Skylight’s Calendar 2 Review: Its Best Digital Calendar Yet

I've been with my husband for 15 years. We've moved through several ages and communication tools together, from days of texting on our flip phones to the blue blues of our iMessages, shared Google Calendars I bullied him into using years ago, and finally, transforming a Discord server into our marriage super tool.

But what about a more physical option? Rather than leaving all of our communication online, requiring phones out at dinner to check tomorrow's schedule and struggling to remember the dinner ideas listed in Discord, there's a new solution: a digital calendar you can set on the counter or hang on the wall.

Skylight's digital calendars have been gaining popularity over the past year, and today there's a new one: the Calendar 2. The biggest change is the size, sitting now in the middle of Skylight's digital calendar lineup at 15 inches. It promises faster performance and also has interchangeable snap frames like Skylight's digital picture frame, the Frame 2, but otherwise it's the same device with the same set of tools and similar roadblocks. The Calendar 2 connects to your Wi-Fi and can sit on a tabletop or be mounted on the wall, so long as there's an outlet nearby to plug it into.

However, you'll hit the same wall my colleague Chris Haslam did when he tested the Calendar Max, Skylight's largest digital calendar device that launched last year: Unless every member of your family is ready to fully commit to this device, its wide range of features will go unused. But at half the price and nearly half the size of the Calendar Max, the Calendar 2 feels like a much more reasonable experiment and entry point for families.

A Digital Sync, IRL

The Skylight Calendar 2, like Skylight's other digital calendars, lets you log in to your calendar program of choice, such as Google Calendar or Apple's Calendar, and have it immediately display on the interface. It was easy to sync my main Google calendar, and then the 2 showed me all the calendars that were synced to that one, in case I wanted to add them. In a snap, I had my main personal calendar, my work calendar, my husband's calendar, and even my private calendar of my friends' and family's birthdays synced to the Calendar 2.