Comparison

Float vs Week Plan Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Float

This app helps students manage essay writing by breaking down word count goals into daily targets. It also supports book reading goals, providing daily page targets. An "Essay Tennis" feature allows friends to challenge each other with word counts.

Highlights
  • Daily word count targets for essays
  • Daily page targets for reading
  • Essay title, word count, and deadline input
  • Essay Tennis word count challenges
  • Time management for students
Features
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-App of the Day- Float helps students break down deadlines and stay focused together. Whether you’re writing an essay, finishing an assignment, or trying to get through a book before a deadline, Float helps you turn big tasks into smaller daily goals. Add what you’re working on, enter your word count or page count, choose your deadline, and Float will calculate how much you need to complete each day. No more guessing, panicking, or leaving everything until the night before. With our new feature Out of Sight, you can put your phone away at the same time as friends, join focus sessions, and stay accountable while you study. Choose a time, see who else is focusing, and make phone-free study feel more social and easier to stick to. Float is built for students who want to feel more in control of their workload, reduce last-minute stress, and build better study habits one day at a time. Key Features BREAK DOWN ESSAYS Enter your essay word count and deadline, and Float will create a simple daily writing target. TRACK READING GOALS Add a book, page count and deadline, and know exactly how many pages to read each day. STAY FOCUSED WITH OUT OF SIGHT Put your phone away, join friends in focus sessions, and stay committed while you study. FOCUS TOGETHER See when friends are going Out of Sight and join the same study time. STAY ACCOUNTABLE Nudge friends to focus with you and build a better study routine together. MAKE DEADLINES FEEL SMALLER Turn big assignments into manageable daily progress. https://www.thefloatapp.com/terms

About

Week Plan Calendar

A visually clear weekly calendar app that syncs with your device's native calendar and reminders. It offers multiple widgets for at-a-glance viewing and advanced configuration options for each calendar.

Highlights
  • Weekly overview with multi-day event clarity
  • Works with calendar events and reminders
  • Multiple widgets for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
  • Lock screen widgets with live countdown
  • Analogue dial visualization of upcoming events
  • Yearly plan view and holiday calendar integration
  • Alerts for scheduling conflicts
Features
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A clearly designed calendar based on the classic weekly overview. No login required because the app works on the calendar/reminder data of the operating system. FEATURES - Multi-day events are shown upright on the right hand side, contributing to extraordinary high clarity. - Works with both calendar events and (checkable) reminders. - 4 for 1: iOS, watchOS, iPadOS and macOS App (Ventura + M1 required) can be used in parallel after download. - The "Today" widget shows upcoming entries (live countdown included) - The "Clockface" widget visualizes the events of the next 10 hours on an analogue dial. - All widgets also available on the lock screen. - Optional year plan view (incl. calendar weeks). - Event Templates + Shift Planner Mode - Integration of Apple Health menstruation cycle data. - Calculation of break times. - Alerts scheduling conflicts during creation of new events. - Watch app including complications "Today" & "Clockface". - Overview of all overdue reminders. - "holiday calendar": its entries make the days look like weekends - calendar day can be shown on app icon - combined view of event duplicates - (iOS, iPadOS): Speech entry of new events (iPhone needs to be hold to the ear) CONFIGURATION PER CALENDAR - Show in year plan - Show event locations - Cross-calendar appointment overlaps - Summary of consecutive events - Timeline in weekly and day views 10-DAY WEATHER FORECAST (premium feature) - available as yearly in-app subscription with auto-renewal - see privacy: https://www.pentabyte.de/applications/iOS/Wochenplan/ - see terms of use / EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ DISCLAIMER - No notifications. Recommendation: continue to use the iOS calendar for reminders. This is generally the best way to do it because it also notifies you about changes to shared calendars in real-time.

Screenshots

Float4 screens
Week Plan Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Float at none against Week Plan Calendar's 1. Float also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). Week Plan Calendar's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (33 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, 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. Week Plan Calendar sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Float asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Float holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Week Plan Calendar has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 95% and 94% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Float ships an update every 6 months, Week Plan Calendar every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 21, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Float versus Week Plan Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloatWeek Plan Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.6 (33 ratings)
Positive reviews95.2% of reviews — better94.4% of reviews
Number of ratings333 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMylo Creative LimitedMichael Hoereth

Customer experience

Float

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%

Week Plan Calendar

All ratings33 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral5.6%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Float

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Week Plan Calendar

Subscriptions1
  • Weather Forecast for 1 Year1 Month trial$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Float free?
Float is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Week Plan Calendar free?
Week Plan Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Float or Week Plan Calendar?
Float is rated higher. Float averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Week Plan Calendar averages 4.6 from 33 ratings.
Do Float or Week Plan Calendar have ads?
Neither Float nor Week Plan Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Float or Week Plan Calendar?
Float ships an update every 6 months, and Week Plan Calendar every 2 weeks. Most recently, Float was updated on July 21, 2026 and Week Plan Calendar on September 28, 2026.

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