10 Best Event Calendar Apps of 2026

Luma is built around the job this list is about: publishing events and getting people to show up. Each organizer runs a calendar of events, and the free plan places no limit on the number of events or on guests per event. Hosts can sell several ticket types with coupons and group purchasing, require approval or token gating before someone registers, and check guests in at the door. Reminders and announcements go out by email, SMS, push notification and WhatsApp, which covers far more channels than a plain calendar invite. Up to 3 people can administer a calendar on the free plan, and cohosts and event managers are unlimited. The costs show up when you charge for tickets: the free plan adds a 5% platform fee on top of Stripe's processing fee. Luma Plus, at $59 per month billed annually, drops that fee to 0%, raises weekly invite sends from 500 to 5,000, adds custom URLs for event pages, tax collection, Zapier and API access.

Google Calendar answers the free question for organizers who only need a public calendar and nothing more. You create a separate calendar for your events, tick "Make available to public" in its settings, and then share it in several ways: embed it on a website, send a link that opens in a browser or another calendar app, or let people subscribe so your events appear in their own calendar and stay current when you edit them. You can show full details or hide them behind free and busy blocks. Google notes that public calendars can show up in search results if the page they sit on is searchable. The trade-off is that it stops at the calendar. There are no registration forms, ticket sales, guest lists or reminders for the public, and sharing settings live only in the desktop web app, not the phone app. Google also warns that switching a calendar back to private can take up to 4 hours to take effect.

Teamup suits organizers whose events come from several sources, such as rooms, departments or teams, and who want one public calendar built from them. Each source becomes a color-coded sub-calendar, and a single event can sit on more than one. You choose from 12 views, including year and table layouts, and share through links that need no user account, each set to one of 9 permission levels so the public can read while coordinators edit. Individual events get their own shareable page, whole calendars can be embedded on a website, and iCalendar feeds, an API and Zapier connect it to other tools. Pricing is per master calendar rather than per user. The free plan has no time limit but caps you at 5 users, 5 sub-calendars and 1 year of history, and Plus costs $12 per month billed yearly. The depth comes with more setup than Google Calendar, and there are no ticket sales.

AddEvent works from the attendee's side: instead of asking people to visit your calendar, it puts your events in theirs. Single events get Add to Calendar buttons and links, and a subscription calendar lets people follow everything you publish so new and changed events appear in Google, Apple or Outlook on their own. Every plan includes event and calendar landing pages, online RSVP forms and confirmation and reminder emails. The free Hobby plan is a trial in practice, with 100 Add to Calendar clicks, 20 RSVPs and 20 calendar subscribers per usage period. Small Business, at $29 per month billed annually or $36 monthly, raises that to 2,500 event-adds, 1,000 RSVPs and 1,000 subscribers across 10 calendars, and adds analytics, embeddable calendar widgets, recurring events, Zapier, API access and branding removal. It suits marketing teams well, but it has no ticket sales, and the Small Business plan includes a single user.

Elfsight Event Calendar is the easiest way here to put a polished events calendar on an existing website. You build it in an online configurator, start from a template, add one-day or multiday events with locations, hosts and messages, and paste the embed code into your site. Visitors can open a popup with the date, venue, map and sharing options, and add an event to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook or another calendar app. Pricing is set by monthly views rather than features. The free plan allows 200 views and 1 widget with Elfsight branding, so it is mainly for testing. Basic costs $5 per month billed yearly or $6 monthly for 5,000 views and 3 widgets with no branding, and Pro costs $10 per month billed yearly for 50,000 views. Paid plans include a free installation service. It is a display tool: there is no built-in registration or ticketing, so sign-ups need to link out elsewhere.

The Events Calendar is the standard choice for WordPress sites, and the free plugin in the WordPress directory reports more than 600,000 active installations. It adds an events section to your own site with month, list and day views, recurring events and filters by category, venue or price, and it picks up your theme's typography and colors. Gutenberg blocks let you place calendar views or upcoming event lists inside any page, and it works with Elementor and Divi. The vendor's paid plans start with Pro at $399 per year, which covers seven calendar views including photo and map, ticket sales through Stripe, PayPal and Square, community submissions, custom registration forms, QR code tickets with a check-in app, event importing and no ticket commission fees. Elite, at $599 per year, adds seating maps and email campaigns. It is the most capable self-hosted option here, but only on WordPress, and you take on plugin updates and hosting yourself.

Eventbrite is the pick when an organizer wants strangers to find and buy tickets, not just a calendar for existing members. Every event gets its own page on a marketplace that Eventbrite says has 89 million monthly users, and the built-in marketing tools include email campaigns, promo codes, Facebook and Instagram ad tools and paid Eventbrite Ads in some markets. Ticketing covers multiple ticket types, add-ons, custom registration forms, embedded checkout, waitlists, automated reminders and mobile check-in through the organizer app. Free events cost nothing to publish. Paid tickets carry a 3.7% plus $1.79 service fee per ticket and a 2.9% processing fee per order, which buyers pay by default unless you choose to absorb them. Higher email volumes need Eventbrite Pro, from $15 per month. As a calendar it is weaker than the tools above it, since it centers on single event pages and not on one subscribable schedule.

Tockify sits between a plain Google Calendar embed and a full event platform. You keep editing events in Google Calendar if you like, and Tockify's live sync turns that calendar into a public events calendar on your website, or you can use its own editor, which handles repeating events, maps, images and RSVPs. Visitors get three layouts: a visual pinboard, an agenda list and a month grid, each available in several styles, and a customizer lets you match colors, fonts and layout to your site without code. Social sharing, saving events to personal calendars and iCalendar subscriptions are built in, and a submission feature lets your community propose events that you approve before they go live. Ticket buttons link to an outside booking page rather than selling tickets directly. Tockify offers a free start, but its plan prices load inside its web app and we could not confirm them as published USD text, so the price is marked pending.

Apple Calendar is a free way for a single organizer in the Apple world to publish a schedule. In iCloud Calendar you turn on Public Calendar for a calendar, and anyone you invite gets an email with its URL. Apple says invitees do not need to be iCloud users to accept a public calendar, so Android and Windows users can follow it too, and you can choose to receive shared calendar updates as notifications or emails. The limits are clear in Apple's own guide: only the calendar's owner can share and make changes to a public calendar, so co-organizers cannot help keep it current. There is no embed widget, no registration form and no ticketing. That makes it a reasonable free answer for a coach, teacher or solo host who keeps their own schedule on an iPhone, but a weaker one than Google Calendar for groups or websites.

Timely is built for organizations that publish a lot of events from many sources, such as universities, cities, tourism boards and associations. Its calendar is white-label, can be embedded on any site including WordPress and Squarespace or run on a custom domain, and offers poster board, tile, stream, list, agenda, monthly, weekly and map views with categories, tags and filters by venue and organizer. Events can be created, cloned or imported on a schedule from iCal, Outlook, Google Calendar and Eventbrite. Visitors can search, save and share events, add them to their own calendars, and submit their own events for free or for a fee while staff keep final approval. Promotion features include newsletters through email integrations and automatic posting to Facebook and LinkedIn. Registration and ticketing, memberships and venue booking are add-ons. All three plans, Growth, Professional and Enterprise, are priced on request, so value is hard to judge without a quote.