Week Number widget vs Paws Almanac
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Week Number widget
This app displays the current week number on your watch complication and companion iPhone/iPad app. Easily navigate month overviews and perform week number calculations using shortcut actions. It offers a simple way to keep track of the current week.
- Watch complication for quick access
- iPhone/iPad app for month overviews
- Digital Crown scrolling on Watch
- Swipe navigation on iPhone/iPad
- Shortcut actions for calculations
- Supports watchOS 8+ and iOS 15+
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A very simple week number Watch complication and accompanying Watch and iPhone/iPad app. See the current week number with a glance at your watch or iPhone/iPad. Scroll through month overviews using the Digital Crown when opening the Watch app, or swipe between months on the iPhone and iPad. Use the shortcut actions to do week number calculations from shortcuts (requires iOS 16+). The app fully supports watchOS 8+ and iOS 15+.
Paws Almanac
This app provides detailed calendar information, including name days, holidays, flag days, and moon phases. It offers customizable widgets for your home and lock screens, and syncs with Apple Watch for on-the-go access to important dates and celestial events.
- Name days, holidays, and flag days
- Moon phases and sun times
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Lock screen widgets for iOS 16
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Multiple country almanac support
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Paws Almanac is an app for iPhone and Apple Watch showing calendar related information, for instance name days, holidays, flag days and moon phases. Just like an almanac. The iPhone app content is arranged into five tabs: Day, List, Calendar, World, and Settings. Day • Calendar information, e.g. name day, flag day, moon phase and week number, for the selected day. Default is current date. • Sunrise, sunset and sun hours for your current location [Plus] • Birthday of contacts [Plus] • Events from calendar [Plus] List • List of dates in current, or selected, year in a list, with basic calendar information such as name day and calendar observances. • Birthday of contacts [Plus] • Events from calendar [Plus] Calendar • Almanac of current, or selected, year in a month/week calendar layout. • Official flag days • Moon phases World • Additional, selected almanacs [Plus] Settings • Select main country/region for almanac to show in Day View, List View, in the widget and on Apple Watch in the app and complication. • Options to show sunrise and sunset, contacts' birthdays and calendar events in Day and List views [Plus] • Option to force use of ISO calendar [Plus] Widgets [Plus] Widgets make it possible to show information right on your home screen. The almanac widget displays information about date and week number, as well as public holidays, flag and name days. Information about birthdays, sunrise and sunset is also shown on this widget, if the feature is turned on in the app settings. Another widget type displays a monthly calendar. A third widget type contains information about moonrise/moonset as well as dates for future moon phases. Lock Screen Widgets [Plus] With lock screen widgets, on iOS 16, chosen calendar information is visible on the screen even without unlocking your phone. There are a few variants to choose from: calendar information, date and/or week number, a three-week mini-calendar, as well as various info widgets for sun and moon. Apple Watch [Plus] In the Apple Watch app, name days and other information are presented. Complications come with different sets of information: 'Calendar' (standard), 'Week', 'Date and Week', 'Sunrise and Sunset', 'Moon Phase', and 'Moonrise and Moonset'. Availability depends on the chosen watch face and complication type. Additional pages show the monthly calendar, sunrise/sunset, as well as moonrise/moonset/moon phases. As of watchOS 10 a couple of widgets are also selectable on Apple Watch. Supported Almanacs Paws Almanac supports name days (where available), holidays and observances for Argentina, Australia (*), Austria (*), Belgium, Brazil, Canada (*), Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark (*), Estonia, Finland (*), France (*), Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy (*), Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain (*), Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom (*), and United States (*). Some countries (marked with * above) regional and state holidays can also be presented by selecting a sub-region of the country as the almanac in Settings. Paws Almanac Plus Some features require a Plus subscription which can be purchased in the app or in AppStore. --- Privacy policy: https://greypaws.net/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Paws Almanac at Free against Week Number widget's $0.99. Paws Almanac also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3). Week Number widget's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (33% vs 17%). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Paws Almanac is free to download; Week Number widget costs $0.99 up front. Paws Almanac sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per 3 months. Week Number widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Paws Almanac holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Week Number widget's written reviews are positive against 17% of Paws Almanac's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Week Number widget | Paws Almanac |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 16.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Linnet Data | Grey Paws AB |
Customer experience
Week Number widget
Paws Almanac
In-app purchases
Week Number widget
No in-app purchases
Paws Almanac
- Almanac Plus, 3 month7 Days trial$0.493 Months
- Almanac Plus, 12 months14 Days trial$1.491 Year
Questions
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