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Calendar feeds (ICS subscriptions)

Adding a calendar feed subscription in KashCal
Paste a feed URL and pick how often it refreshes.

Follow the calendars someone else keeps up to date: public holidays, your team's fixtures, school terms, release dates, and more. These are free, read-only ICS links, not paid subscriptions.

Add a holiday calendar​

The quickest way to get started is the built-in holiday catalog, so you don't have to hunt for a URL:

  1. Open Settings → Calendar Feeds.
  2. Tap Add holiday calendar.
  3. Search for your country and tap it to subscribe.

KashCal ships a catalog of national holiday calendars for many countries (some in more than one language). Countries you're already subscribed to are marked Added. Each one is a regular calendar feed, so it stays up to date on its own and follows all the behavior below.

Where these come from

The holiday calendars come from Mozilla Thunderbird's public holiday feeds, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. KashCal only points at those feeds; it doesn't host the calendar data itself.

Add any other feed​

For a feed that isn't in the holiday catalog (a sports schedule, your school's term dates, and so on):

  1. Open Settings → Calendar Feeds → add a calendar.
  2. Paste the feed's URL. It must start with http://, https://, or webcal://:

    URL must start with http://, https://, or webcal://

  3. Choose how often it should refresh.
  4. Save.

KashCal checks for an existing subscription so you don't add the same feed twice.

How often feeds refresh​

Pick the refresh interval that suits the feed:

  • Every hour
  • Every few hours
  • Daily
  • Weekly

A holiday calendar rarely changes, so Weekly is plenty; a frequently updated feed might warrant Daily or hourly.

Feeds are read-only​

Events from a subscription show up alongside your other calendars, but you can't edit them in KashCal. They belong to the source feed.

Manage or remove a feed​

Everything lives on the Settings → Calendar Feeds list, where each feed is a single row:

  • Pause a feed without deleting it: flip the switch on the row off. Its events stay hidden until you turn it back on, and the row shows Sync paused.
  • Refresh now: tap the refresh button on the row to pull the latest events straight away, instead of waiting for the next scheduled check.
  • Edit a feed: tap the row to change its name, color, or refresh interval.
  • Remove a feed: swipe the row left. If you change your mind, tap Undo on the confirmation before it disappears:

Subscription removed

Where to find feeds​

Many organizations publish ICS links: national holidays, your favorite team's fixtures, school district calendars, and so on. Copy the feed's link and paste it into KashCal.