Comparison

Calendar Labels vs Idly Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Calendar Labels

Design and print custom wall calendars or journals with creative labels and emoji. Easily add visual tabs to highlight important events, making your schedule unique and personalized. Compatible with Avery Label 5167 for seamless printing from your iPhone or iPad.

Highlights
  • Custom wall calendar design
  • Add creative labels
  • Use fun emoji labels
  • Store multiple label sets
  • Print compatible with Avery Label 5167
  • Personalized gift creation
Features
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Calendar Labels brings a personal touch to the paper calendar on your wall—or the journal on your desk. Create clear, colorful labels for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, school events, and the days your family looks forward to. Add an occasion once, place it on one calendar or several, choose a fun emoji, then preview and print Avery 5167 labels from your iPhone or iPad. Make special days easier to see at a glance. Turn an ordinary calendar into a thoughtful, year-round gift for family, friends, grandparents, and anyone who enjoys remembering the moments that matter. Keep your important occasions saved in the app, ready when it is time for next year’s calendar. Start with your own calendars, add a ready-made U.S. Holidays calendar if you like, and make it yours. Peel. Stick. Remember. Enjoy.

About

Idly Calendar

This calendar app prioritizes your lifestyle and privacy, syncing all your events into one place. It allows for extensive customization and offers powerful privacy controls to help you manage your time and boundaries effectively.

Highlights
  • Syncs all calendars
  • Supports up to 15 users
  • Handwriting and voice input
  • Powerful privacy settings
  • Minimal, daily forecast notifications
  • Customizable interface
Features
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Discover a calendar app that was made with your lifestyle, privacy, and free time in mind. Sync Every Calendar Idly syncs with all of your calendars, no matter where they live. See your personal, work, family, shared, carpool, sports, class, and other calendars, all in one spot, wherever you go. Add up to 15 Users We know every family is different. That’s why we let you add up to 15 different users to your calendar. Include your immediate family, and all the people who make life happen, like grandparents, babysitters, carpool planners and more. Endless Customization Not only does Idly have features that flex with your lifestyle, you can customize it to match your style and organization habits. Prefer handwriting over typing? What about voice-to-text? Idly works the way you do. Powerful Privacy Settings Keep your private stuff private, and your shared stuff shared—everyone in your Idly calendar gets a personal space just for them. We also make it easy to control privacy settings so you can maintain work/life and me-time boundaries. Minimal Notifications Ultimately, our goal is to help you unplug and reconnect with yourself, your loved ones, and the activities that bring you joy. We’ve swapped constant notifications for a Daily Forecast that briefs you on your day. This is just the beginning. We’re growing Idly to better serve you, from the messy moments to the satisfying successes. Privacy Policy: https://idlycalendar.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Calendar Labels4 screens
Idly Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calendar Labels at none against Idly Calendar's 2. Idly Calendar's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Idly Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Calendar Labels asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calendar Labels against 5.0 for Idly Calendar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idly Calendar has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Labels ships an update every 10 months, Idly Calendar every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Calendar Labels versus Idly Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar LabelsIdly Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFloyd ThatcherEleven Eleven

Customer experience

Calendar Labels

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Idly Calendar

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Calendar Labels

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Idly Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly$99.001 Year

Questions

Is Calendar Labels free?
Calendar Labels is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Idly Calendar free?
Idly Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calendar Labels or Idly Calendar?
Calendar Labels and Idly Calendar are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Calendar Labels or Idly Calendar have ads?
Neither Calendar Labels nor Idly Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Labels or Idly Calendar?
Calendar Labels ships an update every 10 months, and Idly Calendar every 5 weeks. Most recently, Calendar Labels was updated on November 3, 2026 and Idly Calendar on October 30, 2026.

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