Basic Calendar vs Night Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Basic Calendar
This app offers a clean, monthly view of your Apple Calendar data. Personalize your schedule with color themes and stay on top of appointments with home screen widgets. Easily manage your events at a glance.
- Monthly calendar view
- Apple Calendar integration
- Customizable color themes
- Home screen widgets
- Intuitive user interface
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Basic Calendar is an app that conveniently displays your Apple Calendar data in a monthly view. With a clean design and intuitive user interface, you can easily view and manage your schedule at a glance. Additionally, it supports various color themes, allowing you to personalize your experience and differentiate your events using different visual styles. The app also features widget functionality, ensuring that you never miss important appointments even from your home screen.
Night Calendar
This app allows you to customize your daily schedule by changing the start time of your day. Events occurring before your set start time will be displayed as part of the previous day's schedule, offering a flexible way to view your commitments.
- Adjustable daily start time
- Events displayed for previous/next day
- Flexible schedule viewing
- Customizable time zones
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A major feature of this app is the ability to change the start time of each day. If you set the start time of each day to 8 AM, events that start between midnight and 7:59 AM will be displayed as your schedule for the previous day. Also, if you set the start time of each day to 10 PM, events that start between 10 PM and 11:59 PM will be displayed as your schedule for the next day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Night Calendar at none against Basic Calendar's 2. Basic Calendar's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Basic Calendar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Night Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Basic Calendar against 5.0 for Night Calendar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, Night Calendar every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Basic Calendar | Night Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | dotori king | Motoki Takahashi |
Customer experience
Basic Calendar
Night Calendar
In-app purchases
Basic Calendar
- Buy Me a Coffee$0.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
Night Calendar
No in-app purchases
Questions
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