Step-by-step tutorials and answers for subscribing to lunar dates in Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook.
Apple Calendar has no built-in support for lunar dates, but you can add a lunar birthday in two minutes using an ICS subscription. Step-by-step for macOS and iPhone, with age labels and reminders that actually work.
Google Calendar repeats events on the Gregorian calendar, so a lunar birthday set as a yearly repeat drifts wrong every year. Here's how to add one correctly with an ICS subscription that updates automatically — step-by-step for desktop and mobile.
Subscribe to a lunar birthday calendar in Outlook so it stays correct every year. Learn the difference between importing an .ics file and subscribing to a calendar URL — and why the URL is the one you want for recurring lunar birthdays.
Parents and grandparents often celebrate by the Chinese lunar calendar, and those birthdays are easy to forget because they move every year. Here's how to set up a reminder in the calendar app you already use — once, for good.
Google Calendar pulls ICS subscription feeds roughly every 8–24 hours and there is no manual refresh button. Here are the real refresh intervals for every major calendar app, plus how to fix subscriptions that look empty or out of date.
Lunar leap months appear about seven times every nineteen years and break naive birthday-repeat logic. Here is what they are, why your calendar app probably ignores them, and the three strategies MoonCal uses to handle them correctly.