SimpleLists vs Calendar & Tasks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleLists
Create and manage reusable checklists with an intuitive interface. This app offers cloud syncing for access across devices, helping you stay organized effortlessly for various personal and professional tasks.
- Reusable checklists
- User-friendly interface
- Cloud syncing
- Customizable lists
- Task management
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Introducing Simple Lists, an app designed for creating reusable checklists that help you stay organized effortlessly. With its intuitive interface, Simple Lists transforms the way you manage checklists, making everyday planning a breeze. Key features include: - Reusable Checklists: Create, save, and edit lists that you can reuse for different tasks, allowing you to streamline your planning process. - User-Friendly Interface: Navigate through your checklists easily with a clean and minimalistic design that enhances your productivity. - Cloud Syncing: Access your lists from any device with real-time syncing, ensuring you have your tasks available whenever you need them. Simple Lists is perfect for anyone who loves to use checklists, whether you are a busy professional, a student juggling multiple responsibilities, or a parent managing family tasks. Our app caters to your organizational needs, providing the tools to help you stay on top of your priorities. The user interface of Simple Lists is designed with simplicity in mind. With just a few taps, you can create a checklist, add items, or mark them as done. The overall user experience is seamless, allowing you to focus on your tasks without distraction. Enjoy a smooth and engaging interaction that makes checklist management an enjoyable part of your routine. Download Simple Lists today and take the first step toward effortless organization! Embrace the power of checklists that work for you, not the other way around. Stay organized and simplify your life with Simple Lists—because your tasks deserve a smart solution! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Calendar & Tasks
This app integrates your events, tasks, and weather into a single, clear timeline. It offers natural language input for easy event creation and customizable widgets for quick access to your plans and weather forecasts. Manage your schedule and to-do list efficiently in one place.
- Unified calendar and task management
- Natural language event and task creation
- Customizable home screen widgets
- Integrated weather forecasts
- Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
- Multiple view options (agenda, day, week, month, year)
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A calendar for real life. Including the bits you keep moving to tomorrow. YOUR DAY, TOGETHER Bring events, reminders and habits into one daily Plan. Connect calendars and reminder lists already available through Apple Calendar and Reminders. Your events and tasks stay in the source you choose. GOOD HABITS, VISIBLE PROGRESS Create habits with your own colors and icons. Check them off once or work toward a daily count. See your history in heatmaps, cards, compact lists and calendars, with streaks and statistics. Correct past entries and archive habits while keeping their history. Two active habits are free; Cality Pro unlocks more. Habits appear in Plan and Habits. Give one a time to place it on your Plan timeline. Showing it in Calendar and agenda is optional. APPLE HEALTH, WHEN YOU WANT IT On supported iPhone and iPad devices, connect selected habits to Apple Health with your permission. Supported goals such as steps, sleep and exercise update from recorded Health data. Health readings and derived progress stay on that device and are not sent through Cality's iCloud sync. CLOSE AT HAND A habit heatmap widget lets you add one step to a manual habit from your Home Screen. Set individual habit reminders or a daily check-in. Standard calendar widgets show plans, months and weather. iPhone also offers Lock Screen widgets and an Apple Watch companion. PLAN AROUND REAL LIFE See events, planned reminder sessions and free time together. Reserve time for a reminder without changing its deadline. Pro adds advanced Plan editing and reusable routines. Keep selected repeating events in Plan without showing them in Cality's Calendar and agenda. FINISH WHAT IS LEFT Review unfinished items in a list or one card at a time. Complete, move, reschedule or skip, with session Undo. Completing an event records Cality progress; completing a reminder updates its source. TYPE LIKE A HUMAN Enter an event or task in natural language, review the details and save. Choose suggested places and addresses as you type. Pro search finds words in event titles, locations and notes without requiring matching accents or capitalization. MAKE IT YOURS Choose calendar views, colors, visible sources and the tab Cality opens on. See three days of weather for free. Optional personality adds a little humor. Cality Pro adds more active habits, routines, advanced Plan editing, calendar sets, search, repeat-rule editing, multiple alerts, extra palettes, custom Review gestures, automatic Review prompts, remembered overlap choices and extended weather. Mac Pro also adds advanced menu-bar customization and the Dock date. Existing data is preserved. Calendar and reminder accounts handle their own sync. Supported Cality settings and manual habit records can sync through private iCloud storage; timing depends on your account and connection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Calendar & Tasks at none against SimpleLists's shown. Calendar & Tasks also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. SimpleLists sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month and Calendar & Tasks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SimpleLists against 5.0 for Calendar & Tasks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
SimpleLists ships an update every 6 weeks, Calendar & Tasks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleLists | Calendar & Tasks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joe Edwards | Wystone LLC |
Customer experience
SimpleLists
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In-app purchases
SimpleLists
- Monthly$2.001 Month
- Yearly$14.001 Year
- Mini tip$1.00
- Plus tip$3.00
- Pro tip$5.00
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- Max tip$10.00
- Ultra tip$15.00
Calendar & Tasks
- Cality Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Cality Pro Annual$19.991 Year
- Cality Pro Lifetime$99.99









