Custom Calendar Background

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Adds background images to Google Calendar

Latest reviews

• (2023-12-20) Olga Kharlip: 12/04/2023 - Beginning a few days ago, minimized view of the month on the left panel of the calendar started displaying EACH day enclosed in the white circle with "today's" day enclosed in the blue. I reported it to Google thinking it's their bug. Today I am seeing all days in that view enclosed in grey circles and today's day is not even highlighted. I thought it's Google trying to fix something, but when (just for the test) I disabled this extension - left panel returned to normal view, only today's day is encircled in blue. But in general I love this extension, been using it for years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope the fix for issue Kassia reported on Dec 1st 2023 would fix the issue I reported above. As of now - 12/20/23 issue I reported is NOT fixed.
• (2023-12-01) Kassia D Barnett: In dark view now it makes it to where I cannot see my calendar days in the top left. I use to could but then a few days ago it turned to looking like I am almost to blackout bingo all except for the current day.
• (2023-11-28) Saga Resmann Hodzic: Really, really great!!! I had refused to use google calendar for YEARS, simply because it wasn't aesthetically pleasing (in my opinion). But now that I found this extension, google calendar is much nicer to look at and is the only calendar i use! Thanks
• (2023-07-17) Fatima Rizvi: This is great! It helps a lot with everyday monotony and all. Just wish we could change text color as how we want it...
• (2023-07-15) Hans Held: Looks way better .. love the color backgrounds!
• (2023-07-11) chris clark: Works great (both colors and image options)! UI for config is basic but functional. Thanks for working on this and making it open source!
• (2023-05-16) Stefania Nucifora: • Estensione molto carina. Uso il colore pieno e non ho riscontrato problemi. • Very nice extension. I use solid color and have had no issues.
• (2023-04-02) Dorothy Douglas: I like that you can create your own background but the quality of the image isn't good (at least for me)
• (2023-03-10) Florencia Otero: Las imagenes se ven pixeleadas
• (2023-02-15) S Kirsh: really love this app. would be able to keep my puppy photo in the background. also easier to switch to light or dark theme <3 thank you for volunteering your time to maintain this app
• (2023-01-23) Isabelle C: Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for your hard work!!
• (2023-01-13) Sydney L: Hi Patrick. People are saying the extension isn't working because they cannot see the save button at the bottom of the screen which you need to zoom out to see. If you could format the display to be smaller so that the save button isn't hidden it should be easier for people to grasp
• (2022-11-16) Pumpkiinface: I love love love the feature! Google should already have this. I just have a few suggestions and observations 1) To add a blur background image feature (sometimes too much information on screen and in the background makes the app hard to use) 2) To make all of the buttons match. Usually, the buttons change to white or black depending on bg brightness. However, the "Today" button, the nine dots in the corner, several text box features, and the dates remain grey. It makes it hard to read them 3) Sometimes there is lag when changing months in the calendar (eg going from June to July on month view), so the items clip Thank you for making this extention!
• (2022-11-14) Vinh Nguyen Van: OK . This is best background for google calendar : https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1509226704106-8a5a71ffbfa4?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=MnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1920&q=100
• (2022-11-11) Kirill Ulanovskiy: Thank you for a good extension! A feature request though: it would be great for a possibility to upload your own image file. It is possible to store an image in base64 in your local browser storage, if you don't exceed 4194304 bytes.
• (2022-10-29) JEANNINE MENGER: Does nothing ..... I get he says to use a URL with the .JPG or .PNG on it ... great then how say in Google Photos do I get that URL? You keep giving us your FLICKR example how about Google photos or other common image sites. Thanks
• (2022-10-28) Akiles S.: Not As Advertised(?) For those in hopes of a customized image in the background of their GCalendar, this is not the app you think it is based on the "custom" referred to in the title. It will allow custom specification to the hex code on the google calendar page, but that's as far as it goes.
• (2022-09-17) Dara Joyce: please allow users to customize their chosen image, like move it up and down or side to side, so that people can use it however they want. thank you.
• (2022-09-08) Lillyana: You have to use ones it gives you. Customization does't work at all.
• (2022-08-25) Monika Jakubowska: It doesn't work, I unfortunately seem to have the same problem as multiple users below - I'm saving the actual url of the selected background following the instructions in the previous replies (the background even shows in the extension after saving) but no changes to the calendar background.
• (2022-08-03) Melanie McCullough: This is very cool in theory, but it didn't work for me at all. I tried linking to a photo and nothing changed.
• (2022-05-02) Shirla Brown-Onuchukwu: I am so frustrated. It just doesn't work!!!!! I have tried and tried, read reviews, instructions...everything. This app just doesn't work. Low-key frustrated
• (2022-04-03) Andrea Jones: I don't understand how to add the images. I've tried every type of url and none works. Unistalled.
• (2022-03-01) Johan Roman: Cual debe ser el tamaño de la imagen en pixeles, porque pude una foto y solo se ve la mitad en google calendar
• (2022-02-21) Liana Flores: i love it!!! my only minor issue is that if dark overlay is on, the text is white over a white background when you're putting something on the description
• (2022-02-19) Truc Nguyen: I have never found a more confusion extension. I submitted the URL of my image but it does not load. Tried multiple links, still doesn't work. It will only shows the pre-selected images that they have. Maybe it's a bug but I got too frustrated and uninstalled. Maybe you can let me know once you fix the issue. UPDATE: I was able to get it to work thanks to Patrick's help.
• (2022-02-12) Nourhane Atmani-Tazaïrt: I can't upload a screenshot, but whenever I try to custom the background, it shows a screen with a chinese writing and nowhere to edit, add a link or change the gcal background.
• (2022-02-11) Bridget Stahovic: THANK YOU! I needed something, anything, other than the stark "im doing work right now" white bg, and I love the stock that you put. Though I have a question, if I wanted to add my own, what aspect ration of the image would be best to use? Thank you again, great "quality of life" style add-on.
• (2022-02-10) Kayla Stevens: I like this extension! It makes the google calendar a lot prettier. I was wondering if anybody had figured out how to stop it from zooming in too much and going blurry when you add your own image, or if there is a preferred resolution for these images?
• (2022-01-24) Nimu C: I don't know to exchange the pic
• (2021-12-27) Louise: it doesn't work?
• (2021-11-09) Carol Gallmeyer: I love the concept but after a couple weeks of using this, suddenly my event details were not legible when I popped open a box. All the text had turned to white and I couldn't read anything. Upon turning off the plugin, everything appeared normal again.
• (2021-11-01) Nicole Jimenez: It has started to work again after the image problems, however, I noticed that ever since the image came back, I have had some problems with Chrome. It started to close itself, to check if it was the extension, I had to delete it for a couple of days and after that, the problem was resolved. Please fix this problem because I love this extension.
• (2021-11-01) Lydia Hamilton: Works like charm! After sending one too many emails/calendar invites from my work gmail instead of personal, I needed to differentiate the two. CLUTCH!
• (2021-10-21) Phoebe Pham: It worked well for a few months, but now it no longer loads anything, and it removed the image from my background.
• (2021-10-13) Abi Hicks: Stopped working today :( Was great! But now there is no image, and when I click on extensions it says on the menu that it doesn't need access to the page despite it saying it has access to calendar.google.com when I click on the actual extension. Hope this is helpful in fixing the issue! EDIT: issue has been fixed! its back and working better than before!
• (2021-10-13) Karina Corzo: ya funciona :'D
• (2021-10-12) Damian Murray: Excellent extension. I won't use Calendar without it.
• (2021-10-12) Laura Wesso: Thank you for fixing it! Such a great tool
• (2021-10-09) Ammar Danish: I add the extension but it seem like it doesn work?
• (2021-10-09) Albert Ramos: Was great while it worked, but looks like it recently broke.
• (2021-10-09) Karen Rothstein: Don't waste your time. Doesn't work for me.
• (2021-10-08) Bob: Great extension. Too bad it stopped working this week. Hope to see it working again.
• (2021-10-07) JERRA JOY AGRAVIO: the extension seems to not be functioning anymore. can someone help us? we really enjoyed this extension
• (2021-10-07) Siti Munirah Kamaruzaman: ext was working wonderfully well and awesome, until like a week ago. it seems like no solution i can refer to. Now my calendar back to dull. can developer do somthing?
• (2021-10-07) Rebeca B.: Unfortunately, it suddenly stopped working for no obvious reason.....
• (2021-10-06) Rens: It seems that as of today (October 6, 2021) the extension stopped working. Can I please request you update it so it works again! Just discovered this extension today and I was very excited about that.
• (2021-10-06) Alma Albarea: Pues el primer día iba muy bien, pero hoy de repente me ha dejado de funcionar en mi navegador (Opera GX). He intentado desinstalar y volver a instalar de nuevo, pero no se arregla. Si solucionan que no funcione en otros buscadores, le pondré 5 estrellas encantada, porque la verdad es que me animaba mucho el día <3
• (2021-09-23) sulfatique: doesn't work for some reason :(
• (2021-09-08) Denise P: Doesnt work for me :(