Google Calendar Event Planner

Google Calendar is a productivity app by Google LLC that helps you organize events, tasks, and schedules across multiple calendars. The app syncs with your Google account and can automatically pull event information from Gmail, such as flight, hotel, concert, and restaurant reservations. It provides day, week, and month views, shared calendars for collaboration, and the ability to manage to-dos alongside your events.

From a privacy standpoint, the app requests access to several sensitive areas: Identity, Calendar, Contacts, Location, Phone, Photos/Media/Files, Storage, and Microphone. These permissions support features like detecting reservations in Gmail, checking attendee availability, adding a working location to events, attaching documents, and possibly using voice input. The app is ad-free, has no in-app purchases, and relies on Google-owned sync and storage, so your data is handled under Google's enterprise-level privacy and security practices.

Google Calendar suits individuals and teams who want a single view of personal and professional time. Students, busy parents, small businesses, and larger Workspace organizations can benefit from shared calendars, meeting scheduling, and task lists. It requires Android 8.0 or newer, so it works on the vast majority of modern devices, and the package is about 33 MB.

Key features

• Automatically adds event details from Gmail, covering flights, hotels, concerts, and restaurant bookings
• Keeps your calendar in sync across devices when you are signed in to the same Google account
• Displays Google Calendar events side by side with other calendars on your device, including Exchange
• Lets you share calendars so others can view, add, or modify events
• Allows quick switching between month, week, and day views
• Supports creating and managing tasks right alongside your events
• Offers light or dark mode and color-coding of events for personalization
• Provides a full-screen view for organizing task lists
• Lets you attach Google Meet calls, meeting notes, and documents directly to events
• Helps schedule by checking teammates' availability or layering their calendars in one view

How to install

1. Tap the download button on this page to save the APK file (33 MB) to your device.
2. If Android asks for permission, allow your browser or file manager to install apps by enabling the "Install unknown apps" setting.
3. Open the downloaded APK file from your notifications or file manager.
4. Tap Install when the system prompt appears.
5. After the installation finishes, tap Open or locate the Google Calendar icon in your app drawer.
6. Sign in with your Google account. Android 8.0 or newer is required.

What's New

This update focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements to help the app run more smoothly. No new features were mentioned in the release notes.

Google Calendar is for people already using Google services who want a reliable, shared scheduling tool with automatic reservation tracking and task management on Android 8.0 or newer.

After setup, review the permissions the app requested in your device settings and disable any you do not need. You can also use color-coding and dark mode to keep your schedule easy to scan.

Google Calendar is a capable, ad-free scheduling app for anyone invested in Google services, though its broad permission requests are worth reviewing before you grant them.