Calendo vs IconCal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calendo
This calendar app helps you manage personal, work, and family events with ease. It offers simple event management, scrollable monthly views, and offline access by syncing with your system calendar. Designed for efficiency and a user-friendly experience.
- Easy event management
- Scrollable monthly views
- Offline access
- User-friendly interface
- Secure data handling
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Plan every day with a calendar that keeps your schedule clear and useful. Calendo brings your device calendars, appointments, and reminders together in one private, offline-friendly place. See your time your way, find room for what matters, and act on events quickly. • View your month, week, day, year, or a continuously scrolling agenda • Create, edit, duplicate, and manage recurring events in your system calendars • Keep dated reminders alongside appointments and mark them complete • Find open time for plans and focus sessions • Search events, locations, and invitees; save useful filters for later • Use Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Control Center widgets to stay on track • Share or import ICS calendar files, check travel time, and manage invitations • Keep your calendar available offline with EventKit-backed access Calendo is designed for personal plans, work meetings, and family schedules without making your calendar complicated.
IconCal
Organize your schedule visually with an object-based interface. Quickly add events using a vast library of icons or create your own from photos. See your entire month at a glance with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality.
- Create custom icons from photos
- Extensive built-in icon library
- Drag-and-drop event scheduling
- Quick month view with icons
- Syncs with Apple and Google Calendars
- Advanced event creation options
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Visually organize your life! IconCal is a smart and intuitive calendar app that helps you manage your schedule visually. IconCal is built with an object-based interface that allows you to schedule your events in seconds with the flick of a finger. No more opening 4 different menus to start entering event details. No more hunting through a list of spreadsheet-like blocks. With IconCal, you can use a variety of icons to represent your events. Quickly & easily see your whole schedule with a single glance. An icon is worth a thousand words! Highlighted features: • The ability to create your own icons! Choose from your device’s photo library, or even take a picture with your device's camera. • A massive built-in icon library. Use the Icon Toolbox to quickly sort through dozens of categories to choose your favorite icons. • Easy and intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. Simply drag an icon from the Icon Tray onto any day. • Quick at-a-glance month view that beautifully displays your easy-to-recognize icons throughout the whole month. • Includes powerful event creation features for those already familiar with other calendar apps. Including: event titles, time, location, recurring/repeating events, alerts, and more. • Calendar syncing with either Apple or Google calendars. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: IconCal at 5.0 against Calendo's 3.0. IconCal also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). Calendo's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 7 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Calendo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and IconCal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
IconCal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Calendo ships an update every 5 days, IconCal every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendo | IconCal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wesley de Groot | Goodwicket LLC |
Customer experience
Calendo
IconCal
In-app purchases
Calendo
- Pro$12.49
IconCal
- $2/Month$2.001 Month
- $15/Year$15.001 Year
- $30 Lifetime$30.00









