123 Calendar vs Fridge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
123 Calendar
This simple calendar app displays your entire week's events in a single view with three zoom levels. Easily manage events, assign custom colors, and create filters to highlight specific entries. It offers a streamlined way to organize your schedule without intrusive ads.
- Weekly event view
- Three zoom levels
- Custom event colors
- Keyword-based filters
- Event grouping and hiding
- Simple event management
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This simple calendar app lets you see all your week's event in one view. With a simple left/right swipe, you can zoom in/out from the week view into a more compressed view. Three levels of zoom! No need to zoom into the day, since the day's schedule is on top of every line. Multiple day events are clearly visible without repeating itself. Adding, moving, copying and deleting events are super simple. You can assign custom colors / shading to events too! You can create filters which automatically highlights certain events based on keywords. The search interface highlights the events, allowing you to view your results in context. You can assign the calendars into groups and quickly hide/show or fade them. The topbar lets you highlight events matching the filters, or those belonging to certain groups. Best of all, this app is free. It won't nag you about upgrading to full version until after you used it plenty. No intrusive ads either!
Fridge
This app places your notes and to-do lists directly on your phone's lock screen, ensuring you never miss important reminders. You can even check off tasks without unlocking your device, and customize the appearance with various designs and pens.
- Lock screen notes
- Checklist functionality
- Customizable designs
- Home screen widgets
- Live Activity integration
- Privacy-focused design
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Put your shopping list or today's to-dos on your lock screen, and tick items off without unlocking your phone. You write things down and still forget them. Fridge puts the note where you cannot miss it: the first thing you see, every single time you pick up your phone. No app to open, no widget to go hunting for. YOUR LOCK SCREEN IS A FRIDGE DOOR That is the surface households already use for the note that must not be missed. Shopping list. Gym bag. Call the dentist. Stick it there and it does its job on its own. TICK THINGS OFF WITHOUT UNLOCKING Tap a checkbox straight from the lock screen. No Face ID, no app launch, and no losing five minutes to social media on the way in. IT DOES NOT DISAPPEAR The big note is a Live Activity, and iOS ends those after about eight hours. Every app in this category runs into that limit. Fridge ships a lock screen widget that never expires. Add it under your clock (setup shows you how, and checks it is there) and your note is always there. Fridge also re-arms the big note every time you open the app, tick a box or edit a line. In the worst case your note gets smaller. It does not vanish. SHARE A LIST WITH FAMILY Share a note through iCloud and the people you invite can add items and tick them off. Every phone shows the same list, lock screen included. Sharing is free; each person needs Fridge and an iCloud account. Drawings and photos stay on your phone. YOU DECIDE WHAT APPEARS WHERE • Live note, Widget only, or Off, in one tap • Hide it in the Dynamic Island, so taps meant for other apps stop landing here • Widget-only mode keeps it off your Apple Watch entirely • Fridge never sends you a notification. Not one. 264 DESIGNS, BUILT FROM THREE CHOICES Pick a paper, pick a sheet, pick a pen. 24 papers (legal pad yellow, kraft, chalkboard, blueprint, ivory, midnight, espresso) times 11 sheet types (plain, ruled, grid, dotted, legal, taped, magnet, pinned, photo corners, bulldog clip, till roll). That is 264 designs, and with 10 pens over the top, 2,640 looks. Three designs are free; Plus unlocks the rest. IT LOOKS HANDWRITTEN, BECAUSE IT IS DRAWN Checkboxes are inked boxes with a real tick through them, not a system glyph. Finished lines get a struck-through stroke that wobbles the way a pen does. Five of the ten pens are genuine handwriting faces, and every line sits on its own slightly uneven baseline. The same note always draws the same way, on the lock screen, in the widget and in the app. DRAW, AND STICK THINGS ON Pen, marker, pencil, and a proper eraser. Drop in a photo and Fridge lifts the subject out of its background automatically, on your phone. Photos stay pinned where you put them, so drawing on top never drags them around. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN TOO Small, medium and large widgets. The medium and large ones are tickable. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No account. No sign-in. No ads, no tracking: anonymous usage analytics only, and you can switch them off in Settings. Background removal runs on your device. Notes leave your phone only when you share them: a shared note goes through iCloud to the people you invite, and nowhere else. FRIDGE PLUS Try everything free for 7 days with the yearly plan, and cancel before the week ends to pay nothing. Or pay once for lifetime, or subscribe monthly. Plus unlocks all 264 designs, unlimited notes, and removes the small Fridge mark. Everything that makes Fridge work stays free: the lock screen note, the checkboxes, the widgets, sharing, and full control over what appears where. Requires iOS 18. iPhone only. Fridge Plus subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sushilkumar.me/fridge/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fridge at 5.0 against 123 Calendar's 4.0. Fridge also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months). 123 Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. 123 Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fridge sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fridge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 123 Calendar has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
123 Calendar ships an update every 7 months, Fridge weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 123 Calendar | Fridge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jormy Games | Sushil Kumar |
Customer experience
123 Calendar
Fridge
In-app purchases
123 Calendar
- Premium Upgrade$9.99
Fridge
- Fridge Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Fridge Plus Yearly$24.991 Year
- Fridge Plus Lifetime$49.99









