Visual Calendar vs Lily pad
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!
Lily pad
This app offers a gentle approach to time management, reducing stress during daily tasks like meal prep or getting ready. It aids in building routines, overcoming procrastination, and achieving a better activity balance.
- Manually adjust visual timer
- Create multiple timers
- Distraction-free time tracking
- Build routines
- Reduce stress with time management
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Enjoy a gentle time awareness by having our visual timer as an aid. We created this app to have less stress during activities that require time management. Like preparing to go outside or making a meal. It also helps to build up routines, to get started with things one postpones, or get a better balance between activities. Features: - Manually adjust your visual timer - Create multiple timers - Keep track of the time, free from distraction
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lily pad at Free against Visual Calendar's $0.99. Lily pad also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). Visual Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.1). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Lily pad is free to download; Visual Calendar costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Lily pad holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Visual Calendar's written reviews are positive against 50% of Lily pad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Visual Calendar ships an update every 2 months, Lily pad every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Visual Calendar | Lily pad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.6 (9 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mate Szoke | Freek Lever |
Customer experience
Visual Calendar
Lily pad
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
Lily pad
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Visual Calendar
No in-app purchases
Lily pad
No in-app purchases
Questions
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