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 day, week, and year with this comprehensive planner. It offers a daily planner, task management with subtasks, and note-taking capabilities. Syncs with popular calendar services and provides interactive widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly views
  • Task breakdown into subtasks
  • Voice and text note-taking
  • Syncs with Google, iCloud, Outlook
  • Interactive home screen widgets
  • App lock for privacy
Features
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CALENDAR, TASKS, AND NOTES Calendar at the center. Tasks and notes right beside it. This is a simple, easy-to-use calendar that helps you stay in control of your day. Tasks and notes are built in, so you can plan everything in one place. No clutter. Just what you really need every day. Plan faster and more clearly • Create events in seconds • Day, week, month, and year views in one place • Easily adjust event times with drag and drop • Clear visual overview of your schedule • Works online and offline • Full sync with iCloud, Google, Outlook, Office365, and other calendars Flexibility that makes planning easier • Customizable bottom navigation — keep only the features you use most • Two week layouts: classic and agenda style • Flexible multi-day view (2 to 14 days) and three month view formats • Widgets, themes, and interface personalization • Clear structure without feeling overloaded Everything in one place • Tasks — simple lists and clear structure • Subtasks and category-based organization • Notes — list view or board view • Quick creation and editing • Seamless connection between events, tasks, and notes Free features • Core calendar features • Sync with Reminders • Widgets and interface customization • Recurring events and tasks • Custom week formats • Backup • Unlimited notes PRO features • Voice input for events, tasks, and notes • File attachments • Convert between events, tasks, and notes • Sharing and forwarding • Unlimited data and advanced features • App lock For everyday planning This calendar helps you organize events, tasks, and notes without extra complexity or unnecessary steps. Support planner@plantech.app Terms of Use https://mccalendar.app/terms_of_use.html Privacy Policy https://mccalendar.app/privacy_policy.html

Screenshots

iCalendar1 screens
Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calendar at Free against iCalendar's $2.99. Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). iCalendar's advantage is ratings volume (5.5K vs 35) and chart position (#45 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, 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

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 and Calendar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. 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 — 4.7 for iCalendar against 4.6 for Calendar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iCalendar has 5.5K ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of iCalendar's written reviews are positive against 75% of Calendar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iCalendar ships an update every 3 months, Calendar every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
iCalendar versus Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriCalendarCalendar
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better4.6 (35 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.5K — better35
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#45 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB302 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSymfonies, Inc.Planning Technologies LLC

Customer experience

iCalendar

All ratings5,356 ratings
Positive93.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews406 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral8.9%
Negative19.7%

Calendar

All ratings35 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
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
3 purchases

Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Full Access for a Month$1.991 Month
  • Full Access for a Year7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full Access Forever$29.99

Questions

Is iCalendar free?
iCalendar costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Calendar free?
Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iCalendar or Calendar?
iCalendar is rated higher. iCalendar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.5K ratings, while Calendar averages 4.6 from 35 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 5 weeks. Most recently, iCalendar was updated on October 24, 2026 and Calendar on October 24, 2026.

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