Just Calendar vs DayWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Just Calendar
This app provides a straightforward calendar experience for your Apple Watch, offering enhanced viewing options for past and future events. It allows you to check dates, view schedules by week, month, or year, and quickly access event details directly from your watch face.
- View past and future event timelines
- Calendar views: week, month, year
- Date complication on watch face
- Event complication on watch face
- Customizable highlight color and layout
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See your date, schedule, and events at a glance — right on your Apple Watch face. Just Calendar brings week, month, and year views to your wrist, with complications for every watch face. THE CALENDAR APPLE WATCH SHOULD HAVE COME WITH. ◆ Events at a glance See your full timeline of upcoming and past events, and tap any event for details. ◆ Week, month & year views A clean, fast interface to scan your whole week, month, or year in seconds. ◆ Date complication Keep today's date on your watch face. Works with every face — no compatibility worries. ◆ Event complication See today's events right on your watch face. Works with every face too. ◆ Make it yours Change or invert the highlight color of the Date complication, and switch the app layout: Default or Paging. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
DayWatch
This app displays dynamic weather, calendar events, and pinned notes directly on your watch face. It intelligently updates to show upcoming events or important notes, ensuring you have the most relevant information at a glance. You can input notes via voice or text and customize their appearance.
- Dynamic weather forecasts
- Upcoming calendar event display
- Pinned notes with customization
- Voice and text note input
- Modular watch face compatibility
- iPhone app integration
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DayWatch lets you see dynamic weather, calendar events and notes on your watch face showing you just what you need to see right now. You can see changes in weather now and for the next few hours plus dynamic summary for the week in the evenings. Also upcoming calendar events show just before due replacing half the weather forecast then fading away when the event starts. You can pin notes to the watch face that also replace half the weather forecast but still show now/next forecast for any rainstorms about to hit. You can enter notes from the iPhone app or directly in the watch app using voice or text input. You can change the note icons and colours to match your watch face. Download now for free and make the most of your precious watch face space. =-=-=-=-=-= Note - You can only see notes on modular watch face on watches above series 4. To unlock premium features you must purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase: Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. The terms of service and privacy policy for this app can be found here: Terms of Service - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy - https://megaface.azurewebsites.net/Privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Just Calendar at every 5 days against DayWatch's every 6 weeks. Just Calendar also leads on ratings volume (294 vs 6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Just Calendar sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 3 months and DayWatch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DayWatch holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Just Calendar has 294 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Just Calendar ships an update every 5 days, DayWatch every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just Calendar | DayWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (294 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 294 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tu Hoang | Yingchi Wang |
Customer experience
Just Calendar
DayWatch
Bugs and requests
Just Calendar
Reported bugs
28 issues- Complication not updating/showing random events
- App crashes on opening
- Syncing issues
- Payment not recognized
- App not opening after purchase
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- Date recognition errors
- Complication displays app name instead of date
- Graphical glitches in complications
- Missing events in between scheduled times
- App not covering current year (2021)
- Incorrect grammatical errors in event count
- Repeats months in three-month view
- Complication is black/empty
- Settings crash on iPhone app
- Schedule complication never updates
- App not syncing to watch after unlocking features
- Date compilation not working on watch face
- App not displaying on Watch
- Event Timelock not reflecting on Apple Watch
- Stopped syncing
- First appointment of the day displayed all day on watch face
- Never syncs properly to watch
- Crashing on each attempt to open
- Crash crash crash
- Complication issue (JUST CA...)
- Corner complications misfit and off center
- App not showing events in August-September
- App not showing Google calendar events
Requested features
7 requests- More complication options
- Calendar display in complications
- Ability to delete completed tasks directly
- Option to show tomorrow's events in complication when no current events
- 24-hour time format option
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- Calendar week display
- Sunday as the first day of the week setting
DayWatch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Just Calendar
- Three Months Premium7 Days trial$1.493 Months
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- One Year Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- 7-day Trial PremiumFree
- Feature: Date Complication$0.99
- Feature: Event Timeline$0.99
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- FULL VERSION$1.99
- Feature: Date Complication$1.99
- Feature: Paging Layout$1.99
- Feature: Event Timeline$1.99
- 33% OFF Premium$2.99
- FULL VERSION$9.99
DayWatch
- Premium pack7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- NoteWatch Photo Pack$1.99
- Notewatch unlimited$1.99
Questions
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