Google Calendar Weekend Highlighter

Custom Colour for Weekends in Google Calendar

Google Calendar Weekend Highlighter is a Chrome extension that lets you customize the colors of weekend days and any other days of the week in your Google Calendar. Designed to work seamlessly with both the standard and dark modes of Google Calendar, it automatically adjusts your chosen colors to fit dark mode environments, ensuring clear visibility and style.

Upon installation, you are guided to set your preferred colors for each day, with the option to leave days unhighlighted by selecting white. The extension covers all calendar views introduced since 2018. In case of any issues with highlighting, simple steps such as refreshing the page or clicking on calendar space remedy the problem. Additionally, the extension includes a donation feature for users who wish to support the developer. Overall, it offers an easy and visually effective way to enhance your scheduling experience by emphasizing weekends and other days on your calendar.

User reviews

Users appreciate the Google Calendar Weekend Highlighter for its simplicity, customizable colors, and helpful weekend visibility, with strong developer support noted. However, common issues include inconsistent functionality across calendar views, partial highlighting of weekend days, occasional loss of user settings, and compatibility or reliability problems after updates. Despite these issues, many users find it a valuable extension that significantly improves their scheduling experience.
Pros
  • Simple and effective at highlighting weekends in Google Calendar.
  • Good developer support with quick responses and bug fixes.
  • Allows color customization, which users appreciate for better workflow.
  • Enhances user experience by providing clear weekend visibility, reducing scheduling errors.
  • Some users find it indispensable and crucial for their calendar management.
Cons
  • Does not consistently work in all calendar views, especially month view and customized views.
  • Sometimes only a small strip or top part of the weekend days is highlighted, not the entire day box.
  • Occasionally forgets user settings like language and weekend days, requiring reconfiguration.
  • Does not always work reliably or may stop working after updates, causing user frustration.
  • Issues with compatibility in certain browsers like Vivaldi and with some Google Calendar versions.
Recent reviews
just what I wanted !
by Jérôme Alteyrac, 2025-02-06

Incredible app and user support! It's simple, elegant, and flexible. I appreciate having complete control of the colors. This is an indispensable tool for anyone who needs see the day of the week as quickly as possible. I am prone to making scheduling mistake and adding custom color coding has changed my workflow completely. I am not exaggerating when I say that I can't function without this app. In addition, I really appreciate the dev's attention to detail and eagerness to address even the most minor of bugs. He responds quickly and provides clear instructions. Thanks again Riccardo! NF
by nyx f, 2024-08-09

Great extension! It stopped working once and I noticed how much I missed it. Thankfully Riccardo was really helpful and quickly updated the extension with a fix, as well as provided a workaround so I could get it working while the update didn't get pushed to me. First donation due to an extension, this is one of those things that should be default in the calendar.
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Google Calendar Weekend Highlighter requires very minimum permissions.

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Google Calendar Weekend Highlighter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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