Comparison

Calendar Widget & Planner vs Calendar Widget

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

Head to head
About

Calendar Widget & Planner

Organize your schedule with a comprehensive planner and diary. View your agenda on your home screen with customizable widgets, sync across multiple cloud services, and easily share events. Supports dark mode and AirPrint for convenient planning.

Highlights
  • Calendar widgets for home screen
  • Day, week, month, year planners
  • Share calendars and events
  • Sync with iCloud, Google, Yahoo, Exchange
  • Dark mode support
  • AirPrint functionality
Features
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Easily manage your calendars, planners, agenda and diary. Everything you need to take notes, save appointments, and share them with friends, family or colleagues. FEATURES: • NEW: Calendar Widgets! See your schedule on your Home Screen: Now, next and more! • AirPrint the day, week, month or year planners • Share calendars or events with friends, family or colleagues • Split screen support on iPad • Sync with iCloud, Google, Yahoo, Exchange and other cloud based calendars • Dark mode! • Quick support, we try to reply to questions within 24 hours. Just tap the Info icon in the toolbar, then tap Contact Support

About

Calendar Widget

Customize your device's home screen and today view with custom calendar widgets. Quickly access your information, view multiple calendars, and manage events directly from your home screen.

Highlights
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Today view widgets
  • View multiple calendars
  • Create and edit events
  • Month and event overviews
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Thanks to this application (and the other Widget apps from PacoLabs), you can now customize the Home screen and the Today view of your device, by adding custom widgets for some specific purposes. From anywhere in your device, you'll have access to your own information and actions. Each Calendar widget allows to view one or more calendars. Now you can quickly have an overview of the full month, view your busy days and even create or update some events. Those calendars can display the current or some specific months. The displayed months can be manually changed while viewing the widget. The look can be customized. The events from the system calendar application can be viewed and edited. It is also possible to add some new events. Those Widgets are compatible with the new iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets. The application is really easy to use and is adapted to the fresh look of your device. Dark mode of iOS13 is supported. In Today view: You can add as many widgets as you want and they will be displayed in up to 3 different lists. Those same lists will be available in the Today view and in the application (although it is possible, if you want, to hide some widgets in the Today view). To avoid overloading the Today view, when too many widgets are displayed, an intuitive control will allow you to navigate from one widget to another. Even if the main purpose of the app is to view the widgets in the Today view, it can also be very handy to view them directly in the application (a long press on a widget in the Today view will open it directly in the main application).

Screenshots

Calendar Widget & Planner4 screens
Calendar Widget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calendar Widget & Planner at Free against Calendar Widget's $0.99. Calendar Widget & Planner also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and review sentiment (70% vs 38%). Calendar Widget's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement 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 Widget & Planner is free to download; Calendar Widget costs $0.99 up front. Calendar Widget & Planner sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Calendar Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar Widget & Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Widget & Planner has 1.2K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Calendar Widget & Planner's written reviews are positive against 38% of Calendar Widget's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Widget & Planner ships an update monthly, Calendar Widget every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Calendar Widget & Planner versus Calendar Widget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar Widget & PlannerCalendar Widget
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (1.2K ratings) — better3.8 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews69.6% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better21
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#142 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.212.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerjohnhair.comFrancis Bonnin

Customer experience

Calendar Widget & Planner

All ratings1,224 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral4.4%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews227 reviews
Positive69.6%
Neutral7.0%
Negative23.3%

Calendar Widget

All ratings20 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Calendar Widget & Planner

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Events disappearing after updates
  • Inability to change week start day
  • Syncing issues with other calendars
  • Crashes and freezes on launch
  • Color settings not saving properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to share calendar with family
  • Add widgets for quick access
  • Expand customization options
  • Improve repeating event functionality
  • Preserve calendar history

Calendar Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Calendar Widget & Planner

One-time6
  • Extras pack$0.99
  • Additional Calendars pack$0.99
  • Enhanced Views Pack$0.99
Show 3 more
  • Tasks, To-Do Lists & Reminders$0.99
  • Calendar Widgets$1.99
  • PRO Pack$3.99
None

Calendar Widget

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calendar Widget & Planner free?
Calendar Widget & Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calendar Widget free?
Calendar Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Calendar Widget & Planner or Calendar Widget?
Calendar Widget & Planner is rated higher. Calendar Widget & Planner averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Calendar Widget averages 3.8 from 21 ratings.
Do Calendar Widget & Planner or Calendar Widget have ads?
Calendar Widget & Planner shows ads; Calendar Widget does not.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Widget & Planner or Calendar Widget?
Calendar Widget & Planner ships an update monthly, and Calendar Widget every 2 months. Most recently, Calendar Widget & Planner was updated on October 24, 2026 and Calendar Widget on October 29, 2026.

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