BlendedCal

BlendedCal is a calendar aggregation service for combining schedules from sports apps, school portals, shared calendars, and other ICS feeds. Its official site positions it as a way to turn scattered family and team schedules into focused calendars for parents, helpers, and groups.

What it does

BlendedCal imports calendar feeds through ICS subscription links, including feeds from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, TeamSnap, GameChanger, school portals, and other compatible services. Users can combine those sources into unified calendars instead of manually copying events between apps.

The service supports filtered views for different needs. A household might create one calendar for the whole family, another for a single child or sport, and a separate view for games, pickups, or grandparents. Filters can use sources, tags, text searches, and event exclusions to remove events that are not relevant to a particular audience.

Blended calendars can be subscribed to from calendar apps that support ICS, or shared as public web pages. The site also describes dated ICS downloads for one-time schedule snapshots when a live subscription is not appropriate. According to the documentation, source calendars are polled automatically, while the frequency at which a subscribed calendar app displays updates depends on that app.

Notable capabilities

• Combine multiple ICS feeds into a single calendar view.
• Tag sources by child, team, school, sport, or activity.
• Filter calendars by source, tag, text, or excluded events.
• Share focused public pages or subscription links without requiring recipients to create an account.
• Download dated ICS files for temporary or offline sharing.

Who it helps

BlendedCal is primarily aimed at busy families managing school dates, practices, games, appointments, and pickup logistics across several services. Youth sports parents can use it to consolidate TeamSnap, GameChanger, Playmetrics, and tournament feeds. It also supports school communities, clubs, churches, volunteer groups, and remote teams that need to combine project, availability, or program calendars.

How it fits a workflow

A practical setup starts with two calendar links that cause the most scheduling friction. After adding the sources, users apply simple tags such as “mia,” “soccer,” “school,” or “pickup,” then create a blended calendar around one specific use case. That calendar can be subscribed to personally before being shared with a grandparent, sitter, coach, co-parent, or carpool group.

This focused-sharing approach differs from a general calendar assistant such as Gemini Spark, which is described as an agent for taking actions across connected Google apps. BlendedCal’s documented role is narrower: aggregate existing calendar feeds, shape views, and distribute them through calendar links or web pages.

Strengths and limits

BlendedCal’s main strength is separating one underlying collection of schedules into audience-specific views, which can reduce unnecessary details for helpers while keeping a complete family calendar available. The free plan supports up to three calendar sources and one blended calendar; paid tiers increase those limits and add capabilities such as advanced filtering, tagging, or custom calendar URLs.

Its workflow depends on source services publishing usable ICS links, and shared-calendar freshness involves two stages: BlendedCal updates its feed, then the recipient’s calendar app refreshes its subscription. The documentation also identifies a REST API and MCP integration, but the core user workflow remains feed import, filtering, and sharing.