Comparison

Calendar vs Weekly Planner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Calendar

Organize your entire schedule in one place. View events from multiple accounts, manage tasks, and plan gatherings with others. Stay on top of appointments, holidays, and birthdays with customizable views and shared calendars.

Highlights
  • Unified schedule view
  • Event creation and editing
  • Task management integration
  • Calendar sharing
  • Multiple calendar support
  • Customizable views
Features
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Calendar Plan your time, and coordinate with others using the Calendar app. See a holistic view of your schedule with events from all your different calendar accounts, alongside reminders, holidays, birthdays and subscription calendars. Invite others to events, respond to invitations, or share entire calendars to make plans with colleagues, family, and friends. Your Complete Schedule Keep track of all your events from different calendar accounts together in the Calendar app. Connect accounts from iCloud, Exchange, Google and others. Organize your events using multiple calendars with different colors. And view all your events alongside each other in List, Day, Week or Month views. Event Planning Create and edit events, appointments, and meetings. Add an alert to be reminded of an event, a location to receive a notification when it’s time to leave, a link to a video call to quickly connect, related attachments, notes and more. Easily send and receive events through invitations using iCloud, Exchange and other calendar accounts. Reminders in Calendar Manage your tasks easily with reminders. Create, view, edit and complete reminders from the Reminders app right alongside all your other meetings and appointments in the Calendar app. Shared Calendars Share an iCloud calendar with family, colleagues or friends. They can easily see events, add more events, receive alerts, or make changes to the calendar. Even More Calendars Add other calendars to keep track of even more events. Holiday Calendars show up-to-date information about global holidays. See contacts’ birthdays with the Birthdays calendar. Events recognized by Siri in apps like Mail appear in the Siri Suggestions calendar. And you can even subscribe to calendars for your favorites sports teams, TV shows and more from the web.

About

Weekly Planner

Organize your life with a simple, visual weekly planner. Easily add appointments, to-do lists, and recurring events. Enjoy a minimalist approach to tracking tasks and priorities, similar to a paper planner but digital.

Highlights
  • Visual weekly calendar
  • To-do list creation
  • Add appointments and tasks
  • Recurring event scheduling
  • Notes section
  • Task completion checkmarks
  • Past and future event review
Features
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Get organized with our simple Weekly Planner. Plan your life a week at a time and turn the page to schedule the following week. Add appointments, to-do lists, tasks, and recurring events. Miss the ease of paper planners and calendars? You’ll love this digital version. We created Weekly Planner - Diary, Notes for people frustrated by visiting multiple screens to write down an appointment or task. It’s for individuals who don’t have the time or want to add endless details about each task or appointment. They need an effortless way to see and record to-dos and events. Open Weekly Planner and you’ll immediately see the current week. You can instantly add items to your Calendar or go to your Notes page with one tap on the Notes icon. When you finish a task, add a check. Weekly Planner allows you to record events weeks and years in advance. You can also review your past events. If you prefer a focused, minimalist approach to organizing your life and work, Weekly Planner - Diary, Notes app is for you. Don’t search for paper refills for your old planner! Learn to use Weekly Planner today and easily track your tasks, appointments, goals, and priorities. Get started You can start with a FREE version or with a 7-day free trial of Weekly Planner's PRO version. After 7 days, you can purchase the PRO version for $5.99, if you wish. Use it for a lifetime with no monthly or annual subscription fees. Or use the FREE version as long as you like. The purchase screen will always show you the difference between FREE and PRO. PRO Features Optional password lock protection Synchronize Weekly Planner with iCloud, Google Cloud, and other devices Save manually or automatically Save versions for printing in customizable PDFs Create recurring events happening daily, weekly, monthly, or annually Create recurring events on exact dates-keep track of birthdays and anniversaries Search events and entries Copy, paste, and move entries Customization options available in PRO settings Set Sunday, Monday or any other day as the first day of the week Select a one-day, two-day, four-day, or weekly view Select from your choice of app icons Select a page design Select font size and color Additional designs are available as in-app purchases. Contact us for help or support or to share suggestions for improving Weekly Planner at appweeklyplanner@gmail.com. Standard Apple LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT applies to this app: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Calendar3 screens
Weekly Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calendar at none against Weekly Planner's 11. Calendar also leads on ratings volume (1.5M vs 15K) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Weekly Planner's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 37%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Weekly Planner sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar has 1.5M ratings behind it against 15K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of Calendar's written reviews are positive against 70% of Weekly Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar ships an update every 4 months, Weekly Planner every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Calendar versus Weekly Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendarWeekly Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.5M ratings) — better4.7 (15K ratings)
Positive reviews36.8% of reviews69.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5M — better15K
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB1.7 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiTunes K.K.Digital Legal Tech

Customer experience

Calendar

All ratings1,514,779 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews3,285 reviews
Positive36.8%
Neutral13.6%
Negative49.6%

Weekly Planner

All ratings15,140 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews1,787 reviews
Positive69.9%
Neutral7.3%
Negative22.8%

User reviews

Calendar

From 1.5M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Essential app for staying organized
  • 👍 Clean, intuitive, and easy to navigate
  • 🔒 Seamless sync across devices
  • 👍 Helpful integration with other apps
  • 👍 Ability to set multiple alerts, share events, and color-code calendars

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Autofill suggestions overwrite event time
  • 🔍 Search function not reliable
  • 🔍 Inability to delete past/declined events
  • 🔍 Confusing interface, cluttered month view
  • 🔍 Lack of customization options for alerts and reminders

Weekly Planner

From 15K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple and easy to use
  • 👍 Straightforward weekly layout
  • 🚀 Intuitive interface
  • 👍 Resembles a physical planner
  • 🚀 Convenient digital format

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Recurring events can be buggy
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality
  • 🔍 Limited sync and backup options
  • 🔍 No ability to cross off completed tasks
  • 🔍 Inability to change text color for different events

Bugs and requests

Calendar

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Time zones not handled properly, causing appointment time issues
  • Recurring events not deleted properly
  • Inability to delete events, leading to a cluttered calendar
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Search function not working as expected

Requested features

9 requests
  • Attachment option to add files, photos, PDFs, etc. to events
  • Integration with Reminders app to schedule and view tasks
  • Week view in portrait mode
  • Option to select which reminder lists show in the calendar
  • Openings and proposals feature
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  • Ability to change colors of individual events
  • Cash flow diary to track expenses/income
  • Monthly calendar view
  • Ability to highlight the entire week with a color

Weekly Planner

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recurring events sometimes disappear or duplicate
  • Occasional data loss or entries not saving properly
  • Syncing issues between devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add recurring events with end dates
  • Implement a calendar view and search function
  • Provide automatic iCloud/cloud sync between devices
  • Include a checkbox or strikethrough option for completed tasks
  • Allow custom text colors for different event types
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  • Support for Apple Pencil and handwriting input

In-app purchases

None

Calendar

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Weekly Planner

Subscriptions2
  • PREMIUM 1 month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • PREMIUM 1 year7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time8
  • Textures (lifetime)$1.99
  • Holiday designs (lifetime)2 variants$1.99
  • 3D Shapes (lifetime)$1.99
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  • Gradients (lifetime)$1.99
  • Art Lines (lifetime)$1.99
  • Weekly Planner PRO (lifetime)$6.99
  • PREMIUM for PRO (lifetime)$11.99
  • PREMIUM (lifetime)$23.99

Questions

Is Calendar free?
Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Weekly Planner free?
Weekly Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calendar or Weekly Planner?
Calendar is rated higher. Calendar averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.5M ratings, while Weekly Planner averages 4.7 from 15K ratings.
Do Calendar or Weekly Planner have ads?
Neither Calendar nor Weekly Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar or Weekly Planner?
Calendar ships an update every 4 months, and Weekly Planner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Calendar was updated on October 17, 2026 and Weekly Planner on October 17, 2026.

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