Howbout: social calendar

Get live updates from friends: shared calendar to make plans, keep up & chat

App info

Version :

11.2.1

Category :

Social

Update :

April 25, 2025

Installs :

1,141,908

Developer :

Howbout

Requires Android :

Android 5.1+

Content Rating :

Everyone

Get it on :

Download APK

App description

Android App Analysis and Review: Howbout: social calendar, Developed by Howbout. Listed in Social Category. Current Version Is 11.2.1, Updated On 25/04/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Howbout: social calendar. Achieved Over 1 million Installs. Howbout: social calendar Currently Has 11 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.6 Stars

We’re Howbout, the social calendar to get live updates from friends.

Shared calendar with friends, see their schedules and what they’re up to, chat & react to friends' updates, and make plans on the group calendar together.

Over 5 million users on Howbout, and they’re all hot.

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SHARE CALENDARS
- Want to stalk what your friends are up to? Shared calendars were made for you! Share group calendars and keep up with friends’ schedules

MAKE PLANS
- Actually get plans out of the group chat and stop the bed rot. Unless you’re scheduling time to 'group bed rot' together

SHARE AVAILABILITY
- Find when everyone’s free to meet up without sharing every detail

CHAT, CHAT, CHAT
- For my yappers, there’s a built-in group chat for every plan and group, and you can slide into your friends’ DMs too

FRIENDS-ONLY ACTIVITY FEED
- See all your friends' updates on the event activity feed

REACT TO FRIENDS' UPDATES
- Show friends you care by reacting to everything they add & do

SET WHO SEES WHAT
- Choose to share any event with all friends, just Close Friends, or with no one

SYNC CALENDARS
- Forced to use a different calendar for work? Gross. Sync it all into Howbout

SHARE PICS & VIDS
- Send pictures & videos directly in events

SEND INVITES
- Invite anyone easily with a link

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Featured by Apple, Business Insider, BBC, MailOnline, TechCrunch and a ton of other ones we don’t care about as much!

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Bored of stalking your friends on Howbout? Stalk us instead: @howbout_app on socials, hello@howbout.app on email

We are currently offering version 11.2.1. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.

It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.

What's New

We’ve made the app sleeker in this build, call it our clean girl era ✨

A huge new feed redesign is here, that puts your updates at the centre! Now, your plan headers can get the limelight they deserve ?‍?

Rate and review on Google Play store

4.6

10,994 total

5 78.0

4 15.5

3 2.8

2 0.9

1 2.8

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Total number of active users rated for: Howbout: social calendar

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Recent Comments

Zoe Quick

Easy to use. No ads. Nothing is blocked by a pay wall. you can set things to repeat forever or even every 2,3,4 weeks. there's really no limit. you can set it so only specific people can see your plans. VERY user friendly and neat to look at. definitely something I will continue to use. definitely recommend for bust friend groups or family or what ever you need.

Mack Bee

it was great, but now it won't even let me look at messages from group chats. it freezes everytime and won't open the chat. it's like the page gets stuck. I've un-installed and reinstalled, force stopped, and cleared cache (which worked a little but its still glitchy). i love the concept of this app. its functions are great, but i wish it just did freeze so much.

Allyson Cooper

I was skeptical that an app would help plan get togethers, thought texting was fine and this was extra, but this has been a pleasant and simple experience so far! My local "core" group of friends is all on here, and now our plans don't get lost and no one is accidentally excluded because we have 437 group chats of varying people. Also, I am a very forgetful person, so having a dedicated spot to check back on times and other friends questions is just great.

Kate

It's great! I can integrate all my calendars, easily convert events sent from other social media apps to howbout so I can easily track invites across multiple platforms. The ONLY thing keeping it from 5 stars is that there isn't a month and planner widget for my home screen. I need to be able to look at my plans quickly, not open an app every single time I need to see a calendar, otherwise I would stick to the paper version

Ali Moss

It's really great to plan with friends and get everything on everyone's calendars, and be able to figure out who can go to what and at what times everyone is available. It adds events made on Howbout to my Google calendar as well, which I really like Edit- it's been taking a really long time to load the app, I click on it and it often takes a full ten minutes. Part of this is likely my phone, but other apps don't take even half as long to load

S. Graeff

Seemed like a great fit for what I was looking for, until it wouldn't let me continue or do anything else unless I added 3 friends. What if I only have one person I want to set up a shared calendar with? Why do I *have* to have *3* friends without any option to add them later? Ridiculous that I cant even see how the rest of the app works without convincing 3 other people to also make accounts, or sharing my private contacts. Very clearly meant to just drive up signup numbers :/ disappointing

Ashley Brown

Can't even give an accurate review - the need to invite 3 friends before you can even see if the app works for you... much less 3 other people you know??? That's absolutely ridiculous. I really can't wrap my head around that thought process. Let me just go send random app invites to my friends before I even try the app myself! 🙃🫠 Uninstall 🙄 If the response is going to be the usual "we find our users enjoy the app better with more friends"- save it. It's a business move.

Tyler C. Beam

Update: Developer responded and fixed my issue. Thank you! Go to Settings > Apps & Notifications > See All Apps. Tap the (...) menu & tap Show System. Go to Calendar Storage > Storage & Cache > Clear Storage. Can't remove access to my Google calendar. I've deleted my account, removed the app, contacted the developer and it still has access to my calendar. Cannot be removed on moving nor computer.