Howbout: shared calendar reviews, read one by one

★★★★★ · 2026-10-01 · v16.5.3

Amazing app, but..

I’ve used this app for all of my events probably for 4 or more years now. I’ve loved it so much and it made scheduling so easy. Now the reason I took a star away, I went on the app today to add an event, and saw all of my events were gray. Last time the app updated, the same thing happened and I went through and individually recolored every event for about an hour. As a dancer who’s on a school dance team and a dance company, color coding helped me so much because different c...

★★★★☆ · 2026-10-16 · v16.5.3

Great app!! some paywalls

i am probably one of the TOP advocates for howbout, i’ve made pretty much everyone in my life download the app or at least painfully aware of its existence. i’ve had howbout since its start and have seen every phase they’ve gone through with updates. i LOVE the app but i hate that so many customization privileges have been revoked and added to a subscription “plus” version of the app. it definitely has some quirks, specifically the recurring all day events will often glitch a...

★★★☆☆ · 2026-09-09

Great app! But they’re slowly making features less and less accessible for non-subscribers.

I really, really love Howbout. It’s made managing and organizing events so much easier. I’ve even started depending on it more than my phone’s calendar app! Throughout the years, they’ve been updating the app regularly and adding more features that have really shaped the app up well. Unfortunately, they’ve also slowly made the features more and more inaccessible to non-subscribers. We can’t even have specific colors assigned to solo events anymore! With the introduction to th...

★☆☆☆☆ · 2026-09-15 · v16.4.0

Was good before the paywall

I used Howbout for a couple of years and absolutely loved it. I originally started using it with my family after I moved out, and eventually added friends as all of our schedules became busier and harder to coordinate. One of my favorite things about the app was how simple it was. It was free, you had access to all the colors, and I could easily color-code different activities and repeating events. As a very Type A person, I had YEARS of my calendar organized by color. Unfo...

★★☆☆☆ · 2026-09-22 · v16.4.1

Recent update - not a fan

⭐⭐ I’ve used Howbout for a long time and genuinely really liked it. It was one of my favourite calendar apps because it was simple, intuitive and, most importantly, allowed me to organise my calendar using lots of different colours. Unfortunately, this latest change has completely messed up the way I organise my life. I had a large number of different colours for different jobs, hobbies, projects, social events, theatre work, etc. Now that system has been drastically redu...