Comparison

Solid Calendar vs Cuebird

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

Head to head
About

Solid Calendar

This app helps you manage your time, tasks, and events with a natural language interface. It acts as a digital planner, rotating schedule manager, and reminder system, syncing with your existing device calendars for seamless organization.

Highlights
  • Add events with natural language input
  • Calendar planner with intuitive interface
  • Digital planner for tasks and to-do lists
  • Rotating schedule management
  • Quick join for video calls
  • Reminders and smart notifications
  • Multiple layout options
Features
Read full description

No subscriptions - Buy once, keep forever on all devices Elevate your productivity and organization with Solid Calendar – the all-in-one solution for managing your time, tasks, and events seamlessly. Whether you're a busy professional, a student juggling classes, or anyone looking to make the most of every day, this app offers the perfect blend of a calendar planner, rotating schedule manager, digital organizer and reminders manager. Are you ready to reclaim your time and enjoy a more organized lifestyle? Download this calendar app now and manage your schedule, tasks, and events with ease. Key Features of Solid Calendar: - Add events with natural language Isn't it so much easier when our devices understand us? You can say things like: "Pick up the kids tomorrow at 18:00" "Lunch this Saturday between 12:00 and 14:00" "Meet with Bill in 2 hours" - Calendar planner Stay on top of your schedule effortlessly with this intuitive calendar interface. Plan events, set reminders, and never miss appointments again. With a user-friendly design, adding and managing events is a breeze, ensuring you're always in control of your time with this natural language calendar. For those with complex rotating schedules, this app is also a great fit. Whether you are in healthcare, public safety, or any other profession with rotating shifts, this app adapts to your unique needs. See your rotation patterns and stay informed about your upcoming schedule with Solid Calendar. - Digital planner Say goodbye to traditional paper planners! This digital planner allows you to create, organize, and track tasks. Prioritize tasks, set due dates, and get a clear overview of your to-do list. With synchronization across devices, this planner is accessible anytime, anywhere. - 6 different layouts With Solid Calendar you can find the layout that suits your needs best on each device - Quick Join for video calls You will find options to jump straight into events that have video calls both from the app itself and from notifications - Reminders Your Reminders can live alongside your events in all layouts. You can also create and edit reminders. - Use the calendars on your device Solid Calendar works with the calendars you already have on your device. No data about your calendars leaves your device, so you can have peace of mind about your privacy - Light and Dark mode Enjoy well designed themes for both light and dark mode and pick the one you like best to accommodate your style. - Seamless integration This app easily syncs with all your device's calendars, ensuring that your events and appointments will be scheduled into a routine calendar. You'll never have to stress about missing an essential occasion. All your data remains up-to-date. - Smart reminders Stay on track with smart notifications and reminders. Customize when you will be notified about upcoming events, tasks, or shifts. So, you will be prepared for what's next. - Data security Your privacy is the top priority. This app is designed with advanced security measures to protect your sensitive information. Enjoy the convenience of a digital planner without compromising your data. Your events and reminders remain on your device, they are never uploaded to any third party servers. Cross-device sync Access your schedule and tasks from any iOS device. Whether using your iPhone or iPad, you'll always have your planner at your fingertips. Are you ready to get on top of your schedule? Solid Calendar is a universal app available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS You can choose to unlock just this app or all 5 Solid Apps with one purchase Terms of service: http://solidapps.co/terms.html Privacy policy: http://solidapps.co/privacy.html

About

Cuebird

This app helps users manage daily routines with visual and auditory cues, breaking them down into timed, color-coded steps. It supports shared routines for households and adapts to individual timing to ensure tasks are completed on schedule.

Highlights
  • Timed, color-coded routine steps
  • Shared household routines
  • Visual time bar for routine overview
  • Auditory cues and voice recordings
  • Proportional routine compression
  • Real alarms, not notifications
  • Adaptive timing based on actual usage
Features
Read full description

See the time, hear your next step, walk out the door on time. Cuebird turns any routine (morning, lunch break, bedtime) into small, timed, color-coded steps and moves you through them automatically. Built for neurodivergent adults. Kind to every brain. HOUSEHOLDS Link the people you live with into a household. Start a routine and everyone gets a gentle offer to jump in, landing where you already are, not back at step one. Joining is one tap, and sitting one out is free: nobody is ever told either way. Be in more than one household at once, your own and the one at your mum's, and every routine says which one it came from. It is all end-to-end encrypted. DO IT TOGETHER In the same room, run a routine in step. Everyone starts on a shared 3, 2, 1, and pause, skip, or a minute back move for the whole group at once, so nobody is left behind. Near each other it is instant. Apart, it stays in sync across your household. Want your own timing? One tap, and your routine keeps going on its own. INVITE BY TEXT, OR BY QR Send someone a link. They tap it and they are in, even if your phone is closed. Together in person? Show the code on your screen for them to scan. Either way, one tap and they are in the household. TIME YOU CAN SEE While a routine runs, the whole screen becomes the current step's color. From across the room, mid-shower, without reading: blue means shower, amber means coffee. A color bar of the steps shows the shape of your time before you start. OUT THE DOOR ON TIME Set when a routine starts and when you have to be done. Cuebird shows the window, adds up your steps, and tells you plainly whether they fit. Running late? One control compresses the routine so you still walk out on time. HEAR YOUR NEXT STEP A chime marks every transition, or let Cuebird speak: "Next: Shower, 10 minutes." A 30-second heads-up warns before longer steps end. Prefer quiet? Silent mode keeps it to haptics. You can also record any step in your own voice. Recordings stay on your device and never sync. REAL ALARMS, NOT NOTIFICATIONS Give a routine a start time and days, and it rings with the system's full-screen alarm: through silent mode, through Focus, even with the app closed. Tap Start and you are already in it. BUILT THE WAY YOUR WEEK ACTUALLY WORKS One routine can ring at several times, each with its own days: weekdays at 7:00, weekends at 9:00. Your list sorts itself around today, and the Schedule view shows everything that will ring this week. IT LEARNS YOUR REAL TIMING Cuebird records every run and shows how long your routine ACTUALLY takes versus what you planned: "Morning really takes 42 minutes, not 35." Then it updates your plan with one tap. STARTING IS ONE TAP Every routine has a play button right on its card, no menus between you and momentum. For the times you do not need a whole routine, Quick Timer and Ring Me At are one tap away. NO SHAME BUILT IN Pause says "no rush." Skipping is a first-class button, and if you skip by mistake you can undo it. Need a minute back? Take one. Finishing celebrates every run, and one missed day never breaks your streak. That is what the habit-formation research actually says. Cuebird never scolds you. EVERYWHERE YOU NEED IT - Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity: glance without opening the app - Home Screen widget: start a routine in one tap - Apple Watch: your step and countdown on your wrist; pause, resume or skip from there - Siri and Shortcuts: "Start Morning in Cuebird," or run routines from your automations - Mac: runs on Apple silicon Macs too ONE PURCHASE COVERS YOUR FAMILY Family Sharing is on, so up to six family members get it with one purchase. You can also send any routine as a link, ready for their own times. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Buy it once. No subscription, no ads, no accounts, no analytics, no data collection. Your own routines sync through your private iCloud, no login ever. Households stay end-to-end encrypted, and Cuebird has no servers and cannot read any of it.

Screenshots

Solid Calendar4 screens
Cuebird4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Solid Calendar at Free against Cuebird's $0.99. Solid Calendar also leads on ratings volume (120 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Cuebird's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). On rating, ads, monetization model 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

Solid Calendar is free to download; Cuebird costs $0.99 up front. Solid Calendar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Cuebird 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 Solid Calendar against 5.0 for Cuebird. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solid Calendar has 120 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of Solid Calendar's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cuebird's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Solid Calendar ships an update fortnightly, Cuebird daily. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Solid Calendar versus Cuebird: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolid CalendarCuebird
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.9 (120 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSolid Apps S.R.L.Michael Petrillo

Customer experience

Solid Calendar

All ratings119 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral2.6%
Negative18.4%

Cuebird

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Solid Calendar

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Date is a day behind in Australia
  • Jumps back to today's date when viewing future dates
  • App crashes every time after last update
  • Changing daily event time affects rest of week incorrectly
  • Weekly view shows all-day events horizontally like timed events
Show 2 more
  • Medium widgets have small font sizes and look wrong
  • Sync to correct date issue

Requested features

24 requests
  • Display checkmarks for finished appointments
  • Better task management landing pad, floating to-dos
  • Option to display little checkmarks for finished appointments
  • Floating to-do's on widget page
  • Option to display little checkmarks for finished appointments
Show 19 more
  • Better task management landing pad, so that daily to-dos do not have to be tied to reminders or calendars.
  • Floating to-do’s on my widget page would be rad too.
  • Option to display little checkmarks for finished appointments
  • Better task management landing pad, so that daily to-dos do not have to be tied to reminders or calendars.
  • Floating to-do’s on my widget page would be rad too.
  • Display checkmarks for finished appointments
  • Better task management landing pad for to-dos
  • Floating to-dos on widget page
  • Grey out past events in all views
  • Allow 45 min event durations
  • Time to leave notifications
  • Indicator for current place in day's timeline
  • Daily briefing notifications
  • Hyperlinks when creating reminders
  • Option for minimalist widget for following day
  • Option to have calendar items crossed out on widgets
  • Unique Apple Watch complication
  • Include reminders functionality
  • Add todo function

Cuebird

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Solid Calendar

One-time2
  • Unlock this app (lifetime)$4.99
  • Unlock ALL 10 Solid Apps (lifetime)$9.99
None

Cuebird

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Solid Calendar free?
Solid Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cuebird free?
Cuebird costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Solid Calendar or Cuebird?
Cuebird is rated higher. Solid Calendar averages 4.9 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while Cuebird averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Solid Calendar or Cuebird have ads?
Neither Solid Calendar nor Cuebird shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Solid Calendar or Cuebird?
Solid Calendar ships an update fortnightly, and Cuebird daily. Most recently, Solid Calendar was updated on October 27, 2026 and Cuebird on October 7, 2026.

Other comparisons