Kurumaki Calendar vs Handwritten notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kurumaki Calendar
This app offers continuous month-to-month schedule viewing, ensuring your appointments are never split by the calendar's monthly divisions. It provides a six-week outlook and extensive customization options for calendar and event colors, along with adjustable display ranges.
- Continuous month-to-month view
- Six-week appointment visibility
- Calendar color customization
- Event color customization
- Customizable display range
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Long seller app in Japan since 2011. ・ You can see the current month and the following month continuously. ・ Your schedule will not be divided by the month boundary. ・ You always see yours appointments through six weeks. ・ Calendar color selection settings. ・ Event color selection settings. ・ Settings for change of color pallete of Calendars and individuals Events. ・ Customizable Calendar display range
Handwritten notes
This app allows for quick and smooth handwritten note-taking with simple tools. You can choose from four colors, adjust line thickness, and easily erase or clear your notes. Save your creations as images.
- Smooth multi-finger writing
- Four color options
- Adjustable line thickness
- Erase and clear functions
- Save notes as images
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Handwritten notes appeared in the paid version! I lost my ads. Operation will be smoother than ever before. Handwritten notes is a simple handwritten notes. You can also write with multiple fingers. You can write very smoothly. ********************************************** Feature Very simple! ! You can quickly and notes by hand! * Basic functions **************************** ● color is simple, four black, red, blue and green. (If you press the button "Switch", color selection button will appear.) ● In the slide, the thickness of the line can be adjusted. ● When you press the button "Show", you can erase the line wrote. (Adjustable in thickness delete slides) ● When you press the "CL" button, you can remove the bulk. ● When you press the "Save button", you can save the image.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kurumaki Calendar at 4.5 against Handwritten notes's 1.0. Kurumaki Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 39 months) and ratings volume (33 vs 1). Handwritten notes's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Kurumaki Calendar costs $1.99 and Handwritten notes $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kurumaki Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kurumaki Calendar has 33 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Kurumaki Calendar's written reviews are positive against 75% of Handwritten notes's.
Kurumaki Calendar ships an update every 10 days, Handwritten notes every 39 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kurumaki Calendar | Handwritten notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (33 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 39 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LITTLEN STAR Inc. | Kiyoshi Koike |
Customer experience
Kurumaki Calendar
Handwritten notes
In-app purchases
Kurumaki Calendar
No in-app purchases
Handwritten notes
No in-app purchases
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