SyncMyCal Mobile

I’ve been using SyncMyCal Mobile now for about 4 months (paid the $20 something for the Pro version) and it’s been satisfactory.  I’ve had some issues here and there but overall it does the trick — gets my Google Calendars downloaded into my AT&T (HTC) 8525 Windows Mobile 6 phone.  The biggest issue I’ve had with the software, though, is that it takes all 3 of my Google Calendars (Personal, Work, and Travel Schedule) and puts it into the single Outlook calendar on the phone with no way to distinguish where the events came from.  This made it impossible to sync both directions since if I did, every event would get uploaded into Google’s default calendar (Personal) regardless of what calendar it originated from.  I’ve dealt with this by only downloading from Google and living with the fact that I can’t create events on my phone.

Until today…I noticed that a new version of the software had come out that filled in the category field on the phone’s Outlook calendar based on the Google calendar it came from.  This sounded great so I immediately upgraded - or so I thought.  When I went to set this up, I found that the option for Category Sync wasn’t available.  I don’t think I did anything wrong (I completely uninstalled the old version and installed the new one), so I’m hoping this is just a glitch.  I’ve sent an e-mail to the SyncMyCal support and I hope they get back to me with an answer.  If this works, I will have a complete sync between Google, my phone, and my Mac (via SyncMate) for all of my calendars and contacts.

If you’ve had any luck upgrading, please let me know in the comments.  I’ll update with any news I receive…

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- Update 25 June 2008 (based on a comment from OggSync)

One of the major reasons I didn’t go with OggSync (which I did the free version for before I tried SyncMyCal Mobile) is that it was more expensive and it was only a 1 year subscription.  SyncMyCal is $25 to own the software while OggSync is $30 for a 1 year subscription.  If the price were to come down I would give it a shot, but until then I’ll stick with what I’ve already paid for.

Thanks for your comment, others may wish to go with OggSync since it seems to have more functionality already.