ICS to calendar: subscribe once, stay current.
The team publishes fixtures, the school publishes term dates, iCloud publishes your partner's calendar - all as ICS links. Subscribe them once and they live in the family view, updating themselves.
HOW IT WORKS
- Copy the feed link. Any webcal:// or .ics URL - from iCloud sharing, a team site, or the school portal.
- Paste it in Plannie. Settings → Calendar → Calendar feed (ICS). Each member connects their own feeds.
- It stays current. Events appear view-only in the shared calendar and refresh automatically; sync status is visible per feed.
The feeds your family already lives by
Half a family's schedule is published by someone else: the football club's fixture list, the school's term dates, a grandparent's shared iCloud calendar. Feeds mean nobody re-types any of it - and because Plannie's household view is colour-coded per member, the subscribed events sit alongside everything else instead of in a separate app someone forgets to check.
Frequently asked
How do I add an ICS or webcal feed to the family calendar?+
In Plannie, open Settings → Calendar, choose “Calendar feed (ICS)”, and paste the webcal or .ics link - from iCloud, a sports team, the school portal, anywhere that publishes one. The feed’s events appear in your shared family calendar as a view-only layer that stays up to date on its own.
Does this work for Apple / iCloud calendars?+
Yes - this is how Apple Calendar comes into Plannie. Share the iCloud calendar as a public link and subscribe to it in Plannie; every event shows up, view-only. Google and Outlook, by contrast, connect with full two-way sync.
What does “view-only” mean exactly?+
Events from a subscribed feed display in Plannie but can’t be edited there - changes happen at the source and flow in. Plannie marks these calendars with a view-only badge so nobody wonders why an event won’t move.
What happens if a feed breaks?+
Plannie keeps retrying and shows the sync status per feed, so a moved or renamed link is something you can see and fix rather than a silent gap in the family schedule.
Is calendar sync free?+
Yes - connecting calendars, including ICS feeds, is part of Plannie’s free plan. Each family member connects their own calendars, and everything lands in one shared, colour-coded household view.
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