Frigcal — Personal Calendar GUI; No Login Required

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Welcome to the products page for Frigcal, a calendar that's personal, private, and portable. Frigcal is a GUI program coded in Python/Tk, which stores your calendar entries in portable ICS files that work across platforms and programs. With Frigcal, your calendar data is your business, not something to be scanned and monetized by nosy companies. For a quick tour of Frigcal's features, see its User Guide's Introducing Frigcal, its PC screenshots, and its Android how-to.

New: Frigcal's source-code package below (only) was updated in May-2022, to patch an import statement in the embedded pytz library broken by a change in Python 3.10. The fix is crucial on Android, which runs only source code.

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Frigcal runs on macOS (f.k.a. Mac OS X), Windows, Linux, and Android. It's available as a platform-specific macOS app, Windows exe (both 64- and 32-bit), and Linux executable, plus a complete source-code package that runs on all four platforms. Click the download link below to fetch the package you wish to use. The app, exes, and executable may be easier to install and run, but source code can be studied, is required on Android today, and nullifies issues covered by the next section's pointers.

macOS app Download Frigcal.app.zip
Windows exe, 64 bit Download Frigcal-64bit.zip
Windows exe, 32 bit Download Frigcal-32bit.zip
Linux executable Download Frigcal.zip
Source-code package Download Frigcal-source.zip

Usage

For more details on Frigcal's download packages, as well as their complete install and usage instructions, see the main README.txt. In brief, you'll fetch, unzip, and run either the unzipped app itself (macOS), a same-named executable inside the unzip (Windows and Linux), or the program's main script in the unzipped source code (all platforms).

The latest getting-started pointers:

macOS users
See the tips and fixes for your platform's first-run warnings, and app-folder permissions. Both of these apply only to the macOS app, not source code. The readme covers Launchpad on your platform.

Mojave users: see also this to fix crashes and blank windows caused by macOS dark mode.

Apple M-chip users: the Rosetta 2 emulator is required to run the app package, but not source code.

Update: per 2023 vetting on macOS Ventura, launching the 2017 app package directly no longer works, because its splashscreen cannot open the main program; launch instead by opening the app package's main program at Contents/MacOS/frigcal within the unzipped Frigcal.app. The source-code package still works in full, but a newer Tk used by newer Pythons may cause text-color issues in dark mode (e.g., white on light); work around this by config-file color changes, or disabling dark mode—either globally, or for Python with commands here.

Windows users
See the tips and fixes for your platform's first-run warnings, executable start-up speed, and blurry text on Windows 10+. The first two of these apply only to Windows executables, not source code.

Update: as of 2023, this program's app and source-code have now been vetted to work well on Windows 11, in addition to 7, 8, and 10.

Linux users
You can add Frigcal to your applications launcher by fetching this file and installing it per steps 1..4 in this tip. See also this tip for a possibly useful library fix for the executable.

Update: per this note in 2020, Frigcal's Linux executable was broken by recent Linux changes; please use the source-code package instead.

Android users
See this doc for details on running Frigcal on your platform. In short, you'll fetch and patch its source-code package, and launch it in an app's IDE.

Android 11+ users: see also this for recent changes on Android; most don't impact Frigcal directly (until the next note).

Update: in 2023, Pydroid 3's version 6 imposed extra steps for running this program on Android; see the coverage here and here. In short, you must unzip and run in a specific accessible folder, and sync or copy your calendar files to the same.

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