Shade Calendar for Google Calendar™

Name: Shade Calendar for Google Calendar™
Rating: 4.454545454545454 (22 reviews)
Author: https://madeleinesmith.uk

Shade time blocks in Google Calendar to better visualize your schedule 💯

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Shade Calendar for Google Calendar™

Shade Calendar is a handy Chrome extension designed to enhance your Google Calendar experience by allowing you to shade specific time blocks. This feature helps you better visualize your daily, weekly, or 4-day schedule by highlighting work hours, personal time, or any customized periods.

Main Features

Shade time blocks on Google Calendar's day, week, and 4-day views.
Customize distinct shaded schedules for each day of the week.
Simple interface accessed via the extension icon for easy customization.

By improving visual clarity of your calendar, Shade Calendar assists you in managing your time more effectively. If you find this extension useful, support the developer through their Buy Me a Coffee page.

Note: This extension is independent and not affiliated with Google or Google Calendar branding.

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By:

https://madeleinesmith.uk

Users:

4,000+

Rating:

4.45

(22)

Version:

1.12.0 Last updated: 2025-03-19

Creation date:

2022-10-27

Risk:

Permissions:

storage

Size:

748.54K

Email:

ma*****@madeleinesmith.uk

URLs:

Website

Full description:

See detailed description ⏷

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 15,208 ▼ 75

Other rankings

#882 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 2

#88 in google calendar keyword 38 ▲ 6

#115 in calendar keyword 29 ▲ 3

#134 in week keyword 12 ▲ 2

#205 in schedule keyword 17 ▲ 3

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User reviews

Users appreciate Shade Calendar for Google Calendar™ for its simple and effective shading of non-working hours, helping organize schedules visually. It solves a lacking aspect of Google Calendar by enhancing clarity around working and non-working times. However, common complaints include limited customization (color and shading thickness), inability to select specific hours or days for shading, shading inaccuracies, and no reverse highlighting feature. Users desire improvements to better accommodate diverse work schedules and preferences.

Pros

Effectively shades non-working hours to help users visualize their working schedule.
Simple and easy to use, performing exactly as intended without complexity.
Fulfills a need that users feel should be integrated into Google Calendar by default.
Helps users organize personal and work life better through visual time management.
Appreciated for being a basic but useful tool to manage working hours visually.

Cons

Lack of customization options, specifically inability to adjust shading colors and thickness satisfactorily.
No support for partial shading of specific hours within a day or selecting individual days/hours for shading.
Issues with shading accuracy, such as incorrect shading start and end times and unshaded non-working days like Sundays.
Absence of a reverse feature to highlight working hours instead of non-working hours.
Limited support for varied work schedules like part-time or contract work.

Recent reviews

I was looking for a way to have Calender only show my working hours, but that's not possible. This extension provides a great alternative: you 'grey' out your non working hours. This makes it easier to check your Calendar. One suggestion: the hashed option is too thick for my liking. Perhaps add the option to choose from other thicknesses for hashed.

Shaun Blijstra, 2025-03-27

its amazing, should be an integrated option to google calendar i wish i adopted to dark mode as well

Suat Babatan, 2024-12-05

Great extension! Would love to be able to adjust the second colour as well - for dark mode it would be nice to choose a darker grey instead of the white.

Josephine Rogge, 2024-12-04

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Shade Calendar for Google Calendar™ 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

Shade Calendar for Google Calendar™ has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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