Visual Calendar vs Habit Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Visual monthly calendar display
- Add and track all-day events
- Color-coded tags for activities
- Icon customization for tags
- Simple two-step process
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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!
Habit Tracker
This app helps you build and track habits with a simple, no-frills interface. It offers customizable widgets, inspirational recommendations, detailed statistics, and reminders to keep you on track. Data is stored locally for privacy and syncs across your devices via iCloud.
- No login required
- iOS Widgets
- Habit recommendations
- Monthly & weekly statistics
- Extended reminder notifications
- iCloud synchronization
- Customizable icons and colors
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HabitBe is the perfect lightweight weekly Habit Tracker with no frills. • no login required, your data belongs to you • a wide variety of beautiful iOS Widgets • a curated list of recommendations to get inspired • all the statistics you need, monthly, weekly stats and much more • extended reminder notifications • an integrated timer • synchronization with all your devices using iCloud • a wide Variety of Icons and beautifully selected colors • support for Dark & Light-Mode • habits can be archived when you are done • privacy: on-device statistics (no server involved) • glanceable goals on your Home Screen HabitBe (App) is distributed by Sebastian Boldt under Apple’s standard software license for iOS apps — the App Store Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA); you can read its full version here. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Icons provided by https://icons8.de
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Habit Tracker at Free against Visual Calendar's $0.99. Habit Tracker also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.6) and review sentiment (95% vs 57%). Visual Calendar's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). 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
Habit Tracker is free to download; Visual Calendar costs $0.99 up front. Habit Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Visual Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Habit Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 28 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Visual Calendar's written reviews are positive against 95% of Habit Tracker's.
Visual Calendar ships an update every 2 months, Habit Tracker every 11 days. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | Visual Calendar | Habit Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.6 (9 ratings) | 4.4 (28 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 28 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mate Szoke | Sebastian Boldt |
Customer experience
Visual Calendar
Habit Tracker
User reviews
Visual Calendar
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat 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
Habit Tracker
From 28 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive design
- 🌟 Great for habit building
- 💰 Fair one-time purchase for Pro
- 🚀 Fast and responsive support
- 📱 Excellent widget functionality
Room to improve
- 🐛 Timer stops when screen turns off
- 🐛 App crashes when contacting support
- 🐛 Workflow UX issues when creating habits
- 🐛 Long press menu not showing
- 🐛 Widget only opens app, no quick actions
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
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- 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
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- 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
Habit Tracker
Reported bugs
7 issues- App freezes after using widget
- Pro version purchase function not working for some
- Timer stops when screen turns off
- App crashes when accessing 'Contact' points
- Long press menu doesn't appear
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- Workflow UX issues during habit creation
- Widget doesn't integrate quick functions
Requested features
12 requests- Allow marking habits as 'not done today'
- Improve widget functionality for one-click habit completion
- Add option to export data
- Allow setting end of day for habit tracking
- Add emoji icons
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- Add notes to habits
- Allow defining new units (e.g., 'steps')
- Specify progress added per click
- Option to hide details in overview
- Mac support
- Apple Watch companion app
- Dark mode
In-app purchases
Visual Calendar
No in-app purchases
Habit Tracker
- Monthly PRO Subscription$0.991 Month
- Biannual PRO Subscription3 Days trial$3.996 Months
- Annual PRO Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- HabitBe PRO - Lifetime$22.99
Questions
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