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Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars?

Surprisingly, I can't find any tool/script that is functional and does two-way sync between Apple, Google, Caldav, and Fastmail.

Is there such a tool (SaaS or open source) out there?

( 8 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by toast0 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:59PM (#32415156)
Two way sync seems like it's asking for trouble. What do you do when an event is modified on both sides, etc. Even if you don't plan to modify things on both sides, you'll have it done for you when daylight savings rules change, assuming you're subject to DST.

I'm not familiar with Apple's calendar services, but Google and Fastmail both let you publish and subscribe to calendars; if you need to see everything everywhere, then I'd cross subscribe on the services. If you need to modify something, then you've got to do it at the source of truth.

Personally, I'm on Android and Google never built Caldav support into the built-in calendar, so I just put everything in their calendar. I might prefer to use Fastmail, but I don't care enough to get a calendar client.

Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by ankush-garg on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:56PM (#32421026)
I use zapier to sync different calendars to a single calendar. I believe they allow 1000 zaps free per month. I'm way under that limit. Highly recommend!
Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by verdverm on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:32AM (#32412646)
Why are you using 4 calendars? I think the thing is that most people use a single calendar, and they are already synced for the user. There's not really a market for such a tool, which would also cost a lot of money to get approved, now that GSuite approval requires a 3rd party audit. $X0,000+
Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by csomar on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:50AM (#32412950)
If you use something like an iPhone, Gmail, and Fastmail; you can suddenly have three different calendars which you want to sync.
Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by verdverm on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:00PM (#32414191)
Why can't you use Gmail on your iPhone? (why are you using apple's calendar when you already have others)

the short of it is you are in a very small class of users and people don't build tools for small markets, especially when it costs tens of thousands of dollars

Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by csomar on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:13PM (#32415386)
> Why can't you use Gmail on your iPhone?

Because that's the company's Gmail + Calendar.

> the short of it is you are in a very small class of users and people don't build tools for small markets

Lots of small markets are dominated by indies and small dev shops.

Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by verdverm on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:33PM (#32418015)
How much are you willing to pay for a solution?
Re:Ask HN: How do you sync your calendars? by csomar on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:24PM (#32440779)
5-10$ per month.