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Vimcal
Vimcal is a New York software company whose fast calendar app runs on top of Google Calendar and Outlook, with booking links, time zone tools, and AI scheduling for founders and executives, plus Vimcal EA for executive assistants.
Founders, investors, executives, and executive assistants with heavy meeting loads across time zones and several Google or Outlook accounts.
Teams that want an AI planner to schedule tasks and focus time automatically, and price-sensitive buyers who only need a booking link.
Verdict
Vimcal is the calendar for people whose day is mostly meetings. It is fast, handles several accounts and time zones in one view, and its EA tier is one of the few tools built for executive assistants. At $35 a month, or $25 billed yearly, it costs more than most calendar apps, and its AI is a helper for scheduling, not an autonomous planner like Motion.
Score Breakdown
These scores cover how quickly Vimcal schedules and shares availability, how useful its AI is, how well it serves executive assistants and teams, and how it handles security and admin needs, and then how it does as a company on innovation, communication, pricing, and contract terms.
Who Uses Vimcal, Where It Fits on Price, and Its Competitors
Vimcal says it is designed for founders, executives, investors, and anyone with a high volume of meetings, and CEO John Li told AlleyWatch in 2023 that more than half of its users were founders, fund managers, executives, and business owners. It sits on top of Google Calendar and Outlook, shows work and personal accounts in one view, converts time zones, and lets users type availability or share booking links, with an AI feature that schedules from plain-language requests. Vimcal EA adds tools for assistants who run several executives' calendars, such as calendar holds, polls, and weekly calendar metrics. Its homepage carries praise from former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and Atlan CEO Prukalpa Sankar.
On price, Vimcal sits at the premium end of calendar apps: the iOS app is free, the full desktop and mobile product is $35 a month or $25 a month billed yearly, and Vimcal EA is $85 a month or $68.75 billed yearly. Its main competitors are Motion and Morgen, which lean into AI planning, booking tools like Cal.com, SavvyCal, and Calendly, and Notion Calendar.
Pricing
We checked Vimcal's pricing page and recorded its personal and executive assistant plans, with monthly and yearly prices.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| iOS | Free | The iOS calendar with drag-and-copy availability, time zone conversion, and duplicate event merging. |
| iOS & Desktop | $35 per month, or $25 per month billed yearly | Unlimited booking links, polls, Mac and PC desktop apps, team scheduling, and a Mac menu bar app. |
| Vimcal EA | $85 per month, or $68.75 per month billed yearly | Five simultaneous time zones, automatic calendar holds, calendar audits, per-executive preferences, and one-on-one onboarding. |
| Enterprise | Custom | SAML single sign-on with SCIM, custom MSAs and DPAs, security questionnaires, a dedicated support manager, and custom billing. |
The Field at a Glance
How Vimcal compares with other AI calendar and scheduling vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Vimcal scores 7.6 in AI calendar and scheduling, under Motion (7.9) and Morgen (7.8), and ahead of Cal.com (7.5) and SavvyCal (6.7).
How Well Vimcal Fits Each Calendar and Scheduling Use Case
We rated Vimcal against the situations professionals bring to a calendar and scheduling tool, drawing on its homepage, pricing page, 2023 TechCrunch and AlleyWatch coverage, and the customer comments on its site.
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Executives with heavy meeting loads | Strong | Keyboard shortcuts, response times under 100 milliseconds, and multi-account views are built for this group. |
| Executive assistants managing several calendars | Strong | Vimcal EA adds holds, polls, audits, and per-executive preferences. |
| Scheduling across time zones | Strong | Overlapping work hours and time zone conversion are core features. |
| Enterprise rollout | Strong | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SAML SSO, and SCIM are listed. |
| AI planning of tasks and focus time | Weak | Vimcal's AI helps book meetings, and auto-planning a day is Motion's territory. |
| Low-cost booking links | Weak | At $25 to $35 a month, a booking-only buyer pays for features they will not use. |
Review Excerpts
These excerpts come from customer comments that Vimcal shows on its homepage, which the company chose, and from the buyer concern we found on its pricing page. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites were excluded.
“Vimcal, call it Superhuman for calendar, new favorite productivity tool.”
“Been using Vimcal for a few months now and love it! This has saved me at least 20 mins a day!”
“Easily the best calendar I've used. They've also solved the awkward calendly link handoff.”
“It is a great calendar, but $35 a month is a lot to ask when Google Calendar is free, and the EA plan more than doubles that per seat.”
Representative buyer view
Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums, and product documentation.
Based on: Vimcal pricing
Company Facts
- Founder and CEO
- John Li (AlleyWatch)
- Headquarters
- New York City (AlleyWatch)
- Funding
- $4.5 million seed round led by Altos Ventures in November 2023, for $6.4 million raised in total (AlleyWatch)
- Products
- Vimcal and Vimcal EA (Vimcal pricing)
- Security
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA (Vimcal)
- Website
- vimcal.com
Key Leadership
John Li
Co-founder and CEO
He told AlleyWatch that he and his co-founder came up with Vimcal while scheduling more than 30 investor meetings a week for their previous startup after Y Combinator Demo Day (AlleyWatch).
Methodology
We scored Vimcal on eight criteria, from scheduling speed to contract fairness, and the Overall Score is their simple average on a 0 to 10 scale. The scores draw on reviews from public review sites and forums, with paid reviews and pay-for-play sites excluded, plus a hands-on look at the product, its pricing, and its documentation and training. Scores can change as we add reviews and product checks.