Comparison

Calendar Planner CircleTime vs Magical Field Notes

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

Head to head
About

Calendar Planner CircleTime

This app reimagines your schedule as a flowing circle, syncing with natural rhythms like sunrise, sunset, and moon phases. It offers a clear, clutter-free visual representation of your day, integrating with your activity data for a holistic view of time and movement.

Highlights
  • Circular daily timeline visualization
  • Syncs with sun, moon, and weather
  • Integrates Apple Activity Rings
  • ADHD-friendly visual clarity
  • Customizable routines and reminders
  • Widgets and Apple Watch support
Features
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UNDERSTAND TIME AS A WHOLE Most calendars organize time into boxes. But time unfolds through rhythms and cycles. CircleTime is a visual calendar that reflects that reality. Plan your day, week, and month with a clear visual calendar that helps you understand time as a connected whole. Events, reminders, tasks, weather, daylight, moon phases, and activity come together in one connected view. The circular view gives clarity at a glance. You see when the day begins, when light fades, when routines fit, and when rest comes. Less overwhelm, more focus. Discover patterns that traditional calendars often hide. Understand how your plans, movement, and natural rhythms fit together throughout the day. Instead of switching between apps, lists, and trackers, everything is organized in a single timeline that helps you stay focused, reduce overwhelm, and plan with greater clarity. FEATURES • See your entire day, week, and month at a glance • Never lose track of events, reminders, or tasks • Plan with daylight, weather, and lunar awareness • Understand when your activity happens, not just how much • Stay focused with a visual timeline that reduces overwhelm • Keep your schedule close with widgets and Apple Watch PRIVACY FIRST Your data stays private on your device. No tracking. No ads. Just clarity. INTEGRATIONS Works seamlessly with Apple Calendar, Apple Weather, HealthKit, and iCloud. Follow your schedule, your activity, and the natural cycles around you. A calendar that finally feels like time itself. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Magical Field Notes

Record spells, dreams, prayers, and meditations in a private digital journal. Track patterns and correspondences by automatically logging time, date, day of the week, and moon phase for each entry. Discover optimal times for rituals and practices.

Highlights
  • Digital grimoire for magical musings
  • Track spells, dreams, and meditations
  • Automatic logging of date and moon phase
  • Identify patterns and correspondences
  • Access gathered information easily
  • Includes starter spells and suggestions
Features
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Create a safe and sacred place for your magical musings and use Magical Field Notes to keep track of spells, dreams, prayers, and meditations. Every mystical practitioner understands the value of recording progress and experience along the way. As you develop your own unique style of magick and spiritual practice, it’s important to be able to easily access the information you’ve gathered on your journey. Most of the magically inclined are familiar with keeping a journal, grimoire, or book of shadows. Your own collection of private pages store some of your most precious and secret findings. Magical Field Notes can become your grimoire on the go! Not only can you enter your own spells, dreams, or ideas, but the app also allows you to observe important patterns affecting your work and goals. How do these patterns appear? Just like magic, of course! Whenever you enter a dream, spell, or thought, the app records the time, the date, day of the week, and the moon phase. At any time, you can open the part of the app that records your data and look back to see what kinds of conditions and calendar correspondences were in place during your experience. Over time, this allows you to recognize the best times for certain types of rituals, spells, or meditations. Magical Field Notes also provides some spells and suggestions to get your started. The number of these spells, rituals, and special prayers will grow over time as we encourage you to submit your own entries so that others can benefit from practices you’ve found to be successful.

Screenshots

Calendar Planner CircleTime4 screens
Magical Field Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Calendar Planner CircleTime at 4.6 against Magical Field Notes's 2.9. Calendar Planner CircleTime also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (55% vs 27%). Magical Field Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Calendar Planner CircleTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Magical Field Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar Planner CircleTime holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Planner CircleTime has 339 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Calendar Planner CircleTime's written reviews are positive against 27% of Magical Field Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, Magical Field Notes every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Calendar Planner CircleTime versus Magical Field Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar Planner CircleTimeMagical Field Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (339 ratings) — better2.9 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews — better27.3% of reviews
Number of ratings339 — better8
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB18 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGalilea, d.o.o.Modern Masters, Inc.

Customer experience

Calendar Planner CircleTime

All ratings339 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral10.6%
Negative34.8%

Magical Field Notes

All ratings8 ratings
Positive37.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral18.2%
Negative54.5%

Bugs and requests

Calendar Planner CircleTime

Reported bugs

14 issues
  • Occasional syncing delays
  • Padlock screen locks app
  • No 'cancel' button on lock screen
  • Force-quit required to escape lock
  • Color dots not working
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  • Outer rings for month/date in English (when app is in Spanish)
  • Home icon doesn't show date/number of events
  • App doesn't work on iPhone 6+
  • Event created in app doesn't appear in app
  • App doesn't start
  • Crashes every time it's opened
  • Operates like a beta version
  • Lag in displaying when switching views
  • Control points are too small

Requested features

16 requests
  • Add widgets
  • Add tasks to calendar
  • More alarms
  • Widgets for Home Screen
  • Moon phase widget
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  • Day/week/month widgets
  • Ability to control notifications
  • Add other calendars
  • Choose week start day (Sunday/Monday)
  • Shared calendar integration (Google Calendar)
  • More integration
  • iPad version
  • Make June at bottom, December at top
  • 12hr time option
  • Legend for colors
  • Improved labeling and documentation

Magical Field Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Calendar Planner CircleTime

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Half-Yearly Premium7 Days trial$20.006 Months
  • Yearly Premium Family7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium Family$119.00
None

Magical Field Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calendar Planner CircleTime free?
Calendar Planner CircleTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Magical Field Notes free?
Magical Field Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Calendar Planner CircleTime or Magical Field Notes?
Calendar Planner CircleTime is rated higher. Calendar Planner CircleTime averages 4.6 out of 5 from 339 ratings, while Magical Field Notes averages 2.9 from 8 ratings.
Do Calendar Planner CircleTime or Magical Field Notes have ads?
Neither Calendar Planner CircleTime nor Magical Field Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Planner CircleTime or Magical Field Notes?
Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, and Magical Field Notes every 7 months. Most recently, Calendar Planner CircleTime was updated on October 23, 2026 and Magical Field Notes on October 21, 2026.

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