Comparison

Sleek Calendar vs LockScreenNotes

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

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About

Sleek Calendar

This app offers a clean and intuitive calendar and planner experience. Easily manage personal events with colorful icons, drag-and-drop rescheduling, and automatic event creation from photos. It also includes step tracking and event sharing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Automatic event creation from photos
  • Daily step goal tracking
  • Drag and drop event rescheduling and cloning
  • Colorful event icons
  • Event sharing with other users
  • Widgets and Apple Watch support
Features
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Welcome to the simplest, the cleanest and the clearest calendar & planner app! Sleek Calendar is your new personal agenda with colorful icons for your events, a clean interface, easy to use features to manage and share your personal events and memories, the ability to drag and drop to change an event’s date or to clone it, and much more to make you fall in love with this app! What's new in ver. 3.0? 1. Create events from photos: Snap or upload a photo of an appointment slip, festival poster, or any document with a date and let the app instantly recognize the details to create your event automatically. 2. Track your daily steps: Set your daily step goal and watch your progress come to life on your calendar with beautiful, color-coded highlights that show how well you’re staying on track. Enjoy Sleek Calendar's cool features: 1. Improved events registration user interface. 2. Auto-icons feature to save your time finding a suitable icon for your event! 3. Now, the event's drag & drop feature supports cloning the event on any date! 4. Quick-Events feature to add a repetitive event quickly on any date by simply clicking the event’s icon! 5. Attach photos and add notes to your memories and appointments. 6. Find the duration between similar events through filtering by the event’s icon! 7. Mark your favorite events or memories. 8. Widgets and Apple Watch support to keep you up to date on your upcoming appointments. This is how Sleek Calendar is different: 1. Know your entire month’s events at a glance without tapping on each date! 2. Icons make your events come to life! It’s never been this easy and fun to SEE your events. 3. Drag & Drop to change any event’s date or to clone it on another day, takes only 1 second! 4. Filter your events by icons and know the duration between them. 5. Easily share your events by adding another user, wait for the approval, then tap his/her name as you add an event. Sharing events has never been this easy. More of Sleek Calendar’s cool features: 1. Drag & Drop: Simply let the event’s icon go outside the calendar if you don’t want to reschedule it. If you already did, then changed your mind, shake your iPhone and it will set back to its original date. 2. Special Icon Set for Ladies: We kept it optional as we don’t think that gentlemen will ever need to schedule a nail polishing appointment! 3. Countdown: Tap on an upcoming event to get a countdown until the final date. Tap on any past event to know how many days have already been passed since the event took place.  4. Auto Daily Notifications: Set your preferred time to get a daily notification of your today’s and tomorrow’s events. 5. Events List: Your entire year’s events, appointments and memories will be in front of you! Search your events by text or icons, filter them by shared events, quick events or your favorite ones. Other main features: 1. Widgets: Three different types with customizable background colors to personalize according to your liking. 2. Apple Watch support: Complications will help you to know your upcoming event with a countdown. 3. Cloud backup: Sign up and keep your events and memories safe for life. Retrieve your backup anytime on any supported device. Sleek Calendar is a free to use app with subscription options for extra features. You may purchase an annual subscription for $19.99 or a monthly subscription for $1.99 through an In-App Purchase. Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Current subscription may not be canceled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Terms of use: https://sleekcal.com/SleekCalendar_TOS.html Privacy policy: https://sleekcal.com/SleekCalendar_Privacy.html

About

LockScreenNotes

This app displays your notes directly on your device's lock screen, ensuring you never forget important information. It offers extensive customization options for note appearance and allows for interactive to-do list management without opening the application.

Highlights
  • Notes on lock screen
  • Interactive to-do lists
  • Over 100 free designs
  • Handwritten notes and doodles
  • Image and font customization
  • Local data storage
  • No account required
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An app that lets you display notes right on your lock screen. You'll always see them when you pick up your phone, so you'll never forget what matters. "I wrote it down, but..." You made a note, but never looked at it again — and forgot anyway. Sound familiar? This app is for you. LockScreenNotes solves this by displaying your notes right on your lock screen where you can't miss them. ■ Easy to Use Just tap the note on your lock screen to open the app and jot down what's important. Everything auto-saves, so you can close the app right away without worry. Just focus on writing. ■ Manage Todos Without Opening the App Check off your to-do items right from the lock screen — no need to open the app. Whether it's a shopping list or today's tasks, just check things off as you get them done. ■ Over 100 Designs Choose from over 100 designs, all completely free. Pick one that matches your lock screen wallpaper. You can also customize everything yourself — paper color, text color, line styles, and more. ■ Doodle Away It's not just typing — you can handwrite notes too. Scribble freely like you would on a real sticky note. A quick underline might just help you remember better. ■ Add Images You can paste images from your photo library too. Stick a photo of something you want to buy so you don't get the wrong one, or add a picture of your favorite character to make it cute. ■ Fonts to Match Your Mood Choose from lovely fonts for free — handwritten styles that feel like real notes, or clean and simple ones. With multilingual support, you can even pick fonts for languages you're studying, like English or Korean, and make learning fun. ■ Note History That Shows Your Effort Past notes are saved as history, so you can look back and edit anytime. Use as many pages as you like. The history screen also shows your total character count, number of pages, and how many days you've been using the app. It's proof of your effort to never forget what matters. ■ Privacy Protected No one can see your notes. All data is stored locally on your device and is never sent to any server without your permission. Write down important things with peace of mind. ■ No Account Required LockScreenNotes doesn't require any account registration or sign-in. You can start using it right after installation without entering any personal information. ■ Contact & Social Email: lockscreennotes@gmail.com TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@lockscreennotes Instagram: https://instagram.com/@lockscreennote X: https://x.com/lockscreennotes Threads: https://threads.com/@lockscreennote --- LockScreenNotes is for people like you and me — who write things down but still forget. Starting today, make this your place for notes.

Screenshots

Sleek Calendar4 screens
LockScreenNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LockScreenNotes at none against Sleek Calendar's 2. LockScreenNotes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.7K vs 46). Sleek Calendar's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sleek Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. LockScreenNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LockScreenNotes holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LockScreenNotes has 1.7K ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Sleek Calendar's written reviews are positive against 86% of LockScreenNotes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sleek Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, LockScreenNotes weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sleek Calendar versus LockScreenNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleek CalendarLockScreenNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (46 ratings)4.8 (1.7K ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews86.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings461.7K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB195 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThaqib HalwaniTakumi Banjoya

Customer experience

Sleek Calendar

All ratings45 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%

LockScreenNotes

All ratings1,551 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral7.9%
Negative5.9%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sleek Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Sleek Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
None

LockScreenNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleek Calendar free?
Sleek Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LockScreenNotes free?
LockScreenNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sleek Calendar or LockScreenNotes?
LockScreenNotes is rated higher. Sleek Calendar averages 4.5 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while LockScreenNotes averages 4.8 from 1.7K ratings.
Do Sleek Calendar or LockScreenNotes have ads?
Sleek Calendar shows ads; LockScreenNotes does not.
Which is updated more often, Sleek Calendar or LockScreenNotes?
Sleek Calendar ships an update every 3 weeks, and LockScreenNotes weekly. Most recently, Sleek Calendar was updated on October 21, 2026 and LockScreenNotes on October 25, 2026.

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