How can we help?

Contact us

Email support@calendarfeed.app. It helps to include your phone model, your Android version, and what you see on the source’s detail screen (the most recent error message, if there is one). Please don’t send private calendar links unless we ask, since they give access to your calendar.

Add a calendar feed

1. Copy the calendar’s subscription link. It usually ends in .ics or starts with webcal://. See below for where to find one.
2. Open Calendar Feed and go to the Sources tab.
3. Paste the link into the feed address field. Optionally give it a name (you can’t rename it later; if you leave it blank, the link is used as the name).
4. Add it. Calendar Feed refreshes it right away. You can then use the − and + buttons on the source to choose how often it refreshes while the app is open: every 5, 10 or 15 minutes (10 by default).

The link must download without a sign-in; calendars that need a password aren’t supported. Tapping a webcal:// link in your browser won’t open Calendar Feed, so copy and paste it instead.

Try it with a sample feed

No calendar link handy? Paste one of these into the feed address field to see how Calendar Feed works. They are made-up samples we publish for trying the app, not a real school, team or class, and every event in them repeats, so there is always something coming up. Remove them whenever you like.

The sample feeds are hosted on calendarfeed.app by Cloudflare. If you add one, Cloudflare receives the same request details any feed server does (your IP address, the time and the user agent) and processes them to serve the file and keep the site secure; we don’t use them to identify you.

• School (Lincoln Elementary): https://calendarfeed.app/samples/lincoln-elementary.ics
• Youth soccer (Westside U10): https://calendarfeed.app/samples/westside-soccer.ics
• High-school class (AP Biology): https://calendarfeed.app/samples/ap-biology.ics

Add calendars that are on your phone

On the Sources tab, tap Add device calendars. Android asks you to allow calendar access (read only). Then pick the calendars you want; ones you have already added aren’t offered again.

Where to find a calendar link

Google Calendar

On a computer, open Google Calendar, go to Settings, choose the calendar under “Settings for my calendars”, open Integrate calendar, and copy the Secret address in iCal format. The public address in iCal format only works if the calendar is public. Treat the secret address like a password: anyone who has it can see that calendar, so keep it to yourself.

Outlook.com

Go to Settings, then Calendar, Shared calendars, Publish a calendar. Choose the calendar and what to share, select Publish, and copy the ICS link.

Canvas

Open Calendar in Canvas, select Calendar Feed (a Canvas option that happens to share our name), and copy the link it shows.

Schools, sports leagues and clubs often post their own calendar links too. Look for “Subscribe”, “iCal”, “ICS” or “Add to calendar”.

Troubleshooting

A feed isn’t updating, or shows “Stale”

• Open the source to see its refresh history and the reason for the most recent failure (for example no network, a server error, or a feed too large to read).
• Pull down on the Agenda, Day or Week screen, or tap Refresh all now on the Sources tab, to try again.
• Feeds refresh while the app is open. When it is closed, Android decides when (and whether) background refreshes happen, and battery-saving settings can delay them. Opening the app refreshes everything.
• Check that the link still opens without a sign-in, and that the calendar provider hasn’t reset or unpublished it.
• Some servers only work over plain http://. Calendar Feed always uses https://, so those feeds can’t be read.
• While a feed can’t be reached, its last known events stay on screen and the source is flagged, so nothing disappears silently.

My work calendar doesn’t appear

Calendar Feed can only show phone calendars that Android makes available to other apps. On some employer-managed phones, the work calendar is kept only inside the Outlook app, where no other app can read it. If your organization lets you publish your calendar as an ICS link, you can add that link as a feed instead.

Calendar permission is turned off

If you turned off calendar access, Calendar Feed can’t read your phone calendars and shows that calendar access is off. To turn it back on, open Android Settings, then Apps, Calendar Feed, Permissions, Calendar, and choose Allow.

The same event shows twice

Calendar Feed shows an event once when it can tell two copies are the same (the same event ID and start time, or the same title, start, end and organizer). If it isn’t sure, it shows both rather than risk hiding one. You can switch off a source you don’t need with its on/off switch.

Remove your data

• One source: open the source and choose Remove this source. Its saved events and history are deleted from Calendar Feed; your real calendar isn’t touched.
• Everything: in Android Settings, open Apps, then Calendar Feed, then Storage, and clear storage. Or uninstall the app.

The app has no account and never sends us the data it stores, so there is no app data on our side to delete. See the privacy policy for details.