Aurinko alternative with a unified calendar API
Aurinko combines email, calendar and contacts. Apiroc focuses on calendars only, with native support for iCloud Calendar next to Google Calendar and Outlook, real-time webhooks, a free plan and pricing that fits both startups and established companies.
Aurinko alternative
What does Apiroc offer as a Aurinko alternative?
Google Calendar, Outlook and iCloud Calendar have different APIs, different data models and different surprises. Apiroc gives you one unified calendar API so you can focus building your product, not dealing with calendar apis.
| Feature | Apiroc |
|---|---|
| Supported calendar providers | Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCloud Calendar |
| Create, read, update and delete events | Yes |
| Recurring events with single-instance changes | Yes |
| Attendees and RSVP status | Yes |
| Free/busy availability across calendars and providers | Yes |
| Real-time webhooks | Google Calendar and Outlook (iCloud planned) |
| Incremental sync tokens and pagination | Yes |
| Custom event metadata | Yes |
| Conferencing and meeting links | Yes |
| Hosted OAuth flow for Google and Microsoft | Yes |
| iCloud connection with an app-specific password, no OAuth setup | Yes |
| Node.js SDK and Postman collection | Yes |
| Free plan | 10 End User Accounts, no credit card required |
Multi-provider
One API for iCloud Calendar, Outlook and Google Calendar
With Apiroc you do not implement the Google Calendar API, the Microsoft Graph API or, worse, iCloud's CalDAV interface, which is poorly documented and often does not follow the specification. Apiroc handles all three and gives you JSON in and JSON out.
Reliability
Proven infrastructure
Apiroc runs on infrastructure that has processed billions of calendar API calls. Our team knows the edge cases of each provider and handles retries, rate limits and failover for you, so you can spend your time on your product instead of provider quirks.
Webhooks
Real-time change notifications
Register a webhook subscription for a calendar and Apiroc notifies your endpoint when events are created, updated or deleted in Google Calendar or Outlook. Signed payloads, one format for all providers. Webhooks for iCloud Calendar are planned.
Pricing
Affordable pricing
Apiroc has a free plan with 10 End User Accounts and no credit card required, so you can build and test before paying anything. Pro is $25 per month with 50 accounts included and $0.50 per additional account. Enterprise plans are available for large volumes.
Free
$0
10 End User Accounts, 20 requests/second, webhooks included
Pro
$25per month
50 End User Accounts included, then $0.50 per account. 300 requests/second
Enterprise
Custom
Volume discounts, custom rate limits, dedicated support
Flexibility
APIs you can build anything on top of
Apiroc provides all the calendar operations you need, not a fixed product for one use case. Build a calendar app, a notes app, a scheduler, an AI assistant or whatever your users need, with full CRUD, recurring events, free/busy and sync tokens.
