Custom Holiday Calendar vs TapItNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Holiday Calendar
Design your personal yearly calendar by adding custom holidays, work schedules, and special events. This app offers complete control over what days are marked, ideal for personal use or professional tracking.
- Create custom holidays
- Add personal days off
- Track work schedules
- Yearly calendar view
- No preloaded holidays
- Fully customizable
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Create your own holidays. Your calendar, your rules. This is NOT a preset holiday app. You decide which days matter. Add custom holidays, personal days off, work schedules, or special events — all in a simple yearly calendar view. Why choose this app? • No preloaded holidays • Fully customizable • Clean yearly overview • Perfect for shift workers • Great for freelancers and remote teams • Minimal and distraction-free Track company holidays, school breaks, custom days off, or personal anniversaries with full control. Simple. Flexible. Personal.
TapItNote
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TapItNote bridges the physical and digital worlds by turning ordinary NFC stickers into invisible digital sticky notes. Whether you are sharing a guest Wi-Fi password, scanning a web link, or creating a hidden maintenance log on a household appliance, TapItNote lets you interact with real-world objects with a single tap of your iPhone. CORE FEATURES • Share With Anyone: Thanks to iOS App Clips, your friends and guests don't even need TapItNote installed. Anyone can tap your sticker to instantly view your custom note or connect to your Wi-Fi via a lightweight, pop-up Clip. • Hardware Security: Protect your physical stickers from tampering. Lock any tag with a 4-character passcode to prevent unauthorized overwrites. Manage your saved passcodes securely using Face ID / Touch ID, and automatically lock new tags the moment you write them. • The Drafting Studio: Don't just write text—design it. Use the built-in Rich Text Editor to apply bold, italics, underline, custom colors, and monospace fonts before flashing your note to a tag. • Background Scanning: You don't even need to open the app! Simply tap your iPhone to a TapItNote sticker from your home screen, and the app will instantly wake up to display your hidden message. • Universal Frictionless Reading: Read TapItNote custom tags, launch web links directly into Safari, intercept generic Wi-Fi tags to import them into your library, or view the raw text of third-party tags. No camera, no QR codes, and no pairing required. • Pro Sharing: Draft beautiful notes and share them anywhere. Generate high-resolution images of your formatted notes for social media, send digital TapItNote web links via iMessage, or send your notes directly to an AirPrint-compatible printer. • 100% Local & Private: TapItNote was engineered from the ground up to respect your privacy. Your data never leaves your device. Notes are written directly to the physical silicon of the tag. There are no accounts, no cloud servers, and zero tracking analytics. BUILT FOR EVERYONE TapItNote is engineered with complete accessibility in mind. The app features total VoiceOver screen-reader support, Dynamic Type integration that scales text perfectly to your system settings, and mathematically tuned WCAG-compliant color contrast in both Light and Dark Mode. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS TapItNote requires standard, blank NTAG215 NFC stickers to write new notes. Not sure what to buy? Use our In-App Hardware Guide to find the exact tags you need and learn how to mount them to any surface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TapItNote at none against Custom Holiday Calendar's shown. TapItNote also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). Custom Holiday Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 16.6). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Custom Holiday Calendar ships an update every 7 months, TapItNote every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Holiday Calendar | TapItNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.2K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.2K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SHIGETO TAKAGI | Steven Evans |
Bugs and requests
Custom Holiday Calendar
Reported bugs
2 issues- Calendar not updating correctly
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Horizontal and vertical orientation
- Ability to save custom holidays
TapItNote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Custom Holiday Calendar
No in-app purchases
TapItNote
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Custom Holiday Calendar free?
Is TapItNote free?
Do Custom Holiday Calendar or TapItNote have ads?
Which is updated more often, Custom Holiday Calendar or TapItNote?
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