I’m looking for a google calendar replacement that isn’t nextcloud, has a descent mobile app with widgets, and authentication built in. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations via search but i’d like to hear what you personally use and what you like about it.
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I use Nextcloud’s Calendar to sync to other calendar apps over CalDAV.
Same. Thunderbird now has native support for CalDAV and I use DAVx5 to sync it with my Android devices.
I use “radicale” as calendar server for the family. Thunderbird can talk to it directly, on Androidd, I use DAVX5 to sync them.
I also use radicale.
For events with other people I use gmail or mailbox calendar though…
I use Baikal, but it seems Nextcloud is a popular solution.
Baikal is lean and great. I use it and sync to my Thunderbird (using the TbSync extension) and Android phone (using DAVx⁵).
+1 on Baikal, way better than Nextcloud except for invites. There are some details that don’t work as expected with inviting people and changing invites afterwards.
Indeed it’s not really invites-friendly. But what I like is that it’s really light, and avoid cluttering my Nextcloud. My Nextcloud is just for files, syncing and sharing them. That’s all, and that avoids a lot of headaches when backuping for instance.
I plan to someday look at the Baikal code seriously and fix the invite mess. It seems it simply isn’t evaluating every well changes and not sending the appropriate invites.
My experience with NextCloud is mostly JS errors and… https://lemmy.world/comment/346174 I can’t recommend it to anyone.
I use radicale, DAVx5 and Simple Calendar Pro. I tried to use GNOME Calendar on the desktop, but its caldav support is too buggy to be usable, and I ended up using the calendar on my phone only.
Before simple calendar I used Etar, but it had a very annoying bug where it changed the date (or time, I don’t remember) every time I edited an event. Plus, simple calendar can send birthday notifications if you have them in your contact book.
This looks like a great fit for my use case, i’ll dig into this more, thank you.
+1 for this.
I have radicale running for the family and we use DavX and Simple Calendar too.
I personally also use Vivaldi’s built in calendar and Outlook’s CalDav Sync addin connected to radicale too - all works a treat
Caldav?
Even though you said “isn’t Nextcloud”, I’d still say it’s perhaps the simplest solution.
You can disable most the other apps and set calendar as the landing page. If you don’t use the other features, the resource usage is very low, just a cron job that does basically nothing. I don’t think disabling the default apps has much effect on the footprint, by the way.
Calendar, contacts and notes are why I still self host nextcloud. Just remember to pay/donate to Davx5, they’re one of the projects that need to keep running!
I run iRedMail and there’s a calendar solution built in via SOGo. Works like a charm, integrated with K9 Mail and other mail solutions that leverage CalDAV.
I’m seeing a lot of good options involve email servers and if that’s the best route then that’s where i’ll take things but i’d prefer nothing more than a simple, lightweight, calendar service.
You might take a look at Mobilzon, but that might not be exactly what you’re looking for. It’s more about events than a calendar per se.
https://github.com/tchapi/davis/
Is a good lightweight option, but I use Nextcloud.
Nextcloud of course. And nothing beats the 1-day “week” view widget of Business Calendar Pro. Looks just like a desktop view. It has the best year view, too.
Nextcloud is reall nice but if you are using many of its functions,. For just calendar it seem a bit to heavy, isn’t it?
Probably, but it’s a surprisingly lightweight system. And if you are self hosting a calendar, it offers a lot of room for expansion when the time inevitability comes.
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