Calendar+ vs Google Calendar
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 and flag days for 2021–2032: Australia (all states and territories), Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States • Built-in name days: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States • 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
Google Calendar
This app helps you manage your schedule and events efficiently. It automatically adds appointments from Gmail, supports multiple calendars, and offers customizable views and widgets. Collaborate with others by sharing calendars and integrating with Google Meet.
- Automatic event import from Gmail
- Multiple calendar support (Google, Exchange, iCloud)
- Shared calendars for collaboration
- Customizable views (day, week, month)
- Task management alongside events
- Widgets and Apple Watch complications
- Google Meet integration
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The official Google Calendar app helps you stay organized and plan your day with easy event creation, multiple calendars, customizable views, widgets, and tasks. With Google Calendar, you can: • Get events automatically added to your Calendar from Gmail, including flight, hotel, concert, and restaurant reservations. • Go from using Calendar on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch to your computer without missing a beat when you’re logged into the same Google account. • Consolidate and view Google Calendar events side-by-side with other calendars on your device, including Exchange and iCloud. • Keep family, friends, and colleagues in the loop with shared calendars, so they can view, add, or modify events. • Quickly switch between month, week, and day views. • Stay on top of to-dos by creating and managing tasks alongside your events in Calendar. • Personalize your Google Calendar with light or dark mode or by color-coding your events • Always know what's next while on the go with Google Calendar on Apple Watch by customizing your watch face with Calendar complications or adding widgets. Google Calendar is part of Google Workspace, allowing you and your team to easily connect, create, and collaborate across all your favorite Google tools. You can: • Collaborate in a hybrid work environment by adding a Google Meet video call to an Calendar event • Get access to professional booking pages to easily book clients and customers*. • Schedule meetings with teammates by checking their availability or layering their calendars in a single view • Add your working location to your calendar to make it easier for your teammates to schedule meetings with you*. • Keep everyone on track for a meeting by attaching meeting notes, pre-read materials, and other documents directly to a calendar event. • Use Google Calendar with confidence knowing it’s supported by Google’s enterprise-level privacy, user safety and data security. * Requires a Google Workspace or Google One AI Premium subscription
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google Calendar at 4.5 against Calendar+'s 4.0. Google Calendar also leads on ratings volume (133K vs 61) and chart position (#21 vs unranked). Calendar+'s advantage is review sentiment (54% vs 38%). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Calendar+ sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Google Calendar sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.89 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Google Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Calendar has 133K ratings behind it against 61, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Calendar+'s written reviews are positive against 38% of Google Calendar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Calendar+ ships an update every 2 weeks, Google Calendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar+ | Google Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (61 ratings) | 4.5 (133K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.3% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 | 133K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #21 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 265 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alien Toes AB | |
Customer experience
Calendar+
Google Calendar
User reviews
Calendar+
From 61 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful
- 👍 Intuitive
- 👍 Excellent calendar app
- 👍 Smooth and elegant
- 👍 Organized and easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔍 Lack of customization options (colors, icons)
- 🔍 Missing key features (month view, day view, repeat events)
- 🔍 Confusing layout and navigation
- 🔍 Underwhelming compared to other calendar apps
Google Calendar
From 133K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Keeps me organized
- 🎨 Customizable colors
- 📅 Integrates with email and other calendars
- 🔔 Helpful reminders
- 🤝 Ability to share calendars
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🕰️ Slow loading times
- 📆 Date on app icon doesn't change
- 🔀 Difficulty editing and managing events
- 🌈 Limited color options
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
Google Calendar
Reported bugs
3 issues- Events not syncing properly between app and web versions
- Incorrect time zone changes for events
- New events automatically added to wrong calendar
Requested features
5 requests- Allow recurring events on specific days (e.g. 2nd Wednesday of the month)
- Add ability to set reminders for event end times
- Integrate with more email/calendar providers beyond Gmail
- Provide more customization options for event colors and icons
- Display the current date on the app icon
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
Google Calendar
- 30 GB$0.891 Month
- 100 GB1 Month trial2 variants$1.991 Month
- 100 GB$1.991 Month
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- 200 GB2 variants$2.991 Month
- 200 GB1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)$9.991 Month
- 100 GB1 Year trial$19.991 Year









