Google Calendar is excellent at keeping your schedule organized. But when it comes to reminders, it only does notifications. Banner alerts, email reminders, maybe a badge on your phone. What it doesn't do is call you.
If you've ever missed a meeting because a notification slipped past you, you've hit the ceiling of what Google Calendar's built-in reminders can do. The good news: you can add phone call reminders to Google Calendar in under a minute, without touching any Google settings at all.
Why Google Calendar Doesn't Have Phone Call Reminders
Google Calendar was designed around notifications: visual alerts that show up on your devices. That works for a lot of people a lot of the time. But it has a clear weak point: it only works when you're looking at your screen and not buried in something else.
Google doesn't offer outbound phone calls as a reminder option, and there's no native workaround inside the app. To get your phone to ring before a Google Calendar event, you need an external service that connects to your calendar and handles the calls on your behalf.
That's exactly what Remindavo does. It reads your Google Calendar, and before each event, it calls your phone. You pick up, hear the reminder, and you're ready for your meeting.
How to Set It Up (5 Steps, Under 60 Seconds)
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Create a Remindavo account Go to remindavo.com and sign up. The 14-day trial is free and no credit card is required.
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Connect your Google Calendar Remindavo will ask you to authorize access to your Google Calendar via Google's standard OAuth flow. It reads your events but never modifies them or stores their contents.
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Add your phone number Enter the number you want to receive reminder calls on. Remindavo will send a quick test call so you can confirm everything is working before your next meeting.
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Choose your reminder lead time Decide how far in advance you want the call: 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes before each event. You can set a global default and override it for specific events.
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You're done From this point on, Remindavo monitors your calendar continuously. Before every event, your phone rings. You don't have to do anything else.
That's the entire setup. Most people complete it in less than a minute. Remindavo works with Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and any other calendar that supports standard sync, and it covers 50+ countries if you're calling an international number.
Common Questions
Will it call me for every event, including personal ones?
By default, yes. You can filter which calendars Remindavo monitors, so if you have separate work and personal calendars in Google, you can choose to only get calls for work events.
What if I'm in a different time zone?
Remindavo reads your event times from Google Calendar directly, including time zone data. If you travel or work across time zones, your calls will always fire at the right local time.
Can I snooze the reminder call?
During the call, you can press a key to acknowledge the reminder. If you need to snooze, the call logs the event and you can configure follow-up timing from your dashboard.
Does it work if my phone is on silent?
A phone call will ring even on many devices set to silent, depending on your phone's settings. For the most reliable experience, Remindavo recommends allowing calls from its number to bypass silent mode, which most phones support via "Allow calls from favorites" or equivalent settings.
If you've been looking for a Google Calendar phone call reminder and couldn't find one natively, this is the answer. Set it up once, and your calendar starts calling you.
Get a phone call before every Google Calendar event.
Connect your calendar and Remindavo handles the rest. Try it free for 14 days.
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