Entropic Software Labs

The calendar you already have, laid out so you can read it.

Android 10+ Free No account

Schedule reads the calendars already synced to your phone — Google, work, whatever is on there — and draws the day, the week and the month properly. Edits go back to the same calendars, so everything else you use keeps working.

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No account, no server. Android 10 or later.

02 Today

A day you can take in at a glance.

The day is twenty-four cells, two rows of twelve. An event fills the part of the hour it actually takes, so a meeting from 19:15 to 19:45 is a short bar inside its cell rather than a block over the whole evening.

  • What's on now comes before what's next. The top card names the event you're in and how much of it is left — “Until 14:30 · 1h 10m left” — then the one after it.
  • A stacked row means a clash. Overlapping events take a lane of their own, and the Clashes card names the contested stretch, not the events' full spans: “Double-booked 14:00–14:30 · 2 events”.
  • Tap a free hour to add an event there. Tap a busy one and you get that slot's run sheet, with each event's notes in full.

03 Week

The week as a timetable, not a list.

Sunday to Saturday, a column per day, the whole day from 0000 to 2359. Every event is a block as tall as it lasts, so a three-hour lab looks like three hours and a free afternoon looks free.

  • A block shows as much as it has room for. The full title on a tall one; on a short one the place drops first, then the end time, then the title wraps and hyphenates. Times read 1300 / - / 1400, because a column is too narrow for “13:00–14:00”.
  • Two events at once sit side by side — but only inside their own overlap, so a clash at 15:00 doesn't narrow a lone 09:00 lecture.
  • The dates stay pinned at the top while the page scrolls, so you never read a block against a column whose date has gone off screen.

04 Month

Every event named, not three dots.

The month fills the page: tall days with each event written out, timed ones included. When a day holds more than fits, its last row says ••• rather than cutting a title in half.

  • An event across several days is one band, titled once across the whole run, instead of the same word repeated in seven boxes.
  • Long-press a day for its agenda in a pop-up over the page, with Open day and Add event. A tap opens that day on Today.
  • Or switch to the list from the header — the month's days one after another with what's on them. Swiping sideways still changes month.

05 Widgets

The month on your home screen.

A six-by-seven grid that redraws whenever your calendar changes, with chevrons for the months either side and a + that opens the add form. Tap a day and its agenda opens over the home screen — the app never has to start.

  • All-day and multi-day events are named; timed ones are dots in their own colours. A widget day is about fifty pixels wide, which is six characters — long enough to render “Church service” as “Churc…” and tell you nothing.
  • There's a Today widget as well: the date, the events that haven't ended yet, and “+2 more” when the day runs past the card.
  • Browse to December and tomorrow you're back here. The month you moved to expires by day rather than on a timer, so a glance ten minutes later is still December and a glance tomorrow is this month.

06 Tasks

A deadline is a point, not an hour.

A task is a time and a checkbox, and it never books the hour it falls in. It can't clash with anything, takes no lane on the grid, and shows as a hairline tick at its own minute — because “submit the report by 17:00” is when the thing is due, not a second meeting.

  • A task you never ticked doesn't disappear. Once its deadline has passed it is carried onto today under Overdue, with the date it was due.
  • A task with no time gets no mark at all. There is no hour to put it at, and defaulting it to midnight would draw a deadline you never set.
  • Birthdays go both ways. One you add here becomes a yearly all-day event on your calendar; one that is already in Google Contacts shows up here, and a rename in Google is read as a rename rather than a deletion.

07 Google

It stays Google's calendar.

A colour you pick here is one of Google's own, written onto the event as its colour key, so Google Calendar shows you the same one. Nothing is kept in a private store that only this phone can read.

The six an uncoloured event can be given, at Google's own values.
  • All twenty-four come in; eleven go out. Google only lets other apps set the classic eleven, so those are what the picker offers. The other thirteen, set in Google's own apps, are shown here exactly as they are rather than rounded to the nearest one this app can write.
  • Events nobody coloured get a colour anyway — a different one per event per day, so a day tells itself apart. It is worked out as the screen draws, so no other calendar app ever sees a colour this one invented.
  • Pull down to refresh asks your accounts to sync, then asks again after 4, 10 and 20 seconds, because an edit you made a moment ago in Google Calendar is usually still on its way up.

08 Install

Install it

Schedule isn't on Google Play. The APK is a GitHub release, so you download it and install it yourself.

Download Schedule.apk Source on GitHub
  1. Open this page on the phone and tap Download Schedule.apk.
  2. Android will ask whether your browser may install apps. Allow it, then open the downloaded file.
  3. You'll be warned it's from an unknown developer — it isn't signed through Google Play. Install anyway.
  4. Give it access to your calendar when it asks. That's the whole setup: the calendars already on the phone are what it reads.

Needs Android 10 or later. The only thing it asks you for is your calendar; it also reads whether your accounts are syncing. The APK still declares an internet permission left over from a feature it no longer offers, and makes no network requests at all.