Comparison

Checklists XL vs miCal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Checklists XL

Organize your life with customizable checklists for travel, sports, and daily tasks. Easily create, manage, and share your lists, with options to hide completed items and reorder content.

Highlights
  • Multiple checklist creation
  • Check and uncheck items
  • Reset lists
  • Hide checked items option
  • Email list items
  • Bulk add items
  • Edit, sort, and reorder items
Features
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Create and manage all sorts of checklists. E.g. for travel, sports and things to do or to remember. Features: - Multiple checklists - check and uncheck the items on each list - reset the list to all unchecked state - optionally hide checked items - e-mail items - bulk add multiple items - edit, sort and reorder items - rename and reorder checklists

About

miCal

This app enhances your scheduling experience with a clear dashboard, intuitive controls, and natural language input for event creation. It offers comprehensive views, task management, birthday reminders, and weather forecasts.

Highlights
  • Dashboard overview of events, tasks, and weather
  • Intuitive navigation and event creation
  • Natural language input for events
  • iOS Reminders integration
  • Birthday reminders with custom music
  • 5-day weather forecasts
  • Event export (CSV, ICS)
Features
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miCal is THE calendar that you’ve always wished your iPhone or iPad had! miCal makes scheduling easier, clearer—and better looking—than ever before. Quick Overview The dashboard displays your current appointments and events, tasks and birthdays. You can also see the current weather and an overview of the current month at a glance. Intuitive Controls Intuitively navigate through your calendars and quickly, easily add events and tasks thanks to predefined settings and simple controls. Standard settings like repeating events and reminders/alarms are just a tap away. And powerful special settings are also available, without sacrificing comfort or control. Swipe through views and open events or days with just a tap. miCal Understands You Quickly create events with the new natural language input feature. Natural language input allows you to create events just by describing them. And if you have Siri enabled on your device, you can even dictate your event details instead of typing. The Total Package miCal provides complete, well-organized day, week and month views and displays the calendar week in all the important views. Relax You don’t need to contort yourself with miCal. miCal supports portrait as well as landscape formats in nearly every view. Use each view however it’s most comfortable for you. Tasks/Reminders miCal now supports iOS reminders. Create reminders for all the important tasks in your private and professional life right in the app. Birthday Manager Never again miss an important birthday. Get reminders at preset times featuring the music of your choice. Nice Weather Five-day weather forecasts plus the sunrise/sunset times, humidity and wind speed for the current day. The dashboard even features a quick summary of the current weather as well as a brief forecast of the coming days. Comprehensive miCal offers a unique range of features. Copy, move or send your events. Export your events in the date range of your choice as CSV (for Excel, etc.) or ICS (the calendar format). Set colors for your calendars and individual appointments or automatically add colors based on keywords in event titles. Up to Date and Secure miCal communicates with your device’s integrated calendar. miCal works with all the calendar services that your device currently supports (iCloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Exchange, Facebook Events, subscriptions) without requiring additional configuration. That way, you can store your data locally or via the services you know and trust—it’s up to you. miCal itself does not transmit any data to external services or other servers. That allows us to ensure 100% data security. Award-Winning - 3rd place in the "Best German iPhone App" competition at the 2010 iPhone Developer conference. - Featured as App of the Week in 13 countries. - Recommendation from iPhoneWelt and a 5-star rating from iPhone&Co, two of the leading iPhone magazines - Honored at the 2010 App Developer Conference

Screenshots

miCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: miCal at every 5 weeks against Checklists XL's every 11 months. miCal also leads on ratings volume (593 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). Checklists XL's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Checklists XL costs $0.99 and miCal $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Checklists XL holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: miCal has 593 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Checklists XL's written reviews are positive against 78% of miCal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Checklists XL ships an update every 11 months, miCal every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Checklists XL versus miCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChecklists XLmiCal
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (593 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews77.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1593 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.611.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiet Jonasentwicklungsschmiede UG & Co KG

Customer experience

Checklists XL

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

miCal

All ratings593 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews507 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral7.9%
Negative14.2%

Bugs and requests

Checklists XL

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

miCal

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Reminders not working as expected
  • Sync issues between iPhone and iPad
  • Crashes and freezes after iOS updates
  • Incorrect anniversary year calculations
  • Unable to edit event titles on iPad

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for time zones
  • Improve natural language input
  • Introduce a dark mode option
  • Allow for more calendar customization
  • Integrate with additional third-party services

In-app purchases

None

Checklists XL

No in-app purchases

None

miCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Checklists XL free?
Checklists XL costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is miCal free?
miCal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Checklists XL or miCal?
Checklists XL is rated higher. Checklists XL averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while miCal averages 4.7 from 593 ratings.
Do Checklists XL or miCal have ads?
Neither Checklists XL nor miCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Checklists XL or miCal?
Checklists XL ships an update every 11 months, and miCal every 5 weeks. Most recently, Checklists XL was updated on October 23, 2026 and miCal on October 26, 2026.

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