Comparison

Sleek Calendar vs CTRL

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

Head to head
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

CTRL

Features
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CTRL helps you take back control of your screen time — without the guilt trip. Instead of shaming you into putting your phone down, CTRL gives you the tools to be intentional about when and how you use it. Set up Focus Groups to block distracting apps during the hours that matter — work, sleep, time with people you love — with schedules, daily limits, and session timers that fit your life instead of fighting it. When you do want to check social media, The Vault gives you a filtered, friction-aware way in. Open Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more with the feeds and infinite scroll stripped out, so you can check what you came for and get back to your day. CTRL also tracks Mental Nourishment — a simple daily score that rewards the things that actually recharge you (reading, walking, journaling, deep work) and accounts for time spent on screens, so you can see the full picture, not just a screen time number that makes you feel bad. CTRL is built for people who want to change their relationship with their phone, not just white-knuckle through it. • Focus Groups — scheduled blocking windows, daily open limits, and session timers for the apps that pull you in • The Vault — filtered, distraction-reduced access to social platforms instead of an all-or-nothing block • Mental Nourishment — a daily score that credits real recharge activities alongside screen time • A calm, dark interface designed to feel empowering, not punishing

Screenshots

Sleek Calendar4 screens
CTRL3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CTRL at none against Sleek Calendar's 2. CTRL also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sleek Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.1). On price and device support 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. CTRL asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sleek Calendar versus CTRL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSleek CalendarCTRL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB15 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThaqib HalwaniMohamed Bengabsia

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sleek Calendar

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

CTRL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sleek Calendar free?
Sleek Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CTRL free?
CTRL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sleek Calendar or CTRL have ads?
Sleek Calendar shows ads; CTRL does not.

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