Comparison

CalReader vs WBidMax

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

Head to head
About

CalReader

Enhance your calendar's readability with customizable fonts and sizes. Easily filter events by date, calendar, or search terms, and export your data and time calculations in various formats like TEXT, CSV, or TSV. This tool is ideal for logging work or personal events and generating invoices.

Highlights
  • Customizable font and size
  • Event filtering by date, calendar, and text
  • TEXT, CSV, TSV export
  • Time calculation for billing
  • Siri Shortcuts integration
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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CalReader provides calendar readability, TEXT/CSV/TSV export, and time calculations. Choose a favorite font and size for maximum readability. Filter event listings by date range, calendar, and search text, and export listings and time calculations at TEXT, CSV, or TSV files. CalReader features time analysis and can calculate an invoice billing amount and time log for a given filter setup, total hours and rate per hour. Use Siri Shortcuts and Home Screen Quick Actions to quickly perform common actions in CalReader. CalReader can be used to log events on work/home projects. CalReader integrates iOS, macOS and CalDAV calendars including macOS Server, Google and Yahoo calendars, and provides a unique tool for journals, diaries and event logs. CalReader's unique flexibility makes for easy browsing/reading of one's history or future. The events listing view optionally displays ALL of the text of an event in an easy to read format. Calendar Filtering • Choose a date range to filter the visible events and to calculate hours and produce time logs. • Easily choose a single calendar, multiple calendars or all calendars for viewing. • Search selected calendars for text, keywords or phrases. • The search function can be used to search for times or dates. For example, find all events in the date range that start at "9:00 AM", or events on the date "11/4/26". Export Listings and Calculations • The export text generated by the Copy Text With Calculations command includes a header with the current calendar names, date range and optional search text. • Copy the filtered calendar text, with or without calculations, and then paste the text to other types of applications, or tap E-Mail Text to deliver the calendar text via e-mail. • E-mail CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or TSV (Tab-Separated Values) event listing files as attachments. • The Calculations view displays the total hours for the filtered event set and calculates the total amount using rate per hour, useful for invoices / billing. Calculations also displays the event count, average, minimum and maximum duration for the current set of events. Display Customization • Dark Mode support, and app-based dark and light styles with various color effects and calendar color indications. • Customize the font and size of the calendar text for best readability: large text is easy on the eyes, or small text for high density information. • Use pinch touch gestures to instantly change the size of the text. • Choose from various view styles using calendar colors, or no colors. • Choose to view all text of each item, or limit the number of lines (1-5) for a quick overview. Usability • Week and Month select: Previous, This, Next buttons provide fast one-tap date range selections. Use Previous and Next buttons repeatedly to move the date range window through time. • Go To Today and Go To Date actions provide quick navigation. • Speak Events uses the device’s text-to-speech capabilities to speak the currently visible events. • The Filter settings, Actions, Display, Calculations and Extras sections are neatly accessible without scrolling and searching for functions. • Tap the Done button for direct return to the main CalReader view after performing functions or settings changes. • Event listings include the duration for each event. • Events close to the current time are highlighted in the listing view with a gradient of orange displayed along the right edge, most intense for events close to the current time, fading off for events within 24 hours before and after the current time. • The filter settings of CalReader help produce complete listings of events that match a date range, calendar set, and a text phrase, and readability all of the text in the filtered set of events. • Choose to see all of the event text for all displayed events in the list, or truncated text and more items per screen. • Update Notification sound indicates a calendar update.

About

WBidMax

This system helps pilots and flight attendants manage their monthly scheduling bids. It allows users to filter, weight, and sort bid lines with extensive features and customization options. Comprehensive help documents and videos are available for easy mastery.

Highlights
  • Download and submit bids for all bases and rounds
  • Multiple views of bid data (Summary, Bid Line, Modern, Calendar)
  • Extensive constraints, sorts, and weights for bid customization
  • View modification buttons for overlap predictions and vacation features
  • Help section with documents and videos
  • Export lines to calendar
  • Easy recall of bid-related documents
Features
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The WBid Bidding System This system is designed to assist Pilots and Flight Attendants in managing their monthly scheduling bid. Additionally, this system can be used by any entrepreneur who may want to provide a bid service for Pilots and Flight Attendants. WBid has a proud 20+ year history of serving Pilots and Flight Attendants, and several Bid Service companies. This software allows the user to download bid data from the WBid back end, which in turn allows Pilots and Flight Attendants the ability to filter (set constraints), weight (set weights) and sort (set sort method) the bid lines in the downloaded bid data. Once you learn and master the WBid bidding system (very easy, with lots of help documents and videos), you will be able to bid in no time at all. The WBid Bidding System has more features and capabilities than any other Bidding System. Here is what currently exists: Download and submit bids for all bases and all rounds Four different views of bid data (Summary, Bid Line, Modern, and Calendar) Constraints: 30+ and adding each month Sorts: 6 Block Sort: 17 (300+ Trillion Combinations) Weights: 27+ and adding each month View Modification Buttons: 4 (OVR, VAC, DRP, EOM) Help Section with Documents and Videos (Help => Help) Export Line to Calendar (FFDO export next month) Easy recall of: Cover Letter, Seniority List, Bid Awards, Bid Receipt (Bid Stuff) 30 slides in extensive Walkthrough tutorial (Help => Walkthrough) Configuration Panel: Pairing Export, AM/PM, Week, Hotels, User, and Misc Bid Data View Modification Buttons (OVR, VAC, DRP, EOM) You can modify the displayed bid data to accommodate Month to Month Overlap Predictions (OVR button), Vacation Overlap (VAC), dropping the flights that are not paid because of Vacation Overlap (DRP), and a unique End Of Month Vacation feature (EOM). The WBid Bidding System will display over 10 times the data available in other bidding systems.

Screenshots

CalReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WBidMax at Free against CalReader's $6.99. WBidMax also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 33%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). CalReader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

WBidMax is free to download; CalReader costs $6.99 up front. WBidMax sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. CalReader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for CalReader against 4.2 for WBidMax. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of CalReader's written reviews are positive against 67% of WBidMax's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CalReader ships an update every 4 months, WBidMax monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
CalReader versus WBidMax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalReaderWBidMax
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better4.2 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB53 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperImajaWBid, LLC

Customer experience

CalReader

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

WBidMax

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

CalReader

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

WBidMax

One-time2
  • One Month Subscription$5.99
  • One Month Subscription$6.99

Questions

Is CalReader free?
CalReader costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is WBidMax free?
WBidMax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CalReader or WBidMax?
CalReader is rated higher. CalReader averages 4.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while WBidMax averages 4.2 from 9 ratings.
Do CalReader or WBidMax have ads?
Neither CalReader nor WBidMax shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CalReader or WBidMax?
CalReader ships an update every 4 months, and WBidMax monthly. Most recently, CalReader was updated on August 29, 2026 and WBidMax on September 11, 2026.

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