Comparison

Bizzy vs Howbout

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bizzy

This social planning network helps you coordinate events with friends and family. It offers a shared calendar where you can compare availability without revealing sensitive details. Features include event-specific chat and profile customization.

Highlights
  • Social planning network
  • Shared calendar for friends and couples
  • Event-specific chat
  • Profile customization
  • Integrates with Google Calendar
  • Organize work, school, and social events
Features
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The social planning network! Bizzy is the go-to platform for making plans. Just add events and use it like a regular calendar. Add friends to allow them to compare schedules without sharing sensitive info like event titles and location! With the built-in calendar, you can create events in your personal calendar or create a public calendar that others can view and join events. Tools to help you and your friends schedule together: • Organize your work schedule, personal calendar, student schedule, and school events, and social calendar in one place • Organize calendar events FAST with natural language • Event chat inside every shared calendar event • Customize your profile with cover photos! FOR STUDENTS: + Make bizzy the best student planner by inviting friends and adding your school calendar events. We are currently working on recurring events to make it easier to add your school schedule. + Event chat inside plans make it easy to continue making plans CREATE SHARED/PUBLIC CALENDARS: + A social calendar for friends or family + Perfect for couples organizing events + Use bizzy for school calendar events PERRSONAL CALENDAR SECURITY: Event info is hidden if friends are not invited to events inside your personal Bizzy calendar. HOW TO PLAN ON BIZZY? 1. Create an event and select what calendar it will go to 2. Add your work schedule to make it easy to share availability 3. Event chat inside of social calendar events WHY WE BUILT BIZZY: We wanted a way to make planning with friends and couples more collaborative. We also wanted to the option to keep personal calendar events private and social calendar events organized. A shared calendar is a powerful tool for students, friends, groups, family and communities. We hope you enjoy using bizzy and give feedback so we can improve how you organize events! SAY GOODBYE TO: - Messy event chat inside email threads - Boring personal calendar - Forgetting to make plans with friends - Shared calendars with no event chat inside - Friends asking for your work schedule - Yelling into the wind "Who wants to hang out?!" SIGN-IN WITH GOOGLE CALENDAR: + Use your Google Sign-In to quickly jump into Bizzy WHAT EVENTS SHOULD I CREATE? + Work Schedule + School Calendar events + Family and groups looking for a shared calendar + Wedding plans or scheduling for bachelor and bachelorette parties + Friends and couples looking for a casual way to lock down plans in a shared calendar + People who want a more fun personal calendar + So much more is coming too...for reals One place for your college calendar events, couples calendar plans, school calendar events, group schedules, work schedules, etc are easily organized in this social calendar! ------------- FEATURES + Built-in personal calendar and social calendar! (Invite family and friends to make it easier to plan) + Profiles + Event Chat (Temporary Group Chats For Events) + Add personal calendar events from Bizzy to your Google calendar (easy way to add your work schedule from bizzy to Google) + Add your friends or fellow student and see which ones are already on Bizzy by connecting your contact list (no spam though - our team uses bizzy too and we would hate that) --------- Bizzy profiles are private, so don't worry...no one can see you have a Zumba Class at 8am. Just that you're busy during that personal calendar time! Invite friends and help bizzy grow! **More Features Coming! Feel free to request features/tools that would ease the stress of planning with friends and make scheduling more social. Built By Friends. For Friends.

About

Howbout

This app simplifies social planning by allowing friends to share calendars, coordinate events, and see each other's availability. It helps move plans out of group chats and into a centralized, customizable space with integrated communication features.

Highlights
  • Shared calendars for friends
  • Color-coded events
  • Plan details with notes and pictures
  • Share and view friend availability
  • Integrated group chat and DMs
  • Sync external calendars
  • Home screen widgets
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The shared calendar for friends, couples, and family This is the app you’ve seen all over TikTok. 10M downloads, 200M+ plans made, and 1B+ views across social media. Howbout is how millions of people actually see each other more. Planning shouldn't take a hundred messages and a "when works for you?" thread that goes nowhere. Howbout fixes that. Find the gap, lock in the plan, actually see the people who matter to you. … WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH HOWBOUT SEE WHEN EVERYONE'S FREE No guessing, it's right there on the calendar. MAKE PLANS Add events, add details, and keep everything together, so plans don't fall apart. SHARE YOUR CALENDAR OR AVAILABILITY Choose what people see. Stay private or share with friends. KEEP ALL THE DETAILS IN ONE PLACE Plans, chats, locations, notes, photos… no switching apps or losing the details. REAL TIME NOTIFICATIONS Get updates when plans change or when your friends are up to something fun. MAKE YOUR CALENDAR YOURS Color-code and customize your calendar how you like. SYNC YOUR CALENDARS & TIMELINES Work, school, personal, social… it's all in one place, so nothing clashes. UP NEXT WIDGETS Stay on top of your upcoming plans and see what your friends are up to from your home screen. … BUILT FOR REAL LIFE For friend groups: check availability, lock in plans, actually see each other more. For couples: stay in sync, plan dates faster, stop double-booking each other. For families: track school runs, appointments, and weekends, all in one place. … HOWBOUT+ Unlock more customization like colors and app themes, smarter planning tools, and get an all around better experience. Your subscription will automatically renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription in your App Store settings. … Contact us: support@howbout.app · Follow @howbout_app Privacy: howbout.app/privacy · Terms: howbout.app/terms

Screenshots

Bizzy4 screens
Howbout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bizzy at 100% against Howbout's 43%. Bizzy also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). Howbout's advantage is ratings volume (50K vs 21) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Howbout sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Bizzy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Howbout holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Howbout has 50K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Bizzy's written reviews are positive against 43% of Howbout's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bizzy ships an update every 3 weeks, Howbout weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Bizzy versus Howbout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBizzyHowbout
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings)4.8 (50K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better42.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2150K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#51 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB157 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperBizzy Life, Inc.Howbout Ltd.

Customer experience

Bizzy

All ratings21 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Howbout

All ratings50,224 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews1,064 reviews
Positive42.7%
Neutral7.2%
Negative50.1%

Bugs and requests

Bizzy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Howbout

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Calendar sync issues causing duplicate events
  • Notifications not working as expected
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Inability to edit events without resending invites

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add widget support
  • Allow customization of event colors
  • Improve recurring event handling
  • Add option to only share with specific people

In-app purchases

None

Bizzy

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Howbout

Subscriptions4
  • Howbout+ Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Howbout+ Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Howbout+ Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Howbout+ Annual$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Bizzy free?
Bizzy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Howbout free?
Howbout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bizzy or Howbout?
Howbout is rated higher. Bizzy averages 4.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Howbout averages 4.8 from 50K ratings.
Do Bizzy or Howbout have ads?
Neither Bizzy nor Howbout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bizzy or Howbout?
Bizzy ships an update every 3 weeks, and Howbout weekly. Most recently, Bizzy was updated on June 1, 2026 and Howbout on September 25, 2026.

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