calQuery vs Menu Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
calQuery
Easily search your iPhone or iPad calendar for past events. Results can be sorted by date, location, or alphabetically. Tapping a result opens the corresponding day in your native calendar app.
- Search past calendar events
- Sort results by date, location, alphabet
- Open events in native calendar
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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With calQuery you can search the calendar of your iPhone of iPad. Unlike the search function of the calendar app, even long past events are found. The search results can be sorted by date, location and alphabet. By selecting a result, the corresponding day is displayed in the calendar app.
Menu Box
Create visually appealing menus for your device's shortcuts. Customize menu items with emojis, app icons, or custom images to build personalized automations. Dynamically generate menus on the fly for advanced shortcut customization.
- Create beautiful menus for Shortcuts
- Customize with emojis, SF Symbols, or custom images
- Attach custom data to menu items
- Fully controllable via Shortcuts
- Dynamically create menus on the fly
- Enhance Action Button functionality
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Menu Box allows you to create beautiful menus in Shortcuts, further customising your advanced Automations. Menus can be created using emojis, SF Symbols App Icons or your own custom images to create truly individual menus with near limitless options. Custom data attached to each menu items allows you to create even more advanced Shortcuts. Menu Box is fully controllable via Shortcuts, including creating Menus dynamically on the fly. Menu Box is perfect for creating advanced Shortcuts to allow you to further customise how your menus look, and becomes especially useful when combined with the Action Button. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: calQuery at none against Menu Box's 4. calQuery also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (14.5 vs 17.5). Menu Box's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Menu Box sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. calQuery asks for nothing beyond the download.
calQuery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Menu Box has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
calQuery ships an update every 9 months, Menu Box fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | calQuery | Menu Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uwe Holtkamp | Snailed It Development Ltd |
Customer experience
calQuery
Menu Box
In-app purchases
calQuery
No in-app purchases
Menu Box
- Premium$4.991 Year
- Tip Jar - Small$0.99
- Tip Jar - Medium$2.99
- Tip Jar - Large$4.99
