Google Calendar is great — for meetings, not crews
Keep Google for your life. Run the work somewhere that knows who said yes.
- Free for your calendar
- No card to start
- Bring your Google Calendar in minutes
What Google Calendar does well
- It is free, it is everywhere, and everybody already has it.
- Invites, reminders and video links for meetings just work.
- Sharing a calendar with family or a partner is easy.
The trouble starts when the calendar becomes the group chat for your crew. Invite two people to a job and both are invited, neither is accountable. Nobody reads the RSVP, nothing proves the work was done, and nothing tells you what you're still owed.
An invite vs. an assignment
| Google Calendar | CalenDawn | |
|---|---|---|
| How a job reaches a person | An invite | An assignment to a named person |
| Their answer | RSVP, which nobody reads | Accept or decline, and you see who has not answered |
| Proof the work was done | No | Photos, signature, GPS |
| What you still owe, as a number | No | Missed and pending, across the whole account |
| Your crew needs an account | A Google account | No. A private link is enough |
| Sunrise, sunset and weather on the day | No | Yes, on every view |
Both invited, neither accountable. That is the whole difference.
Bring your calendar
Paste an iCal link from Google, Outlook, Apple or Yahoo and everything you already have shows up in CalenDawn. Subscribed feeds stay read-only, so nothing here changes the original. Two-way sync is on the roadmap, not in the product yet, and we will say so on this page the day it ships.
Questions people ask next
Do I have to stop using Google Calendar?
No. Plenty of people keep Google for personal life and run the business in CalenDawn. Your Google events can show in CalenDawn through an iCal link.
Is it two-way sync?
Not yet. Imports are read-only today. Two-way sync is a roadmap item.
Is CalenDawn free like Google Calendar?
For one person, yes: every view, unlimited events, no card. Paid starts when your crew does, at $19 a month for you and up to 2.
Do my crew need Google accounts?
No accounts at all. Each person opens a private portal link.
Keep your calendar. Add the accountability.
Open a free account and paste your Google Calendar link. You will see your week in CalenDawn in under five minutes.
Start free — no card