Timely vs Monthly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timely
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Timely Calendar turns your everyday schedule into a personal journal — and now you can share it with the people you love. Create a beautiful calendar together with your partner, family, or friends, then make every day yours with AI stickers, curated themes, and a mood diary. SHARED CALENDARS — PLAN TOGETHER - Create shared calendars with your partner, family, roommates, or team - Invite members and keep everyone on the same page - Events and to-dos sync in real time for the whole group - Color-code each member to see who is doing what at a glance - View personal and shared calendars side by side - Perfect for couples, family schedules, trips, and group plans SMART CALENDAR — STAY ORGANIZED - Three views: month, weekly timetable, and daily agenda - Custom color labels for easy sorting - Manage multiple calendars - To-do list with drag-and-drop reordering - Flip-clock countdowns keep important days in sight - Public holidays for Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Japan, Korea, and the US - Full Chinese almanac — auspicious days, solar terms, zodiac, and stem-branch - Optimized for iPhone Duo — uses the full outer and inner displays CUSTOM STICKERS - AI background removal — one tap to cut out any subject - Manual crop — draw freely for precise edges - Sticker decoration mode — frames, doodles, text, and custom colors - Build your own sticker library - Place stickers on any date or calendar background - Sticker backgrounds — turn up to 3 stickers into a patterned calendar background in one tap BEAUTIFUL THEMES - Starry Black — minimal dark - Simple White — clean and classic - Cat Theme — 12 months of hand-drawn illustrations - Heritage Cats — 12 months of traditional Chinese-style illustrations - Flowers — 12 months of floral illustrations - Lovely Pink — soft and sweet - Dreamy Macaron — healing pastel tones - Earth Brown — warm and grounded - Pixel — retro Y2K style MOOD DIARY — JOURNAL - Capture each day with photos and stickers - Log how you feel with mood stickers - Mood insights — pie chart, monthly trends, and logging streaks - Export a month of diary pages to PDF in one tap - Share monthly highlights straight to your IG Story HOME SCREEN WIDGETS - Three sizes: small, medium, and large - Four styles: Modern, Minimal, Cute, and Pixel - Transparent background option - Auto-refresh — always up to date - Today's to-dos, upcoming events, and countdowns at a glance Whether you are sharing a calendar with your partner, organizing the whole family, keeping a team in sync, or you simply love journaling and want a calendar with real personality — Timely makes opening your calendar something to look forward to. Download now and start designing beautiful days with the people who matter. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Monthly
This app transforms your monthly calendar into a personalized diary. Decorate dates with photos, stickers, and handwritten notes to visually record your days and tastes. It syncs with existing calendars and offers customizable views and widgets.
- Month view at a glance
- Decorate with photos, stickers, emoji
- Customizable layouts, fonts, colors
- Home screen widgets
- Syncs with external calendars
- Export month as PDF
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Monthly is a custom monthly calendar for your days and your taste. Keep plans, notes and journal entries together in one month view, and change fonts, cell shapes, spacing and colors until it feels like yours. Not just a schedule — a record of your days. Jot down appointments, to-dos, memos and repeating events in seconds, then place photos, emoji and stickers anywhere on the date. Little moments add up until the whole month looks like a diary you made yourself. ■ Built around the month view See the whole month at a glance, with no screen switching. Add events, write notes and decorate — all from the same view. ■ Paste, write, decorate Drop stickers, emoji and photos exactly where you want them. Curated sticker packs are built in, and you can turn stickers you make yourself into packs of your own. ■ Make it yours Combine types, tags, accent colors, fonts and layout to build a calendar that fits how you live. Start simple, then go as detailed as you like. ■ Widgets that look like your calendar Home screen widgets show today, this week and this month exactly as you decorated them. Your calendar is always in front of you, even without opening the app. ■ Works with your existing calendars See events from iOS Calendar, Google Calendar and other external calendars, plus public holidays, right inside Monthly. Keep your schedule where it is — just add the decoration. ■ iPhone, iPad and Mac Jot things down on your phone, then decorate on the bigger screen of your iPad or Mac. Monthly runs on all three. ■ More - Tags and colors to group and color-code your records - Collections to view only work, personal, family or hobby entries - Search to find past entries fast - Export a finished month as a PDF Monthly isn't about cramming in more events. It's built so you can look back and see what color your days were, what filled this month, and which moments you wanted to keep. Don't let this month slip by. Record it, decorate it, and revisit it in Monthly. Some features require Monthly Premium (monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase). Contact: contact@lmnop.im
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Monthly at every 4 days against Timely's fortnightly. Timely's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Timely sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Monthly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Timely ships an update fortnightly, Monthly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timely | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kui Yan Marc YU | lmnop |
In-app purchases
Timely
- Timely Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Timely Premium Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
- Timely Calendar · Premium$8.99
Monthly
- Monthly 월간 프리미엄 구독7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Monthly 연간 프리미엄 구독7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Monthly 프리미엄 평생 이용권$17.99





