Calendar Widget vs Calendar Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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://
Calendar Notes
Capture your thoughts and plans directly on a calendar. This straightforward app lets you add notes, ideas, and personal agendas to specific dates with customizable colors. View your entries by month or year in a clean, lightweight interface.
- Save notes and ideas to calendar dates
- Add color to notes
- View notes by month or year
- Perpetual calendar functionality
- Lightweight and small app size
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An very easy app to save your idea and your notes in a calendar date form * beautiful & simple application without any pretension/requirement * add a note, idea, personal agenda, diary into calendar * perpetual calendar * swipe left and right to change month * you can view list of notes by monthly or yearly * multicolor note. add color to a note * optimized & lightweight app * small size App Don't let your idea gone, write it down with this calendar notes app !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calendar Notes at 93% against Calendar Widget's 58%. Calendar Notes also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Calendar Widget's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Calendar Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 236 and 128 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Calendar Widget's written reviews are positive against 93% of Calendar Notes's.
Calendar Widget ships an update every 2 months, Calendar Notes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar Widget | Calendar Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (236 ratings) | 4.9 (128 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 236 — better | 128 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Edi Ermawan |
Customer experience
Calendar Widget
Calendar Notes
In-app purchases
Calendar Widget
No in-app purchases
Calendar Notes
No in-app purchases
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