Calendar vs Date Today
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Unified schedule view
- Event creation and editing
- Task management integration
- Calendar sharing
- Multiple calendar support
- Customizable views
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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.
Date Today
Enhance your home screen with customizable calendar widgets. Choose from numerous themes and styles to personalize your display, or create your own unique widget designs. Save multiple widgets for different looks.
- Minimalist calendar widgets
- Dozens of theme styles
- Customizable background, text, and fonts
- Save multiple widgets
- Different widget sizes
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Calendar Widget is the most easy-to-use minimal design calendar widget app. Add stylish calendar widgets directly onto your home screen. Customize your home screen ▲ There are dozens of cute theme styles to meet your home screen beautification needs. ▲ Easily design your own widget with Calendar Widget ▲ Customized background, text color & fonts ▲ Save many widgets and have a different type of widget on your home screen at the same time ▲ Choose from different sizes (small, medium, large)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Calendar at 4.9 against Date Today's 4.0. Calendar also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Date Today's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On price and review sentiment 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. Date Today sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar has 1.5M ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Calendar's written reviews are positive against 33% of Date Today's.
Calendar ships an update every 4 months, Date Today every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar | Date Today |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.5M ratings) — better | 4.0 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5M — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC |
Customer experience
Calendar
Date Today
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
Date Today
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Calendar
No in-app purchases
Date Today
- Lifetime$9.99









