Comparison

Basic Calendar vs ApplePie

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

ApplePie

Features
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애플 파이 - 메모하면 일정이 되는 따뜻한 노트 바쁜 하루 속에서 메모를 쓰다 보면, 중요한 약속을 놓치기 쉽죠. 애플 파이는 메모 속 날짜와 시간을 자동으로 감지하고, 캘린더에 저장할 일정을 바로 제안해주는 스마트 메모 앱입니다. "내일 3시에 미팅"이라고 적으면, 일정 후보가 바로 나타나고 iOS 캘린더로 이어서 저장할 수 있습니다. 더 이상 메모와 캘린더를 따로 관리할 필요가 없습니다.

Screenshots

Basic Calendar4 screens
ApplePie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ApplePie at none against Basic Calendar's 10. ApplePie also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, 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. ApplePie asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, ApplePie daily. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Basic Calendar versus ApplePie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBasic CalendarApplePie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerdotori kingSION LEE

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

ApplePie

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Basic Calendar free?
Basic Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ApplePie free?
ApplePie is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Basic Calendar or ApplePie have ads?
Neither Basic Calendar nor ApplePie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Basic Calendar or ApplePie?
Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, and ApplePie daily. Most recently, Basic Calendar was updated on November 7, 2026 and ApplePie on November 5, 2026.

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