Comparison

RowCounter vs miCal

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

Head to head
About

RowCounter

Easily track stitches for multiple knitting projects. Manage projects with sub-projects, add notes, and customize backgrounds. Offers multi-selection for efficient project management and prevents screen lock during counting.

Highlights
  • Multiple project management
  • Sub-project support
  • Project notes
  • Customizable backgrounds
  • Screen lock prevention
  • Multi-selection for actions
Features
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Row counting made easy. No tiresome notes to write down anymore. Manage multiple knit projects simultaneously. Use sub projects. Change the background image. Prevent the screen lock in the count view. Make notes in the projects and sub projects. Use multi selection to copy, delete, print or mail your projects. Please remember, if you have problems with the app or if you have a feature request, send this information to the support email address: Mirko.Paschke@gmx.de

About

miCal

This app enhances your scheduling experience with a clear dashboard, intuitive controls, and natural language input for event creation. It offers comprehensive views, task management, birthday reminders, and weather forecasts.

Highlights
  • Dashboard overview of events, tasks, and weather
  • Intuitive navigation and event creation
  • Natural language input for events
  • iOS Reminders integration
  • Birthday reminders with custom music
  • 5-day weather forecasts
  • Event export (CSV, ICS)
Features
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miCal is THE calendar that you’ve always wished your iPhone or iPad had! miCal makes scheduling easier, clearer—and better looking—than ever before. Quick Overview The dashboard displays your current appointments and events, tasks and birthdays. You can also see the current weather and an overview of the current month at a glance. Intuitive Controls Intuitively navigate through your calendars and quickly, easily add events and tasks thanks to predefined settings and simple controls. Standard settings like repeating events and reminders/alarms are just a tap away. And powerful special settings are also available, without sacrificing comfort or control. Swipe through views and open events or days with just a tap. miCal Understands You Quickly create events with the new natural language input feature. Natural language input allows you to create events just by describing them. And if you have Siri enabled on your device, you can even dictate your event details instead of typing. The Total Package miCal provides complete, well-organized day, week and month views and displays the calendar week in all the important views. Relax You don’t need to contort yourself with miCal. miCal supports portrait as well as landscape formats in nearly every view. Use each view however it’s most comfortable for you. Tasks/Reminders miCal now supports iOS reminders. Create reminders for all the important tasks in your private and professional life right in the app. Birthday Manager Never again miss an important birthday. Get reminders at preset times featuring the music of your choice. Nice Weather Five-day weather forecasts plus the sunrise/sunset times, humidity and wind speed for the current day. The dashboard even features a quick summary of the current weather as well as a brief forecast of the coming days. Comprehensive miCal offers a unique range of features. Copy, move or send your events. Export your events in the date range of your choice as CSV (for Excel, etc.) or ICS (the calendar format). Set colors for your calendars and individual appointments or automatically add colors based on keywords in event titles. Up to Date and Secure miCal communicates with your device’s integrated calendar. miCal works with all the calendar services that your device currently supports (iCloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Exchange, Facebook Events, subscriptions) without requiring additional configuration. That way, you can store your data locally or via the services you know and trust—it’s up to you. miCal itself does not transmit any data to external services or other servers. That allows us to ensure 100% data security. Award-Winning - 3rd place in the "Best German iPhone App" competition at the 2010 iPhone Developer conference. - Featured as App of the Week in 13 countries. - Recommendation from iPhoneWelt and a 5-star rating from iPhone&Co, two of the leading iPhone magazines - Honored at the 2010 App Developer Conference

Screenshots

RowCounter4 screens
miCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: miCal at every 5 weeks against RowCounter's every 13 months. miCal also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 50%) and device support (4 vs 2). RowCounter's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

RowCounter costs $0.99 and miCal $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RowCounter ships an update every 13 months, miCal every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
RowCounter versus miCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRowCountermiCal
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating—4.7 (593 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews77.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—593 — better
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMirko Paschkeentwicklungsschmiede UG & Co KG

Customer experience

RowCounter

Written reviews22 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

miCal

All ratings593 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews507 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral7.9%
Negative14.2%

Bugs and requests

RowCounter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

miCal

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Reminders not working as expected
  • Sync issues between iPhone and iPad
  • Crashes and freezes after iOS updates
  • Incorrect anniversary year calculations
  • Unable to edit event titles on iPad

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for time zones
  • Improve natural language input
  • Introduce a dark mode option
  • Allow for more calendar customization
  • Integrate with additional third-party services

In-app purchases

None

RowCounter

No in-app purchases

None

miCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RowCounter free?
RowCounter costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is miCal free?
miCal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do RowCounter or miCal have ads?
Neither RowCounter nor miCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RowCounter or miCal?
RowCounter ships an update every 13 months, and miCal every 5 weeks. Most recently, RowCounter was updated on October 20, 2026 and miCal on October 21, 2026.

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