Comparison

Easy Calendar vs iCalendar

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Easy Calendar4 screens
iCalendar1 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Easy Calendar versus iCalendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy CalendariCalendar
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (2.6K ratings) — better4.7 (5.5K ratings)
Positive reviews92.2% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings2.6K5.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#52 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTom van ZummerenSymfonies, Inc.

Customer experience

Easy Calendar

All ratings2,599 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews501 reviews
Positive92.2%
Neutral3.6%
Negative4.2%

iCalendar

All ratings5,356 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews406 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral8.9%
Negative19.7%

User reviews

Easy Calendar

From 2.6K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

2 purchases

Easy Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Calendar Store1 Month trial$1.991 Year
  • Easy Calendar Premium1 Month trial$6.991 Year
10 purchases

iCalendar

Subscriptions1
  • Calendar Store1 Month trial$1.991 Year
One-time9
  • 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

Questions

Is Easy Calendar free?
Easy Calendar costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is iCalendar free?
iCalendar costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Easy Calendar or iCalendar?
Easy Calendar is rated higher. Easy Calendar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while iCalendar averages 4.7 from 5.5K ratings.
Do Easy Calendar or iCalendar have ads?
Neither Easy Calendar nor iCalendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Easy Calendar or iCalendar?
Easy Calendar ships an update every 4 days, and iCalendar every 3 months. Most recently, Easy Calendar was updated on October 28, 2026 and iCalendar on October 26, 2026.

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