Howbout: Social calendar

Howbout

About this app

Howbout is the social calendar app to share time with friends. Share calendars, see what your friends are up to and make plans together.

2 million users & counting on Android & iOS!

📅 Social calendar with friends & groups
Share calendars and easily organise events with your friends and groups. See it all together in a joint calendar.

🗓️ Make plans
Plan, schedule and share all you do with anyone on Howbout.

🕺 See when your friends are free
Check friends’ calendars or availability to easily find when works best.

⏳ Add countdowns
Make countdowns for your plans and add them straight to your home screen.

📊 Vote with polls
Let the friend group vote on anything (like what to do or when works best) with polls.

📲 All your plans & calendars together
Sync in your Google Calendar, Outlook, and any other calendars to keep all your plans in one place.

💬 Chat on every plan
Use the built-in group chat to discuss the details of the plans within your social calendar.

💌 Send Invites
Invite anyone to any plan or event easily with a link.

📸  Share pics and vids
Relive your favourite moments with your friends by sharing pictures & videos directly to the plan’s chat.

🍽 Book restaurants
With OpenTable in Howbout, you can now find and book restaurants that have availability when you and your friends are available.

Ratings and reviews

Seemed like a great fit for what I was looking for, until it wouldn't let me continue or do anything else unless I added 3 friends. What if I only have one person I want to set up a shared calendar with? Why do I *have* to have *3* friends without any option to add them later? Ridiculous that I cant even see how the rest of the app works without convincing 3 other people to also make accounts, or sharing my private contacts. Very clearly meant to just drive up signup numbers :/ disappointing

I was skeptical that an app would help plan get togethers, thought texting was fine and this was extra, but this has been a pleasant and simple experience so far! My local "core" group of friends is all on here, and now our plans don't get lost and no one is accidentally excluded because we have 437 group chats of varying people. Also, I am a very forgetful person, so having a dedicated spot to check back on times and other friends questions is just great.

It's really great to plan with friends and get everything on everyone's calendars, and be able to figure out who can go to what and at what times everyone is available. It adds events made on Howbout to my Google calendar as well, which I really like Edit- it's been taking a really long time to load the app, I click on it and it often takes a full ten minutes. Part of this is likely my phone, but other apps don't take even half as long to load

What's new

We’ve been working on some behind-the-scenes performance changes to the app that’ll leave you making Howbout plans quicker than you can say… something really quickly.