CalendarTV vs LiLiCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CalendarTV
Enhance your standard iCal with a beautiful, customizable calendar design. Ideal for wall-mounted displays in homes or companies, it ensures you never miss important events like agreements, holidays, or birthdays.
- iCal to Apoino design conversion
- Automatic updates for new events
- Smart clock functionality
- Selectable event categories
- Customizable start day of the week
- Multilingual support (8 languages)
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CalendarTV makes it easy to keep the whole family in sync. See the month ahead on one calm, clear shared iPad screen. Designed for the home, CalendarTV keeps today’s plans visible in the kitchen, hallway or living room. With CalendarTV, you can: - View the month in a large, easy-to-read calendar - Show calendars from your iPad and choose exactly which ones appear - Keep track of birthdays, events and everyday family plans - Add five personal photos above the days of the week - See a live clock, date, week numbers and your selected month in one place - Personalise fonts, text sizes, day boxes, photos, language and the first day of the week - Choose light or dark mode and a 12- or 24-hour clock - Open a larger view of a day’s events with a single tap CalendarTV is a shared place for family overview — simple enough for every day and flexible enough to feel at home in yours
LiLiCal
This app integrates with your system's calendar and reminders to display events and tasks. It offers customizable countdowns for important dates, holiday subscriptions for various regions, and home/lock screen widgets for quick access. Privacy is a priority, with no personal data collected.
- System calendar and reminders integration
- Customizable date countdowns
- Holiday subscriptions for 33 countries
- Home and lock screen widgets
- Pomodoro focus timer
- Real-time iCloud sync with Mac app
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LiLiCal is a calendar and task app that works with the system apps you already use. Your events come from Calendar, your tasks from Reminders, and the days you care about get their own countdown. HOLIDAYS FOR ANY REGION · Public holidays for 37 countries and regions, ready to subscribe · Each subscription gets its own color; one day can carry marks from several regions · Chinese lunar dates, the 24 solar terms, traditional festivals, and mainland China's statutory holidays with make-up workdays — always on WORKS WITH CALENDAR AND REMINDERS · Events and tasks are read and written straight to the system apps — no separate silo · The week ahead grouped by date; show only the calendars you pick · Pre-meeting notifications with one-tap join for online meetings MAKE THE DAYS COUNT · Birthdays, anniversaries, project milestones — with yearly lunar repeat and custom cycles · Grouped by urgency, with milestones that tell you where the next one worth marking is · Syncs with the Mac app through your own iCloud, in real time WIDGETS ON HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN · Four widgets — month, agenda, tasks, countdown — in small, medium and large · A countdown for the Lock Screen too · Tap any row on a widget to open that item THOUGHTFUL TOUCHES · Turn tabs on or off and drag them into the order you want · Start the week on Sunday, Monday or Saturday; show week numbers; choose how many weeks the month view shows · A Pomodoro focus timer (off by default, switch it on in Settings) · iPad and landscape iPhone use a two-column layout: list on the left, editor on the right PRIVACY FIRST No personal information is collected. Events and reminders are read and written on your device only; Days sync through your own iCloud. The only network requests fetch public holiday data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: LiLiCal at 100% against CalendarTV's 0%. LiLiCal also leads on price (Free vs $14.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.7). On ratings volume, ads, 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
LiLiCal is free to download; CalendarTV costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LiLiCal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of CalendarTV's written reviews are positive against 100% of LiLiCal's.
CalendarTV ships an update every 4 months, LiLiCal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CalendarTV | LiLiCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oliver Copenhagen ApS | ShaoKai Zheng |
Customer experience
CalendarTV
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In-app purchases
CalendarTV
No in-app purchases
LiLiCal
No in-app purchases









