12Calendar vs AnyCal PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
12Calendar
Customize your lock screen with a calendar. Choose from various layouts, fonts, and colors to display your schedule conveniently. Add custom holidays by importing from your device's calendar.
- Customizable calendar layouts
- Selectable fonts and colors
- Adjustable transparency and frame borders
- Add custom holiday data
- Import holidays from iOS calendar
- Display year, month, and day of the week
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Every time you open your lock screen, a beautiful calendar is right there to greet you. That's the everyday experience 12Calendar creates. Customize fonts, colors, and layouts to build a calendar wallpaper that's uniquely yours — simply and easily. ■ Layouts Choose from 28 calendar layouts. Free Layout mode lets you drag and resize each calendar freely. - You can change the size from the popup that appears when you tap the calendar. ■ Customize Every Detail - Individual color settings for weekdays, Saturdays, and Sundays - Day-of-week display language - 12 fonts with adjustable text size - Background opacity and border visibility - Week start day (Sunday or Monday) ■ Holiday Support Add holidays manually within the app. With an in-app purchase, holidays can be imported from your iOS Calendar. ■ How to Set Your Wallpaper After saving your calendar, set it as your wallpaper via the Photos app or iOS Settings. (Wallpaper cannot be changed directly from within this app.) ※ App Store screenshots were created using Screenshots.pro.
AnyCal PRO
Create custom calendar wallpapers using your own photos. This utility allows you to place a two-month calendar view on your device's background, incorporating holidays from another app.
- Create calendar wallpapers from photos
- Two-month calendar display
- Add calendar to wallpaper
- Reads holidays from MyHoliday
- Adjustable photo position
- Save and set wallpaper
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This App will create a calendar wallpaper from the photos you took. And you can check the appearance of the photo in the test. - Two months of the calendar display is now possible. - You can add a calendar to wallpaper. - This app reads the holiday from "MyHoliday" to add calendar. - See sister product of the "MyHoliday”. How to use 1. To read the image (Photo, camera, camera roll) . 2. To determine the position by the expansion and movement. 3. To determine the placement by adding a calendar. 4. Test the appearance of wallpaper. 5. To save the wallpaper by pressing the "Save" button. 6. Just to set wallpaper after.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 12Calendar at Free against AnyCal PRO's $0.49. AnyCal PRO's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). 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
12Calendar is free to download; AnyCal PRO costs $0.49 up front. 12Calendar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. AnyCal PRO asks for nothing beyond the download.
12Calendar ships an update every 3 months, AnyCal PRO every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 12Calendar | AnyCal PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.49 |
| Rating | 3.2 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | lagoon | Shinichi Aokawa |
Customer experience
12Calendar
AnyCal PRO
In-app purchases
12Calendar
- UpgradeFree
- Hide Logo & SAVE available$0.99
- Enable load calendar$0.99
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- Clear all functional limitation$1.99
AnyCal PRO
No in-app purchases









