Peek Calendar - Simple & Minimalist Cal

Now that Sunrise has been shut down, what calendar app should you get to replace it? Our list can help.

came and went, and we served up a gargantuan summary of some of the best apps to hit the App Store over the 12-month period ending in December. Now, with 2014 well and truly underway, here’s a quick snapshot of some of the best new iOS apps from January....

Peek is a new (paid) calendar app for iOS that’s aiming to appeal to the social middle ground of people whose lives don’t consist of non-stop meetings from 9 ’til 9. So not a calendar app for professional calendar nerds, then. The app rethinks the calendar as a gesture-based playground, rather than a spreadsheet-esque chore. It’s an attempt at designed interaction, with a…

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First up, it’s worth noting here that we’ve seen a slew of so-called smart calendar apps come to the fore over the past year or so – there’s Readdle’s Calendars 5, Any.Do’s Cal, Tempo and Sunrise for starters. And now there’s Peek Calendar, which is entering the fray with its own unique take on what a mobile calendar could and should look like....

The majority of calendar apps appear to be built for power users, integrating to-do lists, LinkedIn profiles, and natural language processing for creating events. Peek Calendar, launching today on iPhone for $1.99, takes the opposite approach by providing a hyper-minimalist interface that prioritizes simplicity over all else. Peek is a little confusing to use at first, demanding a skillful use of gestures, long presses, pull to refreshes, and swipes to do just about anything. But once you've got the...