Raindrop.io vs Catendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raindrop.io
Save and organize web content like articles, photos, and videos from any app. Create custom collections with unique icons and visuals for easy retrieval. Share your curated content with others or collaborate privately.
- Clip articles, photos, and videos
- Organize bookmarks into collections
- Tag and customize collections
- Share collections publicly or privately
- Sync across all devices
- Import bookmarks from other services
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Manage bookmarks, highlights, annotations and tabs. Save Anything from the Web Clip articles, photos, videos, PDFs and pages from the web and apps. Organize with Ease Thematic collections, suggested tags and custom filters. Sort items by date, title, site or manually by drag'n'drop. Full-Text Search & Permanent Library Entire content of every web-page and PDF that you’ve saved is fully searchable. Even if a page you’ve saved is taken down, you’ll still have a copy of it. For Teams and Individuals Enable access to your collection by team members or entire web. Permissions let you control who can access each of your collections. Take Your Bookmarks Everywhere Securely access the bookmarks you’ve saved in from anywhere — even outside of the browser. Extension for all popular browsers. Apps for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. More than 2,600 integrations and programatic access through API. Private by Default Your privacy comes first. We keep your data safe, never sold. 256-bit encryption protects you while syncing. No tracking or intrusive advertising. 13 years in a business. Privacy Policy: https://help.raindrop.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://help.raindrop.io/terms
Catendar
Easily import calendar events from various sources, including .ics files, screenshots, and copied text, directly into your Apple Calendar. This app streamlines event creation by extracting details and allowing review before saving, even offering AI assistance for file repair.
- Import .ics files from various apps
- Convert screenshots and flyers to events
- Extract details from PDFs and HTML
- Paste text to create calendar entries
- AI assistance for file repair
- Review events before saving
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Catendar helps you turn calendar files and event details into Apple Calendar events without retyping everything by hand. Open an .ics file from Files, Mail, or another app, review the event details, choose a calendar, and save. When the source is not a clean calendar file, Catendar can help extract event details from PDFs, HTML files, screenshots, flyers, or copied text, then prepare an importable calendar event. What you can do - Add .ics invites from Files, Mail, and other apps - Turn screenshots and flyers into calendar events - Extract event details from PDF, HTML, and more - Paste copied event text and create calendar entries - Chat with AI for calendar file repair and extraction - Review before saving to your chosen calendar Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Catendar at 5.0 against Raindrop.io's 4.5. Catendar also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%). Raindrop.io's advantage is ratings volume (420 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Raindrop.io sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Catendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Catendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raindrop.io has 420 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of Raindrop.io's written reviews are positive against 100% of Catendar's.
Raindrop.io ships an update every 3 weeks, Catendar every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Raindrop.io | Catendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (420 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 420 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rustem Mussabekov | Codingmiao PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
Raindrop.io
Catendar
Bugs and requests
Raindrop.io
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to edit or delete bookmarks
- Inconsistent behavior across platforms
- Sharing and collaboration features not working as expected
- Slow or unreliable sync between devices
- Frequent crashes and freezes, especially on iOS
Requested features
5 requests- Offline support and local file storage
- Improved search with full-text indexing
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Nested folder structure for better organization
- Widgets and home screen integration
Catendar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Raindrop.io
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$27.991 Year
- PRO 1 month$2.99
- PRO 3 month$8.99
- PRO 1 year$27.99
Catendar
- Feed the cat$1.991 Month
- Buy a coffee$4.99
