Comparison

Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar vs Time Console

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

Head to head
About

Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar

Display your calendar directly on your Lock Screen as a live wallpaper. See your schedule instantly without opening any apps. Customize layouts, colors, and spacing for a personalized view.

Highlights
  • Live calendar wallpaper on Lock Screen
  • Automatic background updates
  • Customizable layouts and colors
  • Daily, monthly, and year views
  • Private, on-device calendar
  • Offline functionality
  • Simple setup with Shortcuts
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Turn your Lock Screen into a calendar you can read at a glance. Calendarly puts your events, shifts, reminders, tasks, notes and countdowns on your wallpaper, in widgets and in Live Activities, and refreshes them every morning. Nothing to open, nothing to unlock. Pick up your iPhone and see what is next. Join more than 30,000 people using Calendarly. SET UP ONCE 1. Pick a Lock Screen in the Gallery and make it yours in the Studio. 2. Choose the calendars and reminder lists you want to see. 3. Add the morning automation in Shortcuts. Calendarly shows you where to tap. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN • The month, the quarter or the whole year • Today hour by hour, with location, people and notes under each event • This week or the next seven days, as a grid or a list • Work shifts and days off • Apple Reminders, most important first • Your own to-do list, or Todoist if you connect it • Countdowns to exams, birthdays and trips, plus days since a date • A note you want to keep in sight • Tonight's Moon, the year in dots and your life calendar WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for what is coming up, today, the week, the month, the year, countdowns, notes, to-dos and the Moon • More than a dozen looks, your own colors and fonts • Tick off tasks right on the widget • Extra-large widgets for your day, week, month and year on iOS 27 • Live Activities show today, the week, your tasks or a note on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island 152 LAYOUTS TO MAKE YOURS • Day planners, wall calendars, departure boards, newspapers, menu cards, notes on paper, chalkboards, flip clocks, tickets and more • Your colors, fonts and photos, 15 textured backgrounds or a plain color • Create Your Own: put several layouts together on one wallpaper FREE TO START 96 of the 152 layouts are free, and so are all widgets, Live Activities and automatic updates. Free layouts show your whole day, with every event, reminder and task. Calendarly Pro unlocks all 152 layouts, your own photos and Create Your Own. Choose monthly, yearly or a one-time purchase. Cancel a subscription at any time. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE Calendarly does not require an account. Calendar and Reminders data is read and drawn on your iPhone and is never uploaded to our servers. Todoist is optional and connects directly. GOOD TO KNOW Shortcuts is only needed for automatic updates. You can update the wallpaper by hand at any time. Calendar wallpapers work offline after setup. Task sync and purchases require internet access. Calendarly speaks 23 languages. Privacy Policy: https://getcalendarly.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Time Console

Features
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BOOT SEQUENCE COMPLETE. Time Console is a personal time terminal: sharp countdowns for the milestones that matter, with true CRT console aesthetics. Not another pastel day-counter. A minimalist temporal panel — pixel type, prompts, and real skins, with no visual noise. CHOOSE YOUR TERMINAL • CRT Green — classic green phosphor • Amber — vintage monitor amber • White Phosphor — cold tube white • DOS Blue — console blue screen • CGA — cyan and magenta of old PCs • 8-Bit — 8-bit machine look • C64 — Commodore violet • Pocket — pocket LCD green • E-Ink — monochrome electronic ink Each theme changes colors, contrast, and the app icon. Time reads differently on every console. COUNTDOWNS THAT MATTER Create countdowns to birthdays, trips, weddings, vacations, anniversaries, deadlines, and goals. See how many days remain — or how many have passed — in a clear, minimalist list. Set yearly recurring events and the countdown returns on its own every year: a birthday, an anniversary, a date you don’t want to miss. ALWAYS IN SIGHT Add Home Screen widgets and keep the next countdown visible without opening the app. Export to your calendar anytime. Sync across your devices privately: your milestones stay with you. Perfect if you like retro, minimal, and personal. Initialize your terminal and start counting.

Screenshots

Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar4 screens
Time Console4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar at 16.6 against Time Console's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Time Console sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar versus Time Console: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendarly Lockscreen CalendarTime Console
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (46 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDmytro KatyukhaDavid Llado

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar

Subscriptions3
  • Calendarly Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Calendarly Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Calendarly Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$16.991 Year
One-time4
  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$9.99
  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$13.99
  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$24.99
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  • Calendarly Pro · Lifetime$34.99
1 purchases

Time Console

One-time1
  • Time Console Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar free?
Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Time Console free?
Time Console is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar or Time Console have ads?
Neither Calendarly Lockscreen Calendar nor Time Console shows ads.

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