Comparison

Calendar Planner CircleTime vs Sectograph visual time manager

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

Sectograph visual time manager

This app offers a unique visual approach to managing your daily schedule by displaying calendar events on a 12 or 24-hour clock face. It helps you understand your time commitments at a glance, track task durations, and avoid being late for appointments.

Highlights
  • Visual day planner
  • Calendar events on clock face
  • 12/24 hour dial
  • Analog clock widget
  • Event sector display
  • Idle time visualization
  • Countdown to events
Features
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Sectograph is a visual day planner that displays your calendar events on a pie chart in the form of a 12/24 hour clock face. It's a different way of looking at the day HOW IT WORKS The visual planner works like an analog clock widget. It automatically receives all the calendar events and overlays them on the 12/24 hour dial. This provides a different, more efficient view of your schedule. HOW IT LOOKS It looks like a projection of your calendar of events onto a 12-hour dial that has hour and minute hands just like a regular watch. Event sectors are displayed in those hour intervals in which they will occur. The interval of idle time between events is displayed between sectors, as well as the time from an hour hand to the start of each event. Events are displayed automatically 12/24 hours ahead of time. The calendar and analog clock, combined, give a visual representation of your busyness, allow you to effectively plan and calculate daytime. Use a widget for better integration. AREAS OF APPLICATION • Day scheduling and timing. Conveniently track your daily tasks, meetings, events and at any time know how much time is left to wait until the end of the current event and until the start of the next. Don't be late. • Accounting and control of working hours. Keep your phone in your workplace and you will be completely under control. • Class schedule. Observe how much time is left before the end of a tiresome lecture at the university and never be late for laboratory work. • Schedule of the day. Follow your daily routine and get better, just use the app to keep track of your to-dos and daily tasks. Take rest breaks in time! • Trip timer and flight duration. Are you losing the passage of time due to endless travel and flights? Control check-in time, boarding time and flight duration. Keep everything under control. • Make your meal, medication, and exercise schedule clearer. Lead the right lifestyle and be healthy! • Convenient countdown to scheduled events in the app and widget. The plan of the day will be executed exactly. • The app may appeal to fans of Pomodoro and Chronodex timer technologies. Time tracking with him will happen in a new way.

Screenshots

Calendar Planner CircleTime4 screens
Sectograph visual time manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calendar Planner CircleTime at Free against Sectograph visual time manager's $3.99. Calendar Planner CircleTime also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (339 vs 64). Sectograph visual time manager's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#129 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, 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

Calendar Planner CircleTime is free to download; Sectograph visual time manager costs $3.99 up front. Calendar Planner CircleTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Sectograph visual time manager asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar Planner CircleTime holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Planner CircleTime has 339 ratings behind it against 64, 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 52% of Sectograph visual time manager's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, Sectograph visual time manager every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Calendar Planner CircleTime versus Sectograph visual time manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar Planner CircleTimeSectograph visual time manager
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (339 ratings) — better4.2 (64 ratings)
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews — better52.2% of reviews
Number of ratings339 — better64
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank—#129 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGalilea, d.o.o.Roman Blokhin

Customer experience

Calendar Planner CircleTime

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

Sectograph visual time manager

All ratings64 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral7.8%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive52.2%
Neutral12.2%
Negative35.6%

User reviews

Calendar Planner CircleTime

From 339 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Innovative visual design
  • 🎨 Beautifully designed
  • ✨ Unique concept
  • 🔄 Good syncing capabilities
  • 👍 Intuitive for some users

Room to improve

  • 🤔 Steep learning curve
  • 😵 Confusing to use
  • 🤷 Not intuitive
  • 💸 Expensive subscription
  • 🔒 App locks up

Sectograph visual time manager

From 64 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Unique visual chronodex calendar interface
  • 👍 One-time purchase, no subscription required
  • 🔄 Seamless synchronization with Apple Calendar
  • 📱 Beautiful widget for home screen
  • 🎨 Clean, intuitive design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Widget settings not persisting across app updates
  • 🎨 All events display in single color instead of calendar colors
  • ⚙️ Limited customization options compared to Android version
  • 📱 Widget sizes too small to read comfortably
  • 🔄 Inconsistent synchronization with Google Calendar

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

Sectograph visual time manager

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Widget settings not saving or applying changes
  • All events displaying in single blue color
  • Dark mode not applying to widget
  • Settings not syncing between app and widget
  • 24-hour mode not working in app (only widget)
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  • Hour/minute hand customization ignored
  • 12 o'clock position setting not honored
  • Widget becomes blank after removal and re-adding
  • Multiple calendars not displaying
  • Google Calendar synchronization failures
  • Calendar color synchronization broken
  • Full-day events showing as one-hour slivers
  • Multiple overlapping events display issues
  • Calendar refresh not working properly
  • App not updated since 2023
  • iOS 18 widget customization broken
  • Liquid Glass design not supported
  • Event display inconsistency when scrolling dates
  • Overlapping event point display on clock face

Requested features

23 requests
  • Apple Watch app or watch face support
  • Larger widget size options (2x2, 2x4)
  • Multi-color event display based on calendar categories
  • More customization options for interface elements
  • Transparent widget background option
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  • 24-hour mode option in widget
  • Custom hour/minute hand colors
  • Ability to center clock display
  • Direct event editing in the clock interface
  • Scrollable list of upcoming days in app
  • Display days until upcoming events
  • Font size adjustment options
  • Travel time display for events
  • Automatic dark/light theme switching for widget
  • Lock screen widget support
  • macOS version
  • Garmin watch support
  • Two-clock 12-hour split view option
  • Manual calendar refresh button
  • Event countdown display beyond 30 minutes
  • Ability to edit events within app
  • Google Calendar integration for iOS
  • Voice version of app

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

Sectograph visual time manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calendar Planner CircleTime free?
Calendar Planner CircleTime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sectograph visual time manager free?
Sectograph visual time manager costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Calendar Planner CircleTime or Sectograph visual time manager?
Calendar Planner CircleTime is rated higher. Calendar Planner CircleTime averages 4.6 out of 5 from 339 ratings, while Sectograph visual time manager averages 4.2 from 64 ratings.
Do Calendar Planner CircleTime or Sectograph visual time manager have ads?
Neither Calendar Planner CircleTime nor Sectograph visual time manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Planner CircleTime or Sectograph visual time manager?
Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, and Sectograph visual time manager every 11 days. Most recently, Calendar Planner CircleTime was updated on October 21, 2026 and Sectograph visual time manager on October 18, 2026.

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