Comparison

Tips Buddy vs Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar

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

Head to head
About

Tips Buddy

Features
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App to help you split the tips.

About

Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar

Display your calendar directly on your Lock Screen as a live wallpaper. See your schedule instantly without opening any apps. Customize layouts, colors, and spacing for a personalized view.

Highlights
  • Live calendar wallpaper on Lock Screen
  • Automatic background updates
  • Customizable layouts and colors
  • Daily, monthly, and year views
  • Private, on-device calendar
  • Offline functionality
  • Simple setup with Shortcuts
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Turn your Lock Screen into a calendar you can read at a glance. Calendarly puts your events, shifts, reminders, tasks, notes and countdowns on your wallpaper, in widgets and in Live Activities, and refreshes them every morning. Nothing to open, nothing to unlock. Pick up your iPhone and see what is next. Join more than 30,000 people using Calendarly. SET UP ONCE 1. Pick a Lock Screen in the Gallery and make it yours in the Studio. 2. Choose the calendars and reminder lists you want to see. 3. Add the morning automation in Shortcuts. Calendarly shows you where to tap. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • The month, the quarter or the whole year • Today hour by hour, with location, people and notes under each event • This week or the next seven days, as a grid or a list • Work shifts and days off • Apple Reminders, most important first • Your own to-do list, or Todoist if you connect it • Countdowns to exams, birthdays and trips, plus days since a date • A note you want to keep in sight • Tonight's Moon, the year in dots and your life calendar WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for what is coming up, today, the week, the month, the year, countdowns, notes, to-dos and the Moon • More than a dozen looks, your own colors and fonts • Tick off tasks right on the widget • Extra-large widgets for your day, week, month and year on iOS 27 • Live Activities show today, the week, your tasks or a note on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island 152 LAYOUTS TO MAKE YOURS • Day planners, wall calendars, departure boards, newspapers, menu cards, notes on paper, chalkboards, flip clocks, tickets and more • Your colors, fonts and photos, 15 textured backgrounds or a plain color • Create Your Own: put several layouts together on one wallpaper FREE TO START 96 of the 152 layouts are free, and so are all widgets, Live Activities and automatic updates. Free layouts show your whole day, with every event, reminder and task. Calendarly Pro unlocks all 152 layouts, your own photos and Create Your Own. Choose monthly, yearly or a one-time purchase. Cancel a subscription at any time. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE Calendarly does not require an account. Calendar and Reminders data is read and drawn on your iPhone and is never uploaded to our servers. Todoist is optional and connects directly. GOOD TO KNOW Shortcuts is only needed for automatic updates. You can update the wallpaper by hand at any time. Calendar wallpapers work offline after setup. Task sync and purchases require internet access. Calendarly speaks 23 languages. Privacy Policy: https://getcalendarly.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tips Buddy1 screens
Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tips Buddy at none against Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar's 7. Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months). 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. Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Tips Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tips Buddy ships an update every 12 months, Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tips Buddy versus Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTips BuddyCalendarly Lockscreen Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (41 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—60.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—41 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKonstantin MishukovDmytro Katyukha

In-app purchases

None

Tips Buddy

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar

Subscriptions3
  • Calendarly Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Calendarly Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Calendarly Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$16.991 Year
One-time4
  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$9.99
  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$13.99
  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$24.99
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  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Tips Buddy free?
Tips Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar free?
Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tips Buddy or Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar have ads?
Neither Tips Buddy nor Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tips Buddy or Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar?
Tips Buddy ships an update every 12 months, and Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar weekly. Most recently, Tips Buddy was updated on October 18, 2026 and Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar on October 19, 2026.

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