What’s new.

Built for iPhone Duo. Redesigned for iPad.

Ready for iPhone Duo

We've had early access to iPhone Duo, and OurCal is ready for it. Open it up and the selected day's agenda appears as a column beside the calendar, so you can see your week and your conversation at the same time. Content stays clear of the fold, and the agenda sheet follows how far the device is open.

Closed, it's a compact iPhone with everything OurCal does. Every iPhone now works in landscape too. When there's room, the month title moves beside your avatar to show an extra week.

Redesigned for iPad

The iPhone Duo work drove a complete rethink of OurCal on wide screens, and iPad gets all of it. The agenda column sits beside the calendar, with view mode, filter, and search buttons alongside. The agenda sheet rests at half height, lined up with a week row. Search has a proper title and close button. And after a rotation, the calendar keeps the same top week with no wobble.

Week numbers and App Settings

Each week row now shows its number in a narrow column at the left, with this week's tinted. On by default where your device calendar uses ISO weeks, which covers most of Europe.

Toggle it in the new App Settings screen, which replaces the App Version row. You'll also find a switch for event emojis, plus the app version and any available update.

Across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android.

Now on Android too

• Settings reorganised into three sections, matching iOS: Group Settings, Your Settings, and More
• Every synced calendar opens a details screen where you can change its colour and alerts, move it to this phone, or reconnect it to another calendar
• Export Events now lives in Sync to Device, matching iOS
• Invite links pasted inside a longer message now work
• Redesigned invite paste sheet with a full-width Paste button
• App update notifications open the right screen

Invite by QR code on iPhone, iPad and Mac

Someone next to you? Show them a QR code. They scan it, and they're in. Find it in the invite options, beside More.

Inviting is quicker too. A new Invite Members button sits at the top of the group chat, the group screen, and Members & Profiles.

Fixes & Improvements

• Paste a whole invite message, not just the link, and OurCal finds the invite inside it
• Fixed an issue that stopped some new users from creating a group right after signing up

Android catches up. The Calendar Messenger comes to Android.

A brand-new icon on Android

OurCal has always been a calendar messenger. Now the icon says so on Android too. A calendar fused with a chat bubble, because the problem with sharing calendars isn't productivity, it's communication. That's why we built OurCal.

The new drawer on Android

Navigation and group activity, together in one place. Switch between the calendar, group chats, and settings, and see every update across your groups in a single Activity feed.

Tap your avatar or swipe from the left edge to reveal it.

The Activity feed shows every group's events and messages together: who said what, which events changed, and what's new, all in one stream. Tap to open any event or jump straight into a conversation.

New to OurCal? A setup checklist at the top of the drawer guides you through turning on notifications, sharing your first event, and getting your group started.

Events now always open inside the calendar, so you can see exactly how they sit alongside everything else.

Faster chat on Android

Conversations now open instantly, even before you're connected. No loading spinners, no waiting. Just your messages, right there.

Group chat is cleaner too: event creation messages and replies now live in the event's own thread, and unread badges only count what matters.

Invite by QR code on Android

Share an invite as a QR code that someone nearby can scan. And tapping an invite link while signed in now joins straight away, no extra tap needed.

Fixes & Improvements on Android

• Broken invite links now show "Invalid Link" instead of nothing
• Welcome screen captions are bigger and bolder, and the picture carousel is full width
• Fixed the oldest messages dropping off as new ones arrive
• Fixed a thread with many replies losing its event card
• Fixed a failed load of older messages retrying over and over
• Location and Repeat sheets now stop just below the status bar, like the other sheets

Fixes & Improvements on Android and iOS

• Clearer invite failure messages, with the same words on Android and iOS
• Welcome checks the clipboard for an invite link only once, on first launch

Fixes & Improvements

• Export Events now lives alongside Sync to Device, so all your calendar sharing options are in one place
• Key backup errors that can't be fixed by retrying now explain what to do next, instead of showing a spinner or a retry that could never work
• Fixed Settings screens getting stuck when switching between chat and calendar
• Fixed a backwards swipe on the repeating event carousel opening the drawer instead of paging
• Fixed an empty gap under the event card when opening from the Activity feed
• Fixed events in the calendar, the agenda timeline and the Up Next widget showing a near-white background in dark mode
• Fixed the Mac's Import Events, New Sync and New Calendar screens listing none of your device calendars
• Notification links now open OurCal's Notifications settings, not the system app page
• Links inside OurCal now open in the window you're using on Mac
• Mac share sheet can now copy the invite link

Now on Android too

• Improved calendar selection reliability for Outlook and Exchange syncs

Start your group from a template

Creating a group now starts with a template: Couple, Family, Co-parenting, Friends, Travel, Work, and more. Pick the one that sounds like your group and OurCal suggests a name and sets up matching calendars — rename or recolour any of them with a tap.

A guided setup follows: review your calendars, add profiles for people who won't use the app (kids, grandparents, pets), and share your invite link. If anything interrupts you, the app picks up right where you left off.

Import events from your device

Copy the events from any device calendar into one of your group's calendars, once. The copies become OurCal events: edit them here, and they won't change on your device. Choose to import only upcoming events or everything up to 3 months back.

Each calendar's info screen shows its imports, so you can see exactly what came from where. Changed your mind? Undo removes every event the import added, including any you've edited since.

Setup checklist

New to OurCal? A checklist now guides you through the essentials: create your first event, share it with your group, and turn on notifications. Watch it tick off as you go.

Clearer everywhere

We've rewritten copy across the app to make OurCal easier to understand at every step.

• Welcome screen is simplified to two choices: "I'm new to OurCal" and "I already have an account"
• Settings is reorganised into three clear sections, with group rows showing each group's emoji and name
• Every Settings screen now has a short explainer at the top so you always know what it does
• Sync wizards are now "Sync to Group" and "Sync to Device", so the direction is clear
• Discard confirmations now protect your work across every create and edit sheet

Clearer free trial

The Subscriptions screen now shows trial groups in their own Free Trial section — no red warnings while nothing is wrong — and the paywall says what it means: subscribe early if you like, and nothing is charged unless a member subscribes.

Better event chat notifications

A message in an event's chat now shows the sender, the event, and the message — no more “replied in”.

Fixes & Improvements

• Group chat updates read more naturally
• With several groups, each chat in the menu shows its group's name
• Clearer subscription messaging when starting another group
• Sign-in error messages are shorter and more helpful

A brand-new icon

OurCal has always been a calendar messenger. Now the icon says so. A calendar fused with a chat bubble, because the problem with sharing calendars isn't productivity, it's communication. That's why we built OurCal.

The new drawer and sidebar

Navigation and group activity, together in one place. Switch between the calendar, group chats, and settings, and see every update across your groups in a single Activity feed.

On iPhone, it's a drawer behind the calendar. Swipe from anywhere to reveal it. On iPad and Vision Pro, it's a sidebar that sits beside the calendar, with a toggle to show and hide it and a "Seen" button to mark everything as read when you're ready. The sidebar stays open when you tap into an event or switch tabs, so you never lose your place.

The Activity feed shows every group's events and messages together: who said what, which events changed, and what's new, all in one stream. Tap to open any event or jump straight into a conversation.

Events now always open inside the calendar, so you can see exactly how they sit alongside everything else.

Mac keeps its own navigation.

OurCal meets Siri AI

Just ask. "Create a dentist appointment for Annie next Thursday at 3." Siri AI creates the event, picks the right calendar, adds the attendees, and even suggests an emoji. Want to know what's coming up? "What's on my calendar this weekend?" Siri AI knows your OurCal events, just like it knows everything else on your device.

And it's on-screen aware. Looking at an event? Just say "cancel this" or "change the emoji." No need to name it.

Form Assistant

Type "Football practice Saturday 10am at Golden Gate Park" and the event form fills itself in. Or point your camera at a poster, a flyer, or a screenshot, and watch the details appear. Follow up with "make it weekly" or "add Gemma" and it refines. It's a conversation, not a single command. All on device, nothing leaves your phone.

Works in both New Event and Edit Event. And it reaches beyond the app: a new share extension lets you share text, a webpage, or a photo from any app, and the Form Assistant understands its meaning and pre-fills the New Event form right there in the extension. Tailor the details and create the event without ever leaving the app you're in.

Faster chat, everywhere

Conversations now open instantly, even before you're connected. No loading spinners, no waiting. Just your messages, right there.

Liquid Glass

OurCal adopted Liquid Glass on day one of iOS 26. Now we ship day one again with the refined Liquid Glass of OS 27, across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

Fixes & Improvements

• Event reminders now show the event's avatar alongside the title, members, and time
• The Up Next widget supports the new extra-large size on OS 27
• Fixed some messages not appearing when their event details couldn't load

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed a time zone issue with outbound sync to Exchange calendars

Minor Fixes

This release contains minor fixes and improvements

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue with syncing repeating event edits
• Fixed an issue with your device calendars not appearing when setting up a new sync
• Performance and stability improvements

Minor Fixes

This release contains minor fixes and improvements

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed an issue with editing your profile name on Android
• Fixed an issue with creating custom monthly repeating events
• Fixed an issue with unread counts and the "new messages" divider in event chats
• Fixed an issue with all-day events added to a synced calendar
• Performance and stability improvements

Minor Fixes

This release contains minor fixes and improvements