Calendar Sync Insights

Which calendar app keeps you most up to date?

Timetastic serves over a million calendar feeds every month. Every time Google, Apple or Microsoft re-checks one, we see it, so we can show how fast they really refresh the calendars you subscribe to.

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Apple Calendar refreshes about 3.4× faster than Google Calendar

Across the calendars we see, Apple Calendar typically refreshes every 1.8 hrs, while Google Calendar takes around 6.2 hrs.

Live, last 14 days

How the big three are refreshing right now

Average time between fetches, per hour. The dashed line is each app's typical pace.

Apple Calendar
Apple Calendar
iPhone, iPad & Mac
Typically updates every
Google Calendar
Google Calendar
Google's calendar importer
Typically updates every
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Outlook on the web & Microsoft 365
Typically updates every

The league table

Sync speed, ranked

How often each calendar client actually re-fetches a subscribed feed. Shorter is fresher.

1
Apple Calendar Fastest
iPhone, iPad & Mac
1.8 hrs
2,780 feeds
2
Microsoft Outlook
Desktop app for Windows
2.8 hrs
2,489 feeds
3
Microsoft Exchange
Outlook on the web & Microsoft 365
6.2 hrs
3,698 feeds
4
Google Calendar
Google's calendar importer
6.2 hrs
3,676 feeds

What people share

The calendars teams subscribe to

Of the feeds we serve, whole-organisation calendars are the most popular.

Full Organisation
43.7%
My Calendar
29.3%
My Department
17.5%
My Favourites
6.4%
My Team
3.1%

How we know this

Timetastic lets people subscribe to their team's time-off as a calendar feed. Calendar apps (Google, Apple, Microsoft and others) re-fetch those feeds on their own schedule, and we record the moment each fetch happens.

The gap between two fetches is how long your calendar could be out of date. We take the median gap per app over the last 30 days, so a few stragglers don't skew the picture. We see a large slice of real-world traffic, but not all of it, so treat this as a very good guide, not gospel.

Anonymised & aggregated

We only count when calendar apps fetch feeds. We never look at who you are, who's in your calendar, or what any event says. No personal data or calendar content is read, stored, or shown here. Everything on this page is an aggregate.

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