Comparison

12Calendar vs AnyCal

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

AnyCal

Create custom calendar wallpapers using your own photos. This utility allows you to select images, position calendars, and preview the final look before saving and setting it as your device's wallpaper.

Highlights
  • Create calendar wallpapers from photos
  • Two-month calendar display
  • Add calendar to wallpaper
  • Read holidays from MyHoliday
  • Test wallpaper appearance
  • 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.

Screenshots

12Calendar4 screens
AnyCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: AnyCal at 4.6 against 12Calendar's 3.2. AnyCal also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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

Both are free to download. 12Calendar sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. AnyCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AnyCal holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of 12Calendar's written reviews are positive against 73% of AnyCal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

12Calendar ships an update every 3 months, AnyCal every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
12Calendar versus AnyCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter12CalendarAnyCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (11 ratings)4.6 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews72.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1114 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperlagoonShinichi Aokawa

Customer experience

12Calendar

All ratings11 ratings
Positive45.5%
Neutral18.2%
Negative36.4%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral20.0%
Negative18.5%

AnyCal

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

12Calendar

One-time4
  • UpgradeFree
  • Hide Logo & SAVE available$0.99
  • Enable load calendar$0.99
Show 1 more
  • Clear all functional limitation$1.99
None

AnyCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 12Calendar free?
12Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AnyCal free?
AnyCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, 12Calendar or AnyCal?
AnyCal is rated higher. 12Calendar averages 3.2 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while AnyCal averages 4.6 from 14 ratings.
Do 12Calendar or AnyCal have ads?
Neither 12Calendar nor AnyCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 12Calendar or AnyCal?
12Calendar ships an update every 3 months, and AnyCal every 6 weeks. Most recently, 12Calendar was updated on October 16, 2026 and AnyCal on October 20, 2026.

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