Sunrise is the first great calendar app for Android and web

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The search results for "calendar" in the Google Play Store leave a lot to be desired.

You'll find Agenda and Cal, two decent free apps, and Business Calendar, a pricey app with lots of features but no sense of style. Today Calendar goes further, boasting a slick, Android-native look, but with few other bells and whistles to speak of. None of these apps offer the fit and finish you'd expect from top apps on Android like Press or Hello SMS. Further, none of these apps offer a companion app on the web, forcing you to use the barebones Google Calendar web app or glitchy Calendar app for Mac. And, Windows 8's calendar doesn't even support Google accounts. As a result, many Android users stick with the calendar app that came on their phones to check dates and create events. But Sunrise, launching today for free on Android and web, offers the best reason yet to switch to something new.

Sunrise for Android offers an enormous number of features: agenda view, week view, and month view, Google Maps previews for maps and directions, contact photos, weather, and tasteful Facebook events and birthdays integration. There's also an agenda widget for your home screen that lets you check your schedule at a glance or quickly add an event. The app syncs effortlessly with Google Calendar, and even uses Google to auto-fill locations for your events as you type them in.



But Sunrise for Android isn't perfect. Exchange support and tablet support are coming this summer, Sunrise says. There's also no search box, you can only look one year into the future, month view doesn't show which days you're busy, and the Sunrise widget only shows agenda view. Additionally, there's no "quick add" for adding events by typing things like "Dinner with John at 8pm" (like in apps like Fantastical).


Source: Play Store; Sunrise;