Add Calendar Basic vs Fridge2Cal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Add Calendar Basic
This utility app allows users to add custom calendars directly to their device wallpaper. It also offers a convenient feature for managing 3-shift work schedules.
- Add custom calendars to wallpaper
- 3-shift work schedule management
- Wallpaper integration
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You can add a custom calendar on your wallpaper. 3-Shift work schedule is also provided so easily.
Fridge2Cal
Effortlessly digitize your paper calendars into your iPhone's digital schedule. Simply snap a photo of any monthly grid, and the app extracts events, allowing you to review and sync them with a single tap. It even offers an undo function for synced events.
- Photo scanning of paper calendars
- Automatic event extraction
- Editable event drafts
- One-tap sync to iOS Calendar
- Undo synced events
- Duplicate event detection
- History of past scans
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Fridge2Cal is a calendar scanner that turns photos of paper calendars into editable events for your iPhone. Read handwritten schedules, review the details, and sync approved events to iOS Calendar. Snap a photo of any month grid: the family calendar from school, your wall planner, the magnetic one stuck above the kitchen counter. Fridge2Cal reads the dates, times, locations, and event titles, then drops them into a clean review workspace where you can fix anything before they touch your real calendar. When the drafts look right, one tap pushes them straight into the iOS Calendar. Synced something by mistake? Hit undo and it’s gone — from Fridge2Cal and from your calendar. WHY FRIDGE2CAL The best paper calendar in the world is still a paper calendar. School schedules, sports brackets, work shift sheets, recital dates, fridge magnets — they all show up on paper, and they all need to live on your phone. Manually retyping a month’s worth of events is tedious, error-prone, and the reason half of those dates never make it onto your calendar at all. Fridge2Cal closes that gap. Take a photo, get back a sortable, editable list of events, and ship the ones you want to your iPhone in one tap. WHAT IT DOES • SNAP — Camera or photo library. Crop to the month grid so we focus on what matters. • EXTRACT — Every event we can read becomes an editable draft: title, start, end, location, notes. All-day events and timed events are both supported. • REVIEW — Switch between Calendar and List views. Tap any draft to fix the title, change the time, add a location, or expand notes. Each one shows the original handwritten source so you can double-check. • FLAG — Anything ambiguous (smudged times, mystery initials, dates without a year) gets a Needs Review callout instead of being silently guessed. • DUPLICATE CHECK — We scan your existing calendar inside the date range and warn you when a draft might already be there. No more “doctor’s appointment” showing up twice. • SYNC — One tap pushes every approved draft to your iOS Calendar. Per-event sync is supported too. • UNDO — Every synced event can be removed from your calendar with a single tap, even days later. We track the event identifier so we know exactly what to pull back out. • HISTORY — Past scans live in My Scans with the original photo and event counts. Reopen any scan to keep editing or syncing later. GREAT FOR • Parents juggling school, sports, and music schedules • Students copying syllabus dates and exam weeks • Shift workers translating printed rosters • Anyone with a wall planner, fridge magnet calendar, or bullet journal page • Conference programs, tournament brackets, recital schedules PAPER GOES IN. CALENDAR COMES OUT. If you’ve ever stood in front of your fridge taking notes on your phone, you’ll get it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fridge2Cal at 5.0 against Add Calendar Basic's 1.0. Fridge2Cal also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). Add Calendar Basic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 26.2). On price, ratings volume 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. Fridge2Cal sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Add Calendar Basic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fridge2Cal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Add Calendar Basic ships an update monthly, Fridge2Cal every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Add Calendar Basic | Fridge2Cal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | cho seonghyun | Massive Interface LLC |
Customer experience
Add Calendar Basic
Fridge2Cal
In-app purchases
Add Calendar Basic
No in-app purchases
Fridge2Cal
- Pro Weekly$1.997 Days
- Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- 10 Calendar Scan Credits$1.99
- 50 Calendar Scan Credits$4.99
- 200 Calendar Scan Credits$14.99









