Comparison

Basic Calendar vs Calendar Pro

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

Calendar Pro

This smart calendar and daily planner helps you schedule events faster and easier. It offers natural language event creation, document scanning for event details, and supports multiple calendar systems. Organize your day with customizable categories and sync with your existing Apple Calendar.

Highlights
  • Natural language event creation
  • AI document scanning for events
  • Support for six calendar systems
  • Home screen widgets
  • Color-coded event categories
  • Apple Calendar sync
  • On-device AI processing
Features
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Plan your time. Organize your day. Never miss what matters. Calendar Pro is a smart calendar and daily planner designed to make scheduling faster and easier. Create events naturally, organize your week, set reminders, and see your entire schedule in one clear view. SMART CALENDAR PLANNING Plan your day with a powerful calendar built around the way you organize your life. • Full month calendar view • Day, week and month planning • Clear event organization • Color-coded event categories • Easy event creation and editing • Quick access to your daily agenda SMART TYPE Create events naturally without filling out complicated forms. Simply type something like: “Team meeting Monday at 3 PM for 2 hours” Calendar Pro can understand the event title, date, time, duration, and location to help you schedule faster. AI DOCUMENT SCAN Turn information from real-world documents into calendar events. Scan invitations, flyers, schedules, PDFs, and other event information using your camera. Calendar Pro uses Apple's on-device Vision technology to recognize event details and help you add them to your calendar. Your information stays on your device. SIX CALENDAR SYSTEMS Choose from six calendar systems: • Gregorian • Hijri • Hebrew • Persian • Buddhist • Chinese Plan and view your schedule using the calendar system that works best for you. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS See your upcoming events and daily agenda without opening the app. Stay informed about what's next directly from your Home Screen. SMART EVENT CATEGORIES Keep your schedule organized with categories such as: • Work • Personal • Health • Social • Travel • Finance • Other Calendar Pro can automatically identify categories based on your event. APPLE CALENDAR SYNC Calendar Pro works with Apple's native Calendar framework, allowing your events to appear in your existing Apple Calendar. Your calendar. Your iCloud. Your control. PRIVACY FIRST Your privacy matters. Calendar Pro uses on-device Apple technologies for AI processing. Your scanned documents and event information don't need to be sent to a cloud server. • No account required • No cloud-based AI processing • Your data stays on your device FREE CALENDAR + PRO FEATURES Use Calendar Pro with full core calendar functionality for free. Upgrade with a one-time purchase to unlock: • Home Screen widgets • Accent color themes • Week numbers • Unlimited AI scans Plan smarter. Schedule faster. Stay organized. Create events in seconds, turn documents into calendar events with AI, stay on top of reminders, and manage your schedule from one beautiful calendar. Download Calendar Pro today and take control of your day. Privacy Policy : https://sites.google.com/view/globalcalendarapp/home Apple Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Basic Calendar4 screens
Calendar Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Basic Calendar at none against Calendar Pro's shown. Basic Calendar also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Calendar Pro's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, in-app purchases, 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 and Calendar Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Calendar Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Basic Calendar has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, Calendar Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Basic Calendar versus Calendar Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBasic CalendarCalendar Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB17 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developerdotori kingxita apps

Customer experience

Basic Calendar

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

Calendar Pro

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
1 purchases

Calendar Pro

One-time1
  • Calendar Pro$5.99

Questions

Is Basic Calendar free?
Basic Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Calendar Pro free?
Calendar Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Basic Calendar or Calendar Pro?
Calendar Pro is rated higher. Basic Calendar averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Calendar Pro averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Basic Calendar or Calendar Pro have ads?
Calendar Pro shows ads; Basic Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, Basic Calendar or Calendar Pro?
Basic Calendar ships an update every 2 weeks, and Calendar Pro monthly. Most recently, Basic Calendar was updated on November 7, 2026 and Calendar Pro on October 31, 2026.

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