End of the Calendar Era: Why It's Happening & What's Next?

This week, we explore calendar apps and the reasons why the traditional, more basic calendar apps we know are becoming obsolete. A new more mightier calendar app is evolving and we’re here to understand why this is the case.

What do calendar apps do now?

Calendar apps of the past have always been focused on connecting things like Google Calendar and Outlook and allowing you to plan meetings, organize meetings with booking links, and join meetings via conferencing.

That’s what most calendar apps have done for the last 5-10 years.

This has been a baseline for most calendar apps, but things are changing.

What is changing with calendar apps?

Evolution is the case for most software.

If one tool does more, bolder things. If people like it, money tends to follow.

This is the case for calendar apps where the basics, like managing your calendar, have become suppressed with people wanting to manage their tasks alongside, better co-ordinate the calendar with AI and using smarter time scheduling systems (booking links).

This is shaping what the calendar app baseline is. Tools need an edge and we’re seeing that more than ever now. Here are some examples of that happening in the calendar app market:

Case studies

Rise Calendar: Projects

Rise Calendar started as a humble calendar app with a focus on better team collaboration with the calendar, but have now evolved much further.

Rise recently introduced a 2.0 edition.

This introduced project management, task management & the ability to weave tasks into your calendar alongside your calendar events.

Morgen: Tasks

Morgen started with just calendar management but now has opened up.

Morgen has been combining calendars and tasks in one. With their roots in the calendar, they’re now allowing users to create lists of tasks, bring tasks from other apps like Todoist, and consolidate them into one base.

Amie: Email

Like Morgen, Amie is bringing together tasks and calendars.

But going one leap further, in their premium, introducing the ability to email and receive emails. Even allowing you to organize those emails into your tasks.

What’s next?

The baseline is now changing rapidly.

The future features to expect to see in most calendar apps are:

• AI re-scheduling abilities for smarter time management

• More integrated features with other tools like projects & tasks

• Meeting links as standard allowing you to book external meetings