HEY Calendar vs LoopPDF
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
LoopPDF
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Turn paper into clean PDFs and copy text with OCR using LoopPDF, the free document scanner for iPhone, iPad and Mac. POINT, SCAN, SAVE Open the camera and bring all four corners into view. LoopPDF detects the page, counts down and captures it automatically. Tap the scan button whenever you want to capture immediately. Perspective correction straightens pages photographed at an angle. COPY TEXT WITH OCR Recognise text in new scans and saved PDFs with Apple Vision. Select and copy text from one page or copy all pages in order. Recognition runs on your device whenever you open Text, so your saved scans can benefit from improvements to Apple's text recognition. MULTIPLE PAGES, ONE PDF Scan another page, review the result and drag the thumbnails into the right order. Crop, rotate and adjust the colour treatment before saving. Add more pages to an existing PDF whenever you need to. YOUR FILES, ORGANISED Name your PDF and choose a folder inside LoopPDF. Browse subfolders, search by filename and open scans in the built-in PDF viewer. See page counts, file sizes, dates and sync status at a glance. READY ON YOUR OTHER DEVICES Save PDFs to your LoopPDF folder in iCloud Drive and continue on your iPhone, iPad or Mac using the same Apple Account. If iCloud is unavailable, your scans stay on the device and move to iCloud when it becomes available. PRESERVE THE DETAILS Save scans at their original resolution without additional lossy image compression. Keep small details in your documents, with larger files that use more storage. SAVE AND SHARE Send a PDF through Mail, AirDrop or the system share sheet directly after scanning or from the PDF viewer. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Document detection, image processing and OCR happen on your device. We do not receive your scans or add watermarks, logos or other branding. No ads, no subscription, no tracking and no separate LoopPDF account. MAKE IT YOURS Choose an automatic capture delay from 0.5 to 4 seconds. On Mac, use the built-in camera, an external webcam or an available Continuity Camera. Camera access is required for scanning. Syncing requires iCloud Drive and the same Apple Account on your devices. Apple's iCloud storage limits apply. Support: https://murani.nl/apps/looppdf/#support Privacy: https://murani.nl/apps/looppdf/#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LoopPDF at weekly against HEY Calendar's fortnightly. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HEY Calendar ships an update fortnightly, LoopPDF weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HEY Calendar | LoopPDF |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (659 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 659 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 37signals LLC | Murani Consultancy BV |
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
LoopPDF
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HEY Calendar
No in-app purchases
LoopPDF
No in-app purchases









