What’s new.

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

🆕 Sync OurCal events to your external calendars

OurCal events can now sync out to any calendar you already own, like your work Google calendar, iCloud, or Exchange. Changes in OurCal flow automatically to the external calendar, so your availability is always up to date everywhere.

Set it up from the same Synced Calendars screen you already know. The new sync form lets you pick an OurCal calendar as the source and any device calendar as the destination. Choose to include member names in the synced event notes, filter to only sync events for specific members, and toggle "upcoming events only" to keep things focused on what's ahead.

Combined with inbound sync, OurCal now works both ways: bring external calendars in, and push OurCal events out. Currently available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with Android coming soon.

Fixes & Improvements

• Event reminder notifications now play a sound instead of arriving silently

A steadier, tidier OurCal. This update makes editing quicker to reach and fixes a few event bugs.

Fixes & Improvements

• Editing an event is quicker to reach, with a clearer menu that puts Edit Event and Add Note in one place.
• OurCal now lets you know about a new version as soon as it's ready, rather than waiting for your next visit.
• Everything stays smoother and more responsive while your calendars sync.
• Fixed an issue where changing an event's end time could also move its start.
• Fixed duplicating an all-day event so the copy stays on a single day.
• Fixed a rare crash that could happen after certain event updates.

Fixes & Improvements

• Significantly faster app launch, with nearly 3 seconds of work moved off the main thread so the entire app is responsive sooner
• The app is now smoother across the board, with message processing, decryption, calendar sync, and background services no longer competing with the interface for resources
• Fixed the calendar freezing briefly during a sync pass, especially for synced calendars with recurring events
• Fixed the app freezing when scrolling the calendar at larger text sizes on iOS 26

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed synced all-day events generating phantom "event changed" messages in chat on every sync pass

🆕 "Today" stays fresh across midnight

Leave OurCal open overnight and the calendar now rolls over at midnight automatically. The today marker, labels, and agenda all update in place. If you were viewing today, the selection advances with you. If you were looking at a specific future date, your selection stays put.

🆕 Notes on synced events

Synced calendar events with notes now show them in a read-only viewer. Tap to expand past the inline preview, just like native events.

🆕 Edit menu

The toolbar edit button now opens a menu offering "Edit Event" and "Add Note" or "Edit Note", so you can jump straight to whichever you need.

Now on Android too

• Map previews on event details
• Edit event now warns about unsaved changes before discarding
• Channel update event titles now update live when an event is renamed
• Scrollable metadata strip on group chat
• Contacting support now pre-fills your device and app info so we can help faster

Fixes & Improvements

• After editing an event's date, the calendar now scrolls to and selects the new date
• Fixed recurring event chat diffs showing the wrong title, wrong previous date, or stale occurrence dates
• Fixed spurious "event changed" messages appearing in chat from synced calendar sync churn
• Fixed a flood of "created event" messages when migrating a synced calendar
• Fixed push notifications sometimes falling back to generic text on channel updates
• Fixed event timezone being silently reset by push notification processing
• Fixed event notes not updating via push when the app was closed
• Fixed false-positive error reports from synced calendar updates