May 3, 2024
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.
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.
May 2, 2024
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:
For new users:
There is a new section of our help centre dedicated to answering your questions about Plus.
You can read the announcement of Plus written by Ryan, our Founder and CEO.
May 1, 2024
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:
For new users:
There is a new section of our help centre dedicated to answering your questions about Plus.
You can read the announcement of Plus written by Ryan, our Founder and CEO.
April 18, 2024
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.
April 9, 2024
You can now quickly & easily create copies of an event. From any event:
This will create a new copy of the event.
You can now share photos in the chat via. the file picker.
April 4, 2024
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.
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.
March 25, 2024
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.
You can now tap any location text in an event thread to directly open it in Maps.
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.
March 21, 2024
Previously, we notified you every time we released a new version of the app. Now we only notify you about major updates.
Now, when you change time zone, we’ll remind you of the current local time, your new time zone, and your previous time zone.
Event times were displaying in the 12 hour format, even when 24 hour format was set. This has been fixed.
There was an error making the calendar icon in navigation appear incorrectly. This has been fixed.
March 18, 2024
This release contains necessary improvements ahead of an upcoming update that will better streamline and centralise messaging in OurCal around your groups.
March 6, 2024
OurCal is now looking and feeling sleeker after a number of fixes and improvements following our previous release.
You can now create multiple groups to share separate calendars with different people in OurCal, instead of the one group limit.
This lets you share private calendars with multiple groups, from family to friends and even communities.
You can also make groups to share a calendar for one-off events like holidays, weddings, or projects.
Creating a new group is easy:
Invited members who already have OurCal will be able to join this group instantly. Those yet to download OurCal will be redirected to the app store and then guided swiftly to join.
Your existing OurCal group will remain unchanged for now, but new groups will showcase advanced features due to updated technology.
In the future, we plan to upgrade your original OurCal group to incorporate these new features for a more streamlined experience.
Previously, each custom calendar had a chat. This would get very busy with multiple groups.
Now, we've streamlined all group updates into one group chat where you can reply either there or in an event’s own thread.
For improved communication, we've re-named the Chats tab, to the Groups tap. Also, the UI has been upgraded here to show a preview of the last message or update.
In this update, we've made the navigation simpler. Before, it was hard to find Settings. Now, Settings has its own tab, and every tab has a label.
March 5, 2024
Today brings a significant upgrade to OurCal.
You can now create multiple groups to share separate calendars with different people in OurCal, instead of the one group limit.
This lets you share private calendars with multiple groups, from family to friends and even communities.
You can also make groups to share a calendar for one-off events like holidays, weddings, or projects.
Creating a new group is easy:
Invited members who already have OurCal will be able to join this group instantly. Those yet to download OurCal will be redirected to the app store and then guided swiftly to join.
Your existing OurCal group will remain unchanged for now, but new groups will showcase advanced features due to updated technology.
In the future, we plan to upgrade your original OurCal group to incorporate these new features for a more streamlined experience.
Previously, each custom calendar had a chat. This would get very busy with multiple groups.
Now, we've streamlined all group updates into one group chat where you can reply either there or in an event’s own thread.
For improved communication, we've re-named the Chats tab, to the Groups tap. Also, the UI has been upgraded here to show a preview of the last message or update.
In this update, we've made the navigation simpler. Before, it was hard to find Settings. Now, Settings has its own tab, and every tab has a label.
February 28, 2024
Groups joining OurCal from now on will access an upgraded version of Groups.
For these groups, all calendar updates will be streamlined into a single group chat, rather than across numerous calendar chats.
This makes it easier to keep up with numerous updates across calendars. The functionality of reading and replying to updates, and responding in the event's thread, remains the same experience.
For our existing users, don't worry, this improved functionality will be coming to you shortly.