Lineár Calendar vs VariAlarm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lineár Calendar
Visualize your entire year in a single, elegant view. This app offers multiple perspectives and customization options to help you spot busy periods and find gaps instantly. Plan more effectively by seeing the bigger picture of your schedule.
- Full year view
- Horizontal and vertical layouts
- Linear and regular day alignments
- Coloured event bars
- Calendar filtering and custom colours
- Sticky header/column
- PDF export
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Zoom Out. See the Bigger Picture. Lineár shows your whole year in a single view: all 365 days at once. Spot busy stretches, find free time, and see how everything fits without flipping through months. Events appear as coloured bars across the days they span. Tap any one for the details. Four Ways to See Your Year Horizontal (months as rows) or vertical (months as columns, like a wall planner), each with two day arrangements: - Linear: days align by weekday, so overloaded days stand out. - Regular: days align by date (1–31), every month's 1st in the same column. Edit Right on Your Calendar (New in 2.0) Create, edit, and delete events without leaving Lineár: times, locations, notes, reminders, and full repeating events. Your first 10 edits are free. Lineár Pro then unlocks unlimited editing as a one-time purchase, no subscription. Viewing always stays free. Make It Yours Works with iCloud, Google, Exchange, and subscribed calendars in their own colours. Show, hide, and reorder calendars with a tap. Customise colours, fonts, and layout, pin the header or left column while scrolling, and filter events for a cleaner view. Export to PDF or print on Mac. Features - Whole year in one view, horizontal or vertical - Linear (weekday) and Regular (date) modes - Coloured event bars, filters, and custom colours - Create, edit, and delete events, repeats included (Lineár Pro) - Sticky header and left column - PDF export and printing (macOS) - iCloud, Google, Exchange, and subscribed calendars - Dark mode
VariAlarm
Automate your wake-up routine with customizable alarm templates. Sync alarms to your calendar events and easily manage recurring schedules. Fine-tune volumes, sounds, and skip individual alarms without disrupting your overall plan.
- Reusable alarm templates
- Calendar event automation
- Customizable alarm sequences
- Skip individual alarms
- Lock Screen and Homescreen widgets
- Custom volumes and sounds
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Rotating shifts. On-call weeks. A gym class that moves every day. If your alarms can't keep up with your schedule, VariAlarm can. VariAlarm is an alarm clock and schedule planner for people whose weeks don't repeat. Plan alarms on real dates, reuse your shift patterns, and change one morning without touching the rest. CHANGE ONE DAY, NOT THE WHOLE WEEK • Skip tomorrow's alarm – the schedule carries on by itself, nothing to switch back on • Move or edit a single occurrence without breaking the series • Pause alarms until tomorrow, the end of the week, or any date PLAN BY DATE, NOT JUST BY WEEKDAY • Set alarms for specific future dates • Repeat every 2–12 weeks and choose an end date • See alarms and calendar events side by side SAVE YOUR SHIFTS ONCE, REUSE THEM ANYWHERE • Alarm Templates: save the alarms for an early, late, or night shift and apply them to the days you work • Alarm Routines: a sequence of alarms spaced from one start time – move the start and every alarm follows • Running late? Shift every alarm in a routine or template by the same number of minutes in one step • Alarm Groups keep work, gym, and weekend alarms apart LET YOUR CALENDAR SET THE ALARM Calendar Automation matches events by keyword and creates the alarm for you. Example: every event called “Early shift” at 7:00 AM gets a wake-up alarm 2 hours before. Run rules yourself or through Shortcuts. Get Ready estimates when to start getting ready from the event time, where you're going, and the expected weather. WAKE UP YOUR WAY • Crescendo fades the volume in gently • Use your own songs as alarm sounds • Challenge Wake helps you stay up • Sleep Sounds to wind down, Timer Sets for multi-step countdowns ALWAYS ONE GLANCE AWAY Lock Screen widgets, Live Activities, Apple Watch, Siri, Shortcuts, and optional iCloud sync across your devices. SMARTER PLANNING Turn a photo or screenshot of your roster into events you review first. Create alarms, routines, and templates by voice. Smart Prep looks over tomorrow, and Weather-Aware Wake can suggest an earlier alarm when conditions may slow you down. Nothing is created or changed until you approve it. VARIALARM PRO Free to download. VariAlarm Pro is available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Feature availability depends on your VariAlarm plan, iOS version, device, region, and permissions. Apple Intelligence features require a compatible device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VariAlarm at 4.6 against Lineár Calendar's 4.0. VariAlarm also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (24 vs 3). Lineár Calendar's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Lineár Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and VariAlarm sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
VariAlarm holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VariAlarm has 24 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 93% and 92% positive.
Lineár Calendar ships an update every 10 days, VariAlarm daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lineár Calendar | VariAlarm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.6 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better | 92.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TheMM | Nhat Le |
Customer experience
Lineár Calendar
VariAlarm
In-app purchases
Lineár Calendar
- Lineár Pro$4.99
VariAlarm
- VariAlarm Pro Monthly3 Days trial$2.491 Month
- VariAlarm Pro Annual$24.991 Year
- Buy me a coffee$1.99
- VariAlarm Pro Lifetime$69.99









