Dring vs LittleCal 4 Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dring
Manage your alarms with a calendar view. Easily activate, deactivate, or adjust alarm times for specific dates without affecting your default settings. This app simplifies daily scheduling and ensures you wake up serenely.
- Calendar view for alarms
- Activate/deactivate alarms by date
- Modify alarm times for specific dates
- Multiple ringtones
- Adaptive interface
- Adjustable snooze duration
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Simplify your daily life by waking up with Dring. All alarm clocks for the coming month are displayed date by date. The calendar view allows you to activate, deactivate or change the time of alarm clocks on specific dates, without modifying the others. EXAMPLES: • A public holiday → Disable this alarm clock • Sports competition next Sunday → Activate only this Sunday • A business trip next week → Change the time on this date • A week of vacation → Disable all alarm clocks for the week With Dring, gain in ease of use and wake up serenely. HIGLIGHTS: • Several ringtones available • Adaptative interface for right-handed and left-handed people • Modifiable snooze duration IMPORTANT: Dring and its developer cannot be held responsible for the consequences of a missed alarm clock, including in the event of a malfunction of the application. For any questions, write to hello@simoningrand.com
LittleCal 4 Mobile
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LittleCal 4 Mobile is an iOS conversion of an existing desktop application for macOS. It lets you manage your schedules on the weekly calendar. When you schedule an event and then the event time nears, LittleCal will post a local notification ahead of the actual event time with or without a sound whether or not the device is locked. It's not necessary that the app be currently running in order to receive notification alerts. You can tap the notification alert tab to extend the notification reminder by 5 minutes, 10 minutes, ..., 30 minutes, ... Or just ignore it. Suppose that you have an important conference call to attend at 3 PM. Using LittleCal 4 Mobile, you can remind yourself of it with a local notification ahead of the actual event time like 2 PM. When you receive a notification alert, tap it to extend the notification reminder, say, by another 30 minutes. At 2:30 PM, you will receive another notification alert for the same event. Again, you have options of extending or not extending the notification reminder. Moreover, if you receive an event notification for a different event while working to extend the first notification reminder, LittleCal 4 Mobile will automatically put the second notification in a queue such that the app will raise a reminder sheet after you finish the first one. - Features - 1. Manage your schedules on the weekly calendar. Manage individual events and turn on and off the notification switch with contextual menu. 2. Set a level of importance in color on the event name in the weekly list of events. 3. Tap a calendar day button to create a single-day event under the selected day. 4. Create a weekly event on selected days of the week. 5. Create a monthly event on the same calendar day of the month. 6. Create an annual event (birthday, wedding anniversary…) on the same calendar day every year. 7. Create a quick event that is to take place minutes from now. 8. Create a routine event that is to take place every day at the same time. 9. Tap ? toolbar button to get full access to a 13-page user’s guide. 10.Receive an event notification ahead of time, whether or not the device is locked or the app itself is running. 11.Tap the notification alert tab to extend the notification reminder. 12.Search for events with a keyword or a range of dates. 13.Delete all past events. 14.The app supports the light and dark appearance mode. 15.Languages: English only. - System requirements - 1. iOS 17.0 or higher 2. iPhone or iPad - Limitations - 1. As free trial basis, LittleCal 4 Mobile lets the user create as many as five events without a subscription plan. The user can upgrade their use base to ‘Unlimited’ such that they can create an unlimited number of events until their subscription expires. 2. In order to receive the local notification on a locked device or while the app is currently running, the user must sets up notification settings with Settings (.app). 3. This app does not share data with the macOS version. 4. This app is designed such that the first day of the week is Sunday. There is no guarantee that it will run as intended when the user selects any day other than Sunday in Language & Region. - End User License Agreement - https://blog.mhvt.net/?p=7493#termsofuse
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LittleCal 4 Mobile at every 2 months against Dring's every 5 months. Dring's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Dring sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LittleCal 4 Mobile sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dring ships an update every 5 months, LittleCal 4 Mobile every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dring | LittleCal 4 Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Ingrand | Tomoyuki Okawa |
In-app purchases
Dring
- Dring PRO$1.99
LittleCal 4 Mobile
- 1 month Unlimited$0.491 Month
- 3 months Unlimited$1.993 Months
- 6 months Unlimited$2.996 Months
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- 1 year Unlimited$4.991 Year









