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Open an ICS file

Drop the .ics here and its events are listed by date, in your time zone — repeating ones, all-day ones and invitations included.

No server processing No account No daily limits

What a .ics file is

An .ics (iCalendar) file is how calendars travel: Google, Apple and Outlook export calendars as .ics, and every meeting invitation carries one as an attachment named invite.ics. Inside are events with their times, places, guests and repeat rules.

Double-clicking one usually imports it straight into a calendar app — not what you want when you only need to see what is in it, or when the file is an old export. The page shows it instead: times written in UTC, in a named zone or as whole days all land on your local clock, a weekly series is one line with its rule in words, and cancelled events are kept apart.

What you can do here

Every time in your zoneGoogle writes UTC, Outlook writes Windows zone names, invitations carry their own. All of it lands on the right hour.
Repeats understoodWeekly, monthly, yearly, with skipped and moved dates — shown as one line and spelled out where a table needs it.
Copies matchedAn invitation, its replies and the exported calendar are one event, with every guest and their answer kept.

Convert ICS to something else

ICS→CSVICS→ExcelICS→PDFGoogle Calendar→ExcelMerge ICS files

Questions

Can I see what an invitation contains without accepting it?
Yes. Drop the invite.ics, or the whole email as .eml — the event, the organizer and every guest with their answer are shown, and nothing is sent back to anyone.
Several .ics files with overlapping events?
Drop them together. Copies of the same event are matched by their identity and shown once, with the newest details.
Is the file uploaded?
No. It is read on your own device; there is no server for it to go to.