Comparison

Calendar Vision vs Orbit

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

Head to head
About

Calendar Vision

Effortlessly create calendar events from photos, emails, or web links using AI. Automatically extracts all event details, including recurring schedules, without manual typing or editing. Syncs with all major calendar applications.

Highlights
  • AI event detail extraction
  • Recurring schedule detection
  • Email forwarding for event creation
  • URL event import
  • iCal feed subscription
  • Syncs with Apple Calendar and Google Calendar
Features
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Snap a photo of a flyer. Forward an event email. Paste a link. Calendar Vision reads the details and creates ready-to-save calendar events, with the title, time, location and repeating schedule filled in. No typing. Just tap Add. Works on anything with dates on it: • Photos of flyers, posters, mailers and printed calendars • Screenshots from Instagram, Facebook, text messages or anywhere else • PDFs, like a school year calendar or a team's season schedule • Forwarded invitations and newsletter emails • Event pages on Eventbrite, Meetup and similar sites A whole schedule from one photo: A school calendar, a season of games or a class timetable becomes a separate event for every date, not one event with a list pasted into the notes. Weekly practices and monthly meetings are saved as repeating events. Handy for busy families: Keep a calendar for each kid or activity, share its feed with your partner or the other parents on the team, and set default reminders so nobody misses picture day. Smarter than iOS Photos built-in extraction: iOS Photos sees a time on a flyer and creates a blank, unnamed event. Calendar Vision reads the flyer the way you would — it finds the event name, picks up the venue address, and recognizes when something repeats every week. You get a complete event that's ready to save with one tap, not a half-finished draft you still have to fill in yourself. Syncs with every calendar app you already use: Add events directly to Apple Calendar or Google Calendar, or subscribe to your Calendar Vision feed from any app that supports iCal — Fantastical, Outlook, Calendars 5, and more. Key features: • AI reads the event name, date, time, location and description • Pulls every event from a single schedule, flyer or PDF • Detects repeating events — weekly, monthly, and more • Forward emails to your personal Calendar Vision address • Paste a web page link to pull its events • Separate calendars, each with its own default reminders • Subscribe from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or any iCal app • Also on Android and the web • Start free — no account required to try Free plan: 5 free extractions to try every feature. Pro: Unlimited extractions for $3.99/year or a one-time $9.99 lifetime purchase. Download free and turn your first photo into a calendar event in under a minute. Terms of Service: https://calendarvision.app/terms

About

Orbit

Capture thoughts without friction and find patterns later. This app helps you organize ideas, ask questions about your own mind, and discover recurring themes. It offers a calm, private space for unfiltered thinking.

Highlights
  • Frictionless thought capture
  • Searchable mind
  • Pattern discovery
  • Weekly reflection
  • Calm and private interface
  • Share Sheet and widget integration
Features
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Write messy. Find the patterns later. Orbit is a calm place to dump every thought — work, life, half-formed ideas — and make sense of them later. Not a diary. Not a wellness app. A mind you can search. Most notes go somewhere to be forgotten. Orbit is built for the opposite: the more you write, the more it gives back. CAPTURE WITHOUT FRICTION Open Orbit and write. No folders to pick, no tags to invent, no blank-page ceremony. Get the thought down — from the app, the Share Sheet, or a Home Screen widget — and move on. ASK YOUR OWN MIND ANYTHING Later, ask Orbit a real question — "what have I been worried about lately?", "what did I decide about the launch?" — and get an answer drawn from everything you've written, alongside the entries it came from. FIND THE PATTERNS YOU'D MISS Orbit quietly surfaces the themes running through your thinking — the ideas you keep circling back to, the worries that recur — so you can see what's hard to notice one entry at a time. A WEEKLY LOOK BACK Each week, Orbit reflects your thinking back to you: what you focused on, what shifted, what's worth returning to. BUILT TO BE CALM One clear thing to do on every screen. A warm, editorial design that feels more like paper than a dashboard. No streaks, no badges, no guilt. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Only you can see what you write. Orbit is a place for your real, unfiltered thinking. Write messy. Orbit finds the patterns later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.useorbit.ink/privacy

Screenshots

Calendar Vision4 screens
Orbit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Calendar Vision at 3 against Orbit's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Calendar Vision sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year and Orbit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Calendar Vision against 5.0 for Orbit. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Calendar Vision ships an update every 8 days, Orbit every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Calendar Vision versus Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar VisionOrbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRowhome Labs LLCRuntime Labs LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Calendar Vision

Subscriptions2
  • Pro (Yearly)$3.991 Year
  • Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$9.99
2 purchases

Orbit

Subscriptions2
  • Orbit Pro (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Orbit Pro (Yearly)$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Calendar Vision free?
Calendar Vision is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Calendar Vision or Orbit?
Calendar Vision and Orbit are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Calendar Vision or Orbit have ads?
Neither Calendar Vision nor Orbit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Vision or Orbit?
Calendar Vision ships an update every 8 days, and Orbit every 9 days. Most recently, Calendar Vision was updated on October 28, 2026 and Orbit on October 25, 2026.

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