Tiny Calendar Pro vs Penned
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Calendar Pro
This intuitive calendar app integrates with all your existing calendars, offering powerful tools for event creation and management. It provides multiple viewing options and offline capabilities, ensuring you never miss an appointment.
- Natural language event creation
- Drag and drop event editing
- Syncs with Google Calendar and iOS local calendars
- Supports 9 standard calendar views
- Offline event creation and editing
- Advanced reminder system (push notifications, email)
- Access across iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
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Tiny Calendar is an intuitive smart calendar works with all your calendars. It inherits the simple and clean look of calendars but makes it more accessible, powerful and reliable on your iPhone and iPad. With Tiny Calendar, you can access and manipulate your google calendar events and google tasks more easily, anyway you want. SMART ENOUGH TO CREATE Tiny Calendar has features like nature language input, drag and drop, gestures and other smart methods to predict your intention and help you create and edit your events more easily. SYNC & MANAGE GOOGLE TASKS You don’t need to download another app to manage Google tasks. MULTIPLE WAYS TO VIEW Tiny Calendar supports 9 standard views - Forecast, day, week, month, 4-days, year, mini-month, week agenda and agenda. You can instantly switch views to discover events or find a time you're looking for. REAL-TIME SYNC Tiny Calendar syncs directly with all your google calendars and also works with iOS local calendars to supports events on iCloud, Exchange and other calendars. WORKS OFFLINE You can still create, edit and delete events when you don't have an Internet connection. Tiny Calendar will cache your changes and sync back to your calendar account next time you're online. ADVANCED REMINDER SYSTEM Never forget about a meeting! Tiny Calendar allows you to set reminders via push notification, or email for all events. ACCESS FROM EVERYWHERE Tiny Calendar works with your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. You don't need to pay extra money to download multiple copies. Privacy Policy: https://apps.fengge.io/TinyCalendar/HomePage
Penned
A minimalist handwriting app designed for privacy, keeping all your notes securely on your device. It features natural writing with Apple Pencil, on-device AI text recognition, and smart tagging for easy searching. Export your notes as PDFs in a clean, distraction-free interface.
- Natural Apple Pencil writing
- On-device AI text recognition
- 100% private, no cloud
- Export beautiful PDFs
- Smart tagging and search
- Distraction-free interface
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Your thoughts deserve privacy. Penned Notes is a minimalist handwriting app that keeps everything on your device. - Natural Apple Pencil writing - AI text recognition (on-device) - 100% private - zero cloud required - Export beautiful PDFs - Smart tagging & search - Clean, distraction-free interface Unlike other note apps, Penned Notes uses Apple's Neural Engine to recognize your handwriting locally and nothing leaves your device. No accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions to complex features you don't need. Perfect for: - Daily journaling - Class notes & studying - Meeting notes - Sketches & brainstorming - Sensitive work documents Privacy-first architecture means your notes stay truly yours. Download Penned Notes. Where your thoughts are penned, not surveilled.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Penned at $4.99 against Tiny Calendar Pro's $19.99. Tiny Calendar Pro's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 87). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Tiny Calendar Pro costs $19.99 and Penned $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tiny Calendar Pro against 4.6 for Penned. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Calendar Pro has 2.4K ratings behind it against 87, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Tiny Calendar Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of Penned's.
Tiny Calendar Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Penned every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Calendar Pro | Penned |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.4K ratings) — better | 4.6 (87 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 87 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #77 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TinyWork Apps | Edwing H Santos Mena |
Customer experience
Tiny Calendar Pro
Penned
Bugs and requests
Tiny Calendar Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Syncing issues with Google Calendar
- Crashing on iOS 14 and later
- Inability to see all events on certain days
- Disappearing events after updates
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to copy/paste events
- Improve search functionality
- Provide more customization options
- Integrate with more calendar services
- Add ability to set custom reminders
Penned
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tiny Calendar Pro
No in-app purchases
Penned
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Tiny Calendar Pro free?
Is Penned free?
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