Parallel Text vs Yearscape
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parallel Text
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Yearscape
Display customizable calendar grids and year views directly on your Home Screen and Mac desktop. Mark days off, identify long weekends with holiday insights, and print your calendar in various formats. Designed for offline use with no ads or accounts.
- Home Screen and Mac desktop widgets
- Customizable month grids and year views
- Mark personal days off
- Long weekend identification
- Printable calendar layouts (PDF)
- Offline functionality
- Colorblind-friendly palettes
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A calendar that belongs on your Home Screen, not in another app you have to open. The three-month wall calendar from the office and the pocket calendar from your wallet — in one widget. WIDGETS A grid of one to twelve months — on the iPhone and iPad Home Screen and the Mac desktop. The range is set per widget in "Edit Widget": from this month, last month or two months back, from next month, or from the start of the year. Three months can sit one below the other, like a wall calendar. On iPad, and on iPhone with iOS 27 (a full Home Screen page), a widget holds the whole year; on the Mac there is also a separate "Year" widget with all twelve months in one tile. The Lock Screen gets something else, because it has less room: seven contents to choose from — mini month, three weeks, current week, next holiday, long weekend, workdays, year progress. Each widget can pin its own theme or follow the app's settings. YOUR DAYS OFF Tap a day and mark it as a day off — holiday, a day taken back, whatever it is. Marked days show up in the month-grid widgets and count in the workday totals. They stay on the device; there is no account for them to land in. LONG WEEKENDS The app points out when a public holiday falls next to a weekend, and which single day you need to take to turn three days into four. Holidays for five countries: Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, France. PRINTING Print the calendar straight from the app: a year on one page, a quarter, or a month as a planner with empty boxes to write in. A4 and Letter, portrait and landscape. Black and white is the default and reads without colour. No printer nearby? Save the same thing as a PDF. READABLE WITHOUT COLOUR Weekends can be set in a heavier weight, your own days off have a shape rather than just a hue, and every palette has been measured for contrast — including simulations of two kinds of colour blindness. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT HAVE No internet connection. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no permission requests, and no peeking at your system calendar. Every feature is there from the start, with nothing to buy inside. Interface in 15 languages. For iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Yearscape at Free against Parallel Text's $1.99. Yearscape also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Parallel Text's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Yearscape is free to download; Parallel Text costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Parallel Text ships an update every 2 months, Yearscape every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parallel Text | Yearscape |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Buen | Pawel Piskurewicz |
In-app purchases
Parallel Text
No in-app purchases
Yearscape
No in-app purchases









