Problems and Solutions, what we’ve learned…

A one-way copy, from a calendar you can’t control into one you can. Sounds narrow. It turns out to be the answer to a pile of ordinary problems that look nothing alike.

The work calendar you can see but can’t share

A subscribed calendar is read-only: no resharing, no colour of your own, no adding to it. The copy fixes all three.

The core case · 4-minute read

Eight calendars, one answer: can I take this game?

Two assigning systems, two clubs, the family calendar, your own appointments, a travel feed — all pointed at one calendar that answers the question.

Aggregation: many sources, one destination · 5-minute read

Two jobs, and neither calendar knows about the other

Two busy-only mirrors, pointed at each other, so both sides see the wall they were about to book through.

Second jobs, contracts, shift work · 4-minute read

Putting work on the family calendar without saying what it is

They need to know Thursday at 3 is gone. They don’t need the client name — and one tag lets the school pickup through.

Households · 4-minute read

When IT will not let a sync service near your calendar

No account, no token, no server. The calendars are already on the device, and so is the copying. With one caveat worth reading.

Policy and compliance · 5-minute read

On-call rotas that live in a feed you don’t control

A published rota can go stale without telling you. This one tells you — in the calendar itself, on your phone.

On-call, shifts, assignors · 4-minute read

Showing one client only the part of your calendar that concerns them

Tag what is theirs, mirror only that into a calendar you share, and leave the other nine-tenths of your week out of it.

Freelancers, referees, locums · 5-minute read

Your scheduling tool can’t see your iCloud calendar

Hosted schedulers poll iCloud every five to ten minutes, or not at all. Hand them a copy they read properly.

Using it alongside other tools · 4-minute read

The school feed that ruined your calendar

340 events, four of which are yours. Filters cut an institutional feed down to the part that belongs to you.

Schools, clubs, universities · 4-minute read

On your last day, the calendar leaves with the account

Remove the account and years of history go with it. Copies in a calendar you own stay yours.

Leaving, and ending engagements · 4-minute read

“When are you free?”, asked forty times a year

Make your free/busy true first. Then three times on the clipboard — or a request page that never books itself.

Scheduling without a booking link · 4-minute read

Not sure it’s the right tool?

Several of these problems are solved by other apps too, some of them free, one of them probably already in your subscriptions. Thirteen comparisons say which one to buy for which situation — including the cases where it isn’t this one.

Get Calendar Mirror — $2.99 What it does

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. No accounts, no ads, nothing collected. macOS 14 or iOS 17 and up. The Mac version is also free to build from source.