Notion Calendar vs FocusLapse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notion Calendar
Manage your schedule and meetings with a unified calendar view. Seamlessly integrate with Google Calendar and Notion to organize your work and personal life. Offers helpful widgets and multi-time zone support.
- Deep Google Calendar integration
- Connects to Notion documents and projects
- Multiple time zone support
- Unified view across multiple calendars
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Available in 12 languages
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Notion Calendar lets you schedule meetings and control your time like never before. It deeply integrates with Google Calendar accounts so that all your events are synced. Along with speed, beauty, and light/dark modes, Notion Calendar includes powerful features: - CONNECTED TO NOTION — add Notion docs, projects, and timelines. - MULTIPLE TIME ZONES — pull the time zone column to the right to “travel to any city” and add more time zones. - ALL IN ONE PLACE — see one unified view across multiple calendars and auto-sync events between them. - WIDGETS — select from 6 Home Screen Widgets featuring rich previews of upcoming events, month overviews, quick-add event buttons, and more! The Lock Screen Widget lets you see what’s coming at a glance when picking up your phone. - AVAILABLE IN 12 LANGUAGES — Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish. It’s time.
FocusLapse
Record your study or work sessions as time-lapse videos. This app helps reduce phone distractions and provides a visual log of your effort. Review your progress with animated overlays and history tracking.
- Record study/work sessions as time-lapse videos
- Animated analog clock overlay
- Front and rear camera support
- Adjustable video speed
- Focus history and progress graphs
- Home screen widgets
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FocusLapse turns your study, work and reading sessions into time-lapse videos and a personal focus log. Set down your phone and start focusing. Recording yourself at work can help you stay with the task in front of you. Turn a long session into a short video, then look back and see the effort you put in. Features • Record time-lapse videos while you focus • Review your focus time in charts • Add a rating and a note to each session • Delete unwanted sessions and remove their time from your totals • Switch between front and rear cameras • Choose video orientation, clock design and study-time display before recording • Combine multiple time-lapse videos into one highlight video • Save finished videos to Photos • Check your focus time in a widget Keep a visual record of your study or work routine. You can share your finished videos through your usual social apps. Free to use, with no ads or account required. Videos, focus records, ratings and notes stay on your device and are not sent to the developer's servers. Available in Japanese, English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian and French. The app follows your device's preferred languages.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FocusLapse at 100% against Notion Calendar's 39%. FocusLapse also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Notion Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (7.8K vs 8). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FocusLapse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notion Calendar has 7.8K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Notion Calendar's written reviews are positive against 100% of FocusLapse's.
Notion Calendar ships an update every 11 days, FocusLapse fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notion Calendar | FocusLapse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7.8K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.8K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Notion Labs, Incorporated | cocon Godo Kaisha |
Customer experience
Notion Calendar
FocusLapse
Bugs and requests
Notion Calendar
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when trying to add events
- Syncing issues causing events to disappear or display incorrectly
- Time zone issues leading to incorrect event times
- Widgets not updating properly
Requested features
6 requests- Add monthly and weekly calendar views
- Integrate with more calendar providers (Microsoft, Apple, etc.)
- Improve iPad compatibility and optimize for larger screens
- Add task management and to-do list functionality
- Enhance customization options (colors, themes, etc.)
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- Improve event creation and editing experience
FocusLapse
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Notion Calendar
No in-app purchases
FocusLapse
No in-app purchases
