If you use Google Calendar for personal and Outlook for work, you already know the problem: neither app can show the other’s events. You end up with two half-complete views of your week. Add an iCal feed (school calendar, sports league, Airbnb bookings) and it gets worse — three separate apps, three separate logins, zero overlap.
Harvard Business Review reported workers lose 9% of productive time switching between applications. Calendar apps are a big part of that — most knowledge workers manage events across at least two calendar systems (work + personal), and many add a third (a household calendar, a school feed, or a side-project calendar) on top.
SYNCDATE’s calendar view solves this by showing events from every connected calendar — Google, Outlook, iCal feeds — on one screen. Four layouts: day, week, month, and agenda. Events keep their calendar’s color. No merging, no duplicating, no switching between apps.
What the calendar view is (and what it isn’t)
The calendar view is read-only. You see events from all your connected calendars, but you create and edit them in Google Calendar, Outlook, or whatever app you normally use.
Think of it as the cross-provider overview that no single calendar app can give you. Google Calendar doesn’t know about your Outlook events. Outlook doesn’t know about your Google events. Neither knows about your iCal feeds. SYNCDATE does, because you already connected those accounts.
This is not a unified calendar app. It’s not trying to replace Google Calendar or Outlook. It’s the place you check when you want to see your full week across everything.
Four layouts, same data
Day view shows one day at a time with 30-minute time slots. All-day events appear in a strip at the top. Overlapping events are arranged side by side so you can see conflicts.
Week view shows 7 days (or 5, depending on your preference). Same time grid, same overlap layout. A red line marks the current time.
Month view shows a traditional month grid with event dots and a heatmap intensity. Busy days are darker. Click a day to see its events.
Agenda view is a flat list of upcoming events grouped by day. Good for scanning the next few days without the visual overhead of a time grid.
Calendar sets for quick filtering
When you have 8 calendars connected, seeing all of them at once can be noisy. Calendar sets let you group calendars and switch between groups with one click.
A few examples:
- Work — just your work Outlook calendar and any shared team calendars
- Family — your partner’s calendar, school calendar, family iCal feed
- Client A — the specific Google Workspace calendar for that engagement
Sets are stored locally, so they’re instant to switch. You can also use the command palette (Cmd+K on Mac, Ctrl+K on Windows) to jump between sets, search events, switch views, or toggle individual calendars.
You don’t need to set up syncing first
The calendar view and syncing are independent features. You don’t need to configure any sync processes to use the view. Just connecting your accounts is enough — SYNCDATE pulls events directly from each provider’s API.
Syncing is for when you want events to actually appear on each other’s calendars (e.g., personal events showing as "Busy" on your work calendar). The view is for when you just want to see everything in one place.
Many users start with the view and add syncing later once they see where conflicts are.
How to set up a cross-provider calendar view
1Create your SYNCDATE account
Go to syncdate.app and sign up with your Google or Microsoft account. No credit card required.
2Connect your calendar accounts
From the dashboard, click Add Account. Connect each Google, Outlook, or iCal feed account you want to see. Each account’s calendars appear automatically. You can connect up to 2 accounts on the free plan, 5 on Plus, 20 on Pro.
3Open the calendar view
Click Calendar in the sidebar. All connected calendars show up by default. Switch between day, week, month, and agenda layouts using the view switcher in the toolbar.
4Create calendar sets (optional)
Click the [+] button in the sidebar to create a named set. Pick which calendars belong in it. Switch between sets to filter what you see. Use Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) for keyboard navigation.
Who uses the calendar view
Freelancers with multiple clients. Three client Google Workspace accounts plus a personal calendar. The calendar view is the only place where you can see all four side by side. Before this, the workaround was opening four browser tabs with four different Google accounts signed in. Read the full freelancer calendar sync guide for hub-and-spoke setups.
Remote workers with personal and work calendars. Your personal Google Calendar and corporate Outlook calendar live in different ecosystems. The calendar view shows both. See how to sync your personal and work calendar if you also want events to block time across calendars.
Parents coordinating family schedules. School calendar (iCal feed), partner’s calendar, nanny’s calendar, your work calendar. The family set shows them all. See calendar sync for families for full setup instructions.
Anyone managing 3+ calendar accounts. If you’re juggling multiple Google calendars or mixing Google and Outlook, the view gives you the one thing you can’t get from any single provider: the complete picture.
Conflict detection
The calendar view highlights overlapping events automatically. When two events from different calendars overlap, they’re arranged side by side in the time grid. A conflict count appears in the toolbar so you can spot scheduling problems before they become double-bookings.
This is especially useful for avoiding double-bookings across multiple calendars and verifying that your sync rules are working correctly.
Compared to other approaches
Google Calendar’s "Other calendars" subscription lets you overlay one calendar onto another, but it’s one-directional, read-only, and doesn’t block availability in "Find a Time." It also doesn’t work with Outlook. See calendar sharing vs. syncing for why subscription overlays fall short.
Fantastical is a native app (Mac, iPhone, iPad) on a subscription model, and since version 4.1.16 (26 June 2026) it does copy events between calendars with a feature called Calendar Mirroring. Flexibits describes it as the ability "to automatically copy events from one calendar to another allowing you to block off time on multiple calendars when creating an event in the app." Their documentation also sets out the boundaries: there "can only be a single mirroring rule for a given Source > Destination," mirrored events "do not sync across multiple rules" (so copies don’t chain onward to a third calendar), the work happens on your device ("No event information is sent to Flexibits servers or saved outside of your device"), it is "live for Mac and iOS, with Windows coming soon," and it "always looks 2 weeks in the past" plus whatever future window you configure. If you need mirroring that runs server-side without a Mac or iPhone awake, chains across more than two calendars, or reaches further back than two weeks, that is the line where a hosted sync tool starts to matter.
SYNCDATE gives you both the view and the sync in one place. Use one, the other, or both.
What you can do from the calendar view
The calendar view is read-only, but it’s not passive. Here’s what you can do without leaving the screen:
Switch layouts instantly. Day, week, month, and agenda views are one click apart. The view remembers your last choice.
Toggle individual calendars. Each calendar has a checkbox in the sidebar. Uncheck your work calendar on a Saturday morning and see only personal events. Check it again Monday.
Use the command palette. Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows) opens a search bar. Type an event name, a calendar name, a date, or a view name. Jump anywhere without clicking through menus.
See conflict counts. The toolbar shows how many overlapping events exist in the current view range. Click the count to see a list of conflicts. This is the fastest way to find double-bookings across providers.
Navigate by keyboard. Arrow keys move between days and weeks. Today button jumps back to the current date. For accessibility, all interactive elements are reachable by tab.
How data flows
When you open the calendar view, SYNCDATE queries each connected provider’s API directly. Google events come from the Google Calendar API. Outlook events come from the Microsoft Graph API. iCal feeds are fetched and parsed from their .ics URLs.
Events are cached to keep the view fast. The cache refreshes when you switch views, navigate to a new date range, or when a sync run completes. If you just created an event in Google Calendar, it appears in the SYNCDATE view within seconds.
Your providers stay the system of record. The cache is a working copy that is invalidated and cleaned up as events change; see our privacy in calendar sync guide for what is kept and for how long.
FAQ
Do I need to set up syncs to use the calendar view?
No. The calendar view works as soon as you connect your accounts. Syncing is a separate feature. Many users start with just the view.
Can I create or edit events from the calendar view?
No. The calendar view is read-only. Click an event to see its details (title, time, calendar), but editing happens in your calendar app.
Which providers does the calendar view support?
Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook/Office 365, and iCal feeds (.ics URLs). All connected accounts show up automatically.
Is the calendar view available on the free plan?
Yes. The calendar view is included on all plans, including the free tier. Free supports 2 connected accounts.
How is this different from subscribing to a calendar in Google?
Google's "Other calendars" subscription shows a read-only overlay from one provider. It doesn't work across providers (no Outlook support) and doesn't block availability in "Find a Time." SYNCDATE's view pulls from every connected provider on one screen.
Can I use this on mobile?
The calendar view is a web app that works in any mobile browser. There is no native iOS or Android app at this time.