# Ethiopian Calendar & Holidays — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Ethiopian Calendar & Holidays by Fekadesilassie Ayenew, rated 4.77/5 from 404 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ethiopian-calendar-and-holidays/id1588675742/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ethiopian-calendar-and-holidays/id1588675742.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 219 · 4★ 28 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Ethiopian Calendar & Holidays? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Clean and elegant design - 👍 User-friendly interface - 👍 Informative and detailed - 👍 Good dark mode - 👍 Free app with great value - 👍 Links with iPhone calendar - 👍 Includes fasting days and Abekte - 👍 Beautiful widgets - 👍 Modern and easy to use - 👍 Accurate and less ads - 👍 Great for Orthodox Tewahedo church - 👍 Includes Ge'ez language - 👍 Shows fasting periods - 👍 Includes Bahre Hasab - 👍 Supports latest iOS features like lock screen widgets - 👍 Helps reconnect with calendar and holiday schedule - 👍 Good for learning Amharic numbers **Cons** - 🐛 Ethiopian and Georgian calendars differ - 🐛 Bugs with Easter date calculation - 🐛 Widget not working for iOS 15 users - 🐛 App closes immediately on launch for some users - 🐛 Widget design is disappointing for non-Orthodox users - 🐛 No option for non-Orthodox users in widgets - 🐛 Font size correction not allowed - 🐛 Reminder frequency options limited **Commonly reported bugs** - Ethiopian and Georgian calendars differ starting from August - Easter date calculation incorrect, affecting fasting calendar sync - Widget may not work for iOS 15 users - App crashes immediately upon opening on iOS 15.4.1 - Widget design issues for non-Orthodox users **Most requested features** - Add recurring event setting - Synchronize with major US holidays - Include donation feature - Add Bible verses and palms from Gxawie - Add names of daily orthodox date names - Add details of daily holidays (e.g., የአመቱ በአል) - Add saints and angels holidays (e.g., Saint Arsema, Angel Michael) - Allow correction of font size by user - Add reminder frequency options (repeat date & end repeat/never) - Give the current date number a distinct color - Option to turn on/off Orthodox days in medium and large widgets - Create a decent keyboard app ## Newest reviews (13 of 42) ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-03-27, version 1.9* Great application! Easy to use ### 5/5 — Great Calendar by far!! *2025-03-07, version 1.8* I have no idea why people were giving low ratings. I have not found any clean calends so far. Give your feedbacks but don’t give low rates unless you had bad experience which I doubt it. I love everything this team/person is building. Took the time to design it really well and it’s FREE! It’s not an easy job. Kudos!!! Keep up the good work. And please include some kind of donation feature (if it’s not already there) so people can support if they wish to. Maybe Add-ons if possible: From Gxawie (ግጻዌ), the specific date bible versus and palms. ### 5/5 — The best Ethiopian Calendar app ever made! *2025-02-27* thank you to the developer of this app. much needed and clean work! ### 5/5 — Thank you ❤️ *2025-01-19, version 1.8* It’s a great app and it’s help me to reconnect with my calendar and my holiday schedule keep improving it thank you ### 5/5 — Finally Great Ethiopian Calendar App! *2024-11-29* I’ve been eagerly waiting for an Ethiopian calendar app like this, and it certainly doesn’t disappoint! The design is thoughtfully crafted, with a clean, intuitive interface that makes navigation effortless. You can tell a lot of care went into optimizing the user experience. Honestly, I would gladly pay for an app of this caliber. It's exactly what I’ve been searching for! **Developer response:** We’re thrilled the app meets your expectations—thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Very resourceful ET Cal *2024-09-28, version 1.8* This is by far the most complete Ethiopian calendar I have came across. It is easy to install. Love ❤️ the dark mode. Detail oriented. I can now see the Ethiopian holidays + fasting days (so 😎 , BTW) easily. Includes the Abekte. This shows the level of detail put in to develop this app. Hat’s off to the developer. Didn’t disappoint! ### 5/5 — Best Ethiopian orthodox calander *2024-08-15, version 1.6.1* I really recommend this app because of its beautiful widgets to giving you very nice information about your day specially for those who want to know when fasting starts in this kind of things.And it would be very nice if you also make a widget for Apple Watches. ### 5/5 — Best App ever *2024-05-13, version 1.6.1* I’ve always wanted to build one. You covered everything. Thank you!!! ### 5/5 — The absolute best Ethiopian calendar *2024-04-23* I love this app it is absolutely amazing beautiful and modern. I would suggest a feature that shows the holidays of the saints and angels such as saint Arsema and the angel Michael. **Developer response:** I’m excited to let you know that we’ve added the yearly holidays for saints and angels, including St. Arsema and the Archangel Michael! Thank you so much for your valuable feedback—it helps us keep improving the app! ### 5/5 — Awsome!!! *2024-02-28, version 1.5* Pretty amazing app! The details, the ease… it’s absolutely perfect! BIGGEST KUDOS to the creator!! Thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2024-02-13, version 1.4* It’s a perfect app for Orthodox Tewahdo church, with detail information- I love the ርኅወተ ሰማይ reminder. May God bless your hard work and pays you many folds. Thanks ### 5/5 — The best Ethiopian Calendar *2024-01-03, version 1.4* This is the best app I eagerly wanted to have. The app helps to see the date in Ethiopian @ Gregorian calendar. Having the date in one of the ancient languages Ge’ez is a huge add. The calendar has not only the four basic season of the year but also the fasting period of our true Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The ባሕረ ሀሳብ part is one of the uniqueness of this app. May the Almighty Lord bless you all who make this app into our hand!!! ### 5/5 — Amazing utility *2023-12-22, version 1.4* This is great app, the developer also keeps it updated with latest iOS features such as lock screen widgets 💙💙 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — It needs to improve *2025-08-11, version 2.2* I use this app every day. But the Ethiopian and the Georgian calendars differ starting from August. And this messed up my schedule. ### 2/5 — Design issues *2023-09-01, version 1.2* I came across your app while searching for an ethiopian calendar widget that displays just the date and some ethiopian holidays ( which can be turned off anytime). Your app widgets look more like an orthodox calendar, with no option for any non-orthodox. the closest you came in the widget is in the smaller widget where you tried to display the date as nehassie 21, 20... why the dot dot at the end? what kind of design is that? its just disapointing really. If you fix that and gave option to turn on/off the orthodox days thing in the medium and large widgets, I promise to give you five stars for your effort, and you will surely have more people to use your apps. ### 3/5 — Revise the app *2025-01-12, version 1.8* Generally it’s a useful tool. I like all the features especially about the EOTC feasts. Please revise the following: 1. Add & allow correction of font size by user. 2. Add & allow reminder frequency (repeat date & end repeat/never). Repeat date options: never, hourly, daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, yearly) ### 3/5 — Bug fix *2022-10-14, version 0.9* A person recommended this app for me and I downloaded it. However it immediately closes when I try to open it. I have IOS 15.4.1. ### 4/5 — Recurring Calender *2025-05-09, version 1.9* በየወሩ ወይንም በየሳምንቱ የሚደጋገም ካላንደር (recurring or repeated event set) ለመሙላት እንዲያስችል ይሁን ### 4/5 — Amazing calendar *2025-03-16, version 1.8* An amazing calendar app so far ,it is quite informative, occupies less data space, and user friendly. The only thing missed to synchronize the app with major holidays days of Us calendar. So that user can access the information easily at the same time. ### 4/5 — Almost Perfect *2025-02-09, version 1.8* This is one of the best Ethiopian calendars I have used on iPhone, but it would be perfect if you added the names of the daily orthodox date names to the app. Other than that, the app is perfect. ### 4/5 — Great *2024-11-09, version 1.8* Its so great, thank you for creating such calendar app. The best part is it can also link with iphone calendar. But can you please put on the days when its የአመቱ በአል። for example, ህዳር 12 የአመቱ ቅዱስ ሚካኤል plus details of that day holiday. ### 4/5 — Bugs *2024-04-16* This app is the most well designed and wonderful Ethiopian calendar I have even installed. However, this app has some bugs. When I try to look at the right date for Easter it says it’s on a Monday a week before and it pushes the fasting calendar out of its sync as each Sunday of Abiy tzom is on a Monday due to the bug. But other than that everything else is great. I just hope this bug can get fixed. **Developer response:** We are not able to reproduce the issue mentioned. If you can contact us email icon on "About us" (ያግኙን) page, we are more than happy to troubleshoot and address this. ### 4/5 — I love this *2023-11-12, version 1.4* I like everything about it, one comment I would advice to add is to put the holidays, and orthodox tsom, and beal. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ethiopian vision *2026-04-15, version 2.4* Excellent calendars ### 5/5 — An essential tool for embracing ትዋህዶ *2026-03-10, version 2.4* This is an incredibly well done and simple app. ### 5/5 — Best Ethiopian app I've seen! *2025-12-24, version 2.4* Clean, elegant and have many options to configure according to your desire! ### 5/5 — The best ever *2025-12-02, version 2.3* The best ever ### 5/5 — Colander *2025-11-15, version 2.3* Spectacular work ### 5/5 — An essential tool for embracing ትዋህዶ *2025-11-04, version 2.3* This is an incredibly well done and simple app. ### 5/5 — Nice *2025-09-03, version 2.2* Nice 👍 ### 5/5 — Best Ethiopian Calendar. *2025-07-20, version 2.1* So far I like. it has the best features and help you learn the Amharic number, also has more-functions. ### 5/5 — The best Ethiopian Calendar app by far! *2025-04-07, version 1.9* thank you to the developer of this app. much needed and clean work! Please create a decent keyboard app too. We’ll buy it. ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2025-03-27, version 1.9* It’s works seamlessly and have a beautiful dark mode. Thank you for the app. 👏👏👏 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-09.*