Great Calendar App for iPhone & iPad that Works with Google Calendar

8 Months ago, I was pret­ty con­tent with the way cal­en­dars, con­tacts & emails from Google were sync­ing with my iDe­vices. I used Google Apps for Busi­ness and Apple hard­ware. When Google decid­ed to stop sup­port­ing Microsoft Exchange on Apple devices (read an old post here) it made it a bit more bug­gy for many of my cus­tomers who were upgrad­ing devices or buy­ing new ones for employ­ees. So there are ways to get Google Apps to work on the iPhones and iPads, but I’m find­ing that there are some pret­ty cools Apps that I’m using now that work just the same if not better. 

Best Google Cal­en­dar App for iOS

The one I want to focus on today is for sync­ing iOS or Google Cal­en­dars. The com­pa­ny is called Read­dle. They had made a very slick and easy to use Google Cal­en­dar app that synced beau­ti­ful­ly with Google. Even the Google Cal­en­dar col­ors were in sync. Today they released a ful­ly new design and major upgrade called Read­dle 5. You can watch the video on the web­site which will explain it bet­ter than I can in this post. 

I down­loaded the upgrade ($4.99) and have been test­ing it out today. It is fab­u­lous. Because of the lat­est fea­tures, I am not able to stop using anoth­er app (sav­ing me time): iOS Reminders. Instead, Apple Reminders is auto­mat­i­cal­ly in per­fect sync with my Cal­en­dar App: it is built in. So when I make a reminder in my cal­en­dar app, it syncs to my Apple Reminders. The ben­e­fit here is if I’m at my desk­top, I’ll still get noti­fied on my iMac of reminders that are due. I can make a reminder on the iMac…and it will sync to the Read­dle App.

Per­fect Cal­en­dar App for Your Field Employees

Besides the beau­ti­ful design and ease of use, the new cal­en­dar app is a piece of cake to install. You just down­load it from the App Store here. Once you are done you click on Google Cal­en­dar, type in your user­name and pass­word: done. Then there are more cus­tomized fea­tures if you want in the set­tings. It has almost the same set­tings as Google Cal­en­dar. I don’t think Apple will allow google to build a native down­load­able app for their devices, so this is the clos­est thing you’ll ever see any­time soon. Your field employ­ees will like this App because they can also invite peo­ple to events, man­age their cal­en­dar and task in one app and not have to wor­ry about any tech­ni­cal set­up issues. Have them down­load the app and then look at a great com­mu­ni­ca­tion app called VOX­ER. But I’ll leave that for anoth­er blog post.