More than 500 million people are using Google Calendar on daily basis. That’s a lot of users, Right? Google Calendar is a great tool to schedule tasks, meetings, and all of the things you do in your life.
Calendars are really helping to manage time rightfully, most successful people use their calendars to schedule all of the things that are happening whether it’s meetings, tasks, or occasions.
Here is another tool that gives you extra features with easy to use interface, Cron calendar.
Cron is a powerful calendar to use and many professionals are using the cron calendar.
Cron calander: what is cron?
Cron is a calendar for everyone to manage their tasks, events, and meetings. As their say “cron is a next-generation calendar for professionals and teams.
Cron is a relatively new platform to explore and use. I first saw it on product hunt golden kitty awards, I was impressed by the first look of it.
Because it’s in the beta stage, you only now can go to their website and put your email to get access to the app.
So I put the mail and after a few days, I received a unique link to access the cron app.
After downloading you have to connect to the existing calendar you have like Google calendar and then they all the required data to set up and get ready to use the app.
I am now using and scheduling my all tasks and meetings in the cron calendar. The best part about this app is its auto-syncs with your Google calendar. That is like a win-win situation.
If you want to look at your calendar on your mobile you can access all of your tasks auto-synced in your Google Calendar. You can just open the Google calendar app and see all of the things you did in your cron calendar. It’s awesome 😎.
Pricing?
Cron is free to use and they have to be a free app to compete in marketing because they have a big giant competitor Google Calendar.
Update: Recently we come to know that Cron has been acquired by Notion, the all-in-one workplace and it might integrate within the app.
Cron calendar features?
Cron has lots of features to explore and use in your daily work. Like,
- You can create and edit repeat events those events you use frequently.
- You can resize your spacing on calendar grid density and resizing.
- Able to switch between different timezone and add the timezone on side of the calendar.
- Color code your events to categorize them.
- Adjust the no. Of days you can see on the screen.
And many more features that you can see on the cron calendar. You can see all features on the tips and tricks page.
Google Calendar vs cron calander
It’s hard to compare actually hard to compare both of the apps because of all of the features that talk about before in both apps except the no. Of days to show on the screen.
Both calendars are better to use and have lots of functionality to use. But here google wins because,
- If you use Google Calendar then It’s everywhere, on your pc, laptop, mobile phone, or tablet.
- If you use Cron, you have to download it for all of your devices.
How to get access to the cron calendar?
You can access cron calendar by downloading it for your devices like iOS, Windows, Mac, and Android
First, go to the official website cron.com, enter your email, and then you can download the app. You can also get the web version of the app (https://calendar.cron.com/login).
Verdicts
Cron is actually a beautiful calendar to use. For now, when you use cron and make any changes it will auto-sync with other calendars like Google Calendar. If they remove then it’s hard to convince people to use them. Because everything cron has Google Calendar also. Let me know your opinion. 😶
