# Calflow: Planner & Tracker — user reviews

> 91 indexed App Store user reviews of Calflow by Kyovan Ltd., rated 4.90/5 from 121 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calflow-planner-and-tracker/id6474122188/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calflow-planner-and-tracker/id6474122188.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 115 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1

## What do users think of Calflow?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- ⏱️ Excellent time tracking with automatic logging
- 📱 Seamless cross-device synchronization (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch)
- 📅 Perfect integration with Apple Calendar and Reminders
- 🎯 Comprehensive goal-setting and insights features
- 🧩 Simple, intuitive user interface with low friction
- ⚡ Fast widget functionality for quick time tracking
- 💰 Reasonable lifetime pricing ($25 USD)
- 🎨 Beautiful, visually appealing design
- 🤖 Automation features for app usage tracking
- 📊 Detailed analytics and time insights by tags and categories
- ✨ No aggressive upselling or subscription pressure
- 🔄 Automatic task completion and calendar syncing

**Cons**

- 🐛 Timer synchronization issues across devices
- 🐛 Confusing insights calculation (double-counting existing calendar events)
- 🐛 Apple Watch complications not fully functional
- 🌙 No dark mode support
- 📱 iPad lacks some features available on iPhone
- ⚙️ Complex initial setup and configuration
- 🔔 Limited notification and reminder capabilities
- 🎯 Goals feature limited to daily/weekly/monthly cadence only
- 🖥️ Mac version lacks full feature parity with mobile
- 📊 Confusing separation between calendar events and timer tracking
- 🔗 Forced integration with Calendar/Reminders can feel restrictive
- 💬 Slow or non-responsive customer support

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Timer doesn't sync across devices (iPhone to iPad/Mac)
- Live Activity not showing on iPad when timer active
- Apple Watch timers not accessible on other devices
- Widget display showing only black and white screen
- Insights double-counting time on existing calendar events
- Goals feature sometimes fails to record correctly
- iPad reminders list not syncing with iPhone
- Timer in notification center and widget not syncing
- iPad doesn't show timer notifications in notification center
- Apple Watch connectivity issues after paid subscription activation
- Mac and iPad timer not showing when started on iPhone

**Most requested features**

- Dark mode support
- Mac menu bar timer widget
- Multiple simultaneous timers on iPhone
- Larger font size options
- Ability to copy and paste calendar events
- Custom goal cadences (not just daily/weekly/monthly)
- Daily focus note area (like weekly focus)
- Hashtag support in notes for better app integration
- Apple Watch complications
- Faster widget refresh rates
- Drag and drop support for weekly plans
- Collaboration/sharing features
- Data export to CSV/Excel format
- URL field for events and tasks
- Callback URL support
- Notification/reminder alerts for events
- Milestone and skill tree features
- Import data from other time tracking apps
- Japanese language support
- Custom day start time for analytics
- Notebook/note-taking integration
- Customizable todo background colors
- Reminders list and tags binding
- Mac automation scheduling
- Website usage tracking on Mac
- Ambient sounds and tick sounds for focus mode
- Collaborative task management

## Newest reviews (17 of 91)

### 5/5 — Great app

*2025-10-24, version 2.5.5*

Very good for task organization, sync well with apple

### 4/5 — 希望能优化添加未计时事件的入口

*2025-10-20*

mac端闪退较多, 其次是添加未计时事件是我最常用的功能,现在功能入口埋到了今天的回顾的二级页的右上角, 更新后好几次没找到, 建议把tab移会“今天“的右上角, 或者把回顾页单独放出来

### 5/5 — Amazing Tracking & Understanding My Day

*2025-10-10, version 2.5.5*

I have been trying for a long time to better manage my time, and failed spectacularly. However, this app has been AMAZING. It’s the first app I’ve actually manage to regularly use. It is working seamlessly between my iPhone/iPad/Mac, I’m honestly so impressed. I find the whole user experience is very low-friction, I don’t have to install other things, the UI is simple, and the fast tracking widgets are genuinely useful. I also really appreciate the lack of upselling and trying to squeeze out subscriptions. I didn’t even notice the paid features for a few months of use, and I am very happy to pay for the additional analyses. I have never been one to keep on top of tracking and planning, but this has managed to make me understand how I spend my time, and I think it might be my favorite app! Thank you so much!!

### 5/5 — 實用🌟

*2025-09-26, version 2.5.5*

難得遇到能把碎片時間也記錄下來的軟體！很好用。
希望可以讓提醒事項列表和標籤綁在一起，這樣每次小工具快捷計時就不用再操作了。

### 5/5 — 真的很棒

*2025-09-23, version 2.5.5*

可以搭配蘋果原生app真的很讚👍🏻而且同步都不會卡頓，功能也優化的越來越好！

作爲一個大P人，這種任務盒的工作方式及紀錄方式真的很幫助我。推薦給所有P人❤️

### 5/5 — Widget Function is easy to use

*2025-09-22*

I always want a software to log my life with one click and the widget has successfully helped me to do so. With one click it will start timing and another one click it will finish the timing and log an event on my calendar. I review how much time I spent on each category every day. This is my dream function!!!

### 4/5 — Pretty Solid

*2025-09-17*

Only thing that doesn’t quite line up for me is the goals feature. Quite often my goals will have things to complete on a different cadence and the current implementation forces a choice between daily, weekly and monthly.

### 5/5 — 。

*2025-09-17, version 2.5.5*

希望todo可以自行選擇要背景色還是只有圈圈的地方有顏色

### 4/5 — Mac上能新增自動化排程的功能嗎？

*2025-09-11, version 2.5.4*

希望Mac上能有更豐富的功能，能像手機紀錄使用app的時間外，更希望能透過網址機率在電腦上花費的時間

### 4/5 — Can you add “copy and paste” function?

*2025-09-08, version 2.5.2*

Can you add long press “copy and paste”function for calendar events?

### 5/5 — 小组件崩掉了

*2025-09-03, version 2.5.2*

手机上小组件突然只有黑白屏了

### 5/5 — Love this app

*2025-09-02, version 2.5.2*

Cut lots of time for me to track my daily life

### 5/5 — 認真很好用！

*2025-09-02, version 2.5.2*

因為太好用了，所以我就來評論了🤣 很方便每天記錄行程、同步日曆 ，現在Mac也能同步！
只可惜目標的功能有時候無法正常紀錄～

### 5/5 — 謝謝團隊!

*2025-08-22, version 2.5.1*

目前反饋了兩次使用上遇到的問題，感謝團隊真的有針對兩次的問題做出改善!真的是非常用心!會繼續支持🥰推薦給喜歡把事情安排妥當才安心的J人😆

### 5/5 — 好用！

*2025-08-20, version 2.5.1*

反馈两个小小问题：
1. 希望 Mac 端计时的时候可以同步在手机上也显示计时中
2. 周计划可以拖动
3. 周重点+复盘可以同步到日历

### 5/5 — 🌟希望可以新增拖曳移動

*2025-08-15, version 2.2.5*

Calflow很實用，雖然初期設定有點難度，但使用後對於觀察時間有很大的幫助

### 5/5 — 符合我所有要求的時間紀錄app

*2025-08-05, version 2.2.5*

希望加上閃念日記，highlight 當日的wins,或者寫下想法。
import 之前的data, 比如從其他同類app紀錄，無痛轉換。
可以將目標分成milestone, task, 點亮技能樹。
技能同task, habit, sync ,可以更直觀看到自己的進步。

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 問問題不會有回覆 要買的自己考慮吧

*2025-06-04, version 2.1.9*

問問題不會有回覆 要買的自己考慮吧

### 1/5 — Good but more needed

*2025-03-06*

It’s an amazing app for my phone but it being connected to remind where I can’t connect my reminders from my phone to my iPad which makes certain this hard, I rather look at my iPad to see what my plan for today is more so this to actually check my phone with it being small only to go to my iPad to see something completely different. On my phone 5 out of 5 & in I pad 1 out of 5

### 1/5 — Annoying

*2024-12-23, version 2.0.0*

It must link with the calender and reminder app which is so annoying.

### 1/5 — APPLE WATCH不能連動

*2024-10-30, version 1.7.5*

WATCH試用幾天能連動，買了終身會員！正式會員用一個月WATCH突然不能用了、客服回答APPLEWATCH沒有小工具。那之前我用的是什麼？客服連自己家的產品都不清楚！

### 2/5 — 做不到同步多设备的话取代不了苹果自带的

*2024-05-10*

目前来看UI体验也不好
当然你们会成长
但是在给用户良好体验之前就开始收费说实话很难留住人

### 3/5 — In progress

*2026-07-15*

Let’s be honest. This app has huge potential, integrating with Apple Calendar and Apple Reminders in ways I’ve never seen before. 

They are updating the app regularly, 16 times in the last 11 months, since the release of 2.5.0.

But, there’s a lot of work to do on the documentation and support front at least, as it’s not very clear how to use all of its features. There is no in app Help. They have a Notion based support page which seems quite dated. Ditto re their Instagram page. 

Here’s to hoping this evolves quickly and they find the time to move this forward, as it really does seem to have great potential.

### 3/5 — 我上次画了很多时间做的新标签，这次登陆一看发现都不见了，只有老标签，有没有办法恢复我要昏厥过去了

*2025-11-23*

我上次画了很多时间做的新标签，这次登陆一看发现都不见了，只有老标签，有没有办法恢复我要昏厥过去了

**Developer response:** 你好，是不是iCloud或者存储满了，可以通过邮件联系我们，app内有邮件地址，我们看看是什么原因，是否能帮你恢复

### 3/5 — Confusing: Calendar vs. Reminder Time Spent??

*2025-09-09*

At first, I thought this would be something awesome to work with…. Don’t get me wrong: It’s a beautiful, and well-constructed app with no bugs thus far that I could see, but as I went through this, I noticed a couple of things:

1) Timer Syncing: When you activate a timer on a device, say, like the iPhone, I like that it starts and shows a Focus screen. It also initiates a Live Activity on the Apple Watch. However, this timer does not synchronize towards the other devices, such as the Mac and iPad, nor does a Live Activity initiate on the iPad. When using timer-based apps, at the very least, all the devices need to be showing the timer and Live Activity simultaneously when using the app to focus on a task or event….

2) Insights: This is incredibly confusing. First off, when you activate your iCloud account to show your existing calendar events, it shows those correctly; however, when you spend time on an event or reminder, those events/reminders automatically sync over to your existing calendar. So, for instance: I have a work event that goes from 12:00pm - 1:00pm. In the Insights area, it shows 1 hour correctly. However, when you actually activate a timer pertaining to that particular event, Calflow automatically shows ADDITIONAL time spent on the event, so in other words, when I spend 20 minutes on an existing 1 hour event, the Insights area shows that I actually spent 1 hour and 20 minutes on the event, when in actuality, I spent only 20 minutes on it… That is incredibly annoying and confusing when it comes to accurately tracking time, well, over time…

3) When I look at the Tags, that makes everything even more confusing. I don’t see how the Tags area within the Insights tab can be all the more useful when the Calendar area is already showing confusing information….

4) Apple Watch Track Timers: These don’t show up in the Mac, iPhone and iPad apps for accessibility purposes. In other words, you can only access the track timers, such as "Eat," or "Go Shopping" ONLY on the Watch app, which basically makes them useless elsewhere. If I wanted to start this timer on the Mac, where is it?…

All in all: I can’t use this app due to the above dynamics in play. The makers of Calflow need redesign the app to separate the Calendar events from the Timers. In other words, 1) I should see my existing calendar events as usual in the "Morning," "Afternoon," and "Evening" areas of the Today tab; 2) I still should see the existing Reminders below them as well (albeit with manual order initiated if possible!!!), however, when it comes to spending time on things, the list of those items need to be shown ONLY in the Insights area. The Calendar event timeframes should NOT be shown in the Insights area unless the user has spent time on them (makes sense???)…

Aside from that, the app shows immense promise. It just needs to be thought through some more, and the above dynamics are things that I highly recommend so that the app can be much more useful. But as of now, I can’t use it in its current state.

### 3/5 — hope

*2025-07-05, version 2.2.3*

please japanese mode...

### 3/5 — Questionable pricing

*2024-06-04*

The price for 1-year subscription in US App Store is quite close to that in Chinese App Store, but the price for lifetime subscription in US App Store, which is $25 as of 6/5/2024, is 3 times of the price in Chinese App Store. A fair and reasonable price for lifetime subscription in US App Store would be $10.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — love it

*2026-07-18, version 2.5.16*

everything I need，Thank you

### 5/5 — Calflow

*2026-04-13*

非常好，各种维度都有照顾到，已经非常全面了。

### 5/5 — 很好用

*2026-02-22*

配合快捷指令，可以极大的提升个人时间管理的效率

### 5/5 — The best time track app

*2026-02-04*

Really helpful and handy, keeping core functions with simple UX is the reason that beat other time management apps.

### 5/5 — 如果可以给每个时间段进行心情打分就更好了

*2025-12-27*

如题

### 5/5 — 能单个功能单卖就好了

*2025-12-04*

如题，我只需要收费功能中周，月，年视图，其他都不需要，如果这个功能能单独便宜一些，永久使用就好了。的图片。

### 5/5 — Great app

*2025-11-22, version 2.5.7*

Really helps on track the spending of my time. It will be great function like notebook/ small note can be add

### 5/5 — Time tracking made easy

*2025-11-07*

I have always loved tracking different things on my life and this app pulls it all together. Setting up automations that track time spent in apps as well as syncing everything in the calendars has been just what I’ve wanted. The goals feature is great too to be able to easily see where things are working and where changes might be necessary. So far this is the best app I’ve found for comprehensive tracking.

### 5/5 — 超好用

*2025-10-30, version 2.5.7*

我非常喜歡這個app 幫了我大忙如果，非常推薦

### 5/5 — 希望计时器能上 mac 菜单栏

*2025-10-29, version 2.5.7*

整体来说还是非常好用的，希望计时器能上菜单栏

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