Calendar Mirror vs CalendarBridge

Compared August 2026 · every price and feature below was checked against CalendarBridge’s own site on 28 August 2026. These change — check the CalendarBridge site before deciding.

Busy-block sync and scheduling pages, with a HIPAA agreement available.

CalendarBridge sells a compliance story. It offers a Business Associate Agreement on its higher tiers, which is the kind of thing a clinic or a firm needs on paper before it will let a tool near a calendar. Calendar Mirror cannot offer you a BAA, because there is no company on the other end of it.

Calendar Mirror answers the same worry differently. Instead of a contract governing what a vendor may do with your calendar, there is no vendor: the copy is made on your device and nothing is transmitted. Whether that is better depends entirely on whether you need the paperwork.

Side by side

Calendar MirrorCalendarBridge
Price$2.99 once · free from source$5 / $10 / $40 per month for 2 / 5 / 8 calendars; $4 / $8 / $32 billed yearly
Account requiredNoneYes; iCloud is connected with an app-specific password
Where your calendar goesNowhere. It never leaves the device.To CalendarBridge's servers
PlatformsiPhone, iPad, MacWeb
Calendar sourcesAnything the device can see — iCloud, Google, Exchange, CalDAV, subscribed ICS feedsGoogle, Outlook, iCloud and .ics URLs
Sync speed, Apple calendarsDetects changes within seconds on macOS (standalone build)“every 5 to 10 minutes” for iCloud and .ics sources, per their docs
Sync speed, Google / OutlookWhatever the device's own account refresh isReal-time, typically within a minute, per their docs
Privacy of copied eventsPer-mirror: full copy, title and location only, or a plain “Busy” blockControls over which events sync and which details sync
Scheduling pagesNoYes — up to 10
HIPAA BAANot offered — there is no company to sign oneAvailable on Premium and Pro
Per-event overrideYes — a tag in an event's notesNot published
Duration filtersYesNot published

Which to pick

Where Calendar Mirror is the better pick

  • No account, and no server holding a credential to your calendar. CalendarBridge asks for an Apple app-specific password; Calendar Mirror asks for nothing, because the calendars are already on the device.
  • $2.99 once against $48–$480 a year.
  • Faster on Apple calendars and on subscribed feeds. Their own documentation puts iCloud and .ics sources at five to ten minutes.
  • Per-event control with a tag, rather than per-rule only.
  • Duration bounds — skip anything under fifteen minutes, say.

Where CalendarBridge is the better pick

  • A HIPAA Business Associate Agreement, which some workplaces simply require.
  • Scheduling pages for sharing availability.
  • Real-time sync when the source is Google or Outlook.
  • Runs in a browser, on any OS, with no Apple device involved.
  • Keeps syncing while all your devices are off.

Use them together

Put iCloud and .ics feeds on the fast path

CalendarBridge is real-time when the source is Google or Outlook, and every 5 to 10 minutes when it is iCloud or an .ics URL — their documentation says so.

Calendar Mirror can change which of those applies. Mirror the iCloud calendar or the subscribed feed into a Google or Outlook calendar on your Mac, then let CalendarBridge use that as the source. You keep its scheduling pages and, on the higher tiers, its BAA — and the slow half of the pipeline gets replaced by something that reacts in seconds.

Bridging adds a hop: Calendar Mirror writes the copy on your device, and the other service then reads that copy on its own schedule. It needs the destination account set up on your Mac or iPhone, and the copy is one-way, like every Calendar Mirror mirror.

What Calendar Mirror does not do, on any tier

None of these are coming later. If you need one of them, buy something else:

Get Calendar Mirror — $2.99 Visit CalendarBridge

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Calendar Mirror is not affiliated with CalendarBridge in any way, and this page is written by Calendar Mirror’s author.

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