Calendar+ vs Pool Smart
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calendar+
This app offers a fluid and intuitive way to manage your schedule with enhanced views and quick editing. It syncs with existing calendars and provides customizable options for a personalized experience. Pro features include advanced personalization and useful countdowns.
- Seamless scrolling through days, weeks, and months
- Quick event adding, editing, and deleting
- Syncs with existing calendars (iCloud, Google, Outlook, etc.)
- Customizable calendar colors and fonts (Pro)
- Built-in holidays, flag days, and name days
- Intuitive gestures for navigation and event creation
- Widget support
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Scroll through your schedule like it’s a timeline — fast, fluid, and always in context. Calendar+ is built for people who want a clean overview, quick edits, and better-looking calendars without fighting the default app. Why Calendar+? • Seamless scrolling through days, weeks, and months • Day / Week / Month views with great overview • Add, edit, and delete events quickly • Syncs with your existing calendars (iCloud, Google, Outlook/Exchange, CalDAV, ICS subscriptions, and more) • Jump to any date instantly • Week numbers • Built-in holidays for many countries • Built-in flag days for selected countries • Built-in name days for many countries • Calendar selection & filtering – show only what you want • Dedicated “Scroll to Today” button • Portrait + landscape support Personalize Everything (Pro) • Calendar groups – put your calendars in groups like Work or Family and switch focus with one tap • Custom views – build your own views with their own layout, theme and calendar group, then reorder or hide views to suit you • Make calendars stand out with unique colors and fonts across all views • App theme colors • All widgets • Moon phases for the full year • Birthday + name day countdowns • Support an indie developer (me) Settings You’ll Actually Use • Text size control (month/week independently) • Toggle holidays + name days on/off • App icon badge options (day in month, day in year, or week number) • Default event settings (reminders, calendar, etc.) • Fine-grained event display options (dots, times, titles, weekend shading, contrast, truncation behavior) Gestures • Swipe left/right to switch views • Pinch to zoom between month and week • Tap & hold on a day to create an event • Swipe to delete in day view Support & Feedback I’d genuinely love to hear from you. • In Calendar+ → Ideas (submit and vote) • In Calendar+ → Support/Feedback • Email: support@alientoes.se • Website: https://www.alientoes.se/en/support Terms: https://www.alientoes.se/en/terms Privacy: https://www.alientoes.se/en/privacy-policy
Pool Smart
This app simplifies pool maintenance by teaching water balance and calculating precise chemical dosages based on your pool's size and construction. It helps you save money and achieve sparkling clean water with less guesswork.
- Water balance education
- Chemical dosage calculation
- Pool size and construction input
- Testing checklist
- Money-saving tips
- Clorine pool support
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Save money while maintaining your pool ! By understanding how to maintain water balance, you will use fewer chemicals to keep your pool sparkling clean. Used by residential pool owners and professionals around the world. Twenty+ years of first hand pool experience is presented in this app ! Pool Smart teaches you the basics of water balance and provides a checklist for testing your water. Based on your pool size and construction, Pool Smart calculates the exact amount of each recommended chemical to use. Forget the complicated tables on the chemical containers! Take the guess work and frustration out of pool maintenance, and use Pool Smart as your simple check list to achieve a season of sparkling water and savings ! Enjoy the water ! *Pool Smart only supports chlorine based pools, it does not currently support salt water pools or spas.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Calendar+ at Free against Pool Smart's $1.99. Calendar+ also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (60 vs 13). Pool Smart's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and rating (4.5 vs 4.0). On ads and device support 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
Calendar+ is free to download; Pool Smart costs $1.99 up front. Calendar+ sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Pool Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pool Smart holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Calendar+'s written reviews are positive against 64% of Pool Smart's.
Calendar+ ships an update every 5 days, Pool Smart every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar+ | Pool Smart |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (60 ratings) | 4.5 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.3% of reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #195 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alien Toes AB | BetterWay Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Calendar+
Pool Smart
Bugs and requests
Calendar+
Reported bugs
4 issues- Incorrect date display
- Repeating events not working as expected
- Inability to delete future events
- Syncing issues with other calendars
Requested features
5 requests- Add color coding for events
- Improve month and day views
- Allow customization of repeat events
- Integrate with more calendars/services
- Add note-taking and to-do list functionality
Pool Smart
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Calendar+
- Pro$0.997 Days
- Pro$2.991 Month
- Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Moon phases$0.99
- Small$0.99
- Medium$1.99
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- Large$2.99
- Huge$4.99
- Massive$7.99
Pool Smart
No in-app purchases









