The best shared calendar apps for friends and family (2026)
Updated November 2026
For friends who want to see when each other are free, Conmigo and Howbout are built for it, and Conmigo lets anyone answer an invite through a link without making an account. For a family running a household, Cozi puts shared lists and meal plans next to the calendar, while Google Calendar or Apple's iCloud calendars cost nothing if everyone already uses one of them.
At a glance
| App | Best for | Price | Platforms | Standout feature |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conmigo | Friends and family making plans together | iPhone app free. Web: free with 1 connected calendar account, $10 one-time for each extra | iPhone, web (any browser, including Android) | Invites anyone can answer through a link, no account or download |
| Google Calendar | Work, and groups already on Google | Free | Android, iPhone, iPad, web | Share a calendar as free/busy only |
| Apple iCloud calendars | All-Apple households | Free with an Apple Account | iPhone, iPad, Mac, iCloud.com | Built into every Apple device |
| Cozi | Running a household | Free with ads. Gold $39/year, Max $79/year | iPhone, iPad, Android, web | Shopping lists, to-dos and meal plans beside the calendar |
| TimeTree | A separate calendar for each group | Free with ads. Premium $4.49/month or $44.99/year | iPhone, Android, web | Memos for plans that don't have a date yet |
| Howbout | Friend groups who plan on their phones | Free. Howbout+ from $3.99/month or $39.99/year | iPhone, Android | Choose who sees each plan, or share only your availability |
Prices are in US dollars, as listed in November 2026.
1. Conmigo
Who it's for: Friends and families who want to make plans together and see the year coming.
What it does well: Conmigo is a calendar for life, not work. It syncs both ways with Google, Outlook and Apple Calendar, so it sits on top of the calendar you already use. You choose how much each person sees of each calendar: full details, just titles and times, or only when you're busy. Turn on Compare schedules and everyone's shared calendars turn one color, so the open slots stand out. Invites go out as a link, and guests RSVP with just their name. Every event has its own chat and photos, and you can text everyone who's going. The Year view puts every plan, trip and birthday on one screen, and photos from your plans fill the days you spent together. Trips get an itinerary you can share with one link. You can also subscribe to calendar links, like a league's games or a school's term dates, and print your month or year for the fridge.
What it lacks: There are no shopping lists, to-dos or meal plans, so Cozi is better for running a house. There's no Android app; Android users open Conmigo in the browser. Sharing a calendar works between Conmigo accounts; only invites work without one. Connecting Apple Calendar takes an app-specific password from your Apple ID settings. And it isn't made for work scheduling.
Price: The iPhone app is free, all of it. On the website, Conmigo is free with one connected calendar account (Google, Outlook or Apple) and unlimited calendars inside it. Each extra connected account is a one-time $10. There's no subscription.
2. Google Calendar
Who it's for: Work schedules, and friends or families who all use Google already.
What it does well: It's free and runs on Android, iPhone, iPad and the web, and your calendar stays the same on all of them. You can keep separate calendars and share each one at the level you choose, from "See only free/busy (hide details)" up to "Make changes and manage sharing." Set up a Google family group and a calendar called "Family" appears, which everyone in the family can edit. It also adds flight, hotel and restaurant bookings from Gmail to your calendar. For work, it's the strongest app here: Google Meet, booking pages and more, some of it in paid plans.
What it lacks: It's built around one person's schedule, and most of what's new is aimed at work. You can only create a new calendar in a browser, and Google's help gives the sharing steps for a computer. The person you share with gets an email and has to click its link to add your calendar.
Price: Free. Some extras need a paid Google Workspace or Google One plan.
3. Apple iCloud shared calendars
Who it's for: Households where everyone has an iPhone, iPad or Mac.
What it does well: There's nothing to install. Share an iCloud calendar and choose, person by person, whether they can edit it or only view it. People who can edit can add, change and delete events. Family Sharing adds a family calendar that everyone in the family can put events on. You can also make a calendar public, so anyone you invite can view it, even without iCloud.
What it lacks: Private sharing needs everyone to have an Apple Account and use iCloud, which makes it awkward for friends on Android. Calendar on iCloud.com works only on a tablet or computer, not in a phone's browser. Sharing is edit or view-only, and only the calendar's owner can share it.
Price: Free with an Apple Account, which comes with 5 GB of iCloud storage.
4. Cozi
Who it's for: Parents running a busy household.
What it does well: Cozi is the best app here for running the house itself. Everyone shares one calendar, color-coded by person. Next to it are shopping lists that update as people add to them, to-do lists for chores and packing, and a recipe box that puts meals on the calendar. It can bring in Google, Outlook and Apple calendars, plus school and team schedules from services like TeamSnap and SportsEngine. It can email you the agenda each day or week. One upgrade covers the whole family.
What it lacks: The free version shows ads. Cozi lists a month view on your phone, calendar search, change alerts and a birthday tracker as Gold features. It's organized around one family's account, not a wider circle of friends.
Price: Free. Gold is $39 a year. Max is $79 a year and adds AI tools that turn emails into events, plan meals and create recipes.
5. TimeTree
Who it's for: People who keep one shared calendar per group: a partner, the family, a team.
What it does well: You can run several shared calendars and look at one or all of them at once. Each event has chat and photos, and each calendar has its own photo album. Memos hold plans that don't have a date yet, and there are to-do lists too. It can sync with the calendars on your phone, such as Google Calendar, and has home screen widgets. It runs on iPhone, Android and in a web browser.
What it lacks: The free version has ads. File attachments, an hour-by-hour view, pinned events and event priority need Premium.
Price: Free. Premium is $4.49 a month or $44.99 a year, with the first month free. TimeTree says prices vary by region.
6. Howbout
Who it's for: Friend groups who make plans on their phones.
What it does well: Howbout is made for seeing when friends are free. It shows who's free, busy or a maybe on a given day. You decide who sees each plan: friends, close friends or just you, or show it only as busy. Each plan has a place, a time, visible RSVPs and its own group chat for photos, videos and tickets. It sends reminders, including a nudge the night before. It can sync Google Calendar and iCal, and on iPhone it has widgets and Live Activities.
What it lacks: Howbout offers iPhone and Android apps, and on Apple devices it's for iPhone only. A week view, extra colors and themes, and what Howbout calls "smarter planning tools" are part of the paid Howbout+.
Price: Free. The US App Store lists Howbout+ from $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year.
How we chose
This guide is published by Conmigo, which makes one of the apps on this list. We put Conmigo first because it's our page, and we've tried to say plainly where the others do better. For every app, we read its official website, pricing page and App Store listing in November 2026, and took features and prices only from those pages. We didn't use star ratings or other roundups. We looked at four things: how sharing and privacy work, whether people without the app can join in, what it costs, and which devices it runs on.
Frequently asked questions
- What's the best free shared calendar app?
- It depends on what your people already use. Google Calendar is free and works on every phone and the web. In an all-Apple home, iCloud calendars are free and built in. Conmigo's iPhone app is entirely free, and the web app is free with one connected calendar account. Cozi and TimeTree have free versions with ads.
- Can you share a calendar between iPhone and Android?
- Yes, with the right app. Google Calendar, Cozi, TimeTree and Howbout all have iPhone and Android apps. Apple's private iCloud sharing needs everyone to have an Apple Account and use iCloud, and Calendar on iCloud.com doesn't work in a phone's browser. Friends on Android can still view a public iCloud calendar. Conmigo has an iPhone app, and Android users use the web app in their browser.
- How do I see when friends are free without seeing everything?
- Share at a busy-only level. In Google Calendar, that's "See only free/busy (hide details)." In Conmigo, it's Busy Slots Only, and Compare schedules shows the open time across everyone. Howbout lets you share your availability instead of your full calendar.
- What's the best shared calendar app for a family?
- If you want lists, chores and meals in one place, Cozi. If everyone's already on Google or Apple, their built-in family calendars cost nothing. If your family's plans are mostly trips, birthdays and get-togethers with other people, Conmigo shows the whole year on one screen and lets anyone answer an invite.
- Do the people I invite need to download the app?
- Not with Conmigo. Anyone with the invite link can see the event and RSVP with their name, without an account or download. If they have the app, the link opens it instead. With Apple, only a public calendar works for people who don't use iCloud.