FirstSeed Calendar vs Stavebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FirstSeed Calendar
A powerful scheduling app that manages both events and reminders. It offers innovative calendar views, interactive widgets for various iOS versions, and seamless syncing with Apple's Calendar and Reminders apps. An optional paid upgrade unlocks advanced features like natural language event processing and drag-and-drop functionality.
- Interactive and lock-screen widgets
- Full-featured month, week, and list views
- Event and reminder management
- Natural language event processing (paid)
- Drag & drop event manipulation (paid)
- Apple Watch support
- Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
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FirstSeed Calendar keeps your events and reminders in one place. It’s fast, flexible, and built so you can handle most tasks with one hand. Features: - Month view that handles everyday tasks with one hand - Week view that fits the whole week on one screen, with no vertical scrolling - Day, list, and year views, including a list view laid out like a paper planner - Events and reminders together in one calendar - Move or duplicate events to multiple dates at once - Respond to invitations right from the app - Daily Summary notifications for today’s or tomorrow’s events - Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, and interactive widgets, including a timeline widget - Control Center controls - Apple Watch app with complications - Dark mode, custom themes, and colors for weekends and holidays - Designed for Liquid Glass, with clear and tinted icons and widgets Pro: One-Time Purchase, No Subscription: - Sync directly with Google Calendar, including per-event colors - Trash: recover deleted events and reminders for up to 30 days - Automatic backups of your calendar data - Quick Event: create events by typing naturally, like “Lunch with Bob at noon tomorrow” - Full-screen alarms for events you can’t miss - Weather forecasts in your calendar - Week numbers, time zones, and event history - Drag and drop to reschedule events - Templates for events you create often - Calendar sets to show or hide groups of calendars with one tap - Import and export ICS files - Customize the Apple Watch app - Alternate app icons - No ads Sync: FirstSeed Calendar works with Apple’s Calendar and Reminders apps, so your events and reminders stay in sync across all your devices through iCloud, Google, Exchange, and any other accounts you’ve added in Settings.
Stavebook
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Stavebook is a quiet place for music teachers to keep their studio: who they teach, when the lessons are, and what they asked each student to practice. Plan one-time or recurring lessons, then keep the real teaching record on the date it happened. Capture preparation notes, lesson notes, attendance, makeups, and practice assignments without losing the history when a schedule changes. Everything a teacher records stays theirs: • Keep a private roster, student notes, study tracks, milestones, repertoire progress, and qualitative musicianship observations. • Schedule lessons, terms, breaks, recitals, exams, holidays, and studio time in a focused calendar. • Build a repertoire library and start from an included catalog of common repertoire; assignments are copied into the dated journal so history stays intact. • Reuse lesson-plan routines, carry unfinished practice forward, and search your lesson journal. • Track books, scores, and instruments you lend, including due dates and loan history. • Export a student summary PDF, roster CSV, mileage and expense CSV, and a complete studio backup. Restore is built in. • See your next lesson on the Home Screen, use read-only Siri and Shortcuts actions, and find students with Spotlight. Stavebook uses your private iCloud database to keep your studio in sync across your own devices. There is no Stavebook account, no student app, no server, no analytics, and no advertising. Students never sign in and Stavebook never contacts them. Stavebook is free for up to five active or paused students, including lessons, the journal, repertoire, lesson plans, studio events, lending, expenses, backup, and sync. Stavebook Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription with monthly and yearly plans. It adds unlimited students, Lesson Preparation, Weekly Studio Review, Makeup Ledger, Lessons & Hours, and Export to Calendar. Both plans include a 14-day free trial for eligible new subscribers. Prices vary by region and are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account after the trial, if offered, ends. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Privacy: https://orinbyte.com/stavebook/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://orinbyte.com/stavebook/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stavebook at none against FirstSeed Calendar's shown. Stavebook also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). FirstSeed Calendar's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. FirstSeed Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Stavebook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FirstSeed Calendar ships an update every 8 days, Stavebook every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | FirstSeed Calendar | Stavebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (337 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 337 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FirstSeed Inc | rociiu |
In-app purchases
FirstSeed Calendar
- Monthly Donation$2.991 Month
- Pro Version$9.99
Stavebook
- Stavebook Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Stavebook Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
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