Comparison

iCalendar vs Calendar

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

Head to head
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

About

Calendar

Organize your entire schedule in one place. View events from multiple accounts, manage tasks, and plan gatherings with others. Stay on top of appointments, holidays, and birthdays with customizable views and shared calendars.

Highlights
  • Unified schedule view
  • Event creation and editing
  • Task management integration
  • Calendar sharing
  • Multiple calendar support
  • Customizable views
Features
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Calendar Plan your time, and coordinate with others using the Calendar app. See a holistic view of your schedule with events from all your different calendar accounts, alongside reminders, holidays, birthdays and subscription calendars. Invite others to events, respond to invitations, or share entire calendars to make plans with colleagues, family, and friends. Your Complete Schedule Keep track of all your events from different calendar accounts together in the Calendar app. Connect accounts from iCloud, Exchange, Google and others. Organize your events using multiple calendars with different colors. And view all your events alongside each other in List, Day, Week or Month views. Event Planning Create and edit events, appointments, and meetings. Add an alert to be reminded of an event, a location to receive a notification when it’s time to leave, a link to a video call to quickly connect, related attachments, notes and more. Easily send and receive events through invitations using iCloud, Exchange and other calendar accounts. Reminders in Calendar Manage your tasks easily with reminders. Create, view, edit and complete reminders from the Reminders app right alongside all your other meetings and appointments in the Calendar app. Shared Calendars Share an iCloud calendar with family, colleagues or friends. They can easily see events, add more events, receive alerts, or make changes to the calendar. Even More Calendars Add other calendars to keep track of even more events. Holiday Calendars show up-to-date information about global holidays. See contacts’ birthdays with the Birthdays calendar. Events recognized by Siri in apps like Mail appear in the Siri Suggestions calendar. And you can even subscribe to calendars for your favorites sports teams, TV shows and more from the web.

Screenshots

iCalendar1 screens
Calendar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calendar at Free against iCalendar's $2.99. Calendar also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ratings volume (1.5M vs 5.3K). iCalendar's advantage is review sentiment (72% vs 37%) and chart position (#78 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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

Calendar is free to download; iCalendar costs $2.99 up front. iCalendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar has 1.5M ratings behind it against 5.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of iCalendar's written reviews are positive against 37% of Calendar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iCalendar ships an update every 3 months, Calendar every 4 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
iCalendar versus Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriCalendarCalendar
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (5.3K ratings)4.9 (1.5M ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews — better37.3% of reviews
Number of ratings5.3K1.5M — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#78 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSymfonies, Inc.Apple

Customer experience

iCalendar

All ratings5,339 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews390 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral8.5%
Negative19.2%

Calendar

All ratings1,514,779 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews3,211 reviews
Positive37.3%
Neutral13.7%
Negative49.0%

User reviews

iCalendar

From 5.3K 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

Calendar

From 1.5M App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Essential app for staying organized
  • 👍 Clean, intuitive, and easy to navigate
  • 🔒 Seamless sync across devices
  • 👍 Helpful integration with other apps
  • 👍 Ability to set multiple alerts, share events, and color-code calendars

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Autofill suggestions overwrite event time
  • 🔍 Search function not reliable
  • 🔍 Inability to delete past/declined events
  • 🔍 Confusing interface, cluttered month view
  • 🔍 Lack of customization options for alerts and reminders

Bugs and requests

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

Calendar

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Time zones not handled properly, causing appointment time issues
  • Recurring events not deleted properly
  • Inability to delete events, leading to a cluttered calendar
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Search function not working as expected

Requested features

9 requests
  • Attachment option to add files, photos, PDFs, etc. to events
  • Integration with Reminders app to schedule and view tasks
  • Week view in portrait mode
  • Option to select which reminder lists show in the calendar
  • Openings and proposals feature
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  • Ability to change colors of individual events
  • Cash flow diary to track expenses/income
  • Monthly calendar view
  • Ability to highlight the entire week with a color

In-app purchases

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
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  • 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
None

Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iCalendar free?
iCalendar costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Calendar free?
Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iCalendar or Calendar?
Calendar is rated higher. iCalendar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.3K ratings, while Calendar averages 4.9 from 1.5M ratings.
Do iCalendar or Calendar have ads?
Neither iCalendar nor Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iCalendar or Calendar?
iCalendar ships an update every 3 months, and Calendar every 4 months. Most recently, iCalendar was updated on September 24, 2026 and Calendar on September 24, 2026.

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