How to Connect

Google Calendar is automatically available once you've connected your Gmail account. Since both use the same Google account, there's no extra sign-in required.

After connecting Gmail, head to Settings > Connections and you'll see your Google Calendar listed. From there, choose which calendars you want SuperDuper to monitor.

Choosing Your Calendars

Most people have more than one Google Calendar. You might have a personal calendar, a shared family calendar, and individual calendars for each kid's activities.

In Settings > Connections, toggle on the calendars you want SuperDuper to see. Toggle off the ones you don't. At least one calendar must stay selected.

Tip

If you share a family calendar with your partner, both of you can connect it. SuperDuper will use it to detect conflicts across both parents' schedules.

What You Get

With your calendar connected, SuperDuper can do a few things that make life easier:

  • Conflict detection. SuperDuper flags when two things overlap, like soccer practice and a dentist appointment at the same time.
  • One-tap event adding. When SuperDuper discovers an event from your email, you can add it to your Google Calendar with a single tap.
  • Unified view. See your calendar events alongside email-discovered items, all in one place. Each item shows whether it came from Gmail or Google Calendar, so you always know where the information originated.
  • Your existing events, right away. When you connect a calendar, SuperDuper automatically imports your upcoming events for the next 90 days. Recurring events already on your calendar — weekly practices, standing pickups — show up on your dashboard immediately, not just when something changes. Each recurring event shows a repeat indicator on the card, so you can tell at a glance which events are part of a series. Open any recurring event to see a plain-English schedule summary, like "Weekly on Mondays" or "Every 2 weeks on Thursdays." When a single occurrence has been changed — a practice rescheduled just this week — it shows a distinct marker so you know it differs from the usual pattern.
Note

When you connect Google Calendar, SuperDuper immediately fetches your upcoming events for the next 90 days. You don't have to wait for new events to come in — your near-future calendar shows up right away.

Calendar Sync

When you add an event to your calendar from SuperDuper, you'll see a sync status indicator:

  • Synced -- the event is on your Google Calendar.
  • Syncing -- the event is being added. This usually takes just a few seconds.
  • Failed -- something went wrong. SuperDuper will retry automatically, but you can also tap to retry manually.