately, I’ll be deleting NotionCalendar for now because it’s way too laggy. Basic interactions like scrolling, changing views, and looking ahead to future days take more than 20 seconds to respond. This is unacceptable for a calendar app where I want to quickly check my schedule, add an event, and move on.

At product launch time, on iOS, Cron sometimes seems erratic. Event timing might change repeatedly to unexpected values when trying to set up an event. Thus, it can require multiple attempts to get it right.

The principal problem is the instruction about how to control the default time zone is confusing. The important point is to tap on three letter time zone abbreviation in the upper left area, so then can choose the default.

I’m enjoying NotionCalendar thus far. It’s smooth, simple and clean looking UI.

While I know NotionCalendar is still in beta, my cons are:
- No iPad version
- Reminiscent of Google Calendar
- No email notifications
- No file attachment capabilities

There might be more but this is all I can think of for the time being. I would love to make this my main calendar, but until these features are added + more to truly set itself apart from Google and others, then Google or the native apple calendar will continue to be my main calendar for schedule management.

Desktop app is amazing and they just released an amazing web viewer. NotionCalendar needs work and I do prefer Google calander app over this one till more stuff is added like full month view but Cron itself is amazing.

The design is much nicer than Google Calendar for time blocking days, but overall Cron is essentially a glorified Google Calendar client. I would love to see completable tasks added, this would separate Cron from Apple or Google Calendar and actually add another reason to use it over those apps other than a pretty design.

I’m not a fan of Google or Apple Calendar and love the simplicity and features of Cron. It is continually being updated and developed and already has almost every feature I would want in a calendar app.

It comes with a slick design but basic features. I get annoyed when I can't put "1 day before" alert while on mobile.
I am giving it a chance by using it as a default calendar app for a few months, but if more features aren't added it will be a waste of time.

Priority #1 for any calendar app should be a month view. If you go back to basics and look at the old traditional calendars hung on a wall, you see a month view of everything coming up for the month. I dare say it shouldn’t have been released without one. Great start to NotionCalendar , but it will be mostly irrelevant until that is added. I’ll update my review as time goes on.

I know NotionCalendar is still young she's I needed an invite to download it but it currently needs a Google log in to work. Seems like extra work. Also at the time of writing this there isn't a full month view? Seems like a no brainer to include that.

I don't find myself going to NotionCalendar over apple or Google defaults.

From other reviews - seems many enjoy the desktop and I'll have to give that a try and review that version at some point.

If you want something different this might be for you on iOS. Otherwise no point to use this over Google and Apple defaults

I like that it's quick to view, create and edit events. The interface is pleasant, clean and effective. I don't understand the hype about this, as it's not THAT much better for my needs than alternatives.

If there is a Search function in the iOS version, I can't find it after looking a few times carefully. So either it's there and just hidden, or it doesn't exist yet, I can't use Cron as my Calendar app yet because Searching by text is fundamental for me.

"When did I meet them last?"
"When is my next event with so-and-so?"
"When was my Kansas meeting?

When it works, it’s great. But desktop has been buggy and the mobile app won’t even load my calendar without crashing. I really want to give NotionCalendar a better score but without a clear support channel this is the only option I have to leave feedback.

I need a month view, and search for NotionCalendar to replace google calendar on my phone.

Great looking and easy to use interface and I love how it syncs up with video meetings and calls to immediately join them.

The only things missing that would make it a 5 star app for me are the lack of a week or month view and maybe an extra widget style for the Home Screen.

I absolutely love the Cron desktop app. Unfortunately, the iOS app is a far cry from the same level of polish and usability.

The performance of NotionCalendar is abysmal. When opening NotionCalendar and loading my calendars, the entire app freezes for 2-10 seconds before I can do anything. This is in addition to lag experienced while using NotionCalendar after it’s loaded.

There are frequent glitches like getting stuck in a state where I can’t open event details, the section of the calendar that displays full day events cutting off random events, etc.

My request to the Cron iOS would be to prioritize performance and fixing some of the more egregious bugs before anything else. I don’t care about any new features if NotionCalendar is basically unusable.

The great thing about Notion is its interoperability. It’s clean, smooth, has a variety of methods to use, access, and work with different sources and types of data, and you can even login with any existing auth provider-like apple. So being sent an email about a new calendar app was thrilling, and discovering it’s a reskinned app called Cron which only works with google accounts and isn’t even sso with your notion account on iOS is extremely disappointing. I feel misled, especially as the website button to go to NotionCalendar store page is labeled as “Download for iOS.” While I see references to it working with google cal further down, this information is not highlighted, and it feels like a simple ploy to drive initial downloads to justify company metrics, leaving users who expect basic calendar functionality (every calendar app on the market supports more than one calendar provider) to delete NotionCalendar and hope for an update. This is the first time I’ve been dissapointed in the Notion team, as their app is as perfect as an app can get. An alarming move by their company.

I'll still call it Cron so it's easier to type. Cron is an great calendar and helps me get through tasks throughout the week. NotionCalendar itself isn't all that, I would advise you to instead plan out everything on the website first then use NotionCalendar as a reminder. Another point is how simple it is to use and see. Now here is what I wish that they would upgrade. I would personally want more colors. You get options from 6-7 colorsbut with how many events I have, I will a couple more colors to distinguish which is which. Another thing is make the calendar APP more easier to set up event and look better. It's a very simple app but has so much potential especially with all the other calendar apps already having many other features.

Just jumping on here while the release is fresh to say how grateful I am that Notion has added this calendar to integrate so well with its software. So far everything has been seem less. I absolutely needed Time blocking and Google calendar integrations for me to switch over to Notion for task management and you just gave me that. I like that the calendar is a separate clean app that is clearly optimized for its purpose.

I’m going to echoe what users of Cron were asking for which is more than just a 3day view and a way to see all your tasks in a list mode directly in NotionCalendar . For some reason the widgets can display things in a list but I can’t do this internally.

Next would be an app for the iPad since this is one of my prime working tools.

Lastly would be a way to check tasks off as complete directly in NotionCalendar .

Y’all have helped me move everything off of my Tick Tick app and keep my life more centralized. I’ll still be using TickTick for Pomo timers and habit tracking as the ui allows for more gamification but otherwise solid job y’all!

Cron is an amazing calendar that everyone should have on their desktop and on their mobile phone. It’s easy to schedule. I love that you can see all of your dates. But there are a few suggestions.

1. I would like to see more than just a three day maximum view on the mobile app.

2. On the desktop application, you should be able to change the physical location when you are sending out suggested times. Unfortunately by doing it the way that they have it set up. I have to resend a separate email with the adjusted location. It’s not a huge deal but it is an extra step.

3. It would be very helpful if there is an agenda view to see everything that you have in sequential order.

4. It would be amazing if we could do the suggested scheduling on Mobile.

That’s all there’s nothing else I can really think that would improve the application. Oh, one small thing. I would pay for the feature to remove the Cron calendar logo at the bottom of all the scheduling and if I could personalize it to my company.

I am an enthusiastic user of your app and appreciate the seamless integration with Google Calendar. However, I would greatly benefit from additional calendar support, specifically for Microsoft and Apple iCloud calendars. Many of my important schedules and events are distributed across these platforms, and having them integrated into your app would significantly enhance my productivity and user experience.

Is there a plan to include Microsoft and Apple iCloud calendars in future updates? This feature would undoubtedly make your app more versatile and user-friendly for those of us who rely on multiple calendar platforms.

No deduction for only supporting Google Calendar since that's clearly stated in the description but I had at least hoped i I could get away with using JUST my items within Notion. Nope, it won't let me past the first screen unless I grant google calendar permissions. We're not a GApps shop, but do do have a workspace so I can authenticate. Ideally, I'd just figure out (making my own API calls or manually) adding Teams/Outlook events but I can't get that far. I'll update this once the feature set expands to at least let me skip the GCal portion.

Also, the iOS app forces itself into an iPhone aspect ratio even on an iPad, which is annoying. The notion app itself does not do this.

First of all I know that NotionCalendar still in development stage :

This is the problem that faced me or maybe annoyed me right after I downloaded NotionCalendar [lets seek the improvement ]
As a notion user the idea of I cant use the calendar in the horizontal view in the iPad is so bad it is just like having a machine and I cant reach my limit in it

Second as everyone suggest Here is the view of the 3 day as a MAX is not flexible and it does not give the full view of the week

Third because it is bad to mention just the bad factor but as I said lets use these feedbacks and improve the Program

By the way it has the potential to become the 1st productivity app because now we are talking about the idea of having an Task maneger and the calendar from the same company so the sync will be the best and we are talking about the Idea of note taking and other factor so Keep going guys .
Your friend
Hashim

I like the keyboard shortcuts and integration with my workspace. A feature I would love to see is natural language event creation. Fantastical has implemented this, and it’s the only reason I use that calendar. I want to be able to add an event a simply type “Lunch on Friday from 3-4 alert 30 min”. I feel that this would be pretty easy to implement particularly with Notion’s AI integration. I would consider a paid version if this feature was offered.

I love the design and interface of the calendar, but the issue comes with the account limitations.

First, I’d love not to have to sign in through Google and be able to use the same Notion Sign-in with Apple.

Second, viewing non-Google calendars, even if it were just a way to subscribe to another calendar, would be amazing!

So, while I would love to use Notion Calendar because it has impressive features and viewing database calendars from my workspaces is fantastic, not being able to add my other non-Google calendars is a significant drawback and, unfortunately, makes it inconvenient in my workflow. I hope extra calendar options will be added so I can use Notion Calendar to the best extent for my workflow!

This is a lovely extension to the Notion Ecosystem. My only request (and I am sure you are already working on this) is native platform expansion - I would love to be able to use this with my iPad and Apple Watch.

Also not a biggie but it would be nice if we could toggle the sidebar on the right in Desktop, but Apple calendar doesn’t let you do this either.

This experience is a total fail on the ipad. It is designed for the small iphone screen with a maximum 3 day view.
So, one might think that you could access it on the web for the larger ipad screen, but no.
The notion team has this very bad habit of limiting what you can do in a web browser on the tablets, even if you install an alternative browser to try to get around the silly restrictions. It’s as if they think you should only do certain limited things on a tablet, or else use a desktop. I guess none of them ever work on the road, or if they do, they like lugging bigger laptops around.
In the case of calendars, it simply won’t show the web version on the ipad. I have wasted a fair bit of time trying. Maybe there’s a way, but it is certainly not obvious. Given the sad state of NotionCalendar for larger screens, accessing it on the web shouldn’t be hard, it should be easy. It should be obvious.
Rarely do I write such negative reviews, but my company pays Notion a lot of money every month, and this kind of unnecessary limiting of our use of the product on tablets has gotten me to a breaking point.
Notion, please shape up. Make the experience on tablets MUCH better, for calendar and all your products.

I was really excited about trying NotionCalendar since I currently have to balance several Google, Microsoft, and iCloud calendars due to family, projects, and work needs. The number one feature that pulled me in was the auto decline events. NotionCalendar currently only syncs with multiple Google calendars so my family and work (Microsoft) commitments are left living in different apps.
I’m sure these integrations are coming at a later date, but it’s not ready for a power user.
(It syncs with your primary iCloud account but it does not allow you to add new events or manage those already existing events. Our family has a household iCloud where all common family commitments are listed and I was not able to add that calendar.)

I’ve been wanting a real calendar from you guys for some time so this is great!! But I have two requests: first that you make NotionCalendar more iPad friendly (have the ability to enter full screen, etc) and 2, that when items from Notion Databases end up on the calendar that they have more “info” than they do, more like a native Event… like there’s no way to repeat or set a location or add other notes… idk if it’s even possible but it would be cool. Oh, and more colors! At least the 10 colors that are available in Notion so I can color coordinate between the two apps! :) love you guys tho

i have been using Notion for awhile and always hated that i couldn’t get a direct integration with my calendar. it’s a huge relief to now see a snapshot, however, i want to mark tasks as complete in NotionCalendar but there’s no way to do that. also frustrating that i cannot create a recurring task or event without using my google calendar. i want to be able to create meeting notes related to recurring events but separated by date. it would also be great if i could integrate my habit tracker or daily health log and have the checkboxes carry over.

The complete lack of ability to use Notion Calendar effectively on an iPad either through a native app or a web app is both a major disappointment and a roadblock to using it more fully. This should be a top priority for the next evolution of NotionCalendar . Other than that I generally like it quite a bit. But we are too far into the age of iPads to still be having iPhone-specific apps as the only option for iPads. They are less than useless.

First, the calendar is actually just a Google Calendar integration, and second to bring in databases you have to have very specific set ups and poke around.

I’m a paid, Notion user and a paid Akiflow user, and while I love Notion for notes and databases, and all of that, I use a highly complex template and I’m not poking around different views just to make it integration work when it works perfectly fine inside Akiflow.

I know a lot of people are disappointed that the big announcement was just a calendar, but the biggest disappointment for me was that the calendar was not simply built-in to the existing product, and that it’s not actually as good as third-party products built to work with Notion.

This is a solution looking for a problem that is better solved elsewhere, unfortunately. I don’t really have any tips for NotionCalendar , because I don’t really see why it should exist. Maybe if it added features like a non-Google Calendar, or possibly AI integration with creating calendar views and schedules by just talking to it. Just very unimpressive.

I used Cron awhile back. It’s great to see the comeback in a dev team like Notion’s!

First iteration here is a little buggy, though. For ex, I just tried creating an all day event in the future and, though it worked, the UI displayed the wrong Start Date as I was creating the event.

Also, I opened NotionCalendar and it displayed a symbol of a cloud with a line through it, as if to indicate I was offline. NotionCalendar was essentially read only. I had connectivity, though, and had to quit + reopen NotionCalendar for it to work properly. Strange UX!

It would be great to be able to easily send feedback in NotionCalendar with a video or screenshots!

Some requests/suggestions:

- A 3 day view is somewhat limited
- There’s no search functionality
- It would be great to have a list view of events, like Apple Calendar

Thanks for putting NotionCalendar out!! I’m super psyched about it.

Notion database integrations, appointments, notes, a lot of good stuff here.

1/5 tablet support!!! Literal mobile port, looks horrendous. As a software engineer I’m shocked this was approved — passing QA, UAT; multiple layers of testing missed this.

Phone and desktop… Very good. A bit clunky here and there, but I really do see immense potential. People who compare this to Google Calendar don’t know of the power of Notion — and having my Notion data in a Calendar (that’s not the very lackluster Notion “calendar view”, separate from NotionCalendar) is exciting.

I was thrilled for NotionCalendar. I have an iCal on my phone and ipad, Google Calendar on my laptop and PC, and Notion reminders on everything. Having it all on one would be amazing! After connecting my iCal and Google Calender, Notion picked up those events. However, its still not picking up any of my reminders or dates in my actual Notion..? Not sure what is happening there. Once this is solved, I’ll be content. What would make it way better is once NotionCalendar is out of its “beta” version and more customizable on NotionCalendar and definitely an iPad screen size.

At last, a fully cross-platform calendar app that isn’t wedded to Microsoft Office! As Microsoft charges monthly fees for Outlook, and has begun injecting targeted ads into its Mail and Calendar apps, this is a much better alternative across Windows and iOS, fully integrated with Notion, for managing multiple calendars across multiple services.

However, the iOS app lacks some features of its desktop counterpart. A few minutes into using and I immediately see:
- no week view, even in horizontal mode,
- no month-at-a-glance view, and,
- no apparent way to customize the time for pre-event reminders.

The general design itself outside these flaws is lovely and I do recommend NotionCalendar for just being user friendly and easy to use in a way that even Google Calendar and Apple’s Calendar are not (they’re not the savviest at interacting with calendars from other services…can’t imagine why 🙄).

Please fix these and commit to more design need-finding and UX improvements so we can finally have the calendar app that really does it all!

I really do love the desktop version of NotionCalendar - it’s beautiful, got great functionality, and I really like how easy it is to join zoom calls when the notif pops up. The only downside (and the reason I still have apple calendar on my phone) is that I need a rectangular widget on my iPhone home screen, and I need it to show both the date, large, and as many of my events as possible. The notion rectangular widget right now is attractive, but not as functional as Apple because it shows very few events and the date is too small. Once that change is made, I’m sure I’ll be a devotee.

NotionCalendar has great potential. I love how it integrates with Notion and I can see all of the tasks that I create there on specified dates. That is absolutely incredible and why I’m going to continue using this calendar over other calendars.

However, the fact that there is no iPad version is really frustrating. You have to go to the web to really view it. And it’s very buggy on the phone. It takes a while sometimes for things to update. I might have a task that I moved to a different date on my computer and it will still show for several hours on my calendar that it still due today.

I really want to love NotionCalendar because I love notion, but it’s clear that there aren’t enough resources devoted to notion calendar’s upkeep and development. Unfortunately NotionCalendar fails at the most important job of a calendar app: accurately representing your calendar. The recurring events in my google calendar don’t correctly display here, they end a day earlier than they do in my google calendar. And if I remake the same recurring event in notion calendar then it ends a day later than it should when I view it in google calendar. Since NotionCalendar is really just a visualization of google calendar with some extra features, this is an egregious mistake. One that unfortunately is a dealbreaker. There is one thing I need my calendar to be, and that is accurate. I don’t think I can ever put my trust in a calendar app that has the kind of bug that could cause me to miss an appointment.

The developers of this mobile app in particular have not really done anything with it since it was first released in beta as cron.
We’ve been asking for a “weekly” view for literally years now (something that Google Calendar has as well as one of their newer competitors, Amie calendar) and it seems clear that it just isn’t happening. They say it’s difficult to build…but the truth is, if they had done a good job with the architecture of their “3 days” view, the weekly view should be relatively simple.

There is literally no reason at all to use the Notion Calendar mobile app. Even if you like the desktop version, just add that calendar to your Google Calendar app on mobile and you will have a much better experience.

I have been using this calendar since the Cron days. Let it be said that I don’t love Notion, so I do not use any of the Notion integration features. Here are my current issues:
1. The dater picker does not update without restarting NotionCalendar . But the date and the time in the main view are accurate.
2. The calendar had an issue awhile back after being opened for a long time where one date was dropped so all the numeric dates of the month were bumped back one week day.
3. Creating and editing custom repeating events is bad. My week preference is S M T W, etc. The weekday chooser for repeating events is S S M T W, etc. But the backend is actually reflecting my preferences, so to repeat an event on Monday you would have select the second “S”.
4. The new logo is GARBAGE. The old logo was stunning. Same with the name. What a disappointment.
5. The built-in bug reporting system crashes NotionCalendar .
As far as aesthetic, it is the best calendar app out there. Great on both mobile and desktop. I really hope the developers address the issues above so that I can continue using this application.

I love notion and I’d love a better integration with my calendar, but NotionCalendar is just too buggy. I’ve been using it since it launched and I’m still having issues with events disappearing (especially when there’s overlapping times), taking too long to show up on my calendar after creating (making me think it didn’t work), and an issue with the custom repeat screen (the days of the week listed are off by a day—after selecting a day of the week to repeat on, once you go back to the previous screen it’s off by a day).

I have to go back to the default iOS calendar. I just wish it had the 3-day view like notion.