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Playful Calendar Apps

The Peek Calendar App is Simple, Colorful and Intuitive

— February 18, 2014 — Tech
The Peek Calendar is an intuitive app for iPhones that brings a playful quality to planning. The app has a bright and vibrant interface that makes scheduling, checking and getting alarms for events easy. The calendar unfolds in monthly and weekly views to show events scheduled for that day and it also allows users to set activities to do "soon," without a specific date.

There are also some other interesting features of the Peek Calendar, like by shaking the phone, life events in Peek are revealed. Another playful feature is the shading gesture, which darkens the screen and presents the time when a user physically puts their hand over the device, as if to shade it from sunlight.

The Peek Calendar app is $1.99 to download from the Apple iTunes Store.
Trend Themes
1. Playful Calendar Apps - Calendar apps with a playful, intuitive and vibrant interface are becoming popular among iPhone users.
2. Personalized Scheduling - Apps that allow users to set activities to do 'soon' without a specific date, personalized to the individual's preferences, present an opportunity for disruptive innovation in the calendar app space.
3. Gesture-based Features - Gesture-based features like shaking the phone or shading the screen in Peek Calendar app shows an interest in innovative ways to interact with the app and could inspire new gesture-based features for calendar apps.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile App Development - The popularity of playful, intuitive and personalized calendar apps presents an opportunity for mobile app developers to innovate and improve on existing calendar apps.
2. Consumer Technology - The trend towards gesture-based features in calendar apps showcases a growing interest in the use of technology to simplify and personalize everyday life, thus presenting an area of innovation for consumer technology companies.
3. Productivity Software - The demand for apps that make scheduling and planning more enjoyable could create a market for playful productivity software that helps users stay organized and motivated during work or personal projects.
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