CalendarLife vs Calendar Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CalendarLife
Enhance your iPhone's calendar with a classic style interface and numerous customization options. This app syncs automatically with your device's native database, offering a user-friendly experience with multiple views and personalized display settings.
- Classic style interface
- Customizable display (fonts, colors, pictures)
- List, Day, Month, Week, Agenda views
- Automatic syncing with native database
- Apple Watch and Notification Center Widget support
- Quick swipe delete and date select
- Event coloring and descriptions
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CalendarLife is a vastly improved user experience for your iPhone's calendar. CalendarLife has a simple layout based around the classic original style built in Calendar app, but with many added features, improvements and customisation possibilities. CalendarLife uses your device's native database to display your events in a fully customisable and much more user friendly way. This means your events sync automatically. Simply download the app and all your calendars will automatically be there ready for you. No further set up is required. You will also be able to switch between the native Calendar app and CalendarLife and your events will always be in sync. List, Day, Month, Week and Agenda views. Optional Coloured bars for events (so no more black dots on your month view). Choose your font, colours and add pictures to personalise your display. Swipe motion quick delete and date select. This will quickly become one of your indispensable and most used apps. FEATURES: * Apple Watch * Notification Center Widget * List, Day, Month, Week and Agenda Views. * iPhone, iPad Pro, iPad, iPad mini. * iCloud, Google, Outlook, etc. * Pictures for calendar Month View. * Import your own pictures. * Month View event colours and descriptions (no more black dot). * Choose your font. * Choose your colours. * Choose your start of week. * Quickly go to any date. * View all your calendars. * Swipe motion to change between days, weeks and months. * Quick swipe delete. ( horizontal swipe on event description and select 'Delete' ) * Customise display colour for individual events. ( horizontal swipe on event description and select 'Edit Display') _______________________________________ - THIS IS NOT A FREE APP. DOWNLOAD THE LITE VERSION FOR FREE TO SEE IF YOU LIKE IT BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO PURCHASE. THE LITE VERSION IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL EXCEPT THAT IT CONTAINS ADVERTS AND RESTRICTS THE NUMBER OF EVENTS THAT CAN BE CREATED AND ADDED TO YOUR CALENDARS. A SMALL IN-APP UPGRADE CAN BE PURCHASED TO REMOVE THE RESTRICTIONS AND ADVERTS. THE COMPLETE CURRENT AND NEXT YEAR'S CALENDARS ARE THEN INCLUDED WITH THE INITIAL FULL VERSION UPGRADE PURCHASE. SUBSEQUENT CALENDAR YEARS ARE AVAILABLE AS A SMALL IN-APP PURCHASE. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE DISPLAYED THE COST IN YOUR LOCAL CURRENCY, BEFORE BEING ASKED TO CONFIRM ANY IN-APP PURCHASE. To allow our users to further customise their app to meet their specific needs and interests, there is also a separate Add-on available called the ‘Calendar Store’ provided by SchedJoules. It contains a large selection of great holiday, sport fixtures, weather & lifestyle calendars. These calendars can be set up so they are displayed alongside your other personal calendar events. You can purchase access to the ’Calendar Store’ Add-on for 1 year with a yearly auto-renewable subscription. You get full and ongoing access to the ‘Calendar Store’, including live updates. The 1 year subscription to the ‘Calendar Store’ Add-on starts at $1.99 (Prices may vary by location) and begins with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions to the Add-on automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. You can manage your subscription and turn off the auto-renew for the 'Calendar Store' Add-on at any time from your iTunes Account Settings. Full Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy are available at www.ovalkey.com/terms-of-service and www.ovalkey.com/privacy-policy respectively.
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 in-app purchases: Calendar Notes at none against CalendarLife's 10. Calendar Notes also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 80%). CalendarLife's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (548 vs 133). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. CalendarLife sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Calendar Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calendar Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 548 and 133 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of CalendarLife's written reviews are positive against 93% of Calendar Notes's.
CalendarLife ships an update every 6 weeks, Calendar Notes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CalendarLife | Calendar Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (548 ratings) | 4.9 (133 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.8% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 548 — better | 133 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OvalKey Ltd. | Edi Ermawan |
Customer experience
CalendarLife
Calendar Notes
Bugs and requests
CalendarLife
Reported bugs
4 issues- Calendar dates not updating correctly
- Reminders/alerts not working as expected
- Color settings not persisting after updates
- Inability to restore previous year's events
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to schedule recurring events (e.g., first Monday of every month)
- Option to add notes/comments to events
- Integration with maps for event locations
- Contrast-reducing filter for uploaded images
- Ability to delete unwanted holidays/events
Calendar Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CalendarLife
- Calendar Store Add-On1 Month trial$1.991 Year
- Premium Unlimited Access1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Holidays United States$0.99
- CalendarLife Upgrade$4.99
- CalendarLife 2021 Calendar$4.99
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- CalendarLife 2022 Calendar$4.99
- CalendarLife 2023 Calendar$4.99
- CalendarLife 2024 Calendar$4.99
- CalendarLife 2025 Calendar$4.99
- CalendarLife 2027 Calendar$6.99
Calendar Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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