Comparison

iCalendar vs Duel Connect

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
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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

Duel Connect

Track life points for card games with a stylish and customizable interface. Offers multiple input methods, duel history, and performance statistics with graphs. Includes dice and coin simulators for added functionality.

Highlights
  • Life points counter
  • Multiple input methods (keyboard, gesture)
  • Duel history and statistics
  • Dice and coin simulator
  • Customizable design and backgrounds
  • QR code opponent scanning
Features
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Need a simple yet stylish app to count your life points during a Yu-Gi-Oh duel? Then Duel Connect is just what you are looking for! Not only does the app offer you an innovative design with several personalization options, but it also saves all your duel results so that you can later admire your performance in various graphs and tables. Just scan your opponent's QR code and let the duel begin! What will you experience in Duel Connect? - Fight heated duels - Personalize your life points input - Dice and coin simulator - Simple and efficient design - View your statistics and performance against other users - Start your duels with as many Life Points as you like - Sound and Design as known from the anime - an excellent life points counter - choose an epic background image for your Life Points Counter --------------------------------------- Customize your duel input mode In Duel Connect you can decide which input form you prefer! Are you the classic type who enters your life point changes via a keyboard or do you prefer the smart gesture control? This life points counter offers you the following possibilities: --> Keyboard - The classic way. You simply enter your health changes using a calculator keyboard. --> Text field - use buttons to decide about the content of each text field. Each digit of the number has its own text field. Sounds complicated - but is extremely intuitive and fast to use. --> Buttons - there are a number of buttons available for you to quickly add life points to the current value and finally you perform the change of life points with a single floating button. --> Gesture control - elegant and efficient. Control your health with simple finger movements, or tap the top and bottom of the screen to increase or decrease your health. Track your duel performance Now it's getting really exciting. How have you performed in your duels so far? Against which opponents do you usually perform badly or well? Use the statistics to analyze your duel performance and that of your decks in more detail. Maybe you'll notice some good opportunities for improvement that will help you take your skills and your deck to the next level. Don't set limits to your creativity! Enjoy your duel log Looking for that one legendary duel you had with your friend and want to retrace the process? Duel Connect not only gives you access to all your duels, but also to precise log data of your duels, so you can always track how they went. Download now and show the others that YOU are the king of games!

Screenshots

iCalendar1 screens
Duel Connect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Duel Connect at Free against iCalendar's $2.99. Duel Connect also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). iCalendar's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, 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

Duel Connect is free to download; iCalendar costs $2.99 up front. iCalendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and Duel Connect sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iCalendar has 5.5K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of iCalendar's written reviews are positive against 100% of Duel Connect'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, Duel Connect every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
iCalendar versus Duel Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriCalendarDuel Connect
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.5K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB155 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSymfonies, Inc.Maximilian Hemme

Customer experience

iCalendar

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

Duel Connect

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Duel Connect

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
1 purchases

Duel Connect

One-time1
  • Alle Hintergründe freischalten$1.99

Questions

Is iCalendar free?
iCalendar costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Duel Connect free?
Duel Connect is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iCalendar or Duel Connect?
iCalendar is rated higher. iCalendar averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.5K ratings, while Duel Connect averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do iCalendar or Duel Connect have ads?
Duel Connect shows ads; iCalendar does not.
Which is updated more often, iCalendar or Duel Connect?
iCalendar ships an update every 3 months, and Duel Connect every 2 months. Most recently, iCalendar was updated on October 22, 2026 and Duel Connect on October 7, 2026.

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