Calendar vs Calendar Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calendar
Manage your schedule with this intuitive calendar app. Easily add, edit, and share events with others, and customize your view with multiple display options. Widgets provide quick access to your schedule.
- Home-screen widget support
- Quick event adding and editing
- Event sharing with contacts
- Attendee invitations and status updates
- Multiple view options (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, list)
- Customizable preferences
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Take control of your calendar events, using our easy to use Calendar app with full home-screen Widget support. Quickly add, edit and share your diary events to your family, friends or work collegues. Invite people as attendees on your calendar events, or change your participation status on events people give you an invitation for. We offer daily, weekly, monthly & yearly views, plus a handy list view so you can quickly see your events in a format that suits your needs. We offer many preference you can freely adjust to make the calendar work for you. We're always working to improve our apps, and therefore would love any feedback or suggestions you may have.
Calendar Widget
This app offers a free, user-friendly calendar experience with extensive customization options. It includes widgets for your home screen and allows for detailed event management, including recurring events and notifications. Enjoy a personalized schedule without any registration or syncing requirements.
- Home screen widgets
- No registration required
- Customizable event details
- Recurring event support
- Daily event notifications
- Unlimited calendars
- Dark mode
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It's a simple and easy-to-use calendar app. Widgets are available. All features are completely free to use. Features: - No registration required, no sync with iPhone calendar - Calendar horizontal / vertical scroll - Select calendar start / end year - 24 hour notation - Select calendar start day - Any holiday selection - Getting holidays - Holiday, days off color - Rokuyo support - Event label color - Color selection for event label font only - Event label font size, thickness - Time display on event label - Event time interval selection - Select event length - Default all-day selection - Daily event notification - Daily event number badge display - Select update time for daily notifications - Unlimited number of calendars - Calendar color - Pin the calendar - Notification for each calendar, badge availability selection - Highlight the date of the day on the calendar - Button to return to this month - Any date selection - Tap a date to add an event on that day - Select multiple dates and add events at once - Background color for calendar dates - Batch addition of background color - Event title, memo, color - Event time, all day selection - Event start time / end time - Repeat event (weekly / monthly / yearly) - Automatic save of event addition history, bookmark save - Add an event with one tap from history and bookmarks - Event list display by date - Batch event deletion, color change, sharing, - Move and duplicate events between calendars - Home screen widget support (calendar selection, this month / next month / last month selectable) - Icon badge display (number of events on the day) - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: calendarwidget://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Calendar at none against Calendar Widget's shown. Calendar also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Calendar Widget's advantage is ratings volume (236 vs 28). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Calendar against 4.5 for Calendar Widget. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Widget has 236 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Calendar's written reviews are positive against 58% of Calendar Widget's.
Calendar ships an update weekly, Calendar Widget every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar | Calendar Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (28 ratings) | 4.5 (236 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 58.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 236 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HurryApp LTD | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Calendar
Calendar Widget
In-app purchases
Calendar
No in-app purchases
Calendar Widget
No in-app purchases
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