Coming Next vs Upcoming Events Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coming Next
Stay on top of your day with a clear list of today's events and reminders. Track upcoming deadlines with countdown timers and visualize your schedule with progress bars. Access key information directly from your lock screen, iPhone, or Apple Watch.
- Today's events and reminders list
- Countdown timers
- Lock Screen Widgets
- iPhone Widgets
- Watch Complications
- Progress Bar
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You want to focus on what's next in your schedule today? You get: - List with your events and due reminders today - Events & Reminders - Past events, events in progress and future events are displayed accordingly - Countdown timers - Lock Screen Widgets, iPhone Widgets and Watch Complications - Countdown timer to your next event - Progress Bar
Upcoming Events Widget
This calendar widget displays upcoming events up to a year in advance, offering a clear view of future appointments. Customize time display and select which calendars to show. It automatically adapts to your system's dark/light mode and calendar color preferences.
- Displays events up to one year ahead
- Customizable time display (time until/time of)
- Selectable calendar sources
- Adapts to system dark/light mode
- Uses system calendar colors
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A calendar widget that looks up to a year in the future for your events. The other calendar widgets I found only looked ahead a day, maybe three. I wanted to know the next 5 or 10 things coming up, no matter if they were next week or next month. So I built this calendar widget. It's got some options for configuration the time display format, either time until, or time of. And choosing which calendars it displays entries from. All of the colors in the widget come from your system dark/light preference, as well as the colors you chose for your calendars. It updates every 5 to 10 minutes depending on how iOS is feeling. Only works with events stored in Apple's Calendar App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Coming Next at Free against Upcoming Events Widget's $0.99. Coming Next also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Coming Next is free to download; Upcoming Events Widget costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Coming Next against 4.5 for Upcoming Events Widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Coming Next ships an update every 3 months, Upcoming Events Widget every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coming Next | Upcoming Events Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Riske | Elise Wood |
Customer experience
Coming Next
Upcoming Events Widget
In-app purchases
Coming Next
No in-app purchases
Upcoming Events Widget
No in-app purchases
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