Desktop iCalendar Lite has a system tray icon where all options can be accessed.

Although you wont be integrating with an Exchange server, you can at least enjoy your own personal desktop calendar and, in some cases, even link your Google calendar.

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Lets take a look at this list of desktop calendar apps and see if any of them offer the features that you need.

Five Apps 1. Rainlendar Rainlendar doesnt have the most user-friendly name, but its an outstanding entry in the desktop calendar group.

Rainlendar allows you to set up alarms, reminders, tasks, and events.

You can also share your calendar and subscribe to others calendars, import and edit your Outlook calendars, and much more.

Rainlendar is standards based, cross platform, and allows you to choose from various layouts.

There is also plenty of customization available for Rainlendar with skins.

You can even mix and match the skins to create a very unique layout.

Rainlendar is available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

WinCalendar.

You can customize both size and features of the calendar, scroll through a perpetual calendar, and copy selected dates to the clipboard.

There is support for stored daily appointments (up to 20 on free version), and more.

The free does have a few limitations (for more information on these limitations and pricing for the paid versions, visit this page ).

The calendar creation feature allows you to create printable calendars with over seventy layouts.

The calendar creator actually runs through either MS Word or Excel, which makes for easy printable calendar creation.

WinCalendar is only available for Windows.

Google Calendar Windows Client Google Calendar Windows Client does exactly what you would expect.

If you have a Google account, you can add this handy app to present your Google Calendars on your desktop.

This app will automatically sync with any Google Calendar (even from multiple accounts) and can display all tasks and events.

If you do opt to use the offline access option, do not do so on a public computer as that information is stored on the computer (meaning someone could access your Google account).

Google Calendar Windows Client is only available for the Windows platform.

Desktop iCalendar Lite Desktop iCalendar Lite is another widget type calendar that lives, unobtrusively, in the upper right corner of your desktop.

With this handy app you can add reminders, to-dos, events, alarms, subscribe to public Google and iCloud calendars, change skins and opacity, and more.

You can opt to display three different sections: Calendars, Events, andor To do.

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