Comparison

Basic Calendar vs Night Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Basic Calendar

Personalize your schedule with decorative notes, visual charts, and customizable widgets. Easily search for events, create drafts, and export your calendar views as PDFs or images. Enhance important days with a variety of free and purchasable stickers and highlighters.

Highlights
  • Monthly sticky notes
  • Event duration and count charts
  • Event search and draft creation
  • PDF and PNG calendar export
  • Emoji and sticker decorations
  • Customizable widgets
  • Month and week views
Features
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Your plans, with a personal touch. Basic Calendar brings your month, week, notes and recorded events together. • A little note on your month Place a sticky note on the monthly calendar. Move it, resize it and adjust the paper opacity. One yellow note in each 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 monthly subscription and does not require a new purchase each month. All Access Pass and verified eligible previous supporters include this access. • Look back at your calendar Explore monthly and yearly charts by scheduled event duration, event count or sticker share. Compare with the previous month or year, filter calendars, and revisit related dates and events. These charts summarize available calendar records; they do not measure actual activity, productivity or goal completion. All-day events are excluded from duration totals, and overlapping events are added separately. Lookback is free. • Find a plan and make a new draft Search event titles with a date range and calendar filter. Create a new event draft from an eligible existing event and choose its date and destination calendar. Invited, recurring and read-only events cannot be duplicated. • Save a month as PDF or images Export an A4 calendar as PDF or high-resolution PNG images for sharing or printing. Events are off by default. Choose whether to include events and date decorations; event notes, locations and links are excluded. Sticky notes are not included. Export is free. • Make important days stand out Emoji, the basic circle and the red highlighter are free. Illustrated sticker packs and additional hand-drawn styles and highlighter colors require optional one-time in-app purchases. All Access Pass unlocks current and future decoration sets. Verified eligible previous supporters receive the same access without another payment. • Your week and Home Screen Switch between month and week views, choose device calendars, and check your dates and events with small, medium and large widgets. Personalize the app and widgets with color themes. Show Korean or Chinese lunar dates; Korean lunar dates support Gregorian dates from January 1, 1900 through December 31, 2050. Calendar access is required for events; event syncing depends on device settings and your calendar service. Date decorations can optionally sync through iCloud with the same Apple Account. Sticky notes and custom lookback titles stay on this device; sticky notes do not appear in widgets or exports. Purchase availability and local prices are shown in the app when products are available. Long-press a date in month view to add an event or decorate that date. Save calendar selections as named display sets, switch between them, and return to All calendars. Optionally sync the sets through iCloud; the currently applied selection stays on each device.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Adjustable daily start time
  • Events displayed for previous/next day
  • Flexible schedule viewing
  • Customizable time zones
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Basic Calendar4 screens
Night Calendar3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Night Calendar at none against Basic Calendar's 10. Night Calendar also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Basic Calendar's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 8 months). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Night Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Night Calendar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, Night Calendar every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Basic Calendar versus Night Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBasic CalendarNight Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB19 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerdotori kingMotoki Takahashi

Customer experience

Basic Calendar

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

Night Calendar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Basic Calendar

One-time10
  • Simple Daily$0.99
  • Highlighter Set$0.99
  • Pastel Days$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Animal Friends$0.99
  • Vegetable Garden$0.99
  • School Days$0.99
  • Workday$0.99
  • Sticky notes plus$0.99
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • All Access Pass$5.99
None

Night Calendar

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Basic Calendar free?
Basic Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Night Calendar free?
Night Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Basic Calendar or Night Calendar?
Night Calendar is rated higher. Basic Calendar averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Night Calendar averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Basic Calendar or Night Calendar have ads?
Night Calendar shows ads; Basic Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, Basic Calendar or Night Calendar?
Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, and Night Calendar every 8 months. Most recently, Basic Calendar was updated on November 7, 2026 and Night Calendar on November 4, 2026.

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