Confused about rainmeter vs rainlendar

[johndoe3344]

Can I use both of these at the same time? Can I integrate rainlendar into rainmeter? Since rainmeter has a calendar built in to it, what's the point of getting rainlendar as well?

Thanks.

[jsmorley]

They are two entirely different things and other than having the same original author, "Rainy", they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

I'm not going to sell Rainlander here, mostly cause I've never really used it, but I gather it is a much more robust and powerful calendar product than anything you are likely to do in Rainmeter.

Feel free to run them together or separately as you like.

[moshi]

if you'd combine the best features of all the different calendar approaches in Rainmeter, you'd have 5% of the calendar functionality Rainlendar already had 10 years ago.
that'sbecause Rainlendar is (mostly, it can do other things as well) a calendar, and Rainmeter is (mostly, it can do other things as well) a tool to display information on the desktop.

if you just want to display a date and maybe a limited amount of Google Calendar appointments, Rainmeter will be fine.