Comparison

Tiny Calendar vs miCal

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Read full description

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

About

miCal

This app enhances your scheduling experience with a clear dashboard, intuitive controls, and natural language input for event creation. It offers comprehensive views, task management, birthday reminders, and weather forecasts.

Highlights
  • Dashboard overview of events, tasks, and weather
  • Intuitive navigation and event creation
  • Natural language input for events
  • iOS Reminders integration
  • Birthday reminders with custom music
  • 5-day weather forecasts
  • Event export (CSV, ICS)
Features
Read full description

miCal is THE calendar that you’ve always wished your iPhone or iPad had! miCal makes scheduling easier, clearer—and better looking—than ever before. Quick Overview The dashboard displays your current appointments and events, tasks and birthdays. You can also see the current weather and an overview of the current month at a glance. Intuitive Controls Intuitively navigate through your calendars and quickly, easily add events and tasks thanks to predefined settings and simple controls. Standard settings like repeating events and reminders/alarms are just a tap away. And powerful special settings are also available, without sacrificing comfort or control. Swipe through views and open events or days with just a tap. miCal Understands You Quickly create events with the new natural language input feature. Natural language input allows you to create events just by describing them. And if you have Siri enabled on your device, you can even dictate your event details instead of typing. The Total Package miCal provides complete, well-organized day, week and month views and displays the calendar week in all the important views. Relax You don’t need to contort yourself with miCal. miCal supports portrait as well as landscape formats in nearly every view. Use each view however it’s most comfortable for you. Tasks/Reminders miCal now supports iOS reminders. Create reminders for all the important tasks in your private and professional life right in the app. Birthday Manager Never again miss an important birthday. Get reminders at preset times featuring the music of your choice. Nice Weather Five-day weather forecasts plus the sunrise/sunset times, humidity and wind speed for the current day. The dashboard even features a quick summary of the current weather as well as a brief forecast of the coming days. Comprehensive miCal offers a unique range of features. Copy, move or send your events. Export your events in the date range of your choice as CSV (for Excel, etc.) or ICS (the calendar format). Set colors for your calendars and individual appointments or automatically add colors based on keywords in event titles. Up to Date and Secure miCal communicates with your device’s integrated calendar. miCal works with all the calendar services that your device currently supports (iCloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Exchange, Facebook Events, subscriptions) without requiring additional configuration. That way, you can store your data locally or via the services you know and trust—it’s up to you. miCal itself does not transmit any data to external services or other servers. That allows us to ensure 100% data security. Award-Winning - 3rd place in the "Best German iPhone App" competition at the 2010 iPhone Developer conference. - Featured as App of the Week in 13 countries. - Recommendation from iPhoneWelt and a 5-star rating from iPhone&Co, two of the leading iPhone magazines - Honored at the 2010 App Developer Conference

Screenshots

Tiny Calendar4 screens
miCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tiny Calendar at Free against miCal's $1.99. Tiny Calendar also leads on ratings volume (21K vs 592). miCal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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

Tiny Calendar is free to download; miCal costs $1.99 up front. Tiny Calendar sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. miCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Tiny Calendar against 4.7 for miCal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Calendar has 21K ratings behind it against 592, 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 78% of miCal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Calendar ships an update every 2 months, miCal every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Tiny Calendar versus miCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny CalendarmiCal
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.6 (21K ratings)4.7 (592 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.6% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21K — better592
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionPaid — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinyWork Appsentwicklungsschmiede UG & Co KG

Customer experience

Tiny Calendar

All ratings20,601 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral4.2%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews667 reviews
Positive76.6%
Neutral7.3%
Negative16.0%

miCal

All ratings592 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.9%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews505 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral7.7%
Negative14.3%

User reviews

Tiny Calendar

From 21K App Store ratings

What 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

miCal

From 592 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient and feature-rich
  • 💡 Customizable calendars and reminders
  • 🔒 Reliable sync across devices
  • 🗓️ Comprehensive calendar and task management

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches after updates
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality
  • 💬 Poor customer support responsiveness
  • 🔧 Difficulty editing event details
  • 🖥️ Suboptimal iPad user interface

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

miCal

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Reminders not working as expected
  • Sync issues between iPhone and iPad
  • Crashes and freezes after iOS updates
  • Incorrect anniversary year calculations
  • Unable to edit event titles on iPad

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for time zones
  • Improve natural language input
  • Introduce a dark mode option
  • Allow for more calendar customization
  • Integrate with additional third-party services

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tiny Calendar

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly Subscription$1.497 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Special Offer$6.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time6
  • Recurring Events$1.99
  • Invites & Attendees$1.99
  • Multiple Google Accounts$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Upgrade to Premium$9.99
  • Lifetime Premium Special Offer$14.99
  • Lifetime Premium$19.99
None

miCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Calendar free?
Tiny Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is miCal free?
miCal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Calendar or miCal?
miCal is rated higher. Tiny Calendar averages 4.6 out of 5 from 21K ratings, while miCal averages 4.7 from 592 ratings.
Do Tiny Calendar or miCal have ads?
Tiny Calendar shows ads; miCal does not.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Calendar or miCal?
Tiny Calendar ships an update every 2 months, and miCal every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tiny Calendar was updated on September 25, 2026 and miCal on September 24, 2026.

Other comparisons