Comparison

Awesome Calendar Lite 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 Lite

This app is a comprehensive time management and personal planner designed to organize your life. It offers an intuitive interface, customizable views, weather forecasts, and the ability to add notes, events, and reminders easily. It syncs with existing iPhone calendars to consolidate your schedule.

Highlights
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Customizable event colors and fonts
  • Detailed weather forecast
  • Syncs with iPhone calendars
  • Natural language input
  • Emoji stickers for calendar view
Features
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Say goodbye to all the calendars and schedule planner apps you’ve ever used on your iPhone or iPad, as Awesome Calendar is going to change the game. This perfect time management app delivers everything you should expect from such planner apps and it even sets the bar to a higher level by offering fresh and intuitive user interface, ultimate customization options, detailed weather forecast, tons of emoji stickers to add to the calendar view and a lot more. With Awesome Calendar, you’ll have access to a multi-functional task manager app to organize your life. This personal planner app comes with a clean and neat design and the interface is so user-friendly that you’ll get the whole idea after browsing through the menus for a few times. You get to easily add a note, create an event or set a reminder right from calendar’s month view. To switch between different views (Week or Day view) you just need to double tap on the screen and to see available events for a specific day, you just need to tap on that date (a pop-up opens). So, if you care about being organized and want to never be worried about forgetting a meeting, missing a deadline or forgetting the long lists of your to-dos, then the Awesome Calendar is A Must Have App for you. Download this calendar and planner app and start adding your agenda, to-do lists and your upcoming events to it. Awesome Calendar will automatically organize everything and will let you know as soon as there is a deadline, a meeting or an event to attend to. Why Should I Install Awesome Calendar on my iPhone? While there are so many calendar apps to download and use, including the default iPhone’s calendar app, why should I trust this planner pro app and use it as my organizer app? Well, this is a fair question to ask and here are just a few reasons for installing this wonderful app: One. It’s extremely easy to use. This awesome app packs all the great features in a very well designed interface and you can easily track your events in different views. Two. It syncs with all iPhone calendar apps. If you are already using old-fashioned calendar apps, you can easily bring all your data to this awesome app. Three. It offers ultimate customization options. You get to easily set custom color for event and reminder, and change the font size and style in the notes and different views. There is also the option to add stickers to the month view. Four. Detailed weather forecast. There is built-in weather app in the Awesome Calendar which helps you track the weather condition before deciding where to go and when to go. And there are tons of other great features waiting for you… Awesome Calendar & Personal Planner Main Features at a Glance: + Natural Language Input + Clean and neat design with super user-friendly interface + Easy to navigate through different views and adding new tasks, to-dos or events + Syncs with all iPhone calendars + Ultimate customization options (change Color, Font, Style and more) + Holiday listings for 35 different countries + Month, week agenda, half-week, day and list views + Powerful search tool to look through your events, notes and to-dos + Current weather condition + 5-day weather forecast + Wide range of emoji stickers to be used in the month view + Add photos to your notes + Create recurring events (upgrade to full version) + Set priority and reminders for your events + Check your schedule at a glance in month view + No ads (upgrade to full version) So, Awesome Calendar is here to organize your life and make sure you never miss an important date or a meeting. You just need to add all your tasks, events, and meetings to the app, and leave the rest to this awesome scheduler app. You get to easily create custom alarms and reminders for any event and be notified of your upcoming event. The weather forecast feature, helps you schedule your day easier and more efficient. Download Awesome Calendar and let us know about any bugs, questions, feature requests or any other suggestions.

About

iCalendar

This productivity app offers a seamless and highly usable interface for managing your schedule. It integrates with popular accounts, allows for custom color-coding, and provides powerful search and productivity tools. Additional features like a task manager and access to interesting calendars are available via in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Seamless integration with iCloud, Google, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo!
  • Customizable color-coding for events
  • Drag and drop event timing updates
  • Task manager with iOS Reminders sync
  • Time zone support and print functionality
  • Export views as PDF
  • One-touch conference call dialing
Features
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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 Calendar Lite4 screens
iCalendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Awesome Calendar Lite at Free against iCalendar's $2.99. iCalendar's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Awesome Calendar Lite is free to download; iCalendar costs $2.99 up front. Awesome Calendar Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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

iCalendar holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iCalendar has 5.6K ratings behind it against 912, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Awesome Calendar Lite's written reviews are positive against 71% of iCalendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Awesome Calendar Lite ships an update every 6 weeks, iCalendar every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Awesome Calendar Lite versus iCalendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwesome Calendar LiteiCalendar
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (912 ratings)4.7 (5.6K ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.8% of reviews71.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9125.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#68 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYunaSoft Inc.Symfonies, Inc.

Customer experience

Awesome Calendar Lite

All ratings912 ratings
Positive77.0%
Neutral5.8%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews458 reviews
Positive54.8%
Neutral10.0%
Negative35.2%

iCalendar

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

User reviews

Awesome Calendar Lite

From 912 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 📆 Versatile calendar with color-coding and customization options
  • 🗓️ Syncs well with other calendars
  • 🔒 Password protection for privacy
  • 📝 Useful note-taking and to-do list features
  • 🎨 Visually appealing design and layout

Room to improve

  • 💢 Excessive, intrusive ads that disrupt usage
  • 🔍 Unreliable search functionality for past events
  • 💾 Issues with data loss and events disappearing
  • 🔌 Sync problems between devices
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs

iCalendar

From 5.6K 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 Lite

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Calendar data randomly deleted without warning
  • Reminders and alarms not working as expected
  • Syncing issues causing inconsistencies across devices
  • Calendar views not displaying properly after updates
  • App freezing or crashing on launch

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to share calendars with family members
  • Customizable reminder times beyond 2 days
  • Option to set Monday as the first day of the week
  • Dark mode for better visibility
  • More advanced analytics and reporting

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

1 purchases

Awesome Calendar Lite

One-time1
  • Upgrade to PRO$6.99
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 Lite free?
Awesome Calendar Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iCalendar free?
iCalendar costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Awesome Calendar Lite or iCalendar?
iCalendar is rated higher. Awesome Calendar Lite averages 4.0 out of 5 from 912 ratings, while iCalendar averages 4.7 from 5.6K ratings.
Do Awesome Calendar Lite or iCalendar have ads?
Awesome Calendar Lite shows ads; iCalendar does not.
Which is updated more often, Awesome Calendar Lite or iCalendar?
Awesome Calendar Lite ships an update every 6 weeks, and iCalendar every 3 months. Most recently, Awesome Calendar Lite was updated on November 10, 2026 and iCalendar on November 10, 2026.

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