Famicircle vs Family Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Famicircle
This app centralizes family organization with a live map, shared calendar, chore management, meal planning, and budgeting tools. It aims to keep families safe, connected, and on schedule by consolidating multiple functions into one platform.
- Live family map with location alerts
- Shared family calendar with conflict detection
- Gamified chore system with rewards
- Meal planning and recipe import
- Integrated shopping and to-do lists
- Family trip planning and budgeting
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Keep your family safe, organized, and on the same page. FamiCircle brings a live family map, a shared calendar, chores kids actually want to do, meal plans, and lists together in one app — so you can stop juggling five of them. FAMILY MAP & SAFETY See your family on a live map and relax. Set up places like Home and School to get automatic arrival and departure alerts, follow the day's location history, and get a heads-up when someone's phone battery runs low. Kids check in with one tap — "I made it!" — and build check-in streaks. The SOS button sends an instant alert with location to every parent, protected by a PIN-guarded cancel and a practice mode so kids can learn it safely. Leave-by alerts tell you when to head out to make the next event on time. SHARED FAMILY CALENDAR Everyone's schedule in one place: color-coded by family member, with month, week, and day views and automatic conflict detection so you never double-book the family again. Recurring schedules handle school terms and weekly activities, and you can import from Apple and Google Calendar. CHORES KIDS LOVE Turn chores into a game. Kids earn stars, keep streaks alive, and spend them in your family's own reward store — screen time, treats, or that toy they keep asking about (add it straight from a store link). Parents approve every redemption. Responsibilities track the non-negotiables like bedtime and homework, and the chore wheel makes assignments fair and fun. ALLOWANCE Turn stars into pocket money with your own exchange rate, cash-out requests, and a full history. MEAL PLANNING Plan the week's dinners in minutes: import recipes from any website, let the family vote on what to eat, fill your week with one tap, and send the ingredients to your shopping list. Cook mode keeps the screen awake with step-by-step timers. LISTS THAT WORK Shopping lists sorted by aisle with smart suggestions, to-dos with assignees and due dates, and packing lists for trips. TRIPS & BUDGET Plan family trips with itineraries, packing lists, and expenses. Track the family budget with spending trends, savings goals, and month-to-month rollover. FamiCircle speaks your language: English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Greek, Arabic, Thai, and Chinese. Free for the whole family. FamiCircle Pro unlocks the full location and safety suite, and more. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://slaterapplications.com/privacy-policy.html
Family Calendar
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One calendar for the whole household — every person color-coded, every birthday remembered, all on one screen. FamilyCal keeps the family schedule where a busy parent actually looks: your own iPhone. Give each person a color and an avatar, and the month grid shows whose day is whose at a glance. No account to create, no cloud service holding your family's plans, no ads between you and the week ahead. WHAT YOU GET • Open the app and the month shows a colored dot for every person with plans that day — one look answers "what's on for us?" • Mum's shift, Mia's school pickup and football practice sit side by side, each in its own color, so nothing hides inside a wall of identical entries • Set practice as "weekly" once and it fills every week from now on — the same for monthly bills and yearly checkups • Add a birthday to a profile and it returns every single year on its own, never re-entered, never forgotten • A reminder fires on your iPhone 10 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day ahead — school pickups stop being near-misses • Month, week and agenda views: plan the month, run the week, scan the next 90 days in one list PERFECT FOR • The parent who is the household's walking calendar and would like to put it down • Families juggling school runs, clubs, shifts and appointments for several people • Anyone who remembers birthdays only when the day arrives • People who want a family planner without creating yet another account WHY NOT JUST THE BUILT-IN CALENDAR? Stock calendars treat everyone's events the same, so a family month turns into a gray wall of lookalike entries. FamilyCal is built around people: every event belongs to a family member, every member has a color, and one glance at the grid tells you who is busy when. And unlike account-based family organizers, there is nothing to sign up for and no ads. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your family's schedule stays on this iPhone. No account, no cloud upload, no tracking of where your kids need to be. Reminders are scheduled locally on the device. Delete the app and the data is gone — it was never anywhere else. FULL ACCESS FamilyCal Pro unlocks the full household: unlimited family members, each with their own color and avatar, repeating events (weekly, monthly and yearly), event reminders on this device, and birthdays that come back every year automatically. Choose a weekly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Add your people, give each one a color, and watch the family week become one calm screen. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Family Calendar at none against Famicircle's 2. Famicircle's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Famicircle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Family Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Famicircle ships an update every 10 days, Family Calendar every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Famicircle | Family Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 163 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Slater | LEAN ASIA CO., LTD |
In-app purchases
Famicircle
- FamiCircle Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- FamiCircle Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Family Calendar
No in-app purchases









