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CalenGoo - Easy calendar
Tested version: 1.0.32
Latest version: 1.0.75
Requires Android: from 1.6
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Summary
I often find myself browsing the Market for a straight-forward, well-thought-out calendar that doesn’t come with too many fancy functions and features, and let me tell you that they aren’t easy to come by. I look for a calendar that will provide me with the essentials, i.e. a precise, quick overview of my appointments, rather than distract me with anything else. Simple and easy controls are also important. CalenGoo seems to tick both those boxes—find out more in today’s review.
Features & Use
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“Appointments, dates, deadlines, and, oh, three of my friends have birthdays coming up.”
Syncing with Google Calendar
CalenGoo syncs your appointments with your Google Calendar, which is especially useful if you plan on managing your calendar from your web interface. If you use labels to categorise your appointments they will be displayed accordingly. Seeing as the labels will organize your appointments according to colour, you will not only have a lovely looking calendar but will be able to suss out what you’ve got going on in the next few days very quickly.
The app can be used even if you decide not to sync; syncing is not absolutely necessary.
Get an overview of your day, week or month
CalenGoo can display up to four different calendar views. Choose between a detailed view of your day, week or month, or else a list of all your upcoming events. The landscape view affords you a very good overview of your appointments.
Display Google Tasks
You will appreciate this function if you also use Google to organize your tasks. CalenGoo will display all of your tasks in the calendar. Now, you might be thinking that the security issue is set on the back burner at this point, as the app needs your Google login data to perform this function. One would think that in the era of OAuth and AuthSub this type of thing could and should be circumvented, and cautious users may be seeing a red flag at this point. Never fear, I’ve done a bit of research so as to soothe your minds, my faithful readers! Syncing tasks with CalenGoo can also be done using the safe AuthSub process. In order for this to work you first have to activate synchronization within your Google Calendar account. This authorization is then automatically transferred.
There were issues with syncing during the testing phase: it kept crashing with an error report. We contacted the developer regarding this issue, but he didn’t get back to us in time for our copy deadline.
Developers' Response Regarding Task Synching With AuthSub [UPDATE!]
"Google Tasks synchronization does not yet support AuthSub Login, it only works with the correct password. If you feel uncomfortable entering your password in CalenGoo, you can turn on Google's new 2-step verification and generate an 'application specfic password' for CalenGoo (only applicable to those with normal Google accounts, not Google Apps Accounts)."
This email from the developers confirms that it is perfectly safe to use CalenGoo's task synchronization. Well done on the part of the developer's support team!
Settings—let’s get personalized!
CalenGoo’s design is simple but good (more details in Screen & Controls). Users are pretty much given carte blanche at styling the display according to their preferences. Changing the colours and display mode for widgets, or setting time zones—everything is possible.
Widgets all around the world
Android is capable of quite a lot more than the iPhone. Widget—the word sends most Android lovers little hearts aflutter. CalenGoo makes the most out of widget. Select a widget for lists, months, weeks and days and set which size the widget should have. Sizes ranges from 2x2 to full screen. You can also choose what colour and transparency your widget should have.
Bottom line + “what can other calendar apps do?”
Jorte is a calendar classic; it has an upper hand on CalenGoo in the sense that it’s free. Jorte can be synced with the Google Calendar, too, and it too comes with lots of settings options. Business Calendar Free and Calendar Pad are also very good. Pocket Informant-Events, Tasks is also available from the Market, but it costs EUR 4,50 and it can’t do everything that CalenGoo can do.
As you can see, there’s lots of competition… but CalenGoo is simple and functional, plus controls are easy. It’s an app that will bring more structure into your calendar. The widgets help you keep on top of what’s most important, and the settings options are generous. The app’s design is rather simplistic when it comes to colour, but you can remedy that and make changes according to your own preferences. The option to Dran’n’ Drop events is a big highlight. What matters in the end is really what you like—but we highly recommend CalenGoo nonetheless!
Advantages
• Easy controls
• Good support
• Great options of personalizing
• Great landscape view
• Lots of widgets to choose from
• Shifting events around is a breeze thanks to Drag’n’Drop
• Google sync
Drawbacks
• AuthSub does not work with task sync with Google
• Back-Hard-Key doesn’t always work
• No Apps2SD
Screen & Controls
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Adjustable design
As mentioned, the colouring is quite basic and discreet. However, if you like you can make adjustments within the settings. The same goes for widgets.
Controls—easy, peasy, lemon squeezy!
Ah, Drag’n’Drop, we love you! Shifting events around isn’t always hassle free when using other apps… but it is when using CalenGoo! CalenGoo is a real timer-saver: use Drag’n’Drop to move events around without much ado. Syncing with the Google Calendar occurs automatically, meaning that you will see changes you’ve made online after only a few seconds.
Swiping also works a charm, making it fun to use a calendar—who would’ve thought?
Counterintuitive controls?
A double tap is needed to activate every function or view every appointment—something most of us aren’t used to. This came across as somewhat counterintuitive to me. The Hard-Key-Back button doesn’t always work in the detail view of an event, meaning you can’t bypass the Save or Cancel functions. The little check boxes have to be hit quite precisely whenever you want to activate or deactivate something in the settings—weird.
Speed & Stability
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CalenGoo performed really well throughout the testing phase. Syncing with Google Calendar was really fast and easy, just the way we like it!
Price/Performance Ratio
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CalenGoo can be dowloaded for € 5,39 from the App Center.
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Market Comments
Alec, May 12, 2012
Good customer service. Wasn't overly fond of the look on my Galaxy Note compared to stock calendar. Good feedback and customer service from developer though.
Austin, May 11, 2012
So good it hurts This is my favorite Cal program out there. The only thing I do not like is the discrepancies between the widget and the core app
Kim, May 11, 2012
Love this The interface is beautifully clean and the functionality is fantastic. I really love this app - it's undoubtedly the best calendar I've tried. It doesn't seem to be able to sync directly Google's 'fixed' calendars though, like public holidays or contacts birthdays; I can only get them by syncing via the stock Android calendar.A useful addition would be the ability to include Internet calendars independently of Google - Google's refresh rate of these is so abysmal that it's hardly worth bothering, but sometimes it's necessary. I can barely function without my Tripit calendar but still have to resort to MS Outlook to be sure I'm looking at an up-to-date version.
DHBuckley, May 11, 2012
Absolutely indispensable. This is so completely well implemented, thoroughly and nicely supported and just plain constantly useful that it is almost impossible to believe. It is a template for software development and for providing value. Thank you, Dominique.
Rebecca, May 9, 2012
Former palm user This is as close to perfect as exists now in android. Some issues with time zones, recurring events but dev SUPER responsive with assist. UPDATE: time zone issues fixed! Dev super responsive, thank you so much! If you travel & have meetings in other time zones than your home zone, other apps screw up the event times once phone system updates to the new time zone! But not Calengoo: buy it, you won't regret, best support ever.
, May 8, 2012
Best calendar app This is the best calendar app. Gives many options. Well worth the money. I have had this app for 2 years and it has worked for me and I encourage everyone else to use this app.
K-Mac, May 8, 2012
LOVE~LOVE~LOVE! Widget is awesome for calendar, but you need to be able to pick task list for widget, and have it go up to 4x4 too. Would buy if avail
UT PharmD 2013, May 8, 2012
Perfect! I love that you can include your task list as well!! Other apps that I have looked into have not included that feature.
WES, May 8, 2012
Rev This is the best calendar app I've found. The response by the developer to queries is excellent.thank you for your hard work.
David, May 7, 2012
Pop up on calendar widget This needs a pop up for the calendar widget. Other than that it's perfect.
ludger.fremmer, May 7, 2012
Absolutely awsome Better than all others I tried. Highly customisable, glad to have made the investment. Keeps getting better, never found a calendar to replace it yet.
5320, May 6, 2012
Awesome Quickly able to view my kids calendars and my own separately or at the same time. Syncs google calendars effortlessly.
Aglari, May 5, 2012
Has all the features, visuals are subpar This application has a ridiculously huge settings menu so its VERY customizable. You can customize the visuals too but there's certainly a limit to it. I used it on a 7in ICS tablet, and while the interface certainly isnt designed for it, I could change all the text sizes to where it could be viewed comfortably. In the end I uninstalled though. I had made the program readable, but still not pleasant to look at, so I went back to samsung's s planner even though it can't sync tasks like this can. Also, the program has tons of widgets -- month, week, day, agenda, etc. I liked the week view a lot.
LeGrand, May 5, 2012
Perfect app Indispensable app. Fantastic customization options, excellent widgets. Spend a little time familiarizing yourself with the app and it will meet every calendaring need or desire you have. Easily worth more than the cost.
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