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Howbout: shared calendar
Howbout · 17,653 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 46 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"friends"
14 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Poor Design I understand it's a calendar targeted towards friends. But needing a friend code to even access the app is very weird. Also, that doesn't even work. I've tried invite codes as well, and I can't even get on the app through my fri…" - Tashy
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"invite"
12 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Poor Design I understand it's a calendar targeted towards friends. But needing a friend code to even access the app is very weird. Also, that doesn't even work. I've tried invite codes as well, and I can't even get on the app through my fri…" - Tashy
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"people"
9 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "bad app they want you to promote them by sending their link to others. I couldn't even do what the app is for because I needed to send their stupid link to 3 people before I could actually do anything on the app." - WAYNE Whites
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"friend"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Poor Design I understand it's a calendar targeted towards friends. But needing a friend code to even access the app is very weird. Also, that doesn't even work. I've tried invite codes as well, and I can't even get on the app through my fri…" - Tashy
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"calendar"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Poor Design I understand it's a calendar targeted towards friends. But needing a friend code to even access the app is very weird. Also, that doesn't even work. I've tried invite codes as well, and I can't even get on the app through my fri…" - Tashy
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"phone"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "after trying to sign up for this app, I have been getting non stop spam phone calls. not sure if its related, or a very big coincidence" - Macayla Potgieter
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"send"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "bad app they want you to promote them by sending their link to others. I couldn't even do what the app is for because I needed to send their stupid link to 3 people before I could actually do anything on the app." - WAYNE Whites
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"number"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "worst app ever •Does not allow any South African numbers •Tried 3!!!different numbers (still didn't work) •I don't recommend this app at all!" - MU Paliso
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"phone number"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "i put in my phone number and it won't even let me make an account. it tells me to use a legitimate android or iPhone. I have an android and it still won't accept my number. i live in the US too!!" - Ella Genzer
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after trying to sign up for this app, I have been getting non stop spam phone calls. not sure if its related, or a very big coincidence
worst app ever •Does not allow any South African numbers •Tried 3!!!different numbers (still didn't work) •I don't recommend this app at all!
bad app they want you to promote them by sending their link to others. I couldn't even do what the app is for because I needed to send their stupid link to 3 people before I could actually do anything on the app.
Poor Design I understand it's a calendar targeted towards friends. But needing a friend code to even access the app is very weird. Also, that doesn't even work. I've tried invite codes as well, and I can't even get on the app through my friends.
I don't like that it makes you invite friends before being able to check out the different features. It feels kind of spammy. I'm open to changing my review if they change this, but at the moment this prevents me from determining whether I would use this app.
Can't evaluate this app because it's not usable without inviting someone first. Not going to harass people to install an app just so I can evaluate it and MAYBE use it together later.
i put in my phone number and it won't even let me make an account. it tells me to use a legitimate android or iPhone. I have an android and it still won't accept my number. i live in the US too!!
I don't like the fact that you need to send this app to your friends and the only way for the app to work is for your friends to accept 🙄😒like what is I don't have friends or my friends are always offline?😒
Requiring EVERY person to add 3 friends before they're allowed to even use the app is stupid and ridiculous. You have lost approximately 11 potential customers among my group of friends who were unable to join due to this policy. It's terrible.
I have to pay to add a widgit to my homescreen? seriously?
You will get charged, even you only have the free version, and then get told its not them that bills you!!
I wanted this app to have a shared calendar for my husband and myself. Apparently I need to invite 3 different "friends" and it didn't even count my husband as 1. Because I can't get past the choose 3 friends screen it's completely useless to me. Uninstalled. Thanks for nothing.
horrible App
Really tried to get people to use this app, through all the image sending issues etc, the thing that killed it was sending notifications to friends for things they weren't invited to. That's surely the biggest no no, telling everyone things they're not invited to. We're lucky it didn't cause a row really. The privacy settings are too confusing if that's what the problem was. Group gave up with it, back to messenger chats
app is useless. to "unlock" the app for free it requires you to send invite to friends, well when I went to do that it says "oops something went wrong" like it's forcing you to pay for the app instead. that's a scammy way to run an app, uninstalled immediately!
at the moment it's a 1, my friend slove it but someone is using my phone number so I can not get into the app.
Stupid glitch won't let my grandmother add her acount to mine and my moms calander. it sends a verification code that was never asked for
I don't like the fact that you can only join if you get a friend to join. why are we forcing people to join?
you forced me to update and now the app doesn't launch. thanks.
STUPID APP
you need a phone number and you cant use without it
Can't use it without having the link they force you to share be opened and downloaded by a friend
Forces you to send requests put to friends to get them on the app before you are actually allowed to vet the app yourself. Terrible design.
Won't let me create an account and says my phone number is no viable.
Predatory App forces you to invite people before even being able to see what/how the app works in person. Seems they are more focused on registering new users to grow their user base volume.... perhaps in order to appear larger....
why the need to invites 3 friends? what if just for couples??
I don't want to invite ppl
why do i need to add friends to be able to use the app, what if i was lonely but i wanted a cute app. This is disgusting and hatred for my loneliness.
this is just frustrating. so i cannot use what have bought because i cannot connect to friends?
this actually sucks @$$ why do i have to unlock an app i downloaded? i should not be required to get a friend to join just so i can use a calander. this is genuinly one of if not the stupidist ideas i have ever seen a developer come up with. do not download this bs.
Your advertising clearly sucks if you have to invite people just to get the app. 🤗
terrible app, stole my bank details, AVOID
I'm not giving my phone number just to sign up with a calendar app.
needing to invite people to use a calendar app is quite pointless.
Forces you to invite friends just so you can use he calendar. Like any other calendar app.
You can't even use the app without inviting other to use it first. App doesn't even let you trial it to see if its worth sharing, which typically means it is not worth using at all.
i couldnt even use the app because i had to invite someone, i had tried to download it to use with a friend who already had it but we're looking at other options now.
immediately uninstalled. i need a calendar to keep all my stuff straight, not to keep tabs on my friends' schedules. It won't let you unlock the app until a friend adds the app as well. no thanks!
can't use the app unless you invite 1 friend.
i wouldn't pay for this garbage. make it free or i wont use it
the fact they make it so you have to PAY to have the app open to the calendar instead of the updates is insulting. purposely making the app worse to try to make people pay is pathetic. they made it open to a place they know most users don't want to open to.
the app seem perf in the tiktok ad but wdym "share with 3 friends " like dawg I only have 1 fix this cause nothing was shown on the ad to invite 3 friends and this (i think) is a form of false advertising 🥰
seems it would be good but the links to send wont work. kinda the only way to use it
Super convenient, but the app crashes constantly
this would have been better if we didn't have to ask other people to join the app for us
updated 3 Feb 2026 STOP CHANGING THE COLOURS AND THEME!!! why have all the colours changed? it looks so boring now. I don't understand why every time I do a little reminder for myself, my husband and my mum can see it? That's really dumb
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)