Comparison

Visual Calendar vs Timelogger Plus

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

Head to head
About

Visual Calendar

Visually displays your activities on a monthly calendar. Easily add and track all-day events, shifts, or habits with color-coded tags and icons. A simple, detail-free way to manage your schedule.

Highlights
  • Visual monthly calendar display
  • Add and track all-day events
  • Color-coded tags for activities
  • Icon customization for tags
  • Simple two-step process
Features
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Visual Calendar is a simple but beautiful app that visually displays different activities on a monthly base. It is a perfect visual aid to add and track all-day events, shifts, habits or any other activities you would like to do simply and quickly without getting lost in details. Only 2 steps you need to do: 1, Create various tags you need by selecting colors and icons 2, Add tag(s) to the day(s) on the calendar view That’s all. Nothing more. Enjoy!

About

Timelogger Plus

This app helps you actively manage and monitor your time across multiple Apple devices. It offers features like stopwatches, goal setting, and detailed reporting, making it ideal for freelancers, managing daily routines, or personal projects.

Highlights
  • Record time with stopwatches
  • Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals
  • Synchronize across devices via iCloud
  • Generate PDF and CSV reports
  • Manual time input
  • Multiple active stopwatches
  • Home and Lock Screen Widgets
Features
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Track your time, build routines, and keep client work organized with Timelogger Plus. Use stopwatches, time reports, and daily, weekly, or monthly goals on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. See how much time you spend on freelance projects, study, household tasks, hobbies, or personal goals. Record a session as you work, add time you forgot to track, and review your progress in one place. TIME TRACKING THAT FITS YOUR DAY • Start and stop a task's stopwatch with a tap. • Run multiple stopwatches when you need to track different activities. • Add or edit time entries, including their start and end times. • Add notes to record what you worked on. • Set reminders for running stopwatches. ORGANIZE TASKS AND SET GOALS • Group tasks into folders for clients, projects, or routines. • Use tags to organize tasks, time entries, and notes. • Choose colors to make tasks and folders easier to recognize. • Set daily, weekly, or monthly time goals for a task, folder, or tag. • Follow goal progress and review past days, weeks, and months. • Archive completed work while keeping its history. UNDERSTAND YOUR TIME AND BILLABLE WORK • Review tracked time, activity, and trends in the dashboard. • Filter your reports by task, folder, or tag. • Set hourly rates for tasks and folders to calculate billable amounts. • Add billable notes for work that does not use a stopwatch. • Generate PDF reports for a chosen date range. • Export entries to CSV for use in spreadsheets and other tools. • Import CSV data and create manual backups. MADE FOR YOUR APPLE DEVICES Enjoy a refreshed design with Liquid Glass and layouts that fit the screen you use. On iPhone Duo, move between a compact view and a spacious layout with task lists and details side by side when you unfold the display. On iPad, use the sidebar, resizable windows, and multitasking to keep your work in view. On Mac, start and stop timers from the menu bar without opening the main window. Add desktop widgets for quick access to tasks and running stopwatches. On Apple Watch, start and stop timers for selected tasks from your wrist. Use watch face complications and Smart Stack widgets to check running timers. The Watch app syncs with your paired iPhone. Use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and automate actions with Shortcuts. On iPhone, follow running timers on the Lock Screen and in Dynamic Island with Live Activities. Sync your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud, and choose a light or dark appearance. Some features require Premium, available through in-app purchase. Questions or suggestions? Contact timeloggerapp@gmail.com. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Visual Calendar4 screens
Timelogger Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Timelogger Plus at Free against Visual Calendar's $0.99. Timelogger Plus also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Visual Calendar's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On ads 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

Timelogger Plus is free to download; Visual Calendar costs $0.99 up front. Timelogger Plus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Visual Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timelogger Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timelogger Plus has 76 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Visual Calendar's written reviews are positive against 76% of Timelogger Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Calendar ships an update every 2 months, Timelogger Plus every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Visual Calendar versus Timelogger Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual CalendarTimelogger Plus
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.6 (9 ratings)4.6 (76 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews76.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings976 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMate SzokeFilipe Martins

Customer experience

Visual Calendar

All ratings9 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral22.2%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral6.3%
Negative36.5%

Timelogger Plus

All ratings76 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative19.6%

User reviews

Visual Calendar

From 9 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and clean design
  • 👍 Visual tool for scheduling
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Customizable icons/markers
  • 👍 Good concept for visual planning

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Data loss/missing entries
  • 🐛 App crashes/unstable
  • 🐛 Cannot delete/edit events easily
  • 🐛 Limited functionality (all-day events only)
  • 🐛 Syncing issues with other calendars

Timelogger Plus

From 76 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Exactly what I needed
  • 🏆 GOAT of time tracking apps
  • 📈 Detailed reporting capabilities
  • 🎯 Great for habit tracking goals
  • 📱 Seamless cross-device sync

Room to improve

  • 💸 Overpriced monthly service (perceived)
  • 📉 Busy and crowded circular chart
  • 📱 Single Timer not working on iPad
  • 🐛 Old task continuing after new task
  • 🐛 Mac app font size hard to see

Bugs and requests

Visual Calendar

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • Tagged days missing/entries gone
  • Deletes data daily
  • Cannot delete/edit entered calendar items
  • New version wipes data
  • New version won't work on phone
Show 18 more
  • Nothing shows up on calendar after adding
  • Background color options not working
  • Support link does not work
  • Keyboard never appears
  • App is abandoned with no future support
  • Bug that kicks you out when deleting preset tag
  • Fades in and out between different activities, not showing all at once
  • Cannot edit preloaded tags
  • Cannot go over certain mark limitations on calendar
  • Background too dark
  • Syncs only 'All Day' appointments
  • App freezes and/or kicks user off
  • App crashes every time it's used
  • Does not import all calendar appointments
  • Fails to show imported calendar events
  • Cannot insert anything
  • Unstable
  • App randomly exits

Requested features

22 requests
  • Ability to delete/edit events
  • Sync with other calendar apps
  • Add time to tags/events
  • Reminders/notifications
  • Repeat function for tasks
Show 17 more
  • Support for larger screens/iPhone 5
  • Backup and restore functionality
  • Create multiple calendars
  • Import custom icons/photos
  • Notes associated with events
  • Emojis for icons
  • List views, week views
  • Timed events
  • Customize events (e.g., 'work 8-5pm')
  • Export to PDF/image
  • Stereotypical hourly event calendaring
  • Dark mode option
  • Word-wrap for event text
  • Default opacity slider higher
  • Match tags to synced activities
  • Choose Monday as start of week
  • Add alarms

Timelogger Plus

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Single Timer does not work on iPad
  • Old task will continue after clicking a new task
  • iCloud sync broken
  • Apple Watch doesn’t work
  • Syncing between Mac, iPhone and iPad is iffy
Show 13 more
  • List of apps does not sync in their proper order on the Home page
  • Home Screen flickers in and out
  • Confusing Interface (Plus version)
  • Widgets not available as advertised
  • Single Timer feature gone
  • iCloud sync is buggy
  • Apple Watch app keeps running after session ends
  • iCloud integrity check crashes app and deletes tasks
  • Timer still running in widget after stopped in-app
  • Task on iPad keeps running after stopping on phone
  • Refusing to stop a task for whatever reason
  • Mac app font size hard to see
  • Task name overlaps time info on the right side

Requested features

25 requests
  • Bar chart instead of circular chart in Time Distribution
  • Toggle switch for time and percent in task total time chart
  • Larger start timer button
  • Add Limits for tasks to goals
  • Manual sort of tasks
Show 20 more
  • Sort tasks by spend time in reports (not alphabet)
  • Show each activity with time and percent in reports
  • Ability to set recurring reminders when a timer is running
  • Notifications to start timers
  • Add an email address for feature requests
  • Automatically discard tasks running for very short time
  • Ability to link a 'goal' to a combo of tasks from different folders
  • Widget for the main screen
  • Planning (to-do lists) implemented
  • White theme option
  • Task name overlap issue fixed
  • Other sync options like NextCloud
  • Menu in Finder top navigation
  • Stop all timers Siri shortcut
  • One at a time timer option
  • Lock the app function
  • Aggregate color-based charts by groups or use text labels
  • See timeline and daily distribution of entries by group
  • Share text from reminder/meeting to automatically create an entry with text in notes
  • Ability to lock minutes to 15 min increments, or 6 or 10 for manual entries

In-app purchases

None

Visual Calendar

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Timelogger Plus

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$24.99

Questions

Is Visual Calendar free?
Visual Calendar costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timelogger Plus free?
Timelogger Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Visual Calendar or Timelogger Plus?
Timelogger Plus is rated higher. Visual Calendar averages 2.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Timelogger Plus averages 4.6 from 76 ratings.
Do Visual Calendar or Timelogger Plus have ads?
Neither Visual Calendar nor Timelogger Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Visual Calendar or Timelogger Plus?
Visual Calendar ships an update every 2 months, and Timelogger Plus every 2 weeks. Most recently, Visual Calendar was updated on October 8, 2026 and Timelogger Plus on October 16, 2026.

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