Full walkthrough
Updated May 2026
Fridge2Cal turns a photo of any paper calendar into iPhone Calendar events. You snap or import the picture, the app reads the dates and titles, you review and fix anything, and then you add the approved events to your calendar — nothing is saved until you say so, and every event is one tap from undo.
The first time you open Fridge2Cal, a short intro explains the three steps — Snap a Calendar, Review the Events, and Sync to Calendar. Tap Continue through it (or Skip Intro), and on the last screen tap Allow Calendar Access.
On the home screen you’ll see two buttons:
📷 Camera
Opens a live camera with framing brackets. Line the calendar up inside the guides — “Center the calendar in frame” — and tap the shutter to capture.
🖼️ Photos
Pick a picture you already took — handy for a schedule someone texted you or a flyer you saved.
Fridge2Cal reads more than month grids. It works on:
After you capture or pick a photo, a crop screen appears. Pinch to zoom and drag to pan until the calendar fills the frame — “Pinch and drag to frame the calendar.” Tap Reset to start the framing over, or the X to cancel. When it looks right, tap Use Crop.
Then Fridge2Cal reads the image. You’ll see a progress screen — “Reading the calendar” — that runs through preparing the image, reading the details, and organizing the results. It usually takes a few seconds. Keep the app open while it finishes.
Every event the app finds becomes an editable draft — nothing is on your real calendar yet. The review workspace gives you two ways to look at them, switchable at the top:
Calendar
A month grid with a count badge on each day that has events. Tap a day to see just those events. Use the chevrons to move between months.
List
A straight list of the events for the selected day, each showing its time, location, and the original text the app read.
Items the app is less sure about — messy handwriting, a missing time — are grouped under Needs Review so you can find them first. Possible duplicates get a yellow warning like “Possible duplicate of ‘Dentist’ on May 11” when something similar is already on your calendar.
Tap the edit button on any event to open the editor. You can change:
Tap Save to keep your changes, or Cancel to drop them. To remove an event entirely, tap its delete button. You can edit as much or as little as you like — the goal is just to make the drafts correct before the next step.
When the drafts look right, tap Add to Calendar at the bottom to push them all into your iPhone Calendar at once — the button shows the count, e.g. “Add 7 to Calendar.” You can also add a single event with the add button on its row. Added events get a green checkmark and confirm with “Added to Calendar.”
Made a mistake? Tap the undo button on an event, or Undo from Calendar to pull a batch back out. Fridge2Cal removes those events from your iPhone Calendar and returns them to draft state so you can fix and re-add them.
Where do the events land?
They’re written to your default iPhone calendar — the one set in iOS Settings → Calendar → Default Calendar. The text the app read from the photo is tucked into each event’s notes, so you always have the source on hand.
No. Every detected event is a draft. Nothing reaches your iPhone Calendar until you tap Add to Calendar, and anything added can be undone with one tap.
Yes. Tap the edit button on any event to change the Title, toggle All Day, set the Start and End times, and add a Location or Notes. Tap Save when you’re done.
Fridge2Cal checks your existing iPhone Calendar and flags possible duplicates with a warning on the event. You can skip, edit, or delete the duplicate before adding it.
Tap the undo button on the synced event, or use Undo from Calendar to remove a batch. Fridge2Cal pulls those events back out of your iPhone Calendar.
They’re written to your default iPhone calendar, set in iOS Settings → Calendar → Default Calendar. The original text the app read is saved in each event’s notes for reference.
No, but check it. If the year isn’t on the page, Fridge2Cal infers it from the current date. Glance at the year in the review step before adding the events.
Snap the paper calendar once and let Fridge2Cal do the typing. Review, approve, done — in about a minute.
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