Calendar Planner CircleTime vs Chronicling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Chronicling
This app provides a flexible way to monitor habits, health, mood, and daily activities. It offers customizable tracking options, quick logging methods, and insightful data visualization to help users identify patterns and maintain consistency. Secure syncing and data export are also available.
- All-in-one habit and health tracking
- Fully customizable categories
- Fast and effortless logging
- Smart reminders for goals
- Detailed data logging (notes, numbers)
- Visual insights and trends
- Private and secure iCloud sync
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Keep track of anything you want to keep an eye on, from habits and chores to symptoms. Chronicling shows how long it's been, how often things happen, and which days and times they tend to happen. Some things happen every day, like coffee, a walk or your medication. Others come and go: changing the bed sheets, a headache, calling home. Chronicling handles both, so it all lives in one place. "If you're looking for a flexible approach to tracking events in your life and want to try an app with an excellent, modern design that supports the latest iOS and iPadOS technologies, be sure to give Chronicling a try." - MacStories LOG IT IN A TAP - Add events from your Apple Watch, widgets, Control Center, the Lock Screen, Siri and Shortcuts - Record a number or a note too, such as cups, miles, pages or how you felt - Automate logging with Shortcuts, from workouts to arriving home SEE HOW OFTEN, AND WHEN - Time since last logged, average gap and longest gap for every category - Heatmaps, charts and trends over weeks, months and years - Spot patterns by weekday and time of day - An annual Wrapped to look back at your year GENTLE REMINDERS - Time Since Last Event: get a nudge when it's been too long since you last logged something, from a few hours to a few months - Daily Goal: pick a time of day, and you'll only be notified if you haven't hit that day's goal - Rolling Goal: aim for a number over the last few days or weeks, with a daily check that only notifies you if you're falling short YOUR CATEGORIES, YOUR WAY - Create your own categories with emoji or symbols and your own colors - Choose the period each category's stats cover - Organize them into groups and filter by Focus ON ALL YOUR DEVICES - iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro - Private iCloud sync between your devices - Export to CSV or a single-file backup at any time - your data is yours If you have questions, suggestions or any other feedback, please contact me at support@chroniclingapp.com. Subscriptions to Chronicling Premium will automatically renew unless canceled within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. For more information, see https://chroniclingapp.com/terms-of-use/ and https://chroniclingapp.com/privacy-policy/.
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Verdict
Calendar Planner CircleTime and Chronicling both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 79% of Chronicling's written reviews are positive against 55% of Calendar Planner CircleTime's. Calendar Planner CircleTime's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Calendar Planner CircleTime sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Chronicling sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 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 Calendar Planner CircleTime against 4.8 for Chronicling. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 339 and 186 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Calendar Planner CircleTime's written reviews are positive against 79% of Chronicling's.
Calendar Planner CircleTime ships an update fortnightly, Chronicling weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar Planner CircleTime | Chronicling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (339 ratings) | 4.8 (186 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 79.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 339 — better | 186 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Galilea, d.o.o. | Rebecca Owen |
Customer experience
Calendar Planner CircleTime
Chronicling
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
Chronicling
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Calendar Planner CircleTime
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Half-Yearly Premium7 Days trial$20.006 Months
- Yearly Premium Family7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium Family$119.00
Chronicling
- Premium Monthly14 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium Annual14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$39.99
Questions
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