Just Calendar vs Wrist Recorder Notes
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/
Wrist Recorder Notes
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Wrist Recorder puts a voice recorder on your wrist. Tap a complication on your watch face and start talking. Your note is saved on Apple Watch, sent to your iPhone, and transcribed automatically. RECORD FROM YOUR WATCH FACE • New Recording complication: one tap opens the recorder and starts recording. • Add to Latest complication: keep talking into your most recent note. • Record on Apple Watch even when your iPhone isn't nearby. Notes are sent over when it's back in range. • Play a note back, add to it, or delete it right on your watch. TRANSCRIBED ON YOUR IPHONE • Every note is transcribed as soon as it reaches your iPhone, with no need to open it first. • Add more to a note later and the whole note is transcribed again. • Scrub to any moment in a note, or skip back and forward 15 seconds. • Select and copy any part of a transcript, or share it. • Share a note's audio as a single sound file, even if you added to it later. ORGANIZED WITH CATEGORIES • Sixteen color-coded categories to start, from Work and Personal to Lists, Reminders, Ideas, and Meetings. • Pick a category while you record, on iPhone or Apple Watch, or change it later. • Hide the categories you don't want to see, like Work on the weekend. • Add, rename, recolor, and reorder categories in Settings. EASY TO FIND • Newest notes at the top, each with its category, length, and a one-line preview of what you said. • Search names and transcripts, with every match highlighted when you open the note. • Rename a note with a swipe, or by pressing and holding its title. The new name shows on your watch too. • An icon shows whether each note was recorded on iPhone or Apple Watch. • Select several notes to share their transcripts or audio, or delete them together. SYNC YOUR WAY • Sync deletions between iPhone and Apple Watch, or keep each device's notes separate. • Copy notes recorded on iPhone to your watch to play them on the go. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no tracking. • Recordings and transcripts stay on your iPhone and Apple Watch. • Transcription uses Apple's speech recognition, on your iPhone when it's supported. Requires iOS 17 or later. The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 10 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wrist Recorder Notes at none against Just Calendar's 10. Wrist Recorder Notes also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Just Calendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 3 months. Wrist Recorder Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Just Calendar ships an update every 5 days, Wrist Recorder Notes daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just Calendar | Wrist Recorder Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (295 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 36.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 295 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tu Hoang | Savi Solutions |
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
Wrist Recorder Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Just Calendar
- Three Months Premium7 Days trial$1.493 Months
- 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
- FULL VERSION$9.99
Wrist Recorder Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Just Calendar free?
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