Howbout Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience42.6% of reviews
Neutral7.2% of reviews
Negative experience50.3% of reviews

~ Based on 1,090 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Howbout

Is Howbout Safe?

Howbout: shared calendar appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Howbout is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 50,385 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 50,385 App Store ratings for Howbout.

Is Howbout Legit?

Howbout: shared calendar appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Howbout is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

App

Good app for friends and family to share what’s going on. I’ve had it for 3 years and it’s been my favorite app (calendar wise)

Hate the Update!!

I’m paying for the subscription and before the update, I was able to customize all my events with many different color options. Now that I updated the app, I only have an option of about eight colors, and they already become pre-labeled so all my events end up being the same color!!!

AMAZING APP

Downloaded this in support for danibabes but the app is really convenient and love it definitely recommend it’s not riddled with obnoxious ads either like every other app like this

Features gone

I’ve been using this app since 2024 and they took all the features away. Nothings for free, Deleting ASAP

Peak app but I’m too broke for premium

I use this for everything and it makes creating plans with friends super easy. It was a little tricky getting friends hooked on the app tho, so good luck.

Organisation

Me and all my friends use daily and it organises things in a way my brain loves

Bro

Maybe it would’ve been nice if it actually LET ME INTO THE APP. Why do I need a friend just to be able to access the app that’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard of. Not only that when someone does add you it just blatantly doesn’t even work.

won’t let me unlock the app

Was the last friend to join the app and it wouldn’t let me in until I shared the link and got someone else to download I HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO INVITE so now I’m just a loser who can’t get the app

Helps connect

me and my friends have VERY busy schedules and this helps us find free days where we can all hang out and make plans!

Hate the update

I hate the update! It forces you to pay just so you can categorize (by color) your schedule. When did you guys get so greedy?

Recent update

They ruined my color coding. The forced categories is so frustrating, I can’t even pic which ones I want.
I’ve been recommending this app forever and I won’t anymore if this doesn’t change. Very disappointed they haven’t done anything about people’s frustration with this yet.

BRING TO LAPTOPS/PC’s

This is my absolute favorite calendar app to use, all of my friends are on it with me and it helps me keep track of literally everything. The only thing i would ask for is to bring it to apple laptop/pc devices and more. i’m on my laptop a lot and feel it would be so convenient.

Amazing app, but..

I’ve used this app for all of my events probably for 4 or more years now. I’ve loved it so much and it made scheduling so easy. Now the reason I took a star away, I went on the app today to add an event, and saw all of my events were gray. Last time the app updated, the same thing happened and I went through and individually recolored every event for about an hour. As a dancer who’s on a school dance team and a dance company, color coding helped me so much because different colors meant different things and places. I also had different colors for birthdays, dinners, school events, now everything’s gray. I didn’t mind going through and recoloring last time, but now that isn’t even an option and all of the set options don’t have every event that I need, and I’d also have to pay to customize and create events? It might be time to go back to a normal planner where I can color code my things for no cost.
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Paywall

Seems like a good concept too bad a good majority of the features are locked behind a pay wall.

😛

Literally love this app sm. <3 as a freshman in college this has helped me out so much with keeping track of my schedule, homework, and so much more. no words i js love it

Loss of colours is terrible

I’ve loved this app, but saw after a recent update I’ve lost all of my colour coding - things that took ages to enter and sort. Horrible update, won’t be using any more

the BEST calendar app.

nuff said 😌💋

New update

What’s will the new update and having to pay now… You’re being too greedy don’t you think? You were doing just great before and everyone was enjoying your app. Now watch as less people start to download it.

This is disappointing

When i first started using this app it was so nice and easy to use and now that i updated it, you have to pay for almost everything now. Its annoying to be limited on most of the things. Its honestly unnecessary to do all of this. Now i have to find another app that i don't have to pay for.

Disappointing Update

This app was amazing when I first started using it a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, a recent update changed the way organising your calendar works. I used to colour code my calendar without issue, having 8 or 9 colours memorised as to what type of activity they represent. Now, you have to choose a category instead, and have access to only 5 free default categories. To create your own, or use the 10 other default categories, you have to pay for Howbout+. If you don’t use the categories, you can’t colour code your events. Even if you do pay, you’ll need to edit all of your planned events again to categorise them, essentially meaning you need to pay just to be given new admin work to do. That’s how to turn a 5 star app into a 1 star app with one money grabbing update.
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