So, I was all set to explain that creating recurring Calendar events on your iPhone or iPad that hit precisely on, say, the first Thursday of every month could be a bit tricky. But after a little more digging, I found that it’s actually pretty simple—indeed, in a few taps, you can create an event in the iOS Calendar app that lands on the first Thursday of each month, the second Wednesday, the third Fridayyou name it. You can also create an event that recurs, say, once every four weeks on a Thursday (but not necessarily the very first Thursday of the month), or once every two (or three, or four) months, or even once every two (or three, or thirty) years. Here’s what you do.
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Launch the Calendar app, create a new event, tap the Repeat setting, then tap Custom. Choose the “frequency” with which you’d like the event to repeat: daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. For your particular question, Peter, let’s pick Monthly. Next tap “Every,” and make a selection—say, once a month, in this case. (You could also choose twice a month, three times a month, and so on.). Now, tap “Each” if you want to create an event that repeats on a certain day—like, say, the tenth—of each month, or tap “On the” to pick a specific day of the week—such as the first Thursday of every month.
Daily events can be set to repeat every day, once every two days, once every third day, and so on. Weekly events can happen once a week, twice a week, etc., and you can pick the day of the week (Thursday, for example) on which you want the event to hit. Yearly events follow roughly the same pattern, and you can choose the day of the year (like June 16) on which you’d like the event to begin. Once you’ve made your selections, just back up to the New Event screen, then tap the Done button when you’re finished editing.
. A MUST-HAVE CALENDAR APP FOR EVERY IPHONE, IPAD, AND IPOD. iCalendar is the ultimate calendar for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch focusing on your productivity. It’s seamless, highly usable interface allows you to enter events quickly and helps you keep track of your busy schedule. It integrates with your iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, or Yahoo! Account to provide you with the most convenient calendaring experience.
EASILY TRACK YOUR SCHEDULE - View your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule. Custom color-code your events. Use predefined colors, or make up your own colors.
iCalendar implements quickest way on the market to navigate between dates - Fast and powerful search: Search events by title, location, and notes. NEW IN VERSION 4.0 - Task Manager: Manage your tasks within your calendar in a fun and easy manner and sync with iOS Reminders.
Available as in-app purchase for USD 0.99. FULL OF PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS - Drag and drop an event to update its timing. Copy and paste events.
Create custom repeating events (e.g. Repeat on the third Friday every month, and many more). Add custom alerts/reminders for events and snooze alerts - Access your event details quickly by tapping on the event.
Customize the visible time period (e.g. From 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) to help you focus on most important events. EVEN MORE - Time Zone Support: View and create your events in your preferred time zone and never get confused when you travel. Complete print functionality.
Print daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views. Export any view (day, week, month, year) as a PDF file. Use built-in maps to set the location of your events.
Dial into a conference call with one touch right from iCalendar. Add phone numbers from your contacts to events with the ability to use pause and wait, which is ideal for conference calls.
Set location of an event as the address or phone number of one of your contacts. Access all your events directly from the Month view - no need to go to each individual day to review full list of events. Use the app icon badge to indicate either the number of upcoming events or the day of the month. Google Calendar sync: sync all of your calendars, create and edit Google Calendar events, and use Google Calendar custom reminders (SMS, email and/or alert). Add, edit and delete calendars right from iCalendar.
Support of portrait and landscape to match your orientation preference. iCalendar is a universal app. Download once and use across all your devices. For more details: iCalendar offers access to interesting calendars from Calendar Store as an optional in-app purchase. You may subscribe to your holidays calendar (national/religious) or subscribe to interesting calendars (e.g. Local/global sports events, stocks, weather, and many others).
With an optional in-app purchase yearly subscription, you get full and ongoing access to the Calendar Store including (live) updates in your calendar. A subscription always starts with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. One year subscriptions for the Calendar Store costs $1.99. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current 1 year period.
You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed.
Our terms of service and privacy policy are found at and respectively. If you have a question, need help or would like to request a feature, please do not hesitate to contact us. We respond to EVERY email we receive: [email protected]. Symfonies iCalendar team is excited to bring you major improvements in iCalendar version 5.0. We hope you enjoy the following:. Animation improvements. App widget improvements.
Apple watch improvements. App font improvements. Color improvements.
Google Calendar improvements. Performance improvements. Stability improvements. UI improvements We also resolved the following issues:. No more blocking UI. Optimized App size and memory management. Fixed bugs and added UI tweaks.
Important Notice. With iCalendar release 5.0, we had to modify our Google integration to support Google’s new authentication requirements. This will require all users with Google calendars to sign in to Google after iCalendar is updated. To do this, please go to iCalendar settings then go to Google calendar section and tap sign-in. Thank you for using iCalendar!
If you have a moment to leave a review in the App Store we would really appreciate it. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or suggestions. We respond to EVERY email we receive. Our email is: [email protected]. 4.7 Apr 2, 2017.
Access to Calendar Store for 1 year: With a yearly subscription you get full and ongoing access to the Calendar Store including (live) updates in your calendar. A subscription always starts with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. One year subscriptions for the Calendar Store costs $1.99. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current 1 year period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings.
Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Our terms of service and privacy policy are found at and respectively. 4.5 Jan 9, 2016. This version includes one of the most requested features: The ability to create your own colors and save them for later use.
Use the RGB sliders to create your favorite colors, then mark them as favorites. The color will be there for you to use anytime later. In addition, we have added the following enhancements: - Launch time performance enhancements - Landscape printing - iPad Task Manager: Landescape support - Preview theme before using it - Misc improvements across the app - Bug fixes. 4.1.1 Oct 7, 2014.
MLShaffer512, Great except one flaw I love this app I’ve been using it for years, it’s the only calendar I’ve ever continued using. However, now they are pulling info from my email accounts and placing it on my calendar that isn’t accurate (and I CAN NOT delete it), is so frustrating. If you book and cancel something like a hotel or change a flight.
The first canceled booking may end up on your calendar and from my experience I cannot figure out how to get it off. That feature would be nice if I had the option to delete it. The only other complaint would be that after the 4th event of the day you cannot see the rest unless you click on it and that can be misleading. Maybe some kind of. At the bottom would be nice to let the user know that there are more events scheduled for that day.
Everything else I love! It’s super easy to create reoccurring events and move appts when necessary. MLShaffer512, Great except one flaw I love this app I’ve been using it for years, it’s the only calendar I’ve ever continued using. However, now they are pulling info from my email accounts and placing it on my calendar that isn’t accurate (and I CAN NOT delete it), is so frustrating.
If you book and cancel something like a hotel or change a flight. The first canceled booking may end up on your calendar and from my experience I cannot figure out how to get it off. That feature would be nice if I had the option to delete it.
The only other complaint would be that after the 4th event of the day you cannot see the rest unless you click on it and that can be misleading. Maybe some kind of. At the bottom would be nice to let the user know that there are more events scheduled for that day. Everything else I love! It’s super easy to create reoccurring events and move appts when necessary. PaLySa, Much Better Calendar than Most After trying 11 calenders, I finally found one that is almost perfect!
ICalendar has absolutely everything I want in a calendar with only one exception (which is the only reason I didn't give this a 5 star rating). It will not allow creating a task without giving it access to the user's Reminders app. I use my Reminders app extensively. For reminders, not tasks (which are two very different things in my book). And would like the ability to create and view tasks in iCalendar without seeing my extremely large number of reminders there. Please add the ability to create tasks without the requirement to access and display reminders from the Reminders app and I will definitely update this rating and review. PaLySa, Much Better Calendar than Most After trying 11 calenders, I finally found one that is almost perfect!
ICalendar has absolutely everything I want in a calendar with only one exception (which is the only reason I didn't give this a 5 star rating). It will not allow creating a task without giving it access to the user's Reminders app. I use my Reminders app extensively. For reminders, not tasks (which are two very different things in my book). And would like the ability to create and view tasks in iCalendar without seeing my extremely large number of reminders there. Please add the ability to create tasks without the requirement to access and display reminders from the Reminders app and I will definitely update this rating and review. Morichka, Best all around Calendar for Mac users I downloaded pretty much every calendar there is, and this one fits the bill.
I use imac shared calendars extensively to instantly get updates on my families planned activities. I also have a work calendar that syncs via Exchange to this app. The thing I like about it is there is a month view where i can see all the events at once with the name of the event instead of just dots or icons. Better than the built in calendar for sure.
Can do reminders and more. Thanks for making great product! Please keep developing it - it has been fairly stagnant for a couple of years now!!! Morichka, Best all around Calendar for Mac users I downloaded pretty much every calendar there is, and this one fits the bill.
I use imac shared calendars extensively to instantly get updates on my families planned activities. I also have a work calendar that syncs via Exchange to this app. The thing I like about it is there is a month view where i can see all the events at once with the name of the event instead of just dots or icons. Better than the built in calendar for sure. Can do reminders and more. Thanks for making great product!
Please keep developing it - it has been fairly stagnant for a couple of years now!!!