# Recommend a calendar app for Android \*and\* windows 7 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069 "2013-08-24T18:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/1 "2013-08-24T18:38:54Z")
I’m looking for a calendar app for my Android smartphone that I can load via Windows 7. The Android interface is great for one-off entries, but I want to load a semester’s worth of info in one go. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/2 "2013-08-24T18:51:53Z")
Lightning, the companion to Thunderbird. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/3 "2013-08-25T01:44:05Z")
Google Calendar. I run my business with it. I can schedule appointments, etc., anywhere, any time. ---
**Author:** ![LMarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@LMarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LMarie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/4 "2013-08-25T03:59:00Z")
Assuming you have a Google account, why not use Google calendar? Like Clothahump said, you can use it anytime anyplace and, yes, you can load a semester’s worth of info to it. It will sync between your browser and all of your mobile devices. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/5 "2013-08-26T20:17:51Z")
Google Calendar, you can enter a new event on your phone and seconds later it shows up in your desktop browser, or vice versa. You can also share calendars and events with people. For example you could set up a work calendar and share it with coworkers. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/6 "2013-08-28T17:11:39Z")
Jumping on the Google Calendar bandwagon. My husband and I use this, and it works with his iPhone, my Android, and of course we can see and edit events via the browser on our laptops. Yahoo calendar should work in much the same way. You can also set your phone(s) up to use the Google contacts - so when I add something to my phone’s address book, it shows up on my husband’s shortly afterward. While it doesn’t go to my _personal_ Gmail account’s contacts, it does go to the shared account we use for the calendar. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-calendar-app-for-android-and-windows-7/667069/7 "2013-08-28T18:06:40Z")
The advantage to LIghtning being that you aren’t storing a lot of sensitive personal information in Google’s kindly pocket.