Action Calendar vs Upliftly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Action Calendar
This app helps you build good habits by tracking daily actions. Mark off completed tasks to fill your calendar with gold stars, providing visual motivation and feedback.
- Track daily actions and goals
- Mark off completed tasks
- Visual gold star calendar feedback
- Motivation for habit building
- Personalized goal setting
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A personal gold star system for actioning your daily goals. Have one or more actions you would like to achieve each day? It could be to meditate, complete a workout, make time to read, do 30 minutes of yoga, eat more or less chocolate, or spend time talking to a friend? Add your actions into Action Calendar and each day mark them off when you complete them. As you complete more actions each day the calendar will fill with gold; giving you instant feedback on how well you are keeping your daily actions. See your calendar fill with more gold will help reinforce your motivation for keeping good habits.
Upliftly
This app offers neuroscience-backed mental health tools to cultivate a positive mindset. It combines mindfulness, meditation, affirmations, and reframing techniques to foster well-being and personal transformation. Sessions are flexible and customizable to fit your daily routine.
- Guided meditation and mindfulness sessions
- Positive reframing techniques
- Customizable voice, music, and visuals
- Post-session journaling
- Progress tracking and reminders
- Flexible session lengths (5, 10, 15 min)
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UPLIFT YOUR MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT Discover positive mindfulness at your fingertips with Upliftly—a neuroscience-backed mental health app that blends mindfulness, meditation, affirmation and positive reframing to build a more positive mindset and achieve a sustained transformation to be your highest self. By providing heartfelt encouragement, powerful perspective shifts, elevated resilience, to reframing negative thoughts, Upliftly empowers your well-being and positive outlook through flexible “Uplifts” tailored to fit your life: - ANYTIME, ANYWHERE: Practice guided meditation and mindfulness at home, on a walk, at work, or while commuting. - UPLIFTLY ON YOUR TERMS: Choose from a growing library of session topics and lengths of 5, 10, or 15 minutes. - CUSTOMIZABLE FEATURES: Enhance your experience by choosing a voice, calming music, and optional visual aids. - KEEP THE GROWTH GOING: Reflect on your journey with a post-session journal, crafted to help you stay mindful. - REMINDERS: Stay on track with progress reports and reminders to build a daily habit of practicing mindfulness. WHO IS UPLIFTLY FOR? Whether you’re new to mindfulness or a seasoned practitioner, Upliftly meditation sessions meet you where you are to help foster more joy and brightness in your life. POPULAR TOPICS INCLUDE: - Strengthening self-love and gratitude - Mindful parenting and family harmony - Building confidence and resilience at work - Coping with anxiety and stress - Managing life transitions with positivity - Relaxing the mind and body for sleep YOUR PARTNER IN POSITIVE MINDFULNESS Ready to reframe your mindset? Download Upliftly and start your FREE TRIAL today to unlock your path to a brighter, more balanced you. If you have any questions, please reach out to us here: hello@upliftly.app MEDICAL DISCLAIMER While mindfulness practice can enhance your life, meditation is not a replacement for mental health services. If you are experiencing severe anxiety or medical conditions, please contact a mental health provider or call 911 if you need immediate assistance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Action Calendar at free against Upliftly's free with in-app purchases. Action Calendar also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Upliftly's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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 — 5.0 for Action Calendar against 4.9 for Upliftly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Upliftly has 43 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Action Calendar ships an update fortnightly, Upliftly every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Action Calendar | Upliftly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CAN YOU HEAR ME SOFTWARE | Andrew Dillon |
Customer experience
Action Calendar
Upliftly
In-app purchases
Action Calendar
No in-app purchases
Upliftly
No in-app purchases
