Comparison

DeeBee vs DutyCal

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

Head to head
About

DeeBee

Create custom note formats with text, images, checklists, and more. Ideal for journaling, tracking progress, or recording impressions. Easily search and filter your entries.

Highlights
  • Customizable note formatting
  • Support for text, images, and checklists
  • Calendar integration
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Record ongoing progress
Features
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DeeBee is a Note-taking app that allows you to create a format that combines sentences, photos, checklists, calendars, etc. You can write in the same format at any time. So, It is perfect for keeping an ongoing record of your diary, training reflections, reading impressions, etc. ◆ Features ◎ Formatting Customization  → You can customize your own formatting.  → This is ideal for keeping a diary, watching movies or books, reviewing practice sessions, etc., when you want to record the same headings every time. ◎ Various types of input fields  → You can easily record non-textual items like images, date and time, drop-down lists, checklists, etc.  → So you can easily create a diary with images, task checklists, etc. ◎ Finding records is simple  → You can easily narrow down your search by using the filter function to search only for records that contain specific words or phrases, only for records from "X days ago," or only for records with a certain numerical value.  → For example, "Chinese restaurant I went to around October" or "Diary of the day when ◯◯ happened" can be easily narrowed down. ◆ System Requirements iOS 17.6 or later

About

DutyCal

This app syncs your flight schedule from your crew portal to your iPhone Calendar and provides a printable monthly overview for your family. It offers weather updates, pre-departure alarms, and a pay estimate, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Roster sync to iPhone Calendar
  • Printable monthly overview sheet
  • Weather updates for flights
  • Pre-departure alarms
  • Monthly pay estimate
  • Logbook data import
  • FAR 117 compliance tracking
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DutyCal pulls your roster from your crew portal and syncs it to iPhone Calendar. It also prints a clean monthly sheet so your family can see what's happening at a glance. For pilots and cabin crew who fly out at 4 a.m. and want their household to know the month ahead. No chat group. No screenshots. No explaining it again over breakfast. DutyCal Plus subscription required to sync your roster after a 3-day free trial. Cancel anytime. DutyCal currently supports crew at Peach (MM), StarFlyer (7G), and Avelo (XP). Additional airlines on the roadmap. Other portals will not sync. ROSTER, ON YOUR PHONE Log in once with your crew portal credentials. DutyCal fetches your duty schedule, reconciles changes across publishes, and writes every flight, standby, training day, and day off to a dedicated calendar on your iPhone. Flight rows read departure and arrival in each airport's own clock, with the Zulu window right on the row for a quick TAF and NOTAM crossref. Works offline once a roster is loaded. WEATHER ON YOUR FLYING DAYS A METAR line on every leg you fly, with the raw METAR and TAF one tap away, and up to two alternates per leg. THE FRIDGE SHEET A printable A4 landscape view, one row per day, color-coded for flight duty, airport standby, home standby, training, sick, and off. Stick it on the fridge. Your partner stops asking. Designed to be readable at arm's length. ALARMS THAT WAKE YOU Pre-departure alarms set themselves on every flight day and airport standby. They ring through Silent mode and Focus, the way the iOS Clock app does, and stop only when you dismiss them. You choose your at-base lead time. No accidental snooze. A MONTHLY PAY ESTIMATE A running pre-tax estimate of the month so far, built from your duty hours, sectors, and credit. Past months compared against your original published roster. Avelo crews see their paychecks the way they land, on the 7th and the 22nd. No payslip data leaves the phone. THE LOGBOOK, READY TO COPY Peach and StarFlyer flight crew can import their company records and print JCAB pages, fifteen rows each, ready to copy into the paper logbook. The paper book stays the official record. FOR AVELO CREWS FAR 117 at a glance, worked out from the roster on your phone, with a quiet watch that warns you the evening before a tight duty. Station Operations: type any station and read its whole day, departures and arrivals with aircraft, crew, pax, fuel and movement notes, straight from the portal. And a heads-up when your next leg is a different aircraft. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your login is stored in iOS Keychain, locked to your device. No account creation. No DutyCal servers. No analytics. No third-party trackers. Face ID protects the app on launch. BUILT BILINGUAL Full English and Japanese throughout, including the fridge sheet. Switch languages without restarting. WHAT IT COSTS 3-day free trial on both plans, then DutyCal Plus subscription required to continue. - Monthly: ¥550/month - Yearly: ¥5,000/year Prices are shown in your local currency at checkout. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription anytime in iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. No ads. No data sold. DutyCal is built for crew. Try it free for 3 days and see your next month in one view. Privacy Policy: https://dutycal.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://dutycal.app/terms

Screenshots

DeeBee4 screens
DutyCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: DeeBee at free with in-app purchases against DutyCal's subscription. DutyCal's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. DeeBee sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DutyCal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DeeBee ships an update every 2 weeks, DutyCal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
DeeBee versus DutyCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeeBeeDutyCal
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeryukihiro iwanagaRushabh Soni

Customer experience

DeeBee

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

DutyCal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DeeBee

One-time1
  • Unlock all field types$0.99
2 purchases

DutyCal

Subscriptions2
  • DutyCal Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • DutyCal Yearly3 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is DeeBee free?
DeeBee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DutyCal free?
DutyCal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DeeBee or DutyCal have ads?
Neither DeeBee nor DutyCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DeeBee or DutyCal?
DeeBee ships an update every 2 weeks, and DutyCal every 4 days. Most recently, DeeBee was updated on November 3, 2026 and DutyCal on October 31, 2026.

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