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With all the competition, weekcal is the best, BUT
Update 4: keep getting asked to upgrade but with bugs unfixed, hard to give another $100 for unlock. I see a catch 22 because they need money to fix the bug, but some kind of communication and commitment would be reassuring/encouraging.
Update 3: Please fix the add contact to an event function. Update 2: I stopped using this cal app. A few bugs that are just deal breakers. Disappointed but moving on. Built in calendar app in iOS 9.3 good enough, now. One star deducted for an OLD bug (on iPhone) not getting any attention. Press and hold on day view to create a new event and after a while (about 4 new events) the "new" doesn't show up, effectively breaking the press and hold to create a new event. I kill the app to get that function back. With all the calendar app competition, and I've checked out a bunch, I love this calendar app. When traveling, there is something really annoying and it is probably an IOS bug. When traveling to a different time zone, the times of all existing events are changed to reflect the new time zone. It really hurts if you enter an event with your flight time! I entered the location info in the event for my return flight (the city of departure), thinking IOS or weekcal would not alter the event time if I travel to that location. Not really. Luckily I haven't missed a flight.Show lessmacinspire
Developer Response
Hi there. We appreciate your feedback and we wanted to point you to one of our Help Center articles about Time Zone Settings that may help you with this issue: https://weekcal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9781961554075 Please contact us in the app through Settings > Provide Feedback if we can offer additional help.Update: Non-Existent App Support
I’ve tried almost every calendar out there, both free and paid. This one does everything it needs to do, has a few extra features that are worthwhile, and plays nicely with the native Apple calendar. Very nice. Amending my review because the calendar does not sync between apple devices. If you have an iPad or Mac, don’t expect to pay for one premium subscription and be able to use it on all your devices.
UPDATE: Non-existent support from developer. I had a problem, emailed the supposed support and immediately got a survey asking how good the support had been—- a neat trick, since I had at that time not been contacted with a solution. In fact, I never heard from the app support and have concluded they must not have any. Beware— this is an app that has enough users and there is no support as I suppose they are just letting everything proceed on autopilot. DO not spend your money on the premium version.Show lessKswl
Stop the ads pop-ups, please
It's a good set of functionality, reasonable if somewhat dated UI design. But the maker keeps annoying long-time paid users with alert notifications for advertising after each update.
I paid for the app years ago, before subscriptions. After some bad decision making by the developer early in the subscription era, the developer now allows us to continue to use what we already paid for. But every latest update it seems that I get pop-ups and alerts advertising for a paid upgrade for extra functionality that I neither need nor want.
After more than a week of back and forth with support, they finally told me how to turn off the ads. Hopefully they will remain off.
I had emailed to ask about how to fix my problem. The initial reply was not at all responsive to my question, but a generic boilerplate blurb about "the best experience on all supported platforms". Popping up ads for something that I already paid for is not "the best experience". Eventually they suggested to turn off notifications and reboot. Tried that on multiple devices, same problem kept occurring until they escalated the case and finally make a positive suggestion.
Bottom line: I like the app, but developer and support policy and procedure could be better.Show lessDnheller
Constant ads in purchased app
I’ve already paid for this app yet they keep giving me ads for their “pro” nonsense that no one wants and they think I’m going to pay even more money for a subscription. NO! This used to be the best calendar app but with all these ads, I can no longer recommend it. Also the latest version of the app is now sending useless push notifications, almost like tips saying “download the app on all your devices” and “check out this feature” but they serve no purpose other then annoy me. There is no way to stop them without disabling all notifications all together. This app just keeps getting worse and worse. The develops need to understand we don’t need tons of new “features” and changes. We just need the basics we’ve already paid for to keep working the same way they always have been.Show lessScott👨💻
Poor Mac iOS integration and terrible desktop app
This is an OK program and when it works it does it OK but the only one that is reliable is the one on my phone as all of my appointments from email get easily put into the WeekCal program. However the sync is terrible And no one can figure out why my new iPhone will not sync with my new iMac by directionally. If I put something into iCal it goes into my WeekCal no problem but not in reverse and I’m always paranoid about not having the most up-to-date appointments And ultimately there is no security with this program that you might miss appointments.I’m constantly having to manually put into iCal my WeekCal appointments so I don’t have them. All I wanted to do was sync normally Most importantly tech-support is completely useless and they basically respond with one sentence and refer you to after six year old help files which are completely out of date and not appropriateShow lessFixthisasap
Makes scheduling easy!
I’ve never been the type to schedule anything because of my ADD and I suffered because of it in college. I always did things late or I would completely forget I even had plans/deadlines. This is the first app that makes it so easy to schedule because it lays out your whole week right in front of you (if you prefer that layout) so I don’t only see what I have going on today, but the entire week. Not only that, they let you pick different colors for your events and they even let you save them as a reference in case you use them again. Talk about efficiency and convenience! This is the most reliable and consistent I’ve been in my entire life. I will use this app for as long as they let me.Show lessSsydthesquid
Thanks for fixing it
Issues below have been resolved and the app is both working fine and not throwing up adverts for paid features I do not want. Thank you. I would give 5 stars for the app, but have deducted 1 for the unnecessary recent headache below…
I used this App extensively as it was much more useful / powerful than the native iOS calendar, but sadly it feels like the accountants have been put on a bonus scheme and placed in charge. Despite having the ‘Paid’ version, I started (end ‘21) to get frequent full screen adverts for additional features that I would never want - very annoying, and no option to click ‘Do not show me this again’. To add to the insult, the recent Jan ‘22 update has made the ‘mini month’ view, which I rely on, unusable. Upon opening the app ‘Today’s Date’ is hidden above the opening screen so you have to swipe down to get to today and, much more seriously, tapping on an entry now does nothing; so it is impossible within the mini month view to actually view or edit an entry. I was happy to pay for a good product, I don’t need annoying pop up ads or ‘upgrades’ that make it unusable. Please please fix it and put the engineers back in charge.Show lessHB197612
Developer Response
Hi there. We appreciate your feedback. You should see the occasional ad for the newer features, but they shouldn’t be frequent and we’re currently investigating that. We’d also like to get more information about the mini-month issue you’re experiencing. Could you please contact us in the app through Settings > Help Section >Provide Feedback?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
Great app that’s been my go-to calendar
So, I’ve been a WeekCalendar user for a LONG time. I bought the app way back when it was $1.99 or $2.99 or something, before it went free with subscription and IAP support. While I’m a little sad to be bothered by requests to partake in such things, I can’t deny the software authors the right to try and keep a great product generating revenue, and this is a great product (and the IAP is a little less ever-present now than it once was in the latest release). While Apple has added some great new features to their own iOS calendar, WeekCalendar still has the best means of interacting with data a week at a time, and using it has been easy. It integrates very well with both the iOS calendar and Google calendar. If there is a complaint to be had it is that it leans quite heavily on Apple’s own Calendar app to provide some of the core functionality. Week Calendar builds on it but cannot fully supplant it. All part of Apple’s plan, perhaps?
Update: the push to subscribe and unlock features has become more aggressive again, and I don’t need any of those functions. Were the basic free features (that I once paid for) a little less overshadowed by the pressure to buy a subscription (which many of us don’t need) I think I’d stick with it, but at this point in time Week Calendar doesn’t do enough for my basic needs to make it worth putting up with the constant proportion. So long and thanks for all the fish.Show lessCleveNoob
Developer Response
Hello! Thanks for sharing your feedback! We're sorry for the Pro banner keeps on popping up. We'll take note of this for further review. Thanks again!Very disappointing customer service.
I’ve had this app for years and have enjoyed it but for almost a year now, when I use list mode and try to scroll forward or backward a day or two, the app hyper-scrolls uncontrollably- sometimes back a year or two! Then you either have to manually scroll back and hope you don’t overshoot or find a a way to manually enter the actual date. Sounds trivial but beyond annoying rendering this thing useless. I have contacted customer support at least a half dozen times and was told everything from “it’ll be fixed on the next update”, “you have an old version, update to the new one”, or “switch modes to monthly instead of list and it should help.” Are you kidding me? My version has been updated several times. The app is not useful to me in month mode. And this bug was never fixed or addressed AT ALL during ANY of the updates. Great lack of customer service here. Will have to go thru the trouble of trying to transfer all of my info to a different app that actually works with customer service who actually address the problem, after all these years. Such a shame.Show less:-)!
Developer Response
Hello, we are sorry to hear that there were features that were not working for you. This is already a known issue but rest assured that the developers are working hard to fix this issue. Thanks!
