Calendar Mirror vs OneCal

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

Multi-calendar sync with booking links, for people who live in Google and Outlook.

OneCal is a scheduling product. Calendar sync is one part of it; booking links and a unified view across accounts are the rest. If your working life spans Google and Outlook and you want other people to book time with you, that is a real product and Calendar Mirror is not competing for the job.

Calendar Mirror is a utility. It copies one calendar into another on an Apple device you already own, for $2.99 once, with no account. If you are on iPhone and Mac and all you need is the copy, OneCal's subscription buys features you would not use.

Side by side

Calendar MirrorOneCal
Price$2.99 once · free from source$5, $10 or $25 per user / month; $60, $120 or $300 annually
Account requiredNone — nothing to sign up forYes, with OAuth to each calendar account
Where your calendar goesNowhere. It never leaves the device.To OneCal's servers, which hold the connection
PlatformsiPhone, iPad, MacWeb, plus iOS and Android apps
Calendar sourcesAnything the device can see — iCloud, Google, Exchange, CalDAV, subscribed ICS feedsGoogle, Outlook and iCloud
Sync speed, Apple calendarsDetects changes within seconds on macOS (standalone build)“about every 10 minutes” for iCloud, per their docs
Sync speed, Google / OutlookWhatever the device's own account refresh isReal-time, per their docs
Booking / scheduling linksNoYes — unlimited one-on-one and collective links
Unified calendar viewNoYes
Per-event overrideYes — #nomirror, #private, #public in an event's notesNot published
Duration filtersYes — skip events shorter or longer than N minutesNot published
Team, admin, SSONoYes, on the higher tiers

Which to pick

Where Calendar Mirror is the better pick

  • No account and no server. The copy is made on your device by the OS's own calendar framework, so there is no third party holding a token to your work calendar.
  • $2.99 once against $60–$300 a year.
  • Faster on Apple calendars. OneCal's own documentation puts iCloud detection at about ten minutes because Apple publishes no push API to third parties; Calendar Mirror runs on the device, where the OS does deliver change notifications.
  • Reads subscribed ICS feeds like any other calendar, with no per-provider adapter and no API quota.
  • Per-event control. A tag in one event's notes overrides the rule for that event only.

Where OneCal is the better pick

  • Booking links and a unified view — Calendar Mirror has neither and is not going to.
  • Works from a browser, and on Android, and on a Windows machine. Calendar Mirror is Apple-only.
  • Real-time on Google and Outlook sources, which Calendar Mirror cannot match: it waits for the device's own account refresh.
  • Team plans, admin and SSO.
  • Runs whether or not your devices are switched on. Calendar Mirror syncs when a device is awake to do it.

Use them together

Put iCloud on OneCal's fast path

OneCal reads iCloud, but its own documentation puts detection at about ten minutes, because Apple gives third parties no push API. Google and Outlook, by contrast, are real-time for them.

You can move iCloud onto the fast path. Mirror the iCloud calendar into a Google calendar on your Mac — Calendar Mirror notices the change within seconds — and let OneCal watch the Google copy in real time. It also means iCloud events can feed OneCal’s booking links, which is the part Calendar Mirror will never do itself.

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 OneCal

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

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