Mac Client for Google Mail / Calendaring / Contacts

[BroodsSexton]

For work, I use a google mail account with my own domain, and I operate primarily across a Mac and iPhone. I need a client and app that will sync email, calendaring, and contacts. I initially tried to set up with Outlook for Mac, but found that it didn't play so nicely with Google Calendar. So, for the past year I've been using a really ugly mishmash of (i) the Gmail web interface for sending/receiving email (and occasionally Microsoft Outlook, which still syncs my emails) (ii) Clio (which I use for law practice management) for calendaring, mainly because it readily syncs to my phone--but which is a horrible system for a number of reasons, including that I can't do anything with it while I'm on the subway (and thus not net accessible); and (iii) a god-awful system where I basically manually search for contacts' information.

I want a single application, that syncs back and forth between my iphone and mac, and where I can send and receive calendaring invitations, maintain a google calendar, and subscribe to others' google calendars; have a single contacts list; and use Gmails labeling system for email.

I'm sure this is a simple answer and I'm just a knucklehead. But does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Rovin Romine]

I'm curious as well. I gave up google calendars to use a Mac for business. I use Rocket Matter for billing/calendaring, etc. I'd love it if it seamlessly shared contact data with the native Mac applications. As it is, I have to manually import every now and then. It's semi cumbersome, but not a nightmare.

 

[JimBoSox9]

The market's response to your needs, today, is pretty much: GFY

 

[JimBoSox9]

Too much of it depends on idiosyncratic needs. For example, if RR has a billable hours component to account for in the calendaring, that's a whole different thing than someone just trying to get their cloud/device game down better, which is how I read the OP.

I've found much much more success in the Apple ecosystem by using a Google cloud entirely and syncing that with my devices. I think Broods problem is basically that you're trying to use iCloud for your contacts and that's just about the worst thing ever, and introducing Outlook into the equation unneccesarily. Apple's controls for syncing 3rd-party clouds is significantly more streamlined than their own ecosystem.

My Contacts and Calendar are entirely Gmail, and I control other calendar subscriptions via the Gmail web interface. Then I can very very easily get both into the native contacts and calendar apps on OSX and iOS (there's a setting somewhere to enable subscribed calendars in sync'd devices), and updating from the devices works fine.