Add to gCal

Name: Add to gCal
Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Author: Chris Barkachi

Parses text and adds an event to a user's Google Calendar.

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Add to gCal is a powerful Chrome extension designed to streamline your Google Calendar event creation. By simply highlighting event details in plain text—such as "call with the team tomorrow at 3pm on Zoom"—and clicking a button or using a convenient keyboard shortcut, you can quickly parse and add the event to any of your connected Google Calendars. Recognizing event names, dates, times, and locations, this tool is especially handy for emails or text where there is no built-in "Add to calendar" option.

The extension prioritizes user privacy and security, employing a serverless API without data storage or logging, ensuring your event and account information remain private. Setup involves authenticating the extension with your Google Calendar through the options menu. Add to gCal enhances productivity by eliminating manual event entry, making scheduling seamless and efficient.

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Version:

3.7.6 Last updated: 2020-08-26

Creation date:

2020-07-04

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Permissions:

identity

Size:

52.94KB

Email:

ba*****@princeton.edu

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-11

Ranking

# 50,527 ▲ 507

Other rankings

#7730 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 16 #96 in button for google calendar keyword 30 ▲ 5 #195 in event keyword 21 ▲ 28 #268 in google calendar keyword 39 ▲ 30 #284 in zoom keyword 30 ▲

User reviews

Doesn't work

B *****, 2023-07-20

Edgeだと拡張機能のオプション画面で「Connect your Google Calendar」ボタンをクリックしても動作しなかった。

平井*****, 2023-05-27

Add the extension, followed the setup instructions, and then went to some reservation details on a website that didn't have the handy "Add to calendar" hyperlink (literally the ONLY reason I added the extension)...the extension failed to recognize any of the information. Couldn't see a date, a location - nothing. Deleted and moved on...save yourself the time and skip it altogether.

Ju*****, 2023-03-16

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Add to gCal requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

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Add to gCal has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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