As of November 2026, Owaves: My BodyClock and Google Calendar are both free to download. Google Calendar organizes events, meetings and tasks across the web, Android, iPhone and watches, with shared calendars. Owaves plans all 24 hours as one circle in 8 activity categories around your body clock, and can show Google Calendar events synced to iOS.

Key takeaways

  • As of November 2026, both apps are free to download on the US App Store; BodyClock Plus costs $12.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and some Google Calendar features need a Google Workspace or Google One subscription [1][6].
  • Google Calendar runs on the web, Android, iPhone, iPad, Wear OS and Apple Watch, and has 10B+ downloads on Google Play [7][8].
  • Owaves plans a whole day, sleep included, on My BodyClock, a 360° circle, and a 1-minute Body Clock Quiz predicts your Body Clock Type [1][4].

What is the main difference between Owaves and Google Calendar?

Google Calendar shows when you are booked and with whom; Owaves shows how all 24 hours of your day fit your body clock.

Google Calendar’s App Store listing describes events, multiple calendars, tasks and shared calendars that family, friends and colleagues can view and edit [6]. The Owaves listing describes a 360° circular view of your 24 hours, aimed at time blindness, where every activity belongs to one of 8 categories (Move, Eat, Relax, Love, Play, Work, Flow and Sleep), each with its own color (Owaves FAQ). Our guide to what the colors in Owaves mean walks through them.

How do Owaves and Google Calendar compare, feature by feature?

Both are free planners with an Apple Watch app; they differ in what they put at the center. The table lists what each company’s own pages say, as of November 2026 (Owaves 8.1.1; Google Calendar for iOS 26.42.1).

Feature Owaves: My BodyClock Google Calendar
Day view 24-hour circle, My BodyClock; day, week and month [1] Month, week and day views [6]
Organizing 8 activity categories; custom categories with BodyClock Plus [1][3] Multiple calendars; color-coded events [6][8]
Rhythm and focus Body Clock Quiz; Windows for sleep, focus, exercise and meals (BodyClock Plus); Apple Health, planned vs actual [1][2][4] Focus time and Time Insights on eligible work or school accounts [9][10]
Goals and tasks My Goals, set season by season [1] Google Tasks inside Calendar [11]
Sharing Share routines; turn any day into an image; My Moai peer group [1] Shared calendars; a Family calendar; booking pages [6][8][12]
Other calendars Shows calendars synced to iOS, Google Calendar included [5] Adds Gmail reservations; shows Exchange and iCloud calendars on the device [6]
Devices iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac (M1 or later); Android waitlist [1][13] Web browser, Android, Wear OS, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch [7][8][14]
Price (US) Free; BodyClock Plus $12.99/month or $99.99/year, free trial [1] Free; some features need Google Workspace or Google One [6][8]

What does Owaves do that Google Calendar does not?

Owaves puts sleep, meals, movement and rest on the plan alongside work. The free app covers My BodyClock, My Goals and My Moai, and connects to Apple Health to compare planned and actual activity [1].

The Body Clock Quiz takes about a minute and predicts your chronotype, which Owaves calls your Body Clock Type, with a sample Day Plan to follow (Owaves FAQ). BodyClock Plus, the subscription, adds Windows: BodyClock AI recommendations for Deep Sleep, Deep Work, Peak Fitness and Eating Windows, drawn from your chronotype, tracked activities and Apple Health data (BodyClock AI announcement, October 2025). Our guides cover how to use Windows in Owaves and how to save and repeat a Day Plan.

What does Google Calendar do that Owaves does not?

Google Calendar is built for scheduling with other people, across devices. It runs in a web browser at calendar.google.com (there is no standalone desktop app), on Android and iOS, and on Wear OS and Apple Watch, synced across all of them [8][14].

Its store listings describe events added from Gmail (flights, hotels, restaurant reservations), Google Meet video calls on events and files attached to events [6][7]. Anyone with a personal Google Account can create one booking page; Workspace plans add more (appointment schedules). On eligible work or school accounts, focus time can mute Chat notifications and decline meetings, and Time Insights shows how time in meetings breaks down, on a computer.

Can you use Owaves and Google Calendar together?

Yes. Owaves can show calendars synced to iOS, Google Calendar included: with your Google account on the device, allow Owaves to access Calendars and pick the calendars under Settings → Synced Calendars (Owaves FAQ).

New Google events usually appear within an hour, once iOS fetches them. Google Calendar keeps the meetings; My BodyClock holds the rest of the day: sleep, a walk in daylight, steady meals and a wind-down. Our work-from-home schedule shows one way to build that day.

Who is each app best suited to?

Choose by what you plan most: time with other people, or the rhythm of your own day.

Owaves: My BodyClock suits you if you:
– want sleep, meals and movement on the same page as work or class;
– want to plan around your Body Clock Type, or time workouts and meals with Windows;
– use an iPhone with an Apple Watch and Apple Health.

Google Calendar suits you if you:
– book meetings, share calendars with family or colleagues, or take appointments;
– work in Gmail, Google Meet and Google Tasks;
– need Android, Wear OS or a web browser alongside your phone.

For more side-by-side looks, see Owaves vs Tiimo and Owaves vs Structured.

Your day on My BodyClock

Owaves vs Google Calendar: Which Day Planner Fits You?. My BodyClock for Wednesday, November 4 in Encinitas: Flow at 6:30 AM (Wake up and get ready); Move at 7 AM (Morning walk outside); Eat at 7:30 AM (Breakfast); Flow at 8 AM (Commute); Work at 8:30 AM (Deep work block); Flow at 11:30 AM (Email and calendar check); Eat at 12 PM (Lunch); Relax at 12:45 PM (Step outside); Work at 1 PM (Meetings); Flow at 3 PM (Review the week's calendar); Work at 3:30 PM (Project work); Flow at 5 PM (Commute home).
Your day on My BodyClock. Build it in Owaves.

The day above on My BodyClock shows a workday that uses both apps: 8 hours of sleep, a morning walk and breakfast, deep work in the first alert hours, and meetings from Google Calendar in the early afternoon. Flow time covers the commute, email and a look at the week’s calendar; a run, family dinner, guitar and a screen-free wind-down close the evening.

Start with the Body Clock Quiz, then download Owaves on iOS or join the Android waitlist. Then connect Apple Health. Owaves is the World’s First Wellness Planner, Powered by Your Body Clock.

FAQ

Is Google Calendar free?

Yes. As of November 2026, Google Calendar is free to download on the App Store and Google Play. Some features, such as premium booking pages and working location, need a Google Workspace or Google One AI Premium subscription, per its App Store listing, and focus time needs an eligible work or school account.

Is Owaves free?

Yes. As of November 2026, Owaves: My BodyClock is free to download, and My BodyClock, My Goals and My Moai are included for all users. BodyClock Plus costs $12.99 a month or $99.99 a year on the US App Store, with a free trial.

Owaves vs Google Calendar: do I have to choose one?

No. You can keep meetings and shared plans in Google Calendar and plan sleep, meals, movement and focus around them on My BodyClock. Because Owaves reads calendars synced to iOS, the two can sit side by side.

Sources

  1. Owaves, Inc. “Owaves: My BodyClock.” Apple App Store (US), version 8.1.1, 30 September 2026. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/owaves-worlds-first-wellness/id869648628
  2. Owaves. “Introducing BodyClock AI: A Smarter Way to Sync Your Schedule With Your Body Clock.” owaves.com, 2 October 2025. https://owaves.com/introducing-bodyclock-ai/
  3. Owaves FAQ. “What are the activity categories?” owaves.com, 22 April 2018. https://owaves.com/faq/what-are-the-activity-categories/
  4. Owaves FAQ. “How do I discover my Body Clock type?” owaves.com, 7 May 2024. https://owaves.com/faq/how-do-i-discover-my-chronotype/
  5. Owaves FAQ. “How do I sync Owaves with my external calendars?” owaves.com, 30 May 2024. https://owaves.com/faq/how-do-i-sync-owaves-with-my-external-calendars/
  6. Google LLC. “Google Calendar: Get Organized.” Apple App Store (US), version 26.42.1, 3 November 2026. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-calendar-get-organized/id909319292
  7. Google LLC. “Google Calendar.” Google Play (US), updated 2 November 2026. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.calendar
  8. Google Workspace. “Shareable Online Calendar and Scheduling — Google Calendar.” workspace.google.com, November 2026. https://workspace.google.com/products/calendar/
  9. Google Calendar Help. “Use focus time in Google Calendar.” support.google.com, November 2026. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/11190973
  10. Google Calendar Help. “View how you spend time in meetings.” support.google.com, November 2026. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/10738043
  11. Google Calendar Help. “Create & manage tasks in Google Calendar.” support.google.com, November 2026. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/9901136
  12. Google Calendar Help. “Create an appointment schedule.” support.google.com, November 2026. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/10729749
  13. Owaves. “Android Beta.” owaves.com, November 2026. https://owaves.com/android
  14. Google Calendar Help. “Get started with Google Calendar.” support.google.com, November 2026. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/2465776

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