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What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] Google Calendar 1/5 · US Color Update Broke Colors: The update for the desktop app broke colors. There is no consistency between the colors in the iOS app and the desktop version of calendar. Furthermore, custom colors that are available on desktop are not on the app. This update ruined the organization of my calendar.
2. [R3] Google Calendar 3/5 · US Give Me All The Colors: I love google calendar but I wish I had all the color options that are available when picking the default calendar color for when I am picking my event colors. They are so much prettier and give more variety for the various types of events with a shared calendar. Please let me do this
3. [R4] Google Calendar 2/5 · US Colors disappeared: Where did the color options for markings go? Now there's only one default color. · translated
4. [R28] Google Calendar 1/5 · US Bring back the classic Google Calendar feel!: 1. Bring back the original app icon. The new icon feels out of place and doesn’t fit as well with Google’s overall design language and branding. 2. Add more event color customization options. This has been requested by many users. 3. Make the app icon reflect the current day. It would make the app more functional and visually useful at a glance.
5. [R5] Google Calendar 4/5 · US Just needs one tweak: I wish the app icon would show the date, instead of constantly saying 31.
6. [R9] Google Calendar 3/5 · US Live date gone: Love the app, but don’t like the update where today’s date is no longer part of the app icon.
7. [R14] Google Calendar 4/5 · US Please make the app button change date: The app works well on my phone, but it’s really frustrating that the logo doesn’t change on the app like the Apple calendar. It would be nice to see the actual date on my screen. Please change this 🙏🙏🙏
8. [R16] Google Calendar 2/5 · US App Icon: Please change the app icon to something other than a static number. I have to use this app for work and having the native apple calendar app displaying the correct date next to this app on my Home Screen makes this app look like a joke. Easy fix for a proper design decision.
9. [R6] Google Calendar 3/5 · US More widgets: Missing a full size schedule widget and calendar widget (similar to minicals design if possible for the calendar widget) in my opinion
10. [R15] Google Calendar 3/5 · US Can’t resize widgets: I live by my calendar and need a good widget so I can see it at a glance without opening the app - the widget is so small it can only display 3 events. Needs to be resizable.
11. [R34] Google Calendar 1/5 · US Bad widgets: It doesn’t show alternative calendar in widgets, so yu have toopen it almost always, also there is no month widget with details
12. [R39] Google Calendar 3/5 · US Monthly widget: Please, please please my life would be so much easier if you would just create a widget that lets me see my entire month not just the day upcoming.
13. [R7] Google Calendar 1/5 · US No Dark Mode Toggle: Dark/Light mode cannot be set, and is only based on the system theme. The 3-way Dark/Light/System theme toggle had been an app standard since 2020. If you advertise 'dark mode' as a feature of this app, then just give us a setting for it.
14. [R12] Google Calendar 3/5 · US Bad accessibility: No way to change text size. I need reading glasses to see text
15. [R23] Google Calendar 5/5 · US Can’t see the numbers: I need a senior friendly calendar with print I can see
16. [R25] Google Calendar 1/5 · US Cannot enter locations: I used to have the infrequent problem of only being able to enter the first letter of the location of my events, but then the app froze and the only thing to unfreeze it was to force close the app and lose my draft of a calendar entry. But I didn’t think much of it because it happened once in a blue moon. Now since this latest update I can no longer put a location on any of
17. [R36] Google Calendar 3/5 · US Location Glitch: Every time I try to put in the location for an event when I’m inputing something into my calendar, it glitches and deletes the entire event. I’m able to edit the location after I make the event, but it’s incredibly annoying to not be able to put the location in when I’m originally inputting the event into my calendar.
18. [R41] Google Calendar 4/5 · US Good overall: I use the app on my iPhone and find it works pretty good overall. It’s intuitive and syncs easily which makes it really convenient. 1 thing I wish for: that the app image had the actual date on it (instead of always saying 31). I also have a persistent bug where the app freezes when I try to type a location for an event. I have to close and reopen the app and recreate the event to ge
19. [R43] Google Calendar 2/5 · US “Location” Field on an event causes app crash a lot: Please fix this it’s been like this for months
20. [R19] Google Calendar 1/5 · US Practically useless: I use the calendar regularly on my desktop. It takes WAY too long for any changes I make to reflect on the app. By long, I’m not talking a minute or two. I mean whole days pass by without the changes reflecting on the app. It’s insane and wholly unacceptable.
21. [R46] Google Calendar 1/5 · US No longer worth having on iPad.: Need to reopen event fo sync to occur, for any changes made in the app to occur.
22. [R13] Google Calendar 1/5 · US need every weekday option on mobile: really need the option to repeat a calendar item every weekday on the mobile app not just on desktop
23. [R45] Google Calendar 3/5 · US It's Fine: Gets the job done. Has a good UI mostly. Lacks some of the both elementary and essential features that the desktop web app has, like setting an event to repeat only on certain days of the week. Also, doesn't load any events past a few years back. If I try to look at something more than 3 years ago, it loads for just a moment but then all the events suddenly disappear and don't come back
24. [R2] Google Calendar 4/5 · US Needs better notifications sound: Sync is faster than apples calendar app. However the notification sound is very tame and quiet. Not customizable at all.
25. [R30] Google Calendar 3/5 · US New Look: Not a Fan of the New Look. The multi color look was much better and stood out on my phone. They should change it back instead of this new boring look.
26. [R31] Google Calendar 1/5 · US WORSE logo ever!: The WORSE logo ever! The recent upgrade is awful!
27. [R40] Google Calendar 1/5 · US Terrible new logo: Old logo was good.
28. [R53] Google 1/5 · US Broken tab management: The AI/Gemini interface inside the Google App completely breaks basic tab management. When I click the "New Tab" button while inside an active AI thread, it fails to open a separate, additional tab. Instead, it completely ignores the command and overwrites my current thread. This destroys my active research progress and pollutes the AI's context window with unrelated questio
29. [R60] Google 5/5 · US Read aloud or listen now function issue: I love this app. I use this a lot. I appreciate the accessibility feature especially ones that are allowing you to listen to the article. However, we didn’t last two days. The toolbar is not reflecting that read aloud feature, which is kind of frustrating. I hope this is a update issue and it will be fixed soon because otherwise Apple will suffer a lot beca
30. [R61] Google 1/5 · US Why are the features I used now just an AI Mode button?: I use the Google app for just two things, reverse image search and translation. I can sort of get to the reverse image search if I’m ok with Google having camera access, but the translate button is gone, presumably to make room for the very unwelcome AI Mode button. There may be a setting to change this, but it’s not clear in the settings, a
31. [R63] Google 1/5 · US Wow…: If anyone thought Google was bad before, being biased and all, just wait until you learn about Reckless Ben. Evidently google doesn’t care one bit about anyone’s privacy. They will give ALL your emails and information over to any corporation that asks for it. SHAME ON YOU GOOGLE. You can put those legos somewhere dark and lonely, Google.
32. [R65] Calendar 1/5 · US Frustrating: All my events are gone, and are no where to be found. Incredibly frustrating
33. [R67] Calendar 3/5 · US I’d like a refund: I like this app, I use it for everything. I would like more access to change things; example: how are Jewish and Islamic holidays considered “U.S. Holiday” ( which is not true) and I can’t remove the holiday so it’s not in my calendar reminder
34. [R68] Calendar 2/5 · US Whyyyy: Why whole calendar keeps getting deleted I feel like every other week…
35. [R70] Calendar 3/5 · US Optional Holidays: Apple, please make it possible to filter different holidays. We don’t all want to see Christian, Jewish, and Islamic holidays wholesale or none at all. Please add filters!
36. [R80] Structured 5/5 · US Love: I've been using Structured every day for a couple years now. It's very straightforward to use and the UI isn't overwhelming. Plus, the team actually takes user feedback into consideration when updating the app.
37. [R81] Structured 3/5 · US Good but could use improvement.: I am trying this app out, but find myself severely disappointed in how app handles “overlapping” tasks. I juggle 2 jobs with variable schedules, and have ADHD which this app claims to be aimed at, so I schedule out work shifts in my calendar so I visualize my week and plan other events around them. I want to be able to nest work tasks within that scheduled time, bu
38. [R82] Structured 2/5 · US Free version too limited: Can only add 3 events per day with the free version. Want you to pay $30/year. No way to hide the AI button in the middle of the screen that you need to pay for.
39. [R84] Structured 1/5 · US Too expensive: The price for this ?!? Ridiculously expensive
40. [R93] Calendars 1/5 · US Disappointed: Had this app for an about two years have lost all of my important dates twice! Look for a better and more reliable app!
41. [R94] Calendars 5/5 · US Excellent: So easy to use, everything color coded makes it easy to see at a glance.
42. [R95] Calendars 3/5 · US Calendars kept dissapearing because you have to have an apple or Google calender already: My whole calender disappeared and the whole reason I had it was because I had deleted the Apple calendars app but it needs it for it to work? Defeats the whole purpose of a calender app
43. [R97] Calendars 5/5 · US Best calendar app in existence: update: they gave us so many new color options! I still would love to be able to label the colors! Also thanks for bringing the month’s tab back to the lower part of the screen! Makes the UX and UI sooo much better! What a great design team! This is my all time favorite app because it’s soooo much easier to use. Only things I wish it had were more color options an
44. [R107] Google Tasks 1/5 · US App keeps crashing: The app keeps crashing without any warnings. I’ve uninstalled, installed and updated the app but I am still unable to open it on my iPhone 11.
45. [R109] Google Tasks 3/5 · US Keeps crashing: I used to use this all the time but now I can't even open the app. I've even tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but it still crashes on open. Back to using Apple Reminders I guess
46. [R111] Google Tasks 5/5 · US Getting organized: Great App, allows you to tick of tasks and especially for really busy people who get distracted. I find in retirement I am probably more busy than when I worked a full time job. It adds focus to your day and allows ability to track tasks
47. [R114] Google Tasks 4/5 · US Great integration! Too simple tho: I would say this is the best app for those who use smart assistants to set reminders. google assistant of course works but you can use the newer gemini to set reminders with natural language. you can even put a screenshot into gemini and it’ll put the reminders into tasks automatically. i would like it if they added location based and app usage based triggers for
48. [R86] Structured 2/5 · US This game seems cool: This game seems cool but it said I had to pay monthly money which I don’t wanna do even tho it’s cheap I’m just not interested in subscriptions cause I already have to do that so I want a game that is free now it seems cool and helpful but not for me
49. [R88] Structured 1/5 · US Pricing changed and cannot purchase Pro Lifetime: I was using the annual pro, only for one year, and saved up for the lifetime for Pro. I'm extremely sad and upset seeing the lifetime rose so much in price. I can't afford it now and will unfortunately be moving to something else. I feel this is unfair... I genuinely enjoyed using Structured when I did, but it's unusable without Pro, for me at leas
50. [R115] Google Tasks 3/5 · US No search function: The application would be much more useful if there was the ability to search within the app. The only way to search is to do it in the Google calendar application. If you lose the search capability in Google calendar (which is a known problem that I have not been able to fix), both Google Calendar and Google Tasks lose a major function that I depend upon. I am looking for oth
51. [R119] Google Tasks 1/5 · US Missing a search function: The Google Tasks mobile app for iPhone does not currently have a built-in search feature for finding specific tasks. To locate items, you must manually scroll through your lists. My lists are long and this is a PITA. Google, please add this simple feature ASAP!