Tiny Calendar vs FirstSeed Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
FirstSeed Calendar
A powerful scheduling app that manages both events and reminders. It offers innovative calendar views, interactive widgets for various iOS versions, and seamless syncing with Apple's Calendar and Reminders apps. An optional paid upgrade unlocks advanced features like natural language event processing and drag-and-drop functionality.
- Interactive and lock-screen widgets
- Full-featured month, week, and list views
- Event and reminder management
- Natural language event processing (paid)
- Drag & drop event manipulation (paid)
- Apple Watch support
- Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
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FirstSeed Calendar is a scheduling app that handles both events and reminders with the following great features: - Added support for Liquid Glass, as well as clear widgets and icons in iOS 26. - Supports Control Center & lock-screen buttons as well as dark & tinted app icons in iOS 18. - Supports interactive widgets and standby widgets in iOS 17, as well as Smart Stacks in watchOS 10. - Supports lock-screen widgets, weather and focus filter in iOS 16. - Apple Watch support - Full-featured month view with single-handed operation for most common tasks - Innovative week view that eliminates the need for vertical scrolling - List view that shows events like paper organizer - Access to reminders - Ability to move and duplicate events - Show notes in full screen - Smooth scrolling of calendar views - And much more! A paid upgrade is available to access these excellent extra features: - Quick event that processes natural language (English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese) - Week number, time zone, and event history - Drag & drop to move events - Template to create similar events repeatedly - Calendar set to show or hide calendars with a single tap - Apple Watch app settings - Different app icons - And more! FirstSeed Calendar syncs with Apple's "Calendar" app, so you can use iCloud calendar or other online calendars to sync your events across all devices. It also syncs with Apple's "Reminders" app, so you can use iCloud to sync your reminders across all devices. The new reminders in iOS 13 and macOS Catalina is only partially supported. For example, sub reminders show up as no-due reminders. Full support will be provided in the future update.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: FirstSeed Calendar at free with in-app purchases against Tiny Calendar's subscription. FirstSeed Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). Tiny Calendar's advantage is ratings volume (21K vs 329) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Tiny Calendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days and FirstSeed Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Tiny Calendar against 4.7 for FirstSeed Calendar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Calendar has 21K ratings behind it against 329, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Tiny Calendar's written reviews are positive against 81% of FirstSeed Calendar's.
Tiny Calendar ships an update every 2 months, FirstSeed Calendar every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Calendar | FirstSeed Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21K ratings) | 4.7 (329 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.6% of reviews | 80.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 329 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TinyWork Apps | FirstSeed Inc |
Customer experience
Tiny Calendar
FirstSeed Calendar
Bugs and requests
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
FirstSeed Calendar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
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
FirstSeed Calendar
- Monthly Donation$2.991 Month
- Pro Version$9.99
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