TapCal vs Gravity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TapCal
A beautifully designed iOS calendar app offering a clean month view with real event context and full reminders integration. It provides useful widgets, fast event creation with natural language detection, and powerful customization options while prioritizing user privacy.
- Clean month view with event titles
- Full Reminders integration
- Natural language event creation
- Customizable month, week, list, and heatmap widgets
- Unified daily timeline for events and reminders
- Calendar sets and custom alerts
- Theme, font, and layout customization
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TapCal is a beautifully designed iOS calendar built for clarity, speed, and control. Most calendar apps hide your schedule behind clutter and tiny indicators. TapCal gives you a clean month view with real event context, full reminders support, and widgets that are actually useful. WHY TAPCAL • See your month properly TapCal shows real event titles in month view and widgets, so you can understand your schedule at a glance. • Full Reminders integration Create, edit, complete, and manage reminders directly in TapCal. Set list, priority, due date/time, repeat rules, location alerts, and notes. See reminders in your timeline and widgets alongside events. • Fast event creation Type “Lunch with Alex tomorrow at 1pm” and TapCal uses Natural Language detection to pick up the dates instantly. • Better widgets Month, week, list, and heatmap widgets with readable information and reminder support. • One clear daily timeline Events and reminders appear together, so you can plan your day in one place. • Powerful controls, simple UX Use calendar sets, custom alerts, badge modes, and day highlights without a complicated workflow. • Make it yours Customize themes, fonts, and layout behavior to match how you plan. • Native iOS performance Built for iPhone with fast, smooth, responsive interactions. • Privacy first No account required. Your data stays in Apple’s calendar/reminder ecosystem and your connected calendars. Your schedule, without the friction. Download TapCal today. Terms of Use: https://tapcal.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://tapcal.app/privacy-policy
Gravity
This app offers a streamlined note-taking experience by eliminating folders and tags, focusing on a single, continuous stream of thoughts. Capture ideas instantly and use simple gestures to manage your notes, prioritizing what matters most.
- Instant note capture
- Single stream organization
- Swipe gestures for actions
- Attention-based prioritization
- Private iCloud sync
- Lightweight prefixes for filtering
- Fast search functionality
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Gravity keeps all your notes in one stream, with the newest at the top. As you add more, older notes sink down the list. When one of them still matters, swipe it right and it comes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. Gravity has no folders, so there's nothing to file. Writing The cursor is waiting at the top when you open the app. Type your note and press Return twice, or tap the add button. A half-written draft stays where you left it. Rescuing and tidying Swipe right on a note to rescue it. Swipe left to archive, delete, share or copy. Archived notes have a page of their own, and deleted notes stay in Deleted Notes until you restore them or clear them out. Markdown and checklists Headings, bold, italics, lists, links and quotes show formatted in the stream. Start a line with "- [ ]" to make a checklist, then tick items off without opening the note. In the editor the formatting appears as you type, and a small bar above the keyboard adds headings, bold, lists and checklists. Everything is saved as plain Markdown text. Tags Start a note with todo:, idea:, read: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Type todo: into search to see only those notes. There's no tag manager to look after. Search Search covers every note on your phone, archived ones too, and works offline. It matches parts of words and ignores accents. Getting notes in The Home Screen widget starts a new note or pastes in whatever you last copied. You can also share text or a link from another app, and it becomes a new note at the top of the stream. Privacy Your notes are stored on your iPhone. Gravity has no accounts and no analytics, and it doesn't collect any data. If you want your notes on your other Apple devices, turn on iCloud sync; it also works with Gravity for Mac, which is sold separately. You can export everything as JSON or Markdown at any time. Looks Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from three text sizes. There's a stats page too, worked out on your phone, of course. Price You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TapCal at Free against Gravity's $9.99. TapCal also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Gravity's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
TapCal is free to download; Gravity costs $9.99 up front. TapCal sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Gravity asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gravity holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of TapCal's written reviews are positive against 92% of Gravity's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
TapCal ships an update every 10 days, Gravity fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TapCal | Gravity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JONATHAN CHRISTIAN G JONES | Tristan Manchester |
Customer experience
TapCal
Gravity
In-app purchases
TapCal
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$5.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Pro Lifetime$49.99
Gravity
No in-app purchases








