Comparison

My Message vs Calenk

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

Head to head
About

My Message

This app sends messages to yourself as reminders for memos, to-dos, or future notes. Enable notifications to receive these self-messages directly on your device.

Highlights
  • Self-messaging reminders
  • Memos and to-do lists
  • Future messages
  • Notification delivery
Features
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A new reminder app that sends a message to yourself. You will receive a message from yourself. You can use it in various ways, such as memos, TODO, and messages to yourself in the future. If you turn on the notification permission, you can get messages by notification.

About

Calenk

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Family plans, clear at a glance. Calenk is a shared calendar for families and couples. See the next event and today’s plans on the Home screen, create events in one place, and keep comments and images with the events they belong to. What you can do with Calenk: • Keep shared plans in one calendar View your plans alongside those of your family or partner. Switch between month, week, day, and list views. • See what’s next The Home screen shows the next event and today’s plans, so you can check your schedule as soon as you open the app. • Create each event in one place Set a title, date, time, location, notes, and reminder for each event. • Keep details with each event Use comments for meeting details and things to bring, and add related images such as school notices. • Join with an invite code Enter an invite code to join the same calendar as your family or partner. • Create candidate events from a work schedule Choose an image or PDF of a work schedule to create candidate events with dates, shift codes, and start and end times. Review the dates and shift codes, adjust the times when needed, select the candidates you want, and confirm them before adding them to the shared calendar. • Remember important dates Add birthdays and anniversaries as events that repeat every year. Keep everyday plans and event details together in Calenk, with work-schedule import when you need it.

Screenshots

My Message2 screens
Calenk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Calenk at none against My Message's shown. My Message's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Message ships an update daily, Calenk weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
My Message versus Calenk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy MessageCalenk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerkazuhiro aonumaToshiki Higaki

In-app purchases

None

My Message

No in-app purchases

None

Calenk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Message free?
My Message is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calenk free?
Calenk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Message or Calenk have ads?
My Message shows ads; Calenk does not.
Which is updated more often, My Message or Calenk?
My Message ships an update daily, and Calenk weekly. Most recently, My Message was updated on October 22, 2026 and Calenk on October 24, 2026.

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