Jotcal is a family calendar designed to be seen, not managed. A single calm surface that shows what's happening today without making you tap, scroll, or search.
Works with the calendars you already have. No new account, no lock-in. Your events, your tasks, and the weather, laid out clearly enough to read from across the room.
Layouts - Phone
Four ways to read your day.
Your whole day,
at a glance
Greeting, next event, full day list, tomorrow preview. One screen, nothing hidden.
See your day as
a 24-hour dial
The 24-hour analog clock is unique. Event dots sit on the dial. Instantly readable. No list to scan.
Find your free
time instantly
Same clock, free slots shown in soft arcs. "1h 30m free" and you haven't tapped once.
Spot your busiest
days ahead
Bar chart of the week with contextual tips. "Tomorrow - yoga mat - early start 7 AM." The detail you'd have missed otherwise.
Layouts - Tablet
Built for the wall.
The week ahead,
on one screen
7-day grid plus tasks panel. Built for a tablet on the wall. The whole week, one look.
Every hour,
every day, in view
Traditional time-grid week view, tasks on the right. For those who want every hour in view.
Today in focus,
the week in reach
Full detail on the left, the week on the right. Good for mornings when everything happens at once.
Weather, daylight
& your day - all in one
Today's weather narrative and a daylight bar live inside the calendar grid. "Dry until 6:00 pm. Good window to get outside."
Platforms
Android and iOS.
Android
- - Optimised for e-ink tablets (Boox NoteMax and similar)
- - Wall Calendar Mode: large text, generous touch targets, always-on
- - E-ink Display Mode: high contrast, no animations, adaptive refresh
- - Colour or monochrome - your choice
iOS
- - Native on iPhone and iPad
- - Apple Pencil handwriting - write an event, it becomes a calendar entry
- - Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets via WidgetKit
- - Six adaptive layouts - from iPhone compact to iPad full-screen
Features
Works with what you already use.
Syncs your calendars
Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, iCloud, and any CalDAV server. Your events, your providers. Jotcal just displays them.
Tasks in every layout
Add tasks alongside events. Every layout includes a tasks panel so nothing gets missed.
Write it by hand
Jot an event with a stylus. Handwriting recognition turns your note into a calendar entry instantly.
Privacy-first
No Jotcal account. No analytics. Calendar data goes directly to your providers over encrypted connections. Your handwriting never leaves your device.
Pricing
Pay once.
Jotcal is free to download and there's no subscription, ever. Pro is a one-time unlock, and the store shows the price in your own currency.
Free, permanently
- - Handwriting. Write an event with a stylus and it becomes a real entry
- - Calendar sync, both ways, with the accounts you already have
- - Your events, tasks and notes, all editable
- - One conventional layout: Agenda on a phone, the Grid on a tablet
Pro, one payment
- - Every layout: Timeline, Today Focus, the Clock dial and Week Pulse
- - Weather on the day itself. Sunrise, daylight and rain
- - The widgets, and the ambient and insight overlays
- - Every future update included, at the price you paid
14 days of the whole app
Every install starts with the full thing. No card, nothing to cancel. When the trial ends Jotcal settles back to the free calendar instead of throwing a paywall at a screen on your kitchen wall.
The price will go up
Jotcal is early, and priced that way. Invitees and travel-time reminders aren't here yet. The price rises as the app fills out, and buying once means you get the finished app at today's price.
Guides
Setting it up.
Boox setup, display modes, and the low-latency pen path.
Which old iPads still work, mounting height, and the power problem.
Recognition into real events, and why it needs a stylus.
CalDAV, self-hosted servers, and what leaves your device.
The family whiteboard beat the calendar app. This is why.
Out now.
Jotcal is live on the App Store and on Google Play. Free to download, with a 14-day trial of everything.