Comparison

Calendar Paste 3 vs Blocks

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

Head to head
About

Calendar Paste 3

Create reusable templates for recurring or irregular events. Easily paste these templates into your calendar to save time and avoid repetitive data entry for meetings, shifts, and custom appointments.

Highlights
  • Create event templates
  • Paste templates into calendar
  • Schedule team meetings
  • Manage work shifts
  • Handle on-call duties
  • Specify custom durations
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Build templates for events that occur irregularly and paste them into your Calendar! Did you ever wonder why Apple’s built-in Calendar app has no Copy & Paste? I certainly did! Stop going through the tedious process of providing every event detail over and over again and use Calendar Paste instead to: • Schedule team meetings, • work shifts, • on-call duties, • productivity appointments with your lazy self, • events with durations like 3:45 which are ennerving to specify in the Calendar app. --- Attribution: Thanks to Daniel Bruce from http://www.entypo.com/ for the lock icon template!

About

Blocks

Track your time with intention using this local-first time budget and activity timer. Set weekly goals for activities, monitor progress, and log occurrences without consuming your time budget. Integrates optionally with Screen Time and Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Local-first time tracking
  • Weekly activity goals
  • Counters for logging occurrences
  • Optional Screen Time comparison
  • Optional Apple Health integration
  • Cross-device control (iPhone, Apple Watch, widgets)
Features
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Give your time to what matters. Blocks is a local-first time budget and activity timer for iPhone and Apple Watch. Choose an activity, start the timer, and spend your week with intention — one block at a time. START A BLOCK Open Today, pick an activity, and go. Blocks keeps counting while you use other apps or put your phone down. Pause, resume, or stop from your iPhone, Apple Watch, Lock Screen, widget, Control Center, or the Dynamic Island. PLAN YOUR WEEK Set how much discretionary time you control each week and give your activities weekly goals. See progress toward each goal in Insights, explore 7-day, 30-day, 90-day, and yearly patterns, and export your history to CSV. COUNT WHAT MATTERS Use counters for things you want to record without timing. Log an occurrence now or choose a past date and time. Correct existing entries, add notes and descriptions, and explore your history. Counters have their own CSV exports and never consume your weekly time budget. SCREEN TIME — OPTIONAL Choose apps, categories, or websites in Apple's Screen Time picker to compare scrolling with the time you intentionally tracked. Blocks uses individual Family Controls authorization, never blocks or limits an app or website, keeps its scrolling insights on device, and includes this feature free. WORKS WHERE YOU DO Start and control blocks from iPhone or Apple Watch, even when the watch is offline. Keep the current block close with Live Activities, Dynamic Island, Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center, and watch complications. APPLE HEALTH — OPTIONAL AND READ ONLY Optionally read workouts, sleep, and mindful minutes from Apple Health. Blocks never writes to Health or sends Health data to its servers. User-initiated CSV exports include available sleep, workouts, and mindful minutes by default, with controls to exclude them before sharing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Core tracking works without an account or cloud sync. Your records stay on your devices unless you choose to export them. No ads, tracking SDKs, or data brokers. Optional first-party product analytics are off by default and can be turned off and deleted in Settings. FREE TO USE Every feature is included for up to five active activities and three active counters. Blocks Unlimited is an auto-renewing monthly subscription that removes both limits for $2.99/month in the U.S. You can cancel in your App Store subscription settings. Existing records remain available after expiration. Terms of Use: https://timeblocks.io/terms

Screenshots

Calendar Paste 34 screens
Blocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blocks at Free against Calendar Paste 3's $1.99. Blocks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Calendar Paste 3's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On 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

Blocks is free to download; Calendar Paste 3 costs $1.99 up front. Blocks sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Calendar Paste 3 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Blocks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Paste 3 has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Paste 3 ships an update every 3 months, Blocks weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Calendar Paste 3 versus Blocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar Paste 3Blocks
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian TietzeNathaniel Gerdes

In-app purchases

None

Calendar Paste 3

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Blocks

Subscriptions1
  • Blocks Unlimited$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Calendar Paste 3 free?
Calendar Paste 3 costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blocks free?
Blocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calendar Paste 3 or Blocks?
Blocks is rated higher. Calendar Paste 3 averages 4.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Blocks averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Calendar Paste 3 or Blocks have ads?
Neither Calendar Paste 3 nor Blocks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Paste 3 or Blocks?
Calendar Paste 3 ships an update every 3 months, and Blocks weekly. Most recently, Calendar Paste 3 was updated on October 23, 2026 and Blocks on October 29, 2026.

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