The basics

Syncing Google calendars

Connect and sync any Google calendar that you have access to

Two-way Google sync ¶

Cucumbar now (Apr 2025) has a two-way calendar sync with Google. Changes in each app sync both ways. It’s easy. It’s automatic. It’s what you expect.

This new approach replaces the manual one-way sync of the past.

Connect a Google calendar ¶

This should be straightforward.

In your Cucumbar calendar go to Calendar settings
Click the “Connect calendar” button
Allow Cucumbar to have access to Google Calendar
Select the calendar that you would like to connect

Following the same process, you can connect multiple Google calendars to a Cucumbar calendar.

What is synced? ¶

Initial sync

The first time you connect a Google calendar, Cucumbar will sync its events starting from today. It will then sync the next 500 events. If you have many recurring events, they will be included in the 500-event count, although only the first repeat event will be synced. Cucumbar will sync events up to a maximum of 365 days from today.

Subsequent syncs

After the initial sync, all events made in Google will be synced across.

Exceptions – what doesn’t sync

New events made in Cucumbar don’t sync to your Google calendar yet.
If you disconnect a calendar and then make changes to Google events in Cucumbar, those changes won’t show in Google as you would expect. However, if you reconnect that Google calendar, the changes you just made in Cucumbar won’t sync to Google.
Repeating events only sync from the first future event.

Some of these exceptions may be things I will change in the future. Please let me know if you would like anything like this to be worked on – using the ‘Contact us‘ link below.

Google calendar colour ¶

When Cucumbar connects to your Google calendar, we also sync the Google calendar colour. Each event from Google will now display that calendar’s colour. You can change the colour of each event in Cucumbar, but it will default to the calendar colour if no other colour is selected.

If you change your calendar’s colour in Google, that change will not be shown in Cucumbar unless you disconnect and reconnect again in settings.

Disconnect a Google calendar ¶

Disconnecting Google calendar stops calendar data flowing into and out of Cucumbar.

In your Cucumbar calendar go to calendar settings
Click on the connected calendar’s overflow dropdown
Select disconnect

Google events have been synced to your Cucumbar calendar will remain in Cucumbar even after you disconnect the Google calendar.

Shared calendars and guests ¶

Cucumbar shares the permission settings for events that come from Google. If an event in Google Calendar cannot be modified, it will also be unmodifiable in Cucumbar.

A Google event may not be modifiable if the event either:

comes from a shared calendar that has ‘see only’ settings
has guests invited but ‘Modify event’ turned off

If this is an issue, ask the calendar owner or event organiser to change these settings.