Calendar Mirror vs CalMirror

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

The other calendar-mirroring app on the App Store. Google calendars only.

The names are similar; the apps are not. CalMirror mirrors events between Google calendars, on iPhone and iPad. Calendar Mirror mirrors between any calendars an Apple device can already see — iCloud, Exchange, CalDAV, subscribed feeds — on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

So the question is which calendars you actually have. If everything you own is a Google calendar, CalMirror is built for exactly that and has a free tier. If any part of your life is in iCloud, CalMirror cannot reach it, and no tier changes that.

Side by side

Calendar MirrorCalMirror
Price$2.99 once · free from sourceFree with 1 sync rule; Premium $2.99/month or $29.99/year
Calendar sourcesAnything the device can see — iCloud, Google, Exchange, CalDAV, subscribed ICS feedsGoogle Calendar only
iCloud supportYes, as source or destinationNot offered
Account requiredNone — it reads calendars the OS already hasA Google account
PlatformsiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod touch (iOS 15.1+)
Number of mirrorsUnlimited, no tiers1 free; more on Premium
FiltersDeclined, unanswered, cancelled, all-day, free, duration bounds, title, time-of-day and weekday window — all included“Filter out events you don’t want to sync” on Premium
Hiding detailsFull copy, title and location only, or a plain “Busy” blockReplace titles and notes — their example is “Client X meeting” → “Busy”
Event coloursNot set — copies take the destination calendar’s colourColour conversion rules
Removing copies when the source goesAlways, on every mirrorAuto-delete sync, on Premium
Per-event overrideYes — #nomirror, #private, #public in an event’s notesNot published
Mac appYes, with a menu-bar iconNo
Different developers, similar names. CalMirror is published by bad-company Incorporated and has nothing to do with Calendar Mirror or with the cal-mirror open-source project. The resemblance is a coincidence of two people naming the same idea; neither is a version of the other.

Which to pick

Where Calendar Mirror is the better pick

  • It works with Apple calendars, which CalMirror does not do at all. For an iCloud household that is the whole comparison.
  • $2.99 once against $29.99 a year — and every feature is in that one purchase.
  • Unlimited mirrors, where CalMirror’s free tier allows one.
  • Filters, and removing a copy when its source disappears, are included rather than held behind Premium.
  • There is a Mac app, and no account to connect.

Where CalMirror is the better pick

  • A free tier that syncs one pair, which is enough for a lot of people.
  • Colour conversion rules — Calendar Mirror does not set event colours at all, so a copy takes whatever colour its destination calendar has.
  • It is built for Google-to-Google, which Calendar Mirror can only do if those calendars are configured on an Apple device.
  • A monthly option, if you would rather not pay anything up front.

Use them together

Let it fan out an Apple calendar

CalMirror moves events between Google calendars. It has no way to read an iCloud calendar, so anything that lives on the Apple side is invisible to it.

Calendar Mirror can hand it one. Add your Google account to your Mac or iPhone, mirror the iCloud calendar into a Google calendar — busy-only if you would rather not hand over the details — and CalMirror can then fan that copy out across your other Google calendars with its own rules and colours.

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 CalMirror

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

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