Easy Calendar vs iCalendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Easy Calendar
This app offers a user-friendly weekly calendar experience, allowing for quick event creation and editing. It seamlessly syncs with your existing calendars and provides various views for planning and navigation. Enjoy customization options and helpful features like night mode.
- Weekly calendar overview
- Seamless native calendar integration
- Syncs with iCloud, Outlook, Google Calendar
- One week and three weeks view
- Month view for long-term planning
- Unique search function
- Innovative move/copy function
- Night mode
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Experience the ease of use of a weekly calendar in the palm of your hand! Designed around frequent tasks, Easy Calendar lets you create and edit events with just a few taps. Automatically syncs with your current calendar. Features • Perfect overview of the week • 100% integration with native iPhone calendar events • Synchronization with iCloud, Outlook, Google Calendar, Hotmail and other CalDAV calendars using the native iPhone features • Rotate your device to switch between one week and a three weeks view • Month view for long-term planning and to quickly jump to another week • Unique search function straight from within the week view • Innovative move/copy function that uses the week view to select a new date • Night mode - A black theme that is easier on the eye in the evening and at night! • Add sports, weather and other info to your calendar with a simple in-app purchase Customizability • Many different color themes to personalize the app! • Make the app's font bigger or smaller to your liking • Decide how much space you need for each day by customizing the week layout We appreciate your opinion and are always interested in hearing from you. Feel free to leave your feedback in the form of a review or contact us at: support@easy-calendar.com Access to all available calendars for 1 year With a yearly subscription you get full and ongoing access to all available calendars including (live) updates in your calendar. A subscription always starts with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. A subscription costs $1.99 per year. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and after the 1 month free trial.The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current 1 year period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Find the full terms and conditions, and our privacy policy, at http://easy-calendar.com/policies/terms-of-use.html and http://easy-calendar.com/policies/privacy-policy.html respectively.
iCalendar
This app helps you manage your busy schedule with a user-friendly interface. Easily track daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views, and color-code your events for better organization. It syncs with popular accounts and offers productivity tools for efficient event management.
- Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly views
- Customizable event color-coding
- Syncs with iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo!
- Task manager with iOS Reminders sync
- Drag and drop event rescheduling
- Custom repeating events
- Time zone support
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** A MUST-HAVE CALENDAR APP FOR EVERY IPHONE, IPAD, AND IPOD ** iCalendar is the ultimate calendar for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch focusing on your productivity. It’s seamless, highly usable interface allows you to enter events quickly and helps you keep track of your busy schedule. It integrates with your iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, or Yahoo! account to provide you with the most convenient calendaring experience. EASILY TRACK YOUR SCHEDULE - View your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule. - Custom color-code your events. Use predefined colors, or make up your own colors. - iCalendar implements quickest way on the market to navigate between dates - Fast and powerful search: Search events by title, location, and notes. NEW IN VERSION 4.0 - Task Manager: Manage your tasks within your calendar in a fun and easy manner and sync with iOS Reminders. Available as in-app purchase for USD 0.99. FULL OF PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS - Drag and drop an event to update its timing. - Copy and paste events. - Create custom repeating events (e.g. repeat on the third Friday every month, and many more). - Add custom alerts/reminders for events and snooze alerts - Access your event details quickly by tapping on the event. - Customize the visible time period (e.g. from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) to help you focus on most important events. EVEN MORE - Time Zone Support: View and create your events in your preferred time zone and never get confused when you travel. - Complete print functionality. Print daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views. - Export any view (day, week, month, year) as a PDF file. - Use built-in maps to set the location of your events. - Dial into a conference call with one touch right from iCalendar. Add phone numbers from your contacts to events with the ability to use pause and wait, which is ideal for conference calls. - Set location of an event as the address or phone number of one of your contacts. - Access all your events directly from the Month view - no need to go to each individual day to review full list of events. - Use the app icon badge to indicate either the number of upcoming events or the day of the month. - Google Calendar sync: sync all of your calendars, create and edit Google Calendar events, and use Google Calendar custom reminders (SMS, email and/or alert). - Add, edit and delete calendars right from iCalendar. - Support of portrait and landscape to match your orientation preference. - iCalendar is a universal app. Download once and use across all your devices. - For more details: http://www.symfonies.com/icalendar/ iCalendar offers access to interesting calendars from Calendar Store as an optional in-app purchase. You may subscribe to your holidays calendar (national/religious) or subscribe to interesting calendars (e.g. local/global sports events, stocks, weather, and many others). With an optional in-app purchase yearly subscription, you get full and ongoing access to the Calendar Store including (live) updates in your calendar. A subscription always starts with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. One year subscriptions for the Calendar Store costs $1.99. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current 1 year period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. Our terms of service and privacy policy are found at http://www.symfonies.com/terms-of-service/ and http://www.symfonies.com/privacy-policy/ respectively. If you have a question, need help or would like to request a feature, please do not hesitate to contact us. We respond to EVERY email we receive: support@symfonies.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Easy Calendar at every 4 days against iCalendar's every 3 months. Easy Calendar also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 71%) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). iCalendar's advantage is chart position (#52 vs unranked). On rating, 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
Easy Calendar costs $1.99 and iCalendar $2.99 up front. Easy Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and iCalendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Easy Calendar against 4.7 for iCalendar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.6K and 5.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Easy Calendar's written reviews are positive against 71% of iCalendar's.
Easy Calendar ships an update every 4 days, iCalendar every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Easy Calendar | iCalendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.6K ratings) — better | 4.7 (5.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K | 5.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #52 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tom van Zummeren | Symfonies, Inc. |
Customer experience
Easy Calendar
iCalendar
User reviews
Easy Calendar
From 2.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Great week view
- 💡 Customizable colors and themes
- 🚀 Efficient and fast
- 👍 Syncs with other calendars
Room to improve
- 🐛 Widget issues
- 🐛 Subscription and integration problems
- 👎 Lack of sharing and collaboration features
- 👎 Removal of certain functionality (e.g., inviting participants)
iCalendar
From 5.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💻 Excellent calendar app
- 🎨 Customizable color coding
- 📅 Comprehensive monthly view
- 🗓️ Seamless syncing across devices
- 🔍 Detailed event information
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional data loss or sync issues
- 🔍 Difficulty editing recurring events
- 🔒 Concerns about security and privacy
- 💰 Paid features that should be free
- 🕰️ Inconsistent event time display
Bugs and requests
Easy Calendar
Reported bugs
3 issues- Calendar appointments disappearing or not syncing correctly
- Alerts and reminders not working as expected
- Crashes and freezes when navigating the app
Requested features
4 requests- Add reminders within the calendar app
- Ability to manually strike through completed events
- Option to display the date and day of the week on the app icon
- Improved color coding and visual indicators for events
iCalendar
Reported bugs
4 issues- Events disappearing or not syncing properly
- Inability to edit or update recurring events
- Incorrect time and location information
- Crashes or freezes when performing certain actions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to attach files to events
- Improve widget functionality and visibility
- Introduce family/group calendar sharing
- Expand color palette and theming options
- Add yearly view and better month-to-month navigation
In-app purchases
Easy Calendar
- Calendar Store1 Month trial$1.991 Year
- Easy Calendar Premium1 Month trial$6.991 Year
iCalendar
- Calendar Store1 Month trial$1.991 Year
- Religious holidays$0.99
- Week Numbers$0.99
- Moon Phases calendar$0.99
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- Holidays United States$0.99
- Calendars - Pro Football USA 2014-2015 edition$0.99
- Calendars - Pro Baseball USA 2015 edition$0.99
- iOS Reminders$0.99
- Calendars - Pro American Football Men United States 2015-2016 edition$0.99
- Weather calendars$1.99









