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{{short description|Comparison of computer protocols}}

A '''comparison of CalDAV and CardDAV implementations''' offers two overviews of client and server computer software implementations of the [[CalDAV]] and [[CardDAV]] protocols.

==Client implementations==

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! Client name

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! handles home-sets

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! {{rh}} | AgenDAV<ref>[httphttps://agendavgithub.orgcom/agendav/agendav AgenDAV project home]</ref>

| [[Cross-platform]] [[JavaScript]] [[Web browser]]

| {{GPL-lic}}

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| {{no}} Does not arrange meetings with participants

| {{n/a}}

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| AgenDAV's fullcalendar.io

| {{no}}

| {{no}} The used server is fixed in the configuration file

| {{no}} Does not arrange meetings with participants

| {{no}} the caldav-server settings need to be fixed in AgenDAV’sAgenDAV's configuration file

| {{yes}}

|-

! {{rh}} | Cadaver<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ |title=Cadaver home |access-date=2015-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312225036/http://www.webdav.org/cadaver/ |archive-date=2015-03-12 |dead-url-status=yesdead }}</ref>

| [[Command-line interface|Command-line]]

| {{GPL-lic}}

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! {{rh}} | aCal<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wiki.acal.me/wiki/Main_Page |title=Main Page - ACal Wiki |publisher=Wiki.acal.me |date=2013-04-01 |accessdate=2015-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224104635/http://wiki.acal.me/wiki/Main_Page |archive-date=2015-12-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

| [[Android (operating system)|Android]]

| {{GPL-lic}}

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| {{unk}}

| {{n/a}}

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| Android

| {{yes|[[Google Play]]}}

| {{unk}}

| {{noD-Out}} Out of scope

| {{unk}}

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| {{no}} Does not arrange meetings with participants

| {{n/a}}

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| CalDavZAP

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| {{yes}} vCard 3.0 only

| {{no}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}} The used server is fixed in the configuration file

| {{noD-Out}} Out of scope

| {{no}} The used server is fixed in the configuration file

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| out of scope

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| {{No}} (except attendees/invitations)

| {{yes}}

| {{no}} ([https://wwwmanual.davx5.com/manual/technical_information.html#synchronization server always wins])

| Android, OpenTasks

| {{yes|[[Google Play]], OpenTasks}}

| {{yes}}

| out{{D-Out}} of scope

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! {{rh}} | Tasks.org<ref>[https://tasks.org/ Tasks.org website]</ref>

| [[Android (operating system)|Android]]

| {{GPL-lic}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| Android

| {{yes|[[Google Play]]}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unkyes}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unk}}

| KOrganizer KAddressbook

| {{yes|KOrganizer KAddressbook}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{n/a}}

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| Lightning

| {{yes|Lightning}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| {{yes}} [[VCard#vCard_3vCard 3.0|vCard 3.0]] and [[VCard#vCard_4vCard 4.0|vCard 4.0]]

| {{yes}}

| CardBook

| [https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/cardbook/ Mozilla Add-ons (ATN)]

| {{yes}}

| {{D-Out}} of scope

| {{no}}

| {{partial}}

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! {{rh}} | MineTime<ref>[https://minetime.ai MineTime features]</ref>

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There are more clients, mentioned for completeness:

* For the command line: [https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer Vdirsyncer] (for WebDAV) + [https://github.com/pimutils/khal Khal] (for calendaring) or + [https://github.com/scheibler/khard Khard] (for contacts)

* Apple’sApple's [https://support.apple.com/downloads/ical iCal] and [https://support.apple.com/guide/calendar/welcome/mac Calendar]

* For Windows and Mac [https://www.emclient.com/ emeM Client]

* Windows built in-support ([https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-win10-webdav-syncengine kind of])

* For the Web: [https://www.horde.org/apps/kronolith Kronolith]

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==Server implementations==

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! Server name

! [[Software license|License]]

! [[Programming language]]

! Storage backends

! RFC 2616 HTTP/1.1

! {{IETF RFC|2616}} HTTP/1.1

! RFC 2617 HTTP {{abbr|auth.|authentication}}

! {{IETF RFC|2617}} HTTP {{abbr|auth.|authentication}}

! RFC 2518 Web&shy;DAV

! {{IETF RFC 3253|2518}} Web&shy;DAV {{abbr|vers.|versioning}}

! RFC{{IETF 3744RFC|3253}} Web&shy;DAV ACL{{abbr|vers.|versioning}}

! {{IETF RFC|3744}} Web&shy;DAV ACL

! RFC 4324 iCal {{abbr|CAP|Calendar Access Protocol}}

! {{IETF RFC|4324}} iCal {{abbr|CAP|Calendar Access Protocol}}

! RFC 4331 Web&shy;DAV quota

! RFC{{IETF 4709RFC|4331}} Web&shy;DAV mountquota

! {{IETF RFC|4709}} 4791 CalWeb&shy;DAV mount

! {{IETF RFC|4791}} 4918 WebCal&shy;DAV {{abbr|ext.|extensions}}

! {{IETF RFC 5397|4918}} Web&shy;DAV current principal{{abbr|ext.|extensions}}

! {{IETF RFC|5397}} Web&shy;DAV current principal

! RFC 5545 {{abbr|rev.|revised}} iCal

! {{IETF RFC|5545}} {{abbr|rev.|revised}} iCal

(Availability Check)

! RFC{{IETF RFC|5546}} iCal {{abbr|iTIP|transport-independent interoperability protocol}}(Group Scheduling)

! RFC{{IETF RFC|5689}} Web&shy;DAV {{abbr|ext.|extended}} MKCOL

! RFC{{IETF RFC|5995}} Web&shy;DAV POST add member

! RFC{{IETF RFC|6352}} Card&shy;DAV vCard

! RFC{{IETF RFC|6578}} Web&shy;DAV {{abbr|sync|synchronise}}

! RFC{{IETF RFC|6638}} Cal&shy;DAV {{abbr|sched.|scheduling}}(Auto-Schedule)

! RFC{{IETF RFC|7529}} iCal <!-- abbreviation? -->{{abbr|RSCALE|non-Gregorian calendar}}

! RFC{{IETF RFC|7540}} HTTP/2

! RFC{{IETF RFC|7809}} Cal&shy;DAV time zones by {{abbr|ref.|reference}}

! RFC{{IETF RFC|7953}} iCal <!-- abbreviation? -->{{abbr|VAVAIL&shy;ABILITY|personal availability}}

! [http://www.calconnect.org/pubdocs/CD0903%20Freebusy%20Read%20URL.pdf <span title="FBURL">Free-busy URL</span>]

|-

! {{rh}} | Baïkal<ref>{{cite web |url=httphttps://baikal-serversabre.comio/baikal/ |title=CalDAV + CardDAV lightweight server: Baïkal |accessdate=20152021-1103-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151114054905/http://baikal-server.com/ |archive-date=2015-11-14 |dead-url=yes10 }}</ref><ref>[http://tech.tiq.cc/2013/10/how-to-set-up-the-baikal-carddav-and-caldav-server-with-nginx-on-debian/ Baïkal iCal export]</ref>

| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[PHP]]

| MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{unkno}}

| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}

| {{unkyes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | Bedework<ref>[https://www.apereo.org/projects/bedework Bedework overview]</ref>

| {{free|[[Apache License|Apache]]}}

| [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Calendar and Contacts Server]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/docs-trunk |title=Calendar and Contacts Server guiding standards |access-date=2012-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101122938/http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/docs-trunk |archive-date=2012-01-01 |dead-url-status=yesdead }}</ref>

| {{free|[[Apache License|Apache]]}}

| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

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| {{yes}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Cyrus IMAP]]<ref>[httphttps://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/concepts/features.html Cyrus IMAP project homeFeatures]</ref>

| {{free|[[BSD licenses|BSD]]}}

| [[C (programming language)|C]]

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{Some}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

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| {{yes}}

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! {{rh}} | [[DAViCal]]<ref>[http://wiki.davical.org/w/RFC_Compliance DAViCal RFC Compliance]</ref><ref>[https://gitlab.com/davical-project/davical/-/blob/master/ChangeLog DAViCal ChangeLog]</ref>

| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[PHP]]

| PostgreSQL

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

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! {{rh}} | DavMail<ref>[httphttps://davmail.sourceforge.net/ DavMail project home]</ref>

| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

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| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{free|[[GNU GPLv3]]}}

| [[JavaScript]]

| SQLite

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Group-Office]]<ref>[https://www.group-office.com Group-Office website]</ref>

| {{some|[[GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL]], [[proprietary software|proprietary]]}}

| [[PHP]]

| {{yesunk}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Horde Groupware]]

| {{free|[[GNU LGPL]]}}

!OSS

!| [[PHP]]

| {{yesunk}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Nextcloud]]<ref>[https://nextcloud.com/ Nextcloud home]</ref>

| {{free|[[GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL]] v3}}

| [[PHP]]

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{unk}}

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| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Open Xchange]]

| {{GPL-lic}}, [[Creative Commons|CC]]

| [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[JavaScript]]

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | [[ownCloud]]<ref>[http://owncloud.org/ ownCloud home]</ref>

| {{free|[[GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL]] v3}}

| [[PHP]]

| {{unk}}MySQL

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

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| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

| Filesystem

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{Some}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkNo}}

| {{no}}

| {{Some}}

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| {{Some}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkNo}}

| {{Some}}

| {{unkYes}}

| {{no}}

| {{unkNo}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unkNo}}

| {{unkNo}}

| {{unkNo}}

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! {{rh}} | [[SabreDAV]]<ref>[http://sabre.io/dav/standards-support/ SabreDAV Supported RFC's]</ref>

| {{free|[[BSD licenses|BSD]]}}

| [[PHP]]

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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| {{unk}}

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| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | [[SOGo]]<ref>[https://sogo.nu/about.html SOGo Overview]</ref>

| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Objective-C]]

| MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{some}}<ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=3283 0003283: (read-only) Addressbook reports DAV:all privilege]</ref><ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=4822 0004822: Calender advertises wrong ACL for shared address books]</ref>

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{some}}<ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=1310 0001310: CaldDAV calendar-query returns events out of specified range]</ref><ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=3161 0003161: Blackbery 10 can't edit event that was posted by KOrganizer (CalDAV)]</ref>

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{some}}<ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=1204 0001204: update the icalendar handling to rfc 5545]</ref><ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=4747 0004747: SOGo creates invalid GEO value on import]</ref><ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=3608 0003608: Cannot save/display multiple calendar alerts for one calendar event.]</ref><ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=2574 0002574: No colors selectable if ressource ID contains space character]</ref>

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{some}}<ref>[https://sogo.nu/bugs/view.php?id=5163 0005163: no carddav RFC 6578 compliance]</ref>

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | [https://www.xandikos.org/ Xandikos]<ref>[https{{cite web |url=http://jelmerxandikos.ukorg/code |title=Git-Backed CalDAV/CardDAV server |accessdate=2022-06-06}}[https://www.xandikos.org/ Xandikos]</ref>

| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Python (programming language)|Python]]

| Filesystem

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Zarafa (software)|Zarafa]]

| {{some|[[GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL]], [[proprietary software|proprietary]]}}

| [[PHP]]

| {{unk}}MySQL

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}} {{r|group=Note|PHP_HTTP}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | [[Zentyal]]<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.zentyal.org/ |title=Zentyal Community Edition official Site] |access-date=2014-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918122408/http://www.zentyal.org/ |archive-date=2012-09-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Perl]]

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

| {{unk}}

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! {{rh}} | Meishi<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/inferiorhumanorgans/meishi |title=Meishi, A lightweight CardDAV server built on Rails 3; GitHub repository |website=[[GitHub]] |access-date=2020-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611032700/https://github.com/inferiorhumanorgans/meishi |archive-date=2018-06-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>

| {{BSD-lic}}

| [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]]

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}_'basic'

| {{some}}_yes

| {{some}}_no

| {{yes}}_{much of}

| {{no}}

| {{unk}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unk}}

| {{some}}

| {{unk}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unk}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

| {{unk}}

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| {{GPL-lic}}

| [[Java (programming language)|Java]]

| {{unk}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

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{{reflist|group=Note|refs=

<ref name=PHP_HTTP>PHP-based servers rely on the underlying [[web server]] [[computing platform|platform]] for the implementation of [[Hypertext Transfer Protocol|HTTP]].</ref>

}}

The table is missing [[Kopano_Kopano (software)|Kopano]], [http://www.kerio.com/products/kerio-connect Kerio Connect] and [[Scalix]], which are mentioned here for completeness.

==See also==

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[[Category:Hypertext Transfer Protocol]]

[[Category:Servers (computing)]]

[[Category:Network software comparisons]]