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Yahoo! Calendar

Web Based Calendar Application

Published on 08/08/2011

Rated 4 out of 5 stars by AppAppeal Editor

36 comments for this app

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What can you use the app for?

Yahoo Calendar is one of the newest additions to the Yahoo collection of applications and websites. Users can add events complete with notes and times. The application also supports shared calendars so users can collaborate with others. Event invitations can be sent so that others can be aware of important dates. The user can also track guests through Yahoo Calendars. Calendar layers allow the user to group events while additional color customization features allow for further organization and grouping. Reminder can be set up as much as two weeks in advance or as soon as only five minutes prior to the event or activity. Mobile phone synchronization is available that permits the user to view their Yahoo Calendar online or with their mobile web browser. Additional features include the ability to print a calendar, stickers, to do lists and a web search tool bar.

What is the history and popularity of the app?

While Yahoo! Calendar was rolled out back in 1998 (long before the latest and greatest in technology), little was changed until 2008. The new Yahoo Calendar was released in public beta in October of 2008. The application was designed to match the new look of Yahoo Mail and included support for subscriptions to any iCalendar public calendar. Other features such as Flickr integration, Outlook sync and a drag and drop interface were also added. It took a couple of years for the application to be perfected and stabilized. The official stable release occurred in November of 2010.

What are the differences to other apps?

Yahoo Calendar is not terribly unique. Many other companies already offer a calendar application, including Google. Users may prefer Yahoo Calendar if they already use other Yahoo products, such as Yahoo Mail. The calendar includes all of the features that internet visitors have come to expect from modern calendar applications, including event invitations, calendar sharing tools and to do lists.

How does the web app look and feel to use?

Yahoo Calendar keeps things simple with a plain white background and pale blue header bars. The calendar appears as a plain, block style calendar with the month and days of the week across the top. The user can click black arrows on either side of the month to shift dates. Buttons at the top of the page allow the user to add events, view months or dates, print calendars, change to a list view or add colorful stickers. A long to do list appears along the right hand side of the calendar so the user can compare dates and activities. A Yahoo web search bar is positioned in the upper, right hand corner of the page.

How does the registration process work?

A new user must create a Yahoo account use its calendar application. This can be done by visiting the Yahoo homepage and clicking on the bold “Sign In” link along the right hand side. The following page includes a black and grey button that reads “Create New Account” in the lower, right hand corner. The user can also click either of the two buttons above it to log in with a Facebook or Google account. The following page contains a form that requires two security questions and answers as well as a name, gender, birth date, country, postal code, desired Yahoo ID and password.

What does it cost to use the application?

Yahoo Calendar is available for free, much like many other Yahoo applications. The user only has to create a Yahoo account to begin using the calendar. There are no restrictions on usage and the user can access all current features.

Who would you recommend the application to?

Yahoo Calendar is ideal for anyone who needs to find a simple calendar to manage their personal schedules. The application is even more appealing for anyone who already has a Yahoo account. Users can access all tools with their Yahoo login.

Yahoo! Calendar Features

Sign in with a Yahoo, Google or Facebook account
Create shared calendars to collaborate on events
Add a to do list along with the calendar
Place stickers on specific dates and events
Store all of your vital dates in one place

Yahoo! Calendar pricing

Permanently free version

Languages

English

36 comments for this app

Website

http://calendar.yahoo.com/

36 comments (newest first)

sethook
on 07 Feb 2012 at 18:51

One would think that a company the size of Yahoo, who has been around for a whil,e could put out a decent product. It boggles my mind how they have taken a simple calendar program and screwed it up so many times. Who keeps asking for all the revisions that keeps this calendar program in a constant state of BROKE?

Brian D
on 30 Jan 2012 at 18:42

I was a very satisfied user of Yahoo! Calendar for many years. Then they "upgraded" my account in Jun 2011. All my reminders were lost in this upgrade. The new calendar was very slow, so it too me many hours to fix them. Just got "upgraded" again last week, the new interface looks nicer, is fast, but I can't edit/change any calendar entry from before the upgrade. Also, I'm no longer able to export my calendar to an .ics file. I prefered slow, buggy, and workable, to faster, buggy, and unworkable. It's too bad they had to change the calendar in the 1st place.

R Grose
on 26 Jan 2012 at 23:36

#1 why do they keep changing the calendar?!? (it was just revamped ~6mos ago) #2 it sucks! #3 I'm going to try the Google calendar too

BC
on 21 Jan 2012 at 20:37

I thought it was just me. I have just signed into Google calender and so much more user friendly. Instant success!! Yahoo I think you need to get your act together

Eric Wilson
on 26 Dec 2011 at 14:59

Why is my calendar NOT working? Why doesn't it work soooo often?

Bonnie Clinton
on 03 Nov 2011 at 15:41

i need my SO CALLED "calendar" NOW- but do you think it's working!!? OF COURSE NOT!! SERIOUSLY, yahoo, is this the best you've got? REALLLLLLY??????

Bonnie Clinton
on 03 Nov 2011 at 15:39

the damn thing NEVER FRIGGIN WORKS!!SICK OF IT

Marjorie
on 18 Sep 2011 at 03:58

This caleldar does not work!!!!!! Have lost everything because of Yahoo!!

MARK
on 16 Sep 2011 at 03:34

(Rated 1 out of 5 stars)

The old version was GREAT. The new one is GARBAGE. Truncates my Notes so only one or two lines of notes show up. When I Search a term it doesn't find it - even if I copy/paste the term word for word it doesn't work - all settings correct. AWFUL, AWFUL....AWFUL.

Yoram
on 05 Sep 2011 at 08:15

I am new to yahoo Calendar (switched form Google). I love the interface and how easy it is to use. One major flaw is that it is sometime gets painfully slow..

Frustrated
on 31 Aug 2011 at 18:53

Used the yahoo calendar for YEARS and YEARS... awful new version. Riddled w/ bugs and issues. Hate it, moving to google's cal.

Vern
on 21 Aug 2011 at 23:23

Just switched to Yahoo Calendar from Google Calendar one month ago. I loved until today (8/20/11) when I can no longer see my events on my mobile phone UNLESS I AM ALSO LOGGED INTO MY PC SIMULTANEOUSLY. I never had to do that before. That is the sole reason I need a Yahoo Calendar is to see my schedule while I am on the go using my mobile phone. Question: do you guys test the product BEFORE you roll it out? Or, do you wait for the users to complain? Disappointed.

MrSoft
on 24 Jul 2011 at 08:14

(Rated 1 out of 5 stars)

What a disaster! Vile and ugly to look at. Black text out of orange, WTH? Far too many clicks. If in month view, and I click on an event, I want it to open that event. But instead, it takes me into day view for that day, and I need to scroll to find the event, and select it a second time. Click to open that (wait, wait, wait, so slow). Oops, wrong one, back up, now it's taking me to Full Day view as a default - why, it didn't ask it to do that?!? So, so, slow and crashy, get used to the phrase "waiting for calendar.yahoo.com". Also, there is a bug on repeating events, I have a 5 day repeating event, but it only displays on days 1, 4 and 5. Frankly it's just pathetic and after 3 months trying to get on with is, it's bye bye yahoo after 6 years of having my business calendar exclusively mapped on the thing.

jaleah
on 23 Jul 2011 at 15:51

i do not like the new yahoo.calendar. It was fine the way it was

cs
on 15 Jul 2011 at 02:04

(Rated 1 out of 5 stars)

I have tried to delete a repeating event a dozen times. Now, according to my calendar, my niece will be visiting me every day for eternity! Which would be lovely, but she has to go back to school! Arg. If even the simple things don't work, what's the use?!

mfb1025
on 26 May 2011 at 16:20

I agree with all above This is a painful Calendar to use I will be moving to Google

Larry
on 21 May 2011 at 04:20

(Rated 5 out of 5 stars)

The new yahoo calendar (rolled out in the fall of 2010) is awful. I had been using yahoo calendar for years, but the new version has many terrible flaws. I have switched to google calendar.

Jenn
on 19 May 2011 at 20:22

The new calendar is horrible. I cannot change events. Any time I try I just get a blank screen. The calendar USED to be a great way to keep track of my schedule. Now it's useless. Looks like it's time to say goodbye to Yahoo and find something else. Anyone know what was wrong with the earlier version? Since it actually worked.

David
on 19 May 2011 at 17:44

I agree with the negative comments. I stayed with yahoo for years mostly because the calendar was so good. Nothing else worked as well on my smartphones, the reminders were easy, reliable, and MUCH more user-friendly and flexible than Google. The new calendar does NOT work on my iPhone - displays incorrectly, very slow, impossible (really, and I'm not an idiot) to add events on the phone version. They truly ruined it, and don't respond to any emails with anything but corporate nonsense. Leaving Yahoo behind, "migrating" myself to Google.

Marcus
on 18 May 2011 at 13:32

the new calendar update is terrible, I click any date in MY.Yahoo, and isntead of taking me to that date in the Calendar, it takes me to today's date. Also, editing an event is difficult, and often leads to blank pages. Well, after a decade of using Yahoo Calendar, I may have to try something else. Way to go, Yahoo!

jp
on 18 May 2011 at 12:17

what a piece of crap. I am gueesing the programmers had to justify their job. IF IT AINT BROKE DON'T FIX IT! now it's broke...

Marilyn
on 14 May 2011 at 06:28

The new calendar is a joke!!

NewlyAcquiredHighBP
on 10 May 2011 at 14:22

I absolutely ABHOR the new Yahoo calendar. SO MUCH SO THAT IF THEY DON'T MAKE IT MORE USER-FRIENDLY, I WILL KILL MY YAHOO EMAIL ACCOUNT I'VE HAD FOR 10 YEARS and use a different calendar. Everytime you try to make a change to an old calendar event, EVERY FRIGGING TIME YOU TURN AROUND, it say "you can't do that, or do this or that" but when you try it still won't let you! My 'repeat yearly' drop down doesn't work at all, and remains grey'd out. HATE IT ALL!! pfffffttttttttt!!!

ZELLDA
on 05 May 2011 at 15:48

I HATE HATE HATE THE NEW YAHOO CALENDAR!!! I USED TO POST ALL MY EMPLOYEES JOBS FOR THE DAY, & PRINT THEM OUT... NOW ***YOU CAN SEE THEM***!!! guuuurrrrr

fed up
on 02 May 2011 at 23:30

hate hate hate the new calendar!!!! Mine doesn't even work. When I click on a date, nothing happens. I am soooooo sick of this.

chris
on 02 May 2011 at 09:44

Cant stand the new calender, all I see is blue bars.... cant even see the type from a few feet away. cant jump ahead more than one month at a time. The old calender was just fine.

Mike
on 20 Apr 2011 at 11:34

For what it's worth, I have my calendar and contacts on my Touch Pro 2 cell phone synced with Google Calendar and Contacts instead of Microsoft ActiveSync. If something gets lost, I can reload from any where. The two are also backed up from Google in case something happens there.

Mike
on 20 Apr 2011 at 11:29

You can set any number of gmail accounts to experiment with and copy your Yahoo calendar into one. It may look the same up front but sorts messages from a SEARCH like the old Yahoo calendar. New Yahoo calendar doesn't fully display sorted events from search and not in date order either. I used calendar like a time sheet for work with daily details and SEARCH pulled up a complete job history. You can set up a second calendar in an existing gmail account and try it there. If you don't like it, delete the calendar. Follow the instructions to EXPORT Yahoo calendar to a file then IMPORT that file to Google calendar. Your old Yahoo calendar will always be there unless Yahoo looses it like everything else. It’s good to EXPORT calendars and ADDRESS BOOKS routinely in case they get lost, you can reload them (IMPORT)

Scott
on 19 Apr 2011 at 23:39

Are there different Google Calendars? I was reluctlantly looking at the Google version, but it appears that Yahoo basically copied a bad idea. They looked the same to me. Unless, I am missing something??? I am so annoyed right now!!!

Mike
on 19 Apr 2011 at 23:05

I exported my Yahoo calendar to a file then imported it into a Google calendar that works more like the old Yahoo calendar.

Scott
on 17 Apr 2011 at 01:20

Agreed, absolutely terrible. Appointments are literally on top of each other,extremely ugly, confusing to the eye, and on and on. I am pissed too! If anyone knows of something like the old one post it!

ED
on 16 Apr 2011 at 21:40

(Rated 1 out of 5 stars)

Pissed off. Cant see all appointments for week or month - only see top one. Cant review and then change certain ones without a great deal of trouble. Anyone know of a better one like the previous one? Obviously it wasn't done for our benefit.

peter cardiff
on 11 Apr 2011 at 10:47

the new calender is hopeless , why did they change it, its forever crashing and issuing error reports , its really awkward to create events etc

lodgeman
on 09 Apr 2011 at 17:08

And if some unscrupulous person hacks into the system and gets your calendar he'll know when you won't be home. Should not have personal calendars on the web, big personal security issue!

North enefl
on 16 Mar 2011 at 20:28

I sure agree with you!

Vikki
on 09 Mar 2011 at 20:30

March 2011 - the new at&t yahoo calendar is horrible. Single-day events post over multiple days. Far tooooo many clicks to see entire days calendar - still have two sep calendars: one for time schedule and the other for all-day events. Bring back the old calendar... not fabulous but it worked.

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