SUNRISE
Sunrise does everything you’d expect from a calendar app — recurring events, alerts, birthdays, Google Maps directions, and more. It’s the little things that make Sunrise truly special, though: its weather indicators, photo avatars for event attendees, smart icons that change to reflect your events, its integration with popular services like SongKick and TripIt to show upcoming concerts and trips. With Foursquare integration, you can even see a history of all the places you’ve been. Evernote integration lets you see your reminders inside your calendar.
Sunrise is intimately connected to the web unlike any other calendar app, and has been adding new integrations on an almost weekly basis. You can add "Interesting Calendars" for free like World Cup games, national holidays, and sports team schedules. Sunrise’s Facebook integration is also best-in-class, which is important if your friends and family send invitations to Facebook events. This also means you won’t have to fill out a separate birthdays calendar, since Sunrise imports them (and even lets you text a friend or write on their wall directly).
Additionally, Sunrise has free companion apps for iPad and desktop — and the latter trumps Google Calendar in almost every way. There are some rough edges here, however. Sunrise has no real week or month view (it only has a three-day view and a simplistic month view). There’s also no search, though I’m told that feature is coming imminently. In total, however Sunrise manages to pack a huge feature set into a very handsome, minimal, and free package. This combination is exceedingly rare.
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