Hue: More Colors for Google Calendar

A Chrome extension designed to enhance and personalize your Google Calendar experience.

What is Hue: More Colors for Google Calendar?

Hue: More Colors for Google Calendar is a Chrome extension designed to give you full control of your Google Calendar events by adding custom colors to your palette, allowing for more personalized and organized scheduling.

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By: bryanhuangg

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Users: 4,000+

Rating: 3.58 (33) ▲ 0.04

Version: 1.0.4 (Last updated: 2024-05-04)

Creation date: 2023-11-12

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

https://calendar.google.com/*
http://calendar.google.com/*

Size: 5.02M

Email: br*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 15848 ▼ 117

Other rankings

#957 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 6

#21 in google calendar keyword 38 ▼ 2

#36 in change color keyword 15 ▼ 3

#58 in calendar keyword 37 ▼ 11

#94 in color keyword 77 ▼ 9

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Extension summary

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Currently allows you to have full control of your Google Calendar events with custom colors. Add new colors to your palette in the extensions popup menu to see more color options in your calendar! More features to come.

Source Code: github.com/bryanhuangg/gcal-hue

Patch Notes:

Version 1.0.4 (5/3/2024)

Color selector now shows up properly in event editing.
Text color changes to white if custom color is too dark.
Small cosmetic bugs resolved.

Version 1.0.3 (3/10/2024)

Updated color overlay code to replace all found HTML colors of an event rather then query for specific class names: should reduce instances of event colors not changing.

User reviews

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Pros

Ability to set custom colors for events
Visually appealing on desktop
Fulfills a need for more color variety in Google Calendar

Cons

Colors do not sync or show on mobile devices
Issues with applying colors to repeated events
Extension slows down the calendar loading time

Most mentioned

Colors don't work on mobile apps
Difficulty in changing colors for recurring events
Extension causes slow performance

Recent reviews

Love it in the PC format, but the colors don't work on the Calendar app on the pixel, so it is useless for me now. I spend half my time on the calendar app on the phone.