Comparison

Absolute Board Calendar vs TCWP

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

Head to head
About

Absolute Board Calendar

This app allows users to plan their day and take notes through drawing and handwriting. It offers unlimited pages for daily entries and organizes them chronologically, providing a unique and convenient way to manage your life.

Highlights
  • Drawing and handwriting daily planning
  • Unlimited pages for notes and ideas
  • Calendar from 1900 to 2043
  • Customizable holidays
  • Solar and lunar date conversion
  • Unlimited board size
  • Email drawing snapshots
Features
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Absolute Board Calendar is the first functional app derived from Absolute Board which is the best quality drawing and handwriting App in AppStore. ## Absolute Board ## * April 2011 - "New & Noteworthy" (Productivity) application on the American App Store * * April 2011 - "What's Hot" (Productivity) application on the American App Store * * April 2011 - "Staff Favorites" (All) application on the Korean App Store * * April 2011 - "No. 1 Free App" (Productivity) application on the Korean App Store * Our new app 'Absolute Board Calendar' is innovating functional app beyond other calendar app. Just keep your everyday life through drawing & handwriting. You can draw & write unlimited quantity of pages in a day. Absolute Board Calendar provide you sorting pages day by day. It's so simple and convenience. Through the high speed and quick response that you're already experiencing in Absolute Board, Now you can create your own genuine diary and idea note organized daily. With Absolute Board Calendar, make your powerful functional calendar which was never existed before. ▶ Drawing &handwriting type daily planning + idea note (Unlimited quantity) ▶ Calendar from 1900 to 2043 with presenting solar & lunar date. ▶ Customized holiday setting ▶ Converting solar - lunar date of special day ▶ Day count ▶ Unlimited board size ▶ Unlimited color choice for pen & background ▶ Path traceable eraser ▶ Ability to email snapshot of your drawing ▶ Zooming in/out & moving with two fingers ▶ Undo/Redo functions ▶ Import a Photo ▶ Print Snapshot (Air Print)

About

TCWP

This scheduling tool offers a unique way to manage your events with a voice-reading function. Listen to your schedule manually, at set times, or through quick actions, making it easy to stay organized on the go.

Highlights
  • Add, change, and delete events
  • Voice reading of event lists
  • Scheduled event readout
  • Quick action event readout
  • Customizable week start
  • 54 color themes
  • iCloud backup and recovery
Features
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TCWP - Talking Calendar With Parrot is primarily a scheduling tool. You can add/change/delete events. We provide a differentiated schedule management experience by adding a special event reading function. We offer event reading in three ways: 1. Read events manually 2. Read events according to schedule 3. Read events through quick actions During busy commute times, you can listen to the schedule read by TCWP while getting ready for work. You can listen to today's schedule through earphones on the subway to work. You can use the schedule readout function through an alarm at a set time. main function 1. Add/Change/Delete Event 2. Read events list by voice 3. Read today’s schedule at a set time 4. Read today’s schedule through quick actions 5. Set the start of the week (Sunday, Monday, Saturday) 6. Set a event font size 7. Supports 54 color themes 8. Forced 24-hour format setting function 9. Set event defaults (default calendar, default alarm value, all-day alarm time) 10. Event Reading settings (earphones only, excluding past events, reading schedule) 11. Backup/Recovery - Calendar database backup and recovery via iCloud 12. Use a local original database Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/cwppp

Screenshots

TCWP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Absolute Board Calendar at 74% against TCWP's 0%. Absolute Board Calendar also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). TCWP's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Absolute Board Calendar costs $2.99 and TCWP $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Absolute Board Calendar holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Absolute Board Calendar has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Absolute Board Calendar's written reviews are positive against 0% of TCWP's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Absolute Board Calendar versus TCWP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbsolute Board CalendarTCWP
Price$2.99 — better$4.99
Rating3.6 (8 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHyeoseong HwangJIN SOOK PARK

Customer experience

Absolute Board Calendar

All ratings8 ratings
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral16.7%
Negative9.3%

TCWP

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Absolute Board Calendar

No in-app purchases

None

TCWP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Absolute Board Calendar free?
Absolute Board Calendar costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TCWP free?
TCWP costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Absolute Board Calendar or TCWP?
Absolute Board Calendar is rated higher. Absolute Board Calendar averages 3.6 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while TCWP averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Absolute Board Calendar or TCWP have ads?
Neither Absolute Board Calendar nor TCWP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Absolute Board Calendar or TCWP?
Absolute Board Calendar ships an update every 2 months, and TCWP every 2 months. Most recently, Absolute Board Calendar was updated on November 1, 2026 and TCWP on November 4, 2026.

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