HEY Calendar vs RunUp Lists
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HEY Calendar
This calendar app organizes your schedule around days and weeks, reflecting how people naturally think. It supports habits, highlights important events, and accommodates flexible scheduling for tasks that don't have a fixed time. Enjoy a full-featured experience with unique twists on conventional calendar functions.
- Weekly view focus
- Habit tracking
- Event highlighting
- Flexible scheduling for 'maybe' tasks
- Event countdowns
- Day labels for context
- Color-coded sub-calendars
- Flexible reminders
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Make your day. The all-new HEY Calendar puts time on your side. Week after week, not month after month People think in days and weeks, not months. What’s tomorrow? Later this week? Next week? The HEY Calendar is built around how you think, not how paper calendars were designed. Habits and highlights Establish a habit, stick with it. Circle important events so they stand out. Fill your days with memories or moments — not just events. “Sometime this week” mimics real life Need to get an oil change? Get some cash from the ATM? Write a thank you note? Maybe this week or next, just not exactly sure when you’ll have a chance? HEY knows “maybe” is a real thing. And plenty more The HEY Calendar is a full-featured calendar with many original twists on common — and not so common — conventions. Soon you’ll wonder why all calendars don’t work like this. - Set countdowns for anticipated events - Use Day Labels to add context to days - Set up color-coded sub-calendars - Flexible reminders so you don’t miss out
RunUp Lists
This app applies aviation checklist principles to everyday tasks, helping you complete routines with confidence. It offers a simple, step-by-step interface to ensure nothing critical is missed. Customize your checklists and track completion times.
- Step-by-step execution
- Distraction-free full-screen interface
- Completion time tracking
- Customizable colors
- Satisfying completion animations
- iCloud sync across devices
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Checklists Done Right RunUp brings the proven reliability of aviation checklists to your daily routines. Pilots never skip their run-up checklist before takeoff—it's how they ensure nothing critical gets missed. RunUp applies this same focused, step-by-step approach to help you complete your important routines with confidence. HOW IT WORKS Create a checklist, add your steps, then run through them one at a time. Each step fills the screen so you can focus completely on the task at hand. Tap to confirm, move to the next. Simple. Checklists are fully reusable and designed to be a reference point so you don't forget, not a persistent log of what has and hasn't happened. FEATURES • Step-by-step execution with a distraction-free, full-screen interface • Track your completion times and see your typical duration for each routine • Customize with 10 preset colors or choose your own • Celebrate completions with satisfying animations • Syncs across all your devices with iCloud PERFECT FOR • Morning routines • Evening wind-down rituals • Pre-trip vehicle checks • Workout sequences • Packing lists • Any procedure where consistency matters NO SUBSCRIPTIONS. NO ADS. Pay once, use forever. Your data stays private in your iCloud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HEY Calendar at Free against RunUp Lists's $0.99. HEY Calendar also leads on ratings volume (659 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.2 vs 26.1). RunUp Lists's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On 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
HEY Calendar is free to download; RunUp Lists costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RunUp Lists holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEY Calendar has 659 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HEY Calendar ships an update fortnightly, RunUp Lists every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HEY Calendar | RunUp Lists |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (659 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 659 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 37Signals LLC | Train Flights LLC |
Customer experience
HEY Calendar
RunUp Lists
Bugs and requests
HEY Calendar
Reported bugs
4 issues- Events not showing up on calendar
- Notifications not working as expected
- Frequent crashes and performance issues
- Inability to edit events from external calendars
Requested features
5 requests- Two-way sync with other calendar services
- Ability to set custom recurrence patterns
- Integration with mapping/navigation apps
- Family/shared calendar support
- Calendar widget for quick access
RunUp Lists
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HEY Calendar
No in-app purchases
RunUp Lists
No in-app purchases









