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2024.5.16

May 16, 2024

Full Month Calendar View For Android

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Our full-month calendar view and monthly agenda view is now available for all Android users.

In the monthly view, you can easily see all events at a glance. The events are displayed in the colour of their respective calendars alongside their chosen emoji.

Tapping any day takes you to the agenda view. Here, events are also colour-coded by their calendar and you can tap any day in the month. Tapping on any event in the day view takes you into the Event Thread where you can discuss details with your group.

Filtering your calendar, moving between months, and creating new events, remain key actions accessible in the top-right corner of both calendar view

2024.5.17

May 16, 2024

Full Month Calendar View For Android

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Our full-month calendar view and monthly agenda view is now available for all Android users.

In the monthly view, you can easily see all events at a glance. The events are displayed in the colour of their respective calendars alongside their chosen emoji.

Tapping any day takes you to the agenda view. Here, events are also colour-coded by their calendar and you can tap any day in the month. Tapping on any event in the day view takes you into the Event Thread where you can discuss details with your group.

Filtering your calendar, moving between months, and creating new events, remain key actions accessible in the top-right corner of both calendar view

Minor Fixes

This release contains minor fixes and improvements

2024.5.14

May 14, 2024

Navigation fix in Keyboard Calendar

Using the navigation arrows to move between months in your keyboard calendar now correctly updates the month title.

Further Improvements to Emoji Search

Choosing emojis for your events just got easier with improvements to search.

Events Default to Group Emoji

Now, the default emoji for your events will match your group's emoji. For custom calendars it will default to the custom calendar’s emoji. For member calendars it wild default to the group’s emoji.

2024.5.10

May 10, 2024

Plus Has a New Look

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We've made changes in the app to better highlight our Plus features. This includes our new Plus logo and icon, in purple!

New Trial Entitlement & Introductory Offer

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Those joining OurCal will now be automatically granted a 14 day free trial of Plus.

This includes an introductory offer: save 33% off Plus when upgrading in this trial period.

Those who choose not to upgrade will automatically transition to Free after 14 days and won't be charged.

2024.5.8

May 8, 2024

Fast emoji picker

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Our emoji picker for your events, calendars, and group emojis has been given a major tune up.

The search engine has been completely rewritten to make finding the emoji you're after far faster. The picker now opens at a new "Frequently Used" tab letting you quickly select frequently used emojis. And finally, it also always opens with the keyboard showing so you can quickly start searching straight away.

Emoji picking has never been so fast.

Faster install to group joins

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A huge part of what makes OurCal different is how easy it is to invite friends, family, and colleagues to your groups with just a link.

We've made this even faster for new referred users by displaying a dynamic "Join Group" tutorial when they first open the app.

2024.5.3

May 3, 2024

View shared files in-app

Previously, you had to open shared files in OurCal in a third party app to view them. Now, OurCal provides full file viewing in-app.

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Bug fix: Event alerts adjusting to your current time zone

Previously, if you moved across time zones, in some cases your Event Alerts could display in the the old time zone times. OurCal now will correctly adjust your event alerts to match your new time zone.

2024.5.2

May 2, 2024

Introducing OurCal+

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Today we’re very excited to introduce Plus, our new premium plan.

OurCal is a start-up, meaning that we are supported by funds raised from investors. Now is a responsible time for us to start generating revenue to enable us to keep innovating for many years to come. To not incorporate a premium paid offering would leave us vulnerable, in the future, to run out of funds. Plus members will keep us innovating whilst protecting every member's data forever.

For existing users:

  • Plus now includes some features that were previously free. As a thank you for your early support, we’ve rewarded you with a 90-day free trial, no strings attached.
  • Additionally, you'll receive a 33% discount when upgrading to Plus during this trial. If you choose not to upgrade, you'll automatically transition to the Free plan.
  • Our Free plan will always include our most popular features and be improved.
  • For specific pricing in your area, please see App Store or Google Play Store.
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Pricing Breakdown

For new users:

  • Open OurCal and start a 14-day free trial to discover everything Plus has to offer.
  • For specific pricing in your area, please see App Store or Google Play Store.
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Try Plus Free

There is a new section of our help centre dedicated to answering your questions about Plus.

Support

You can read the announcement of Plus written by Ryan, our Founder and CEO.

Read announcement

2024.5.1

May 1, 2024

Introducing OurCal+

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Today we’re very excited to introduce Plus, our new premium plan.

OurCal is a start-up, meaning that we are supported by funds raised from investors. Now is a responsible time for us to start generating revenue to enable us to keep innovating for many years to come. To not incorporate a premium paid offering would leave us vulnerable, in the future, to run out of funds. Plus members will keep us innovating whilst protecting every member's data forever.

For existing users:

  • Plus now includes some features that were previously free. As a thank you for your early support, we’ve rewarded you with a 90-day free trial, no strings attached.
  • Additionally, you'll receive a 33% discount when upgrading to Plus during this trial. If you choose not to upgrade, you'll automatically transition to the Free plan.
  • Our Free plan will always include our most popular features and be improved.
  • For specific pricing in your area, please see App Store or Google Play Store.
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Pricing Breakdown

For new users:

  • Open OurCal and start a 14-day free trial to discover everything Plus has to offer.
  • For specific pricing in your area, please see App Store or Google Play Store.
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Try Plus Free

There is a new section of our help centre dedicated to answering your questions about Plus.

Support

You can read the announcement of Plus written by Ryan, our Founder and CEO.

Read announcement

2024.4.18

April 18, 2024

Quick Inline Event Editing

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Save time every time you update an event.

Tap Edit in the top right of any event to quickly make changes. Tap the arrow in the top right to send these to your group.

We've made these UI simplifications throughout the app, including in the New Event screen.

2024.4.9

April 9, 2024

Quickly Copy an Event

You can now quickly & easily create copies of an event. From any event:

  1. Tap the Info button in the top right
  2. Tap Copy

This will create a new copy of the event.

Share Photos From the File Picker

You can now share photos in the chat via. the file picker.

2024.4.4

April 4, 2024

Update or Delete One Repeat of a Repeating Event

Today we're thrilled to announce that you can now update or delete one repeat of a repeating event.

This highly requested feature was months in the making and we really appreciate all of you who requested it or upvoted it on our public roadmap.

We've also made navigating between repeats more accessible from the event info screen.

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Timezone Issue Fixes

Previously, editing or importing all day events that were created in a different timezone to where you are now caused them to appear incorrectly. This has now been fixed.

2024.3.25

March 25, 2024

Improved Tutorial for Member Calendars

To make the Member Calendars feature more accessible we have improved how member calendars are visually explained when setting up a group. Now, when turned on, member calendars appear nested in the group. This is also apparent on the Group Info screen.

Tap Location Text In Event Threads To Open Maps

You can now tap any location text in an event thread to directly open it in Maps.

Share Images From OurCal Chats

Now, when opening an image in OurCal, tap the share icon in the top left to open the share screen. This will enable you to easily share the image outside the app, or download it.