Whenever vs Calendar Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whenever
This app offers a simple and flexible way to manage your schedule and tasks, inspired by the ease of a physical notebook. It helps you track what matters most in your life. An in-app purchase unlocks integration with popular calendar services.
- Calendar management
- To-do list functionality
- Reminder setting
- Physical notebook inspiration
- Google Calendar integration
- iCloud Calendar integration
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Whenever is a casual calendar/todo-list/reminders app, modeled after the simplicity and flexibility of a physical notebook. Use it to keep track of whatever you deem most important in your life. The in-app purchase allows integration with Google Calendar, iCloud, Yahoo Calendar, or any other account with calendar data that you have set up in your device settings. Please send all bug reports and feature suggestions to: feedback@whenever.io
Calendar Notes
Capture your thoughts and plans directly on a calendar. This straightforward app lets you add notes, ideas, and personal agendas to specific dates with customizable colors. View your entries by month or year in a clean, lightweight interface.
- Save notes and ideas to calendar dates
- Add color to notes
- View notes by month or year
- Perpetual calendar functionality
- Lightweight and small app size
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An very easy app to save your idea and your notes in a calendar date form * beautiful & simple application without any pretension/requirement * add a note, idea, personal agenda, diary into calendar * perpetual calendar * swipe left and right to change month * you can view list of notes by monthly or yearly * multicolor note. add color to a note * optimized & lightweight app * small size App Don't let your idea gone, write it down with this calendar notes app !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calendar Notes at none against Whenever's 1. Calendar Notes also leads on ratings volume (133 vs 23). Whenever's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 11 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Whenever sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Calendar Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Whenever against 4.9 for Calendar Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Notes has 133 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Whenever's written reviews are positive against 93% of Calendar Notes's.
Whenever ships an update fortnightly, Calendar Notes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Whenever | Calendar Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (23 ratings) | 4.9 (133 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 133 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter LoBue | Edi Ermawan |
Customer experience
Whenever
Calendar Notes
In-app purchases
Whenever
- Whenever Plus$4.99
Calendar Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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