Comparison

Basic Calendar vs Calendar Notes

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

Head to head
About

Basic Calendar

Organize your schedule with a personal touch. Combine monthly overviews, weekly plans, and notes. Enhance your calendar with customizable decorations and AI-powered event creation.

Highlights
  • Integrated monthly, weekly, and note views
  • Customizable sticky notes with adjustable opacity
  • AI-powered sentence-to-event draft creation
  • Schedule search with date and calendar filters
  • Monthly and yearly performance charts
  • Export calendar to PDF or PNG
  • Customizable color themes and widgets
Features
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Your plans, with a personal touch. Bring your month, week, notes and calendar records together with Basic Calendar. • A little note on your month Move, resize and tilt sticky notes, adjust paper opacity, and display them in monthly widgets. One yellow note per month is free. Sticky Notes Plus is an optional one-time, non-consumable purchase for up to three notes per month and seven paper colors. It is not a subscription. All Access Pass and verified eligible previous supporters include this access. Existing notes merged through iCloud are preserved even when they exceed the creation limit or your current purchase access. • Find and understand your schedule Search event titles, locations and notes with date and calendar filters. See calendar names and time overlaps in daily and weekly lists. Create a new draft from an eligible event; invited, recurring and read-only events cannot be duplicated. • Turn a sentence into an event draft On supported devices, on-device AI interprets English, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese sentences. Requires iOS 26 or later, an Apple Intelligence-compatible device, and available settings, model and language. AI can make mistakes: review the title, date, time and location, then save in the system event editor. Standard event creation remains available on unsupported devices. • Look back and export Explore monthly and yearly charts by scheduled duration, event count and sticker share, and compare with the previous month or year. Charts summarize calendar records, not actual activity, productivity or goal completion. All-day events are excluded from duration totals; overlapping durations are added separately. Export an A4 calendar as PDF or high-resolution PNG. Events are off by default; event notes, locations, links and sticky notes are excluded from exports. Lookback and export are free. • Personalize your app and Home Screen Choose five new color themes with separate system, light and dark modes. Use small, medium and large widgets and Korean or Chinese lunar dates. Korean lunar dates support Gregorian dates from January 1, 1900 through December 31, 2050. Emoji, the basic circle and red highlighter are free. Illustrated packs and additional hand-drawn styles and highlighter colors require optional one-time purchases. All Access Pass includes current and future decoration sets; verified eligible previous supporters receive the same access. Availability and local prices appear in the app. Events require calendar access; event syncing depends on device settings and your calendar service. Sticky notes, date decorations and saved calendar display sets have separate optional iCloud sync switches for the same Apple Account. The currently applied calendar selection and custom lookback titles stay on each device. Sticky-note sync is off by default; turning it off keeps downloaded notes on the device. Sticky note content and appearance sync; position and size stay on each device.

About

Calendar Notes

Capture your thoughts and plans directly on a calendar. This straightforward app lets you add notes, ideas, and personal agendas to specific dates with customizable colors. View your entries by month or year in a clean, lightweight interface.

Highlights
  • Save notes and ideas to calendar dates
  • Add color to notes
  • View notes by month or year
  • Perpetual calendar functionality
  • Lightweight and small app size
Features
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An very easy app to save your idea and your notes in a calendar date form * beautiful & simple application without any pretension/requirement * add a note, idea, personal agenda, diary into calendar * perpetual calendar * swipe left and right to change month * you can view list of notes by monthly or yearly * multicolor note. add color to a note * optimized & lightweight app * small size App Don't let your idea gone, write it down with this calendar notes app !

Screenshots

Basic Calendar4 screens
Calendar Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Basic Calendar and Calendar Notes both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Calendar Notes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Basic Calendar's. Calendar Notes also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ratings volume (137 vs 5). Basic Calendar's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 11 months). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. Basic Calendar sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Calendar Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Basic Calendar against 4.9 for Calendar Notes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar Notes has 137 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Basic Calendar's written reviews are positive against 93% of Calendar Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Basic Calendar ships an update every 11 days, Calendar Notes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Basic Calendar versus Calendar Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBasic CalendarCalendar Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)4.9 (137 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews93.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5137 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdotori kingEdi Ermawan

Customer experience

Basic Calendar

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Calendar Notes

All ratings74 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Basic Calendar

One-time10
  • Warm Everyday$0.99
  • Simple Daily$0.99
  • Highlighter Set$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Pastel Days$0.99
  • Animal Friends$0.99
  • Vegetable Garden$0.99
  • School Days$0.99
  • Workday$0.99
  • Sticky notes plus$0.99
  • All Access Pass$5.99
None

Calendar Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Basic Calendar free?
Basic Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calendar Notes free?
Calendar Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Basic Calendar or Calendar Notes?
Calendar Notes is rated higher. Basic Calendar averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Calendar Notes averages 4.9 from 137 ratings.
Do Basic Calendar or Calendar Notes have ads?
Calendar Notes shows ads; Basic Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, Basic Calendar or Calendar Notes?
Basic Calendar ships an update every 11 days, and Calendar Notes every 11 months. Most recently, Basic Calendar was updated on November 11, 2026 and Calendar Notes on November 12, 2026.

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