Comparison

Digaroo vs Calendia

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

Head to head
About

Digaroo

Discover, rate, and review movies, TV shows, books, games, music, restaurants, and recipes. See what friends are enjoying and get personalized recommendations. Save items with private notes for future reference.

Highlights
  • Discover and rate diverse content
  • Follow friends and see their ratings
  • Create personalized bookmark lists
  • Build music playlists from friend ratings
  • Share Top 10 lists
  • Receive direct recommendations from friends
Features
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Digaroo makes it easy to discover, rate, and review the things you actually spend your time on — movies, TV shows, books, board games, video games, podcasts, music, restaurants, and recipes — all in one clean, ad-free app. See what your friends are into. Leave your own ratings. Find something worth your time. HOW IT WORKS Add your friends. They rate things. Those ratings land in your feed — with what they actually said about them, not just a score. Rate them yourself, or bookmark the ones you want to get to. When you're deciding what to watch, read, play or cook tonight, your bookmarks are the shortlist. ONE FEED, OR ALL OF IT Pick a category, or choose All Categories and see everything at once. Look at everyone, one friend, or work your way through a ranked list — Best Picture winners, say. BOOKMARKS THAT REMEMBER WHY Save anything with one tap and add a private note — "Sam said to watch this", or "for the flight". The note stays with the bookmark, and only you can see it. PROFILES WORTH VISITING Everything someone has rated, what they're saving for later, their Top 10 lists, and their Spotlight — the three things that define them in a category. MUSIC AND PARTY PLAYLISTS Rate songs, albums and artists. Then build a party playlist from what your friends have actually rated: pick who's coming, set how long you need, and send it to Spotify. NO ADS. NO ALGORITHM. NO STRANGERS. Whether you're picking a movie for tonight, your next book, a game for the table, or somewhere to grab dinner, Digaroo gives you real recommendations from real people. • Follow friends and compare tastes • Share your Top 10 lists in any category • See what's trending in your circle • Get recommendations sent directly from friends • No ads. No tracking. Just great recommendations. Digaroo is built for people, not algorithms. Find something good from people you actually trust.

About

Calendia

This app helps you track upcoming releases for movies, TV shows, music, games, and books. Get release day notifications and discover where to watch or listen. Import your existing libraries and playlists to follow artists and games you already love.

Highlights
  • Follow movies, TV, music, games, and books
  • Release day notifications
  • Streaming provider lookup
  • Import from Apple Music, Spotify, Steam
  • Cross-device sync
  • Mark titles as complete
Features
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Calendia is a release calendar for the movies, TV shows, music, games, and books you follow. FOLLOW • Add movies, shows, music, games, books, and the people behind them: directors, actors, authors, and artists. • Tap any title or person to follow. They appear on your release calendar. • Your follows sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. NOTIFY • Push notifications on release day for everything you follow. • Toggle notifications per media type if you only want certain ones. • No marketing pushes. No "this might interest you" alerts. WATCH AND LISTEN • Tap a movie or show to see streaming providers. • Tap an album to find it on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube Music. • Open any title in TMDB or IMDB with one tap. IMPORT • Bring in your Apple Music library to follow your existing artists. • Pull artists from any Spotify playlist URL. • Sync your Steam wishlist as followed games. ORGANIZE • Pick which media types appear in your feeds. • Mark titles complete when you've finished them. • Hide what you don't want to see. FREE • Follow up to 10 items in each category. • Release-day notifications. • Streaming provider lookup. • Cross-device sync. • No ads. No tracking. Browse without signing up. PREMIUM • Unlimited follows. • Granular notification controls. • Import from Apple Music, Spotify, and Steam. • Mark titles complete and hide what you don't want to see. • • • Terms of Use: https://calendia-app.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://calendia-app.com/privacy

Screenshots

Digaroo4 screens
Calendia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Digaroo at none against Calendia's 5. Digaroo also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). Calendia's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). On price, rating, ads 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. Calendia sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Digaroo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Digaroo against 5.0 for Calendia. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendia has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Digaroo ships an update weekly, Calendia every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Digaroo versus Calendia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigarooCalendia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings214 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB47 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperMark PetersenCalendia LLC

Customer experience

Digaroo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Calendia

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Digaroo

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Calendia

Subscriptions3
  • Calendia Premium1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Calendia Premium1 Month trial$14.991 Year
  • Calendia Premium1 Month trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Calendia Premium (Lifetime)$44.99
  • Calendia Premium (Lifetime)$89.99

Questions

Is Digaroo free?
Digaroo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calendia free?
Calendia is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Digaroo or Calendia?
Digaroo and Calendia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 14 ratings respectively.
Do Digaroo or Calendia have ads?
Neither Digaroo nor Calendia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Digaroo or Calendia?
Digaroo ships an update weekly, and Calendia every 5 weeks. Most recently, Digaroo was updated on November 12, 2026 and Calendia on November 8, 2026.

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