Replaces Google Calendar
European alternatives to Google Calendar
Shared calendars from European providers
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Google Calendar is Google's calendar service, used on its own and as part of Workspace. It handles personal and shared calendars, invitations and responses, recurring events, reminders and availability checks across a team, and it syncs to phones, desktop clients and third party apps. Meetings, room bookings and out of office periods for a whole organisation often live in it.
A calendar is a detailed record of who meets whom, how often and about what, which makes it more revealing than people assume when they think about where their data sits. A European alternative to Google Calendar keeps that schedule with an EU or EFTA provider. Proton Calendar and Tuta Calendar come with mail accounts from the same providers, fruux offers calendar and contact sync over open standards, and Calendar.online is aimed at shared and public calendars.
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Our pick
Proton Calendar
Encrypted calendar from Switzerland
Proton Calendar is a calendar service from the Swiss company Proton with a strong focus on privacy. It uses zero-knowledge encryption, which means the company cannot read the contents of your calendar even though the entries are stored on its servers.
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Questions
Can I move my existing events?
Google Calendar exports calendars as ICS files, which is the common exchange format. Proton Calendar and fruux both accept ICS imports, so events and recurrences generally carry across.
Will it sync with my phone?
Services that support the CalDAV standard, fruux among them, work with the calendar apps built into iOS, Android and desktop systems. Proton Calendar and Tuta Calendar provide their own apps instead, so check which route suits your devices.
Can I share a calendar with a group?
Yes: sharing is standard here, and Calendar.online is built specifically around calendars shared with a team, a club or the public. Compare the permission levels each provider offers before you rely on them.