Comparison

Awesome Calendar vs iCalendar

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

Head to head
About

Awesome Calendar

Organize your personal and professional life with this comprehensive calendar and productivity tool. It syncs with existing calendars, manages to-do lists, allows photo-enhanced notes, and provides weather forecasts. Easily share schedules and collaborate on tasks.

Highlights
  • Automatic calendar syncing
  • To-do list management
  • Notes with photo embedding
  • Weather forecasts
  • Holiday listings
  • Schedule sharing
  • Natural language input
Features
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Now you can automatically sync with all iPhone calendars, write your todo list, create notes with photos, check the weather and more, all with Awesome Calendar! This elegant application keeps you organized, shows holidays and is even perfect for team projects. You’re away from the office but need to check your schedule. What do you do? Open up Awesome Calendar, of course. It only takes a second or two. The app automatically syncs with all iPhone supported calendars to let you know when you have time for that next meeting. Quick as a wink, you add the meeting to your calendar then create a note that will help you prepare for it. A fast snap of the camera or visit to your camera roll and you add a picture of the product you’re quoting on, the item needing repair, or whatever you want. Another tap and you share all the information with your assistant back at the office, who can get the ball rolling on this project. You pride yourself on making things happen fast, that’s why you have Awesome Calendar on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. In one speedy swoop, right from the client’s office, you were able to set up dates and times, note all of the information, and get things underway remotely. Once again, you are providing the five-star service you are known for. Awesome Calendar is the all-in-tool to help you manage your personal and business life. View and edit your schedule, check the weather, create a todo list, write in your diary, embed photos in notes, check for holidays. This one does it all! Want to share your schedule and notes? Would you like to have someone help you with your growing todo list? No problem, you can do those things from right inside the Awesome Calendar app. That’s right, it’s that easy and convenient. You never have to leave the app to use it most efficiently. The time management power and functionality of this app is amazing. It has an elegant, easy-to-use interface from where you can organize your life and schedule. Aside from the tasks already mentioned, the application offers month, week, day and list views, event alarms, collapsible weeks, holiday listings for 35 different countries, and far more than what can be listed here. Check out just a few of the features offered in Awesome Calendar: + Natural Language Input. + works with all iPhone supported calendars(MobileMe, iCloud, Google Calendar, Exchange, CalDAV) + iOS reminder integrated. Custom color, priority, note, custom alarms and sub-task. + Synchronization with google task + 4 apps in 1(calendar, task manager, notepad, weather, sticker) + Multiple calendar control + Month, week agenda, Filofax, day and list views + Rolling todo and todo carry over. + Custom color for event and reminder. + iCloud support for diary. + Customizable calendar and event color. + Font size and Style change option in view and note. + Timezone support. + Event template for quick adding. + Grouping of todo option + Quick popup on month view. + Holidays noted for 35 countries. Multiple holiday selection. + Elegant Photo album calendar. + Powerful diary lets you type notes and embed photos. + Full text search for event, note and todo. + Easy-push event alarm and customizable alarm. + Unlimited alarms. + Weather information display – current and 10 day forecast + Air print-Month overview, week, day and each event. + Lots of Cuteeeee stickers available to use in month view + Share events, notes and todo lists from inside the app + Passcode lock. + Monday/Sunday start option. + Customized recurrence for event and reminder. + Insert photo to note. + Sharing note via email. + Badge alarm on icon. Number of today’s events, todos. + Displaying past events on 1,2,3,4 and 5 years ago today at a glance. + Today's wise saying. + Theme color. + Customizable recurring rule for event and reminder. + Note sync via iCloud.

About

iCalendar

This app helps you manage your busy schedule with a user-friendly interface. Easily track daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views, and color-code your events for better organization. It syncs with popular accounts and offers productivity tools for efficient event management.

Highlights
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly views
  • Customizable event color-coding
  • Syncs with iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo!
  • Task manager with iOS Reminders sync
  • Drag and drop event rescheduling
  • Custom repeating events
  • Time zone support
Features
Currently charting
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** A MUST-HAVE CALENDAR APP FOR EVERY IPHONE, IPAD, AND IPOD **   iCalendar is the ultimate calendar for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch focusing on your productivity. It’s seamless, highly usable interface allows you to enter events quickly and helps you keep track of your busy schedule. It integrates with your iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, or Yahoo! account to provide you with the most convenient calendaring experience.    EASILY TRACK YOUR SCHEDULE - View your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule. - Custom color-code your events. Use predefined colors, or make up your own colors. - iCalendar implements quickest way on the market to navigate between dates  - Fast and powerful search: Search events by title, location, and notes.    NEW IN VERSION 4.0 - Task Manager: Manage your tasks within your calendar in a fun and easy manner and sync with iOS Reminders. Available as in-app purchase for USD 0.99.   FULL OF PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS - Drag and drop an event to update its timing.  - Copy and paste events. - Create custom repeating events (e.g. repeat on the third Friday every month, and many more).  - Add custom alerts/reminders for events and snooze alerts - Access your event details quickly by tapping on the event.  - Customize the visible time period (e.g. from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) to help you focus on most important events.    EVEN MORE - Time Zone Support: View and create your events in your preferred time zone and never get confused when you travel.  - Complete print functionality. Print daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views.  - Export any view (day, week, month, year) as a PDF file.  - Use built-in maps to set the location of your events.  - Dial into a conference call with one touch right from iCalendar. Add phone numbers from your contacts to events with the ability to use pause and wait, which is ideal for conference calls.  - Set location of an event as the address or phone number of one of your contacts.  - Access all your events directly from the Month view - no need to go to each individual day to review full list of events.  - Use the app icon badge to indicate either the number of upcoming events or the day of the month.  - Google Calendar sync: sync all of your calendars, create and edit Google Calendar events, and use Google Calendar custom reminders (SMS, email and/or alert). - Add, edit and delete calendars right from iCalendar.  - Support of portrait and landscape to match your orientation preference.  - iCalendar is a universal app. Download once and use across all your devices.  - For more details: http://www.symfonies.com/icalendar/   iCalendar offers access to interesting calendars from Calendar Store as an optional in-app purchase.  You may subscribe to your holidays calendar (national/religious) or subscribe to interesting calendars (e.g. local/global sports events, stocks, weather, and many others).   With an optional in-app purchase yearly subscription, you get full and ongoing access to the Calendar Store including (live) updates in your calendar. A subscription always starts with a one-month free trial, so you can try before you buy. One year subscriptions for the Calendar Store costs $1.99. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and after the 1 month free trial. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current 1 year period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed.   Our terms of service and privacy policy are found at http://www.symfonies.com/terms-of-service/ and http://www.symfonies.com/privacy-policy/ respectively.   If you have a question, need help or would like to request a feature, please do not hesitate to contact us. We respond to EVERY email we receive: support@symfonies.com

Screenshots

Awesome Calendar4 screens
iCalendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iCalendar at $2.99 against Awesome Calendar's $9.99. iCalendar also leads on chart position (#51 vs unranked). Awesome Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Awesome Calendar costs $9.99 and iCalendar $2.99 up front. Awesome Calendar sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and iCalendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Awesome Calendar against 4.7 for iCalendar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.9K and 5.5K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Awesome Calendar's written reviews are positive against 71% of iCalendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Awesome Calendar ships an update every 6 weeks, iCalendar every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Awesome Calendar versus iCalendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwesome CalendariCalendar
Price$9.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.6 (3.9K ratings)4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.4% of reviews71.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.9K5.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#51 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYunaSoft Inc.Symfonies, Inc.

Customer experience

Awesome Calendar

All ratings3,874 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews435 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral9.4%
Negative21.1%

iCalendar

All ratings5,356 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews408 reviews
Positive71.3%
Neutral8.8%
Negative19.9%

User reviews

Awesome Calendar

From 3.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app, use it all day every day
  • 👍 Awesome, easy to use, reliable
  • 💻 Integrates well with other calendars
  • 🎨 Customizable with colors and stickers
  • 🗓️ Excellent month/week/day views

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy, crashes, deletes events
  • 🔄 Sync issues between devices
  • 🤖 Lack of customer support
  • 💰 Expensive for a calendar app
  • 🗓️ Limited calendar view options

iCalendar

From 5.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Excellent calendar app
  • 🎨 Customizable color coding
  • 📅 Comprehensive monthly view
  • 🗓️ Seamless syncing across devices
  • 🔍 Detailed event information

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional data loss or sync issues
  • 🔍 Difficulty editing recurring events
  • 🔒 Concerns about security and privacy
  • 💰 Paid features that should be free
  • 🕰️ Inconsistent event time display

Bugs and requests

Awesome Calendar

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Recurring events not saving properly
  • Inability to invite attendees without crashing
  • Calendar events disappearing after updates
  • Incorrect time/date changes on event entry
  • Unreliable syncing between devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Shared calendar and grocery list
  • Apple Watch app and complication
  • More customization options
  • Improved sync and backup features
  • Better integration with other apps

iCalendar

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Events disappearing or not syncing properly
  • Inability to edit or update recurring events
  • Incorrect time and location information
  • Crashes or freezes when performing certain actions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to attach files to events
  • Improve widget functionality and visibility
  • Introduce family/group calendar sharing
  • Expand color palette and theming options
  • Add yearly view and better month-to-month navigation

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Awesome Calendar

One-time10
  • +800 Emoji Stickers$0.99
  • Religious holidays$0.99
  • Week Numbers$0.99
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  • Moon Phases calendar$0.99
  • Holidays United States$0.99
  • Calendars - Pro Football USA 2014-2015 edition$0.99
  • Calendars - Pro Baseball USA 2015 edition$0.99
  • Calendars - Rio Games 2016 edition$0.99
  • TV Schedules$0.99
  • Weather calendars$1.99
10 purchases

iCalendar

Subscriptions1
  • Calendar Store1 Month trial$1.991 Year
One-time9
  • Religious holidays$0.99
  • Week Numbers$0.99
  • Moon Phases calendar$0.99
Show 6 more
  • Holidays United States$0.99
  • Calendars - Pro Football USA 2014-2015 edition$0.99
  • Calendars - Pro Baseball USA 2015 edition$0.99
  • iOS Reminders$0.99
  • Calendars - Pro American Football Men United States 2015-2016 edition$0.99
  • Weather calendars$1.99

Questions

Is Awesome Calendar free?
Awesome Calendar costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is iCalendar free?
iCalendar costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Awesome Calendar or iCalendar?
iCalendar is rated higher. Awesome Calendar averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while iCalendar averages 4.7 from 5.5K ratings.
Do Awesome Calendar or iCalendar have ads?
Neither Awesome Calendar nor iCalendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Awesome Calendar or iCalendar?
Awesome Calendar ships an update every 6 weeks, and iCalendar every 3 months. Most recently, Awesome Calendar was updated on October 30, 2026 and iCalendar on October 29, 2026.

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