How to add events to your calendar without typing
Updated September 2026
You don't have to type an event out to get it onto your iPhone calendar.
Whether a plan arrives in a text, an email, a photo, or your own voice, Aide Calendar can read it and fill in the event — the date, time, place, people and phone number — so you don't type each field by hand. Here are the ways to do it.
Capture it from a message or screenshot
If the event already exists somewhere — a text, a WhatsApp, an email, a booking confirmation — screenshot it, share it, or paste it into Aide. It reads the message and fills in the event: date, time, venue, attendees, phone number. A single capture can include more than one event or task.
Speak it
Prefer to talk? Tap the microphone and say the details. Aide transcribes what you said and fills in the event and any tasks, with the date, time and place. It supports 50+ languages.
Snap a photo
A printed invite, a school term schedule, a whiteboard, an event flyer — take a photo (up to nine at once) and Aide reads the details from the image, including QR codes and contact cards.
Review and save
Everything lands on a review screen first — check the date and time, fix anything, drop what you don't want — then save. It's on your calendar with alerts set, synced across your iPhone and iPad.
Which way, when?
- The plan's in a message, screenshot or email → screenshot or share it.
- You'd rather say it — or it's long, or in another language → speak it.
- It's on paper or a screen in front of you → snap a photo.
Whichever way you use, you review the result before it's saved — with nothing typed by hand.
Turn a screenshot, text, email, photo or voice note into calendar events and tasks — the date, time, place, people and phone number filled in for you. Free on iPhone and iPad, iOS 17+. No ads, no tracking.
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