Designgraphik vs GraphiCal 2023
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Designgraphik
Explore a curated collection of innovative digital art from a renowned designer. This app showcases high-resolution works in a custom gallery, offering a unique artistic experience.
- High-resolution artwork display
- Custom gallery presentation
- Curated digital art collection
- Exploration of online design boundaries
- Artist's proprietary creative environment
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Designgraphik is Michael Paul Young. His innovative work has been exhibited worldwide, from the 500,000 LED pixels of U2’s 360° Tour to a 70-foot tall projection on Richard Meier’s The Hague City Hall. He has won awards including the Clio and the Cannes Gold Cyber Lion and has spoken at the world’s most renowned design conventions and festivals. At the turn of the millennium, Young found himself needing a place to explore and test the boundaries of online digital art, resulting in his creation of the Designgraphik name and website. Whether on the web at that site and others like Submethod and Vir2l, in print, or on various hard media, his goal was always the exploration and testing of boundaries, under presentation circumstances that he controlled, in environments that were his own proprietary creations. The work helped to shape online design throughout the late 90s and early 00s, and was nominated for and won numerous multimedia and online design awards until Young retired the Designgraphik name in 2010. In 2020, as we enter the fourth decade of life online, nothing is proprietary. Online art is democratized and sanitized, cropped, compressed, formatted, influenced, ranked, rated and ultimately forgotten in a dark corner of a corporate data center. And so Young has re-launched the Designgraphik name and ethos, once again in presentation circumstances under his control, in an environment that is his own proprietary creation. The ultimate expression of that concept is this app, designed to present Young's work as Designgraphik in high resolution, in a custom gallery, for free.
GraphiCal 2023
Experience the digital version of a classic tear-off calendar, featuring 365 unique infographics. Enjoy a nostalgic and visually engaging way to discover interesting facts daily.
- 365 daily facts
- Hand-crafted infographics
- Authentic tear-off feel
- Environmentally friendly alternative
- Nostalgic experience
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The GraphiCal App by Bureau Oberhaeuser is the environmentally friendly version of the classic tear-off calendar: For the nostalgic in us with the most authentic tear-off feel possible. You can expect 365 broadly spread facts visualized in beautiful, hand crafted infographics. Have fun with the virtual tear-off! Disclaimer In no way do we guarantee (expressed or implied) the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the presented information. Basing further speculation or data interpretation from this information is entirely at your own risk. All Rights Reserved © Bureau Oberhaeuser 2023
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GraphiCal 2023 at Free against Designgraphik's $1.99. GraphiCal 2023 also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Designgraphik's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1) and chart position (#157 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
GraphiCal 2023 is free to download; Designgraphik costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GraphiCal 2023 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Designgraphik has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Designgraphik's written reviews are positive against 100% of GraphiCal 2023's.
Designgraphik ships an update monthly, GraphiCal 2023 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Designgraphik | GraphiCal 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #157 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YouWorkForThem, Inc | Oberhaeuser GmbH |
Customer experience
Designgraphik
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In-app purchases
Designgraphik
No in-app purchases
GraphiCal 2023
No in-app purchases
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