iCalendar vs Tiny Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Tiny Calendar
This intuitive calendar app syncs with your existing calendars, offering powerful event creation and management tools. Access your schedule offline, set advanced reminders, and view your events in multiple formats on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
- Natural language input for event creation
- Drag and drop event editing
- Syncs with Google Calendar and iOS local calendars
- Supports 9 different calendar views
- Offline event management
- Advanced reminder system (push notifications, email)
- Apple Watch support
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Tiny Calendar is an intuitive smart calendar works with all your calendars. It inherits the simple and clean look of calendars but makes it more accessible, powerful and reliable on your iPhone and iPad. With Tiny Calendar, you can access and manipulate your google calendar events and tasks more easily, anyway you want. SMART ENOUGH TO CREATE Tiny Calendar has features like nature language input, drag and drop, gestures and other smart methods to predict your intention and help you create and edit your events more easily. SYNC & MANAGE GOOGLE TASKS You don’t need to download another app to manage Google tasks. MULTIPLE WAYS TO VIEW Tiny Calendar supports 9 standard views - Forecast, day, week, month, 4-days, year, mini-month, week agenda and agenda. You can instantly switch views to discover events or find a time you're looking for. REAL-TIME SYNC Tiny Calendar syncs directly with all your Google calendars and also works with iOS local calendar to support events on iCloud, Exchange and other calendars. WORKS OFFLINE You can still create, edit and delete events when you don't have an Internet connection. Tiny Calendar will cache your changes and sync back to your calendar account next time you're online. ADVANCED REMINDER SYSTEM Never forget about a meeting! Tiny Calendar allows you to set reminders via push notification, or email for all events. ACCESS FROM EVERYWHERE Tiny Calendar works with your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. You don't need to pay extra money to download multiple copies. Subscription Information: - Tiny Calendar offers a subscription which is $1.49/week & $2.99/month. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase Terms of Use: https://apps.fengge.io/TinyCalendar/TermsConditions.html Privacy Policy: https://apps.fengge.io/TinyCalendar/PrivacyPolicy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tiny Calendar at Free against iCalendar's $2.99. Tiny Calendar also leads on ratings volume (21K vs 5.3K). iCalendar's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#84 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Tiny Calendar is free to download; iCalendar costs $2.99 up front. iCalendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and Tiny Calendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for iCalendar against 4.6 for Tiny Calendar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5.3K and 21K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of iCalendar's written reviews are positive against 77% of Tiny Calendar's.
iCalendar ships an update every 3 months, Tiny Calendar every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCalendar | Tiny Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.3K ratings) — better | 4.6 (21K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.3% of reviews | 76.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.3K | 21K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #84 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Symfonies, Inc. | TinyWork Apps |
Customer experience
iCalendar
Tiny Calendar
User reviews
iCalendar
From 5.3K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Tiny Calendar
From 21K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💻 Excellent calendar app
- 📆 Helpful for organizing schedules
- 🔗 Syncs well with Google Calendar
- 🗓 Useful month/week/day views
- 🎨 Customizable color-coding
Room to improve
- 🐛 Syncing issues with Google Calendar
- 🔍 Difficulty finding past events
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 📢 Intrusive ads in free version
- 🕰 Time zone issues with event times
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
Tiny Calendar
Reported bugs
3 issues- Events disappearing from calendar
- Crashes when changing calendar settings
- Duplicate events created unexpectedly
Requested features
4 requests- Add to-do list functionality
- Improve Apple Watch integration
- Allow more customization options
- Provide better customer support
In-app purchases
iCalendar
- Calendar Store1 Month trial$1.991 Year
- 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
Tiny Calendar
- Weekly Subscription$1.497 Days
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Yearly Special Offer$6.991 Year
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- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Recurring Events$1.99
- Invites & Attendees$1.99
- Multiple Google Accounts$2.99
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- Upgrade to Premium$9.99
- Lifetime Premium Special Offer$14.99
- Lifetime Premium$19.99






