Vimcal is a calendar app rebuilt from scratch for people who spend the majority of their day in calendar UI — founders, executives, executive assistants, investors, recruiters. The thesis is that Google Calendar and Outlook were designed when most professionals had two or three meetings a day, and that the modern reality of 8–15 meetings demands a faster, more keyboard-driven, more time-zone-aware tool.
Where Cron (now Notion Calendar) focused on a slick UI for individual contributors and Calendly focuses on external scheduling links, Vimcal sits squarely in the middle: it is your daily calendar client plus a personal scheduling layer. Every action — create event, find a slot, change time zone, send availabilities, copy holds — has a keyboard shortcut. The "drag-and-copy availabilities" feature lets you select free slots and paste them into an email as formatted text in seconds.
Vimcal EA, the higher tier, is built specifically for executive assistants managing calendars on behalf of principals. It adds 5-simultaneous-timezones view, calendar-audit reports, weekly calendar metrics, account handoff between EAs, and collaborative scheduling spreadsheets — workflows Google Calendar simply does not address.
The product is opinionated and premium-priced. The free tier is real but limited; the paid plans target users who already understand that a faster calendar is worth $20–75/month. Distribution is largely word-of-mouth in startup and venture circles.