App Spotlight: Week Calendar

When you have a full-time job, go to college, and have a family, you need to manage time effectively. I’m constantly having to check who needs to be where, and when they need to be there. This can be a tricky situation without the right tools.

On the Mac, I was a long time user of iCal for managing calendars until the game-changing Fantastical came out. My issues on the desktop were solved. As for my iPhone, not so much. I was pretty much stuck using the native Calendar app since most of the offerings in the App Store were either incredibly weak or unreasonably ugly. Then my friend Cindy told me about Week Calendar from the guys at Utilitap. I can honestly say that since I picked it up, Week Calendar has been the most used app on my phone. It has a very pleasant UI, an insanely huge feature set, and is well supported by the developers. I mention support because I often come across great apps that end up dead or broken due to non-committal developers, so I’m always glad to come across an invested team like Utilitap.

Week Calendar makes managing multiple schedules easy. Personally, I have to keep an eye on six separate schedules, and most other apps perform poorly when dealing with a ton of different calendars. One of the most unique and useful features the app sports is in its name, the week view.

I still don’t understand why Apple never put a week view in the native Calendar app, but Utilitap fixed that problem. It’s very handy to be able to see a week at a glance, especially when your months are as hectic as mine. Yes, I know about the new landscape week view introduced in iOS 5, but I never use landscape mode, so that doesn’t work for me.

There are way too many features in Week Calendar for me to list, but here’s a short rundown of what you can expect:

• Automatically syncs all calendars, no need to open the native calendar app
• Timezone support (most apps don’t support timezone, essential for business users)
• Full drag & drop support
• Full, native copy/paste support
• Incredibly fast
• Support for real invites
• Fully working templates
• Custom calendar colors
• Automatic Colors based on Calendar app
• Full week number support (ISO, US system, custom numbering)
• Built-in holidays support
• Full international support (right-to-left, weekends)
• Localized in 25 languages
• TextExpander integration
• Fullscreen options
• Unlimited search
• Contact linking
• Complex recurrence rules
• Share events as ICS files

All in all Week Calendar fits my needs and then some. I would imagine that anyone could make great use of the app regardless of the complexity of their calendar scheme. The app is available on the App Store for a very low $1.99. Check out more screenshots below, and let us know what you think by leaving a comment.