Calendar helps individuals and whole organizations manage their time. Not only can you organize your personal calendar, invite others to meetings and events, and keep track of RSVPs, but you can also create shared calendars that multiple people can view or edit. You always control who has access, whether it's just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publicize events to the world. Calendar web application is accessible from anywhere, and you can even sign in from your mobile phone.

Quick facts

Sharing is built-in Invite others to meetings and track responses, share entire calendars with your contacts, or make your public event information available to the world.

Responsive, intuitive interface Drag-and-drop capabilities make it feel like a desktop application.

Integrated contact list Your contact list in Calendar is always in sync with your Email, so you'll never need to look someone up in Email to send an invitation.

Integrated into Email Email recognizes incoming meeting requests and invitations, and helps you RSVP without ever leaving your inbox.

Mobile access Install the Google Sync for mobile application onto your BlackBerry® smartphone, and your BlackBerry® calendar will stay in sync with your Calendar whether you make changes from your mobile device or online. Just browse to http://m.google.com/sync from your BlackBerry® smartphone to download the application. If you don't have a BlackBerry® smartphone, you can access a streamlined version of the Calendar web interface from your phone at http://calendar.google.com/a/your-domain.com, designed especially for mobile devices. If you can't use the internet on your phone, you can still get event reminders, check your calendar and even add new events to your agenda with SMS commands.

Support for shared resources Let people reserve conference rooms and other shared resources from their calendars.

Security and privacy You choose who can view your calendar, when. Other users can only access your calendar if you add them to the list of authorized viewers, or if you decide to publish your events.

Integration Data APIs let you integrate the Calendar with other calendar-based programs so you can seamlessly transfer from an existing calendar system, or use a client application to access your calendaring functions.

Interoperability Syncs between Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You can determine the direction of information flow as well as the sync frequency.

Built on open standards Import from other common calendar formats, and share calendars in the popular iCal format.

Supported browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and others.

Supported languages US English, UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Russian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish and Polish.