Comparison

TickTick vs HiCal

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

Head to head
About

TickTick

This app helps you manage tasks, schedule events, and build habits. It offers cross-device synchronization, multiple reminders, and collaboration features. Stay organized and boost productivity with its comprehensive planning tools.

Highlights
  • Cross-device task synchronization
  • Multiple reminders and flexible scheduling
  • Calendar views and integration
  • Habit tracking and countdowns
  • Task list sharing for collaboration
  • Pomo Timer for focus
  • Task creation via email and Siri
Features
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TickTick is a powerful to-do list and task management app with seamless cloud sync across all your devices. Whether you need to plan your schedule, take notes, share shopping lists, collaborate with your team, build new habits, or set countdowns for birthdays, TickTick helps you get things done and keep life on track. Key features of TickTick: - Sync tasks across all devices - Multiple reminders - Flexible calendar views - Calendar integrations - Flexible recurring tasks - Create checklists - Four priority levels - Share task lists for collaboration - Add tasks via email - Upload attachments to tasks - Organize tasks with tags - Track birthdays and anniversaries with countdowns - Plan and organize tasks with the AI Assistant More functions to help you stay focused and boost productivity: - Use Siri to create tasks more quickly and easily - Use the Pomo Timer to stay focused - Set goals to build habits - Add tasks by voice with AI - TickTick MCP - Reminders based on time or location - Sort tasks by order, date, title, or priority - Add descriptions/comments to tasks - Batch edit tasks - Quickly search for tasks TickTick is always free, but you can also upgrade to a Premium account to enjoy full access to the most advanced features: - More lists and tasks: 299 lists, 999 tasks in each list, 199 checklist items in each task - Add up to 5 reminders to each task - Share a task list with up to 29 members for better collaboration - Upload up to 199 attachments every day - Subscribe to calendars in TickTick - Full access to calendar views - Custom Smart Lists - Track up to 299 habits - Create up to 299 countdowns How does TickTick help you be more productive? - Get things done - Stay on top of your schedule - Collaborate more efficiently - Sync across multiple platforms - Save time and energy for what matters most Premium subscription billing: Payment will be charged to your Apple Account when your purchase is confirmed. Your subscription renews automatically unless you turn off automatic renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. If you already have Premium through another platform, we recommend waiting until your current Premium access expires before starting a new subscription. Turn off automatic renewal on your existing subscription if needed. TickTick integrates with HealthKit, allowing you to sync your focus time data with Apple Health. Our Privacy Policy: https://www.ticktick.com/about/privacy Our Terms of Use: https://www.ticktick.com/about/tos For questions, feedback, or tips, we're happy to help you at support@ticktick.com Connect with us: X (Twitter): @ticktickteam Instagram: @ticktickapp Facebook: @TickTickApp Reddit: r/ticktick

About

HiCal

This app facilitates collaborative event planning and scheduling for groups. Share timetables, receive real-time updates on changes, and communicate via comments. Ideal for students, project teams, and organizations to stay synchronized.

Highlights
  • Group event scheduling
  • Real-time push notifications
  • Event comments and discussion
  • Shared timetables
  • Private and public groups
  • Event repetition support
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Organize yourselves for your classes, projects, or company with HiCal, the collaborative calendar! Create or join your class’ or club’s group, and get your shared timetable in your pocket. You can be part of multiple groups. You will receive Push notifications each time that a group’s event is modified, or an event is commented. Event repetition is supported (including “once every two weeks”). HiCal helps you to organize yourself and to collaborate with your friends and colleagues in different situations: - Students and pupils: Add comments to a lesson at a given day, to indicate homework and exams for example, and they will instantly be synced across smartphones and tablets, and shared with your class. You will not ever ask yourself again what is left to do: the answer will be in your pocket, up-to-date, at any moment. Even if only one person indicates the exams to come, everyone will be aware: one for all, and all for one! - Projects: Determine deadlines with your teammates, and discuss them in the comments! Your project is a secret? Then create a secret group, which will be hidden from the group search results. Only the people you add will be able to join the group. - Companies, clubs and organizations: Write down meetings’ or activities’ dates and locations, suggest or edit in real time, and instantly update all your fellows of a schedule change, thanks to push notifications. - Organize public events: Create a group, open to everyone, to let people stay tuned about your upcoming events! In this kind of group, only the group’s administrators can create or edit events. Thus, you can share your events, your live sessions for example if you’re a band, while keeping control. And if something unexpected happens, you can inform group’s members thanks to comments and push notifications! - Education: If you are an educational institution (school, college, university...), you can also use HiCal, by creating a group for each class or course, and inviting your students in them. Simplify your teachers’ and students’ life with HiCal!

Screenshots

TickTick4 screens
HiCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

TickTick and HiCal both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 91% of TickTick's written reviews are positive against 55% of HiCal's. TickTick also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (47K vs 25). HiCal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price, rating, 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. TickTick sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. HiCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for TickTick against 4.8 for HiCal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TickTick has 47K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of TickTick's written reviews are positive against 55% of HiCal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TickTick ships an update weekly, HiCal every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
TickTick versus HiCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickTickHiCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (47K ratings) — better4.8 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews90.7% of reviews — better55.0% of reviews
Number of ratings47K — better25
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#102 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size314 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppest LimitedNakagawa Yugo

Customer experience

TickTick

All ratings46,701 ratings
Positive97.8%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.2%
Written reviews3,973 reviews
Positive90.7%
Neutral3.1%
Negative6.2%

HiCal

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative35.0%

Bugs and requests

TickTick

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistencies between mobile and desktop apps
  • Occasional task deletion issues when rearranging

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved background sync for mobile devices
  • More advanced calendar management options
  • Enhanced formatting and markup support for notes
  • Easier access to Pomodoro timer from task view
  • Customizable task completion sound effects

HiCal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

TickTick

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly TickTick Premium3 variants$4.991 Month
  • Annual TickTick Premium3 variants$49.991 Year
  • Annual TickTick Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • Annual TickTick Premium14 Days trial$49.991 Year
None

HiCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TickTick free?
TickTick is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HiCal free?
HiCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TickTick or HiCal?
TickTick is rated higher. TickTick averages 4.9 out of 5 from 47K ratings, while HiCal averages 4.8 from 25 ratings.
Do TickTick or HiCal have ads?
Neither TickTick nor HiCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TickTick or HiCal?
TickTick ships an update weekly, and HiCal every 2 months. Most recently, TickTick was updated on October 30, 2026 and HiCal on October 21, 2026.

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