Howbout: shared calendar

Howbout

About this app

Howbout is the #1 shared calendar app made for friends ✨

Because calendars don’t need to be boring. Your plans are fun, and your calendar should be too.

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This is that app you’ve seen all over TikTok.

Not ‘Howabout shared calendar’, not ‘How bout social calendar’, not ‘HowBout the social shared calendar’, not ‘How about a calendar?’, and not ‘Howbbout’... we're Howbout, and we're the absolute best shared calendar for friends.

Millions of people are already on Howbout - you should be too.

Also featured by Apple, Business Insider, BBC, MailOnline, TechCrunch and more!

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SHARED CALENDAR 📅
- Easy group calendar sharing with shared calendars & group planners to keep up with what friends are doing

COLOR-CODE EVENTS 🎨
- Organise your calendar plans at a glance and choose colors for each of your friends’ shared calendars too

MAKE PLANS 👯‍♀️
- Actually get plans out of the group chat and keep all the details together; add notes, reminders, descriptions, locations, alerts, polls, memos, countdowns, and fun header pictures or gifs too

SHARE AVAILABILITY 🚦
- See and manage friends’ schedules, calendars & availability; easily find when everyone’s free and see when they’re busy

CUSTOMIZE & MAKE IT YOURS 💅
- Add a profile picture, choose colors that fit your personality, set up your Howbout calendar with anything that makes you you!

CHOOSE WHO SEES WHAT 🔒
- Set your sharing and privacy settings for any event, group, or friend - you control what’s visible in your calendar

CHAT, CHAT, CHAT 💬
- Every plan & group has a built-in group chat, and of course DMs too - your planning & messaging in one place

GET NOTIFICATIONS 🔔
- Stay up to date with friends’ calendar updates, activity, reactions, and new events - you can choose and control your notifications

FRIENDS-ONLY ACTIVITY FEED 📰
- See all your friends' latest plans, updates and activity on the feed (we’re all for snooping)

SEND REACTS 😍
- Show friends you care by reacting to their new events, updates, plans, and everything your friends are doing

SYNC CALENDARS 🔄
- Already use a different calendar (like for your work, shift, school or class schedules & timetables or rota?) - sync it all into your Howbout calendar

CALENDAR INTEGRATIONS 🔌
- You can sync in any calendar on your phone to Howbout - Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook Calendar, even subscribed calendars, like artist tour schedules, sports team calendars, moon & horoscope calendars - anything your heart desires!

ADD A WIDGET 🧩
- Use the widget to keep up with your schedule; see all your daily plans & events on your home screen without opening the app

SHARE PICS & VIDS 📸
- Send pictures & videos directly in calendar events, chats, and groups

SEND INVITES 💌
- Invite anyone easily with a link

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Bored of keeping up with your friends on Howbout? Keep up with us instead: @howbout_app on socials, [e-mail] on email

Ratings and reviews

really enjoy how easy and simple it is to use, The sign up process is a bit annoying as it took a few hours for me to be able to join but aside from that. There aren't any ads or paywalls. My only quif is that the colors are too similar and when you have a big group they tend to look the same. Wish we could use a color spectrum or just be able to have a wider variety of colors instead of 5 green 2 blue 1 orange and 4 pinks and a red

Response to developer: It's not just a little frustrating. It makes the app unusable. I don't want to use it with a huge friend group. I want to use it with one person, my partner. Who already has it downloaded. So, it is a required step that is not able to be gotten past. ---- They still require you to invite three friends and have one person sign up with your link to be able to use the app. Ridiculous.

I really want to give the app 5 Stars because I do find it useful myself, but for an app that advertises itself on social planning I find it ironic that I've had so much trouble getting my partner signed up. My boyfriend tried to sign up on his own, but can't get past the invite screen. All of his friends have already signed up through me so he has no one to invite. I tried sending him an invite link, but my screen gets stuck on an infinite load whenever I try. The whole invite process is bogus.

What’s new

We’ve got a lot going on under the hood right now ⚙️ but also have a sneaky lil new feature for you… you can now tap through on your friends’ profiles to view their friends list!