Jean-Luc Makiola
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Continuous's month blocks make the boundaries legible, but the seams are exactly what someone who wants a dense calendar doesn't want. Both are now offered: - **Dense** is the old flowing layout, kept rather than replaced — one uninterrupted stream of weeks with months running into each other, the 1st naming its month, and the top bar keeping the full month title (there is no sticky header to defer to). - Continuous gains a **rule under its month label**, closing the header off against the grid. On trial: it comes out again if it doesn't earn its place. One provider query serves both. `ContinuousMonthUiState.Success` now carries the same loaded window laid out twice — `monthsByIndex` clipped into blocks, `weeksByIndex` left whole — rather than standing up a second flow and querying the same range again. Both styles report *months* as they scroll, so the window hysteresis is shared; `weekWindowFor` maps a month window onto the Dense rows it covers, widened a week each side so boundary rows don't flicker. The list state is keyed on style *and* week start: Dense indexes by week, which the week-start preference moves, while Continuous indexes by month, which it doesn't — carrying an offset between the two would land somewhere arbitrary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Calendula
A modern Material 3 Expressive calendar for Android.
Reads, writes, and reminds — on top of the system calendar, with zero network access.
Calendula is named after the flower whose name — like the word calendar —
comes from the Latin kalendae, the first day of the month. It lives
entirely on top of Android's CalendarContract: any calendar synced to your
device (CalDAV via DAVx5, Google, local, WebCal subscriptions, …) simply
appears, and everything you create or edit syncs back the same way. No own
database, no sync stack reinvented.
✨ Features
Calendar
- Month, week, and day views with a one-tap view switcher
- Full event details — attendees and their responses, reminders, recurrence (humanized), availability, visibility, foreign time zones
- Per-calendar visibility toggle, grouped by account
Editing
- Create, edit, and delete events — including recurring events with scoped writes: only this event, this and all following, or the whole series
- Recurrence picker with one-tap presets and custom rules (interval, weekday toggles, end conditions); rules it can't express are preserved verbatim
- Conflict-safe saves: if an event changed elsewhere while you were editing, Calendula asks instead of silently overwriting
- Read-only calendars (WebCal, birthdays) are detected and respected
Reminders
- Event reminders delivered by Calendula itself as notifications — essential when it's your only calendar app, since Android delegates reminder delivery to calendar apps
- Tap a reminder to land on the event
Design & privacy
- Real Material 3 Expressive throughout — dynamic color (Android 12+), expressive motion and shapes, light/dark theme
- German and English UI, per-app language setting — and open to community translations
- Zero telemetry, zero analytics, no internet permission — your data never leaves the device
📦 Install
F-Droid (recommended)
Calendula is on the official F-Droid repository — just search for Calendula in any F-Droid client, or install it from f-droid.org.
Self-hosted repo (latest builds)
New versions are built, signed, and published to a self-hosted repository the moment each tag lands — usually a few days ahead of the official repo, which rebuilds on F-Droid's own schedule. Add it for the freshest builds:
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In your F-Droid client, open Settings → Repositories → Add (or open the link below on your phone):
https://apps.dev.jeanlucmakiola.de/dev/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=C2C0640402BF458FC0ED957AF0B37AA4C14022E72F89CE90B5965B458CF73425Repo:
https://apps.dev.jeanlucmakiola.de/dev/fdroid/repo· fingerprint (SHA-256):C2C0 6404 02BF 458F C0ED 957A F0B3 7AA4 C140 22E7 2F89 CE90 B596 5B45 8CF7 3425 -
Refresh, search for Calendula, install.
Both channels share the same signing key, so you can switch between them without reinstalling. Or build from source — see below.
📚 Documentation
- Building from source — requirements and Gradle tasks
- Architecture — the layered design and key pipelines
- Roadmap — what's shipped and what's next
🌍 Translations
Calendula ships in German and English, and you're warmly invited to add your language. Translations are managed on a self-hosted Weblate:
No coding needed — register on the Weblate server, pick (or request) a language, and translate the strings in your browser. You can also reach this link in the app from the top of Settings → App language.
📜 License
MIT — Jean-Luc Makiola, 2026