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Rating should be MUCH higher! I give it a 4.8/5 stars
I don't understand why this app has a 3.8 stars it shoudl at least have a 4/5. I would give it a 4.8/5 stars. I have tried countless apps and physcial planners, this is by far the best option for me and my preferences. It's not the most visually modern or polished in its asthetics but who cares if the functionality and accesablity is not there. This app has so many features, so many ways to taylor the app exactly to your own preferences and comfort. I have not used a better calender app than this one. Who else gives you the ability to slide across mutliple weeks and select multiple events and edits them all in one selection. Who else lets you have so many choice of different views which can then be completely taylored. I have used WeekCal for what seems like a decade! Yes the pro switch was annoying but's not that expensive and you don't have to get it. The regular version is plenty fine! Yes sometimes it glitches but definitely not as much as other apps. I think people need to chill. If your life isn't so great maybe not use these reviews as a dumping ground. Please be mindful. Also again the free version is amazing and its FREE. How many other services in life are free. Like lets calm down a bit and just be practical. This app is amazing, nothing is perfect and I'm so thankful its free and available to help me stay organized in my life. Thanks WeekCal!Show lessTenzinc88
A Big Mess
I have used this app for so long that I can’t even remember when I started using it. Every event in our family is stored in the app on my other devices. I LOVED everything about it. . . UNTIL . . . . NOW. I got a new phone and downloaded the app. It was stuck on NEW EVENT page. I did everything suggested on problem shooting advise pages to resolve this issue. I was able to get off the event page when I deleted the app (which also had to be researched because it appeared like it was deleted but showed it was still downloaded from the app page). That worked for a few days and again I am hung up on a the same event page. In addition, since downloading the app on my new phone, I can only see this month (December). Every time I try to change months or add an event, the advertisement page pops up trying to get me to pay for the subscription! Please please please fix these issues for those of us who have loved your app for so long but don’t want to pay for the subscription. If you are simply trying to push us to a paid subscription, just be honest with us and tell us up front so we can move on to another app. I’ve spent two weeks trying resolve the issues and it is still unusable.Show lessJourneyStrong
Sadly moving this once great app off my home screen
I have loved using this app for several years. In spite of changes with phones and jobs, I kept this app at the top of my home screen because the month view was and still is unmatched and there was and still is no other app with the incredibly useful rolling event feature… I was even invited to be a beta tester a few times. Happy days… In recent years, instead of keeping all of these great existing features well maintained and enhanced, the business focus shifted to lots of ads just to add special calendars. They also made a really annoying change to the scrolling of the mini month view which was very buggy for a while and is still not a pleasant user experience.
More recently, as a number of other reviewers are also stating, the ability to mark rolling events as complete is totally broken forcing me to look at competing apps that may be able to accomplish something similar and help me regain some productivity again. I’m not terribly confident that this will ever be fixed and I’ve finally, FINALLY found something else that will be able to have repeatable task-like events on the calendar that will still kinda roll forward.
I won’t completely abandon WeekCal and I will continue to check the notes on updated releases, but the place of honor on my home screen is changing as of right now.Show lesslfrecklesl
Fantastic- superior to Fantastical!
It's replaced Fantastical on my phone. I bought it to test for my wife, who needed an app that could search in specific date ranges, something that Fantastical can't do. I soon realized this is the best calendar app I've seen, better than Fantastical in almost every other way (the exceptions being that it doesn't use natural language entry or show weather): I spend most time in the agenda view; it's the easiest for schedule and planning, but the mini-month view is also amazing, as you can read event titles. There's also a standard week-hour grid; fantastical has none. Also easier is duplicating events, through built-in copy and paste. Thus you hit the copy button. Go to your favorite calendar view, find the date you want, and paste (the app's own operation, on iOS. Also supported: drag and drop and other features. I emailed a question pre-purchase, and got a response within an hour, so support looks good. Highly recommended!Show lessAlpine Meadows
My Favorite & Most Used App!
After being frustrated and bored with iPhone's calendar app, I searched the App Store for a replacement. Found iCal and found the calendar I love! You are able to make each entry in different colors or assign color sets for better organization (ie: I have work-related one color, birthdays another, sports another, etc) and icons to add to the title. You can make calendar sets for frequently used appointments, work day, etc. Unlike the others who had trouble with the upgrade, I thankfully did not. I liked this app so much, I recommended it to the other nurses I work with. The only thing I would like to see changed (besides even more icons! 😜—a shopping cart, full length angel,...) is the ability to delete the holidays you do not observe—especially since you are paying extra for it and if it’s not a holiday you observe, why are you forced to have it on your calendar, not only that, but multiple times! Thank you for such a good app—love this calendar app!Show lesssicimamma
Great but Annoying
I got Week Calendar years ago when it was new. I love that it's tied to the built-in calendar and provides some better visuals, like more flexible time control for alerts, and of course the week view on my iPhone.
The problems are all related to the methods the developer uses to announce the "enhanced" version and make more money. When launching this app to view my calendar on my iPhone, it frequently tries to get me to buy the "Pro" version. I've looked at all the features and it generates ZERO interest for me. But that darn ad keeps popping up several times a week.
The BIG problem happened when that upgrade offer showed up as an alert on my Apple Watch when it woke me up at 4:50am!! RUDE!!!
There are a number of apps I've bought for a one-time fee of a few bucks, which I would gladly "tip" the developer another few bucks now and then to keep them in business. Week Calendar was one of thse until they turned into an ad-packed-annoying-alert app.Show less0000LB
Crippled app
What a disappointment. Not unlike many recently dissatisfied users, I have used this app for many, many years. Since the last two updates, (IOS and Weekcal), the app is all but useless as now you no longer receive alerts or notifications directly from Weekcal, only from the built-in calendar app which has its own longstanding shortcomings and is probably why we all upgrade to something else in the first place. After a few back-and-forth email messages to the developers, they eventually acknowledged the issue and said, “…we will forward this as a feedback and suggestion report to the development team for their review of the feature. We can't guarantee that you'll always see exactly what you're looking for, however, but we make every effort to provide the best possible experience for our users.” Really the only thing I want is for the app to work the way it did before, I don’t want any “features” just operability. If it were not for the years of good service this review might have taken a different tone, nevertheless it looks like it’s time to upgrade to a new app because as it stands this app is near useless without its previous ability to show alerts and notifications in a native form.Show lessJ007B-Mi6
Awesome app taken away!!
This app was good when I first purchased it several versions ago, but it has has evolved into one amazing tool! For the first time, I now have something which outdoes the DateBk4 I used to use on my Palm T3. It is easily worth more than the price. I can't believe how they managed to fit a the new Mini-month view into the display available—it's like they somehow managed to make the screen bigger (and I only have a 3GS without the Retina Display on the iPhone 4). The author(s) are to be congratulated on such a quality product that outdoes the Apple Calendar app. The only thing I wish it could do is show today's date on the icon like the Apple Calendar app (although Apple's probably uses undocumented/proprietary features to do so).Show lessdbhiebert
Tired of constant nags to upgrade
Updated review. This has been my go-to calendar app for years mainly because of the week layout and customization. But I’m so tired of the screen that pops up nagging me to subscribe before I can see my calendar. It really disrupts my workflow when I’m trying to open my calendar to, you know, USE my calendar. I don’t mind the option to subscribe for extra features but I don’t need more than the basic features and it’s extraordinarily aggravating to constantly have to dismiss popups before I can answer whether I’m available tomorrow at 2pm or what time my flight lands. If I ever find another calendar app with a usable week layout this is getting deleted.
Original review:
I bought this app ages ago when it was a one-time purchase, but then they moved to a (expensive!) subscription model and have been removing features from the free version bit by bit. Now there's another one-time purchase in the app store so I guess they're hoping to pull the same stunt all over again. After the latest update, my existing widget which I was happily using changed to tell me I have to subscribe to use it. It's very customizable, but has a few bugs, combined with the unethical behavior I'm not going to upgrade. I'm shopping for a new calendar app.Show lessNekoKat2501
Developer Response
Hello, the app is only supposed to show you the subscription upgrade screen 1x per week. Could you let us know if this is happening more often? ThanksFantastic- superior to Fantastical!
It's replaced Fantastical on my phone. I bought it to test for my wife, who needed an app that could search in specific date ranges, something that Fantastical can't do. I soon realized this is the best calendar app I've seen, better than Fantastical in almost every other way (the exceptions being that it doesn't use natural language entry or show weather): I spend most time in the agenda view; it's the easiest for schedule and planning, but the mini-month view is also amazing, as you can read event titles. There's also a standard week-hour grid; fantastical has none. Also easier is duplicating events, through built-in copy and paste. Thus you hit the copy button. Go to your favorite calendar view, find the date you want, and paste (the app's own operation, on iOS. Also supported: drag and drop and other features. I emailed a question pre-purchase, and got a response within an hour, so support looks good. Highly recommended!Show less
