iPhone Calendar- Help Requested

I work with calendars.  You do too.  I treat the one on my iPhone as a last resort, to be used in case of emergency, but never to plan.  I want to change that, since I am not always at the MBP when I have to plan something, so I went looking for an app.

The paucity of calendar apps for the iPhone is appalling.  Unless you consider apps to track your woman stuff.

I am parsimonious with my app dollars.  I spend on apps that seem to work, do something for me, and take some significant coding effort.  Like Documents to Go, or GPS Drive, or Camera+.  And so many apps are disappointing.  So I ruled out, at first paying for a calendar app.  That narrowed down the field nicely!

I use Google calendar to share calendars, so it would be good to have direct access to that function without having to go through Safari.  And I want a week view.  The month view on the iPhone screen is almost useless.

To address my needs, I downloaded the two best apps I could find on the app store that are free:  Calvetica and GooCal.

Calvetica Month View

Calvetica is proud of being quirky and Swiss.  They employ what must pass for humor in the Alps on their website to tell you that the app has some flaws, and they may not address them.  It is true, they write stuff like that, and the app has some flaws.  Read the reviews in the App Store, and believe them.  Sometimes you rotate the iPhone to see the week view, and it never comes back.  Close, shut it down, and restart it.  What it does well is look clean and cool.  Like a Swiss Miss.  If you want to see help, go online with your Safari browser to their website and find it.  Maybe that is good though, to keep the app free of the settings and all.  One other feature that works is being able to keep synced up with Google Calendars, which I use for work groups.

Calvetica Week View

GooCal looks very similar to the native calendar app on the iPhone, except for a couple of neat things.  Notice the button on top of the page for a week view?

GooCal Month View

It has one, that is of some value, but without the ability to flip it landscape view, so it is hard to use.  

GooCal Week View

But the big feature of this app is that you can write to and read your Google Calendar.  It behaves much like the native calendar app, but the linkage to a Google calendar is immediate, so planning to share is easy.  For me this is beneficial, but I don't put all my plans on my Google Calendars, so I use this app only for those activities I make public.  

For now, I am working with Calvetiva to see if I can adapt to it's quirkiness. So far, I like being able to add and change events right in the calendar, without having to go to a dialogue box.  In Calendar, you not only go to a dialogue box to create and event, you have to go in and out several times to set all it's parameters.  More control, but definitely more cumbersome.  One last example of Calvetiva quirkiness, the date is displayed on the home page icon as a bubble, like a notification.  It alarms me every now and then when I look at my home screen and see a number over the calendar icon, like a "14", till I realize its the date, not the number of appointments I have missed.