CalPal

I have 8 calendar apps on my iPhone. I've been using @getcalpal for the last week and it's the first one that's really made a difference in my productivity. When you create a CalPal event and invite your friends, you can start a message thread with the event group. This eliminates the texting, emailing, FB messaging, calendar inviting back and forth that I previously had trying to organize events. CalPal's creators are @rahuljaswa and @michaelbachand. Check out the app!

@nbt, I'll up the ante with 15 calendar apps on my iPhone :-) Besides making it impossible for me to miss any event due to the incessant barrage of reminders, it's also made me come to appreciate how truly unique @getcalpal is. Put simply, CalPal allows me to spend more quality time with my friends and family. In many ways it's become the hub of my iPhone – it's a place where I can throw out ideas for activities days, weeks, or months in the future and be confident that they will come to fruition. Any and all feedback is appreciated: questions[at]getcalpal[dot]com. We hope you'll come to enjoy using CalPal as much as we do!

Thanks @nbt! We've been working hard for a longtime to get the tech and experience right and now it's finally starting to payoff :). Anybody who has a question, please write a comment or reach out to me! rahul[at]getcalpal[dot]com.

looks like a great time saver but doesn't accept non-us phone numbers right now -?plans for this?

Hi @helencrozier, are you referring to the ability to add your own phone number to the app, or to your ability to invite people to an event using their phone number?

@rahuljaswa only trying the first but assume it would be app-wide?

@helencrozier You can skip entering a phone number (on the phone number entry page, the button to proceed should be titled "skip" until you enter digits) in the registration/user creation process and still use almost all of the functionality of the app. The only area where you'll be limited is when you choose the people to invite to your event, you'll be limited to Facebook friends who are on CalPal, or people in your contacts who have a U.S. phone number. The majority of event sharing (at least right now) occurs between people who are members of CalPal, though, so just ask anyone you want to join an event to download the app and you'll be able to share and chat with them. Adding new geographies for event invitation is very important to us (we want to build a global user base, and actually already have many users in Western Europe), so we definitely plan on providing these additional capabilities for our non-U.S. users soon.