Caffeinated Calendar vs PenDate Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Caffeinated Calendar
Aggregate and manage all your calendars in one place with powerful filtering and task management. Customize your view to hide or dim events, connect multiple account types, and utilize quick add features. Includes widgets, recurrence options, and offline access.
- Aggregate multiple calendar accounts
- Customizable event filtering
- Integrated task management
- Natural language quick add
- Multiple calendar view options
- Home screen widgets
- Offline access
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Caffeinated Calendar aggregates all your calendars in one place and lets you filter out the events you don't need to see. THE FILTER ENGINE Sharing a calendar with your spouse, team, or family? You don't need to see everything. Create filters to hide or dim events by title, description, location, time of day, or day of week. Hide your partner's medication reminders. Dim your coworker's focus blocks. Filter out all-day events from a noisy shared calendar. Your view, your rules. CONNECT ALL YOUR CALENDARS - Google Calendar — Sign in with Google, no passwords to manage - Microsoft Outlook / Office 365 — Full OAuth support - Apple iCloud — Connect with an app-specific password - Any CalDAV server — Nextcloud, Radicale, Baikal, Fastmail, Synology, Zoho, and more - Device calendars — Read from calendars already on your phone - Webcal subscriptions — Subscribe to public calendar feeds - Local calendars — Fully offline, no account needed SIX WAYS TO VIEW YOUR SCHEDULE Day, Week, Month, Year, Agenda, and List views. All support pull-to-refresh, smooth swipe navigation, and a Today button. Create custom calendar views to quickly switch between subsets like "Work Only" or "Personal." TASKS BUILT IN Full task management that syncs with your calendar accounts. Due dates, priorities, subtasks, categories, and progress tracking. Tasks appear alongside events in your Day and Agenda views and on home screen widgets. NATURAL LANGUAGE QUICK ADD Type "Lunch with Sarah tomorrow at noon at Café Roma" and the app parses it automatically. Access Quick Add from the app bar, a home screen widget, or an app icon shortcut. POWERFUL RECURRENCE Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly — with intervals, end dates, and complex patterns like "second Monday of every month." Edit or delete a single instance, all events, or this and future events. EVENT TEMPLATES Save frequently-used events as templates. Create new events with one tap, pre-filled with title, location, duration, reminders, and recurrence. ATTENDEES & RSVP See who's invited, their roles, and their responses. Accept, decline, or tentatively respond to invitations directly from the app. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Agenda, Compact, and Month widgets that respect your filters. Tap an event to open it directly. A Quick Add widget for instant event creation. IMPORT & EXPORT Open .ics files from email or file managers. Subscribe to public calendar feeds. Share single events or batch export multiple events. HOLIDAY CALENDARS Built-in holiday calendars for 20+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East. Added as auto-syncing subscriptions. CONTACT BIRTHDAYS Automatically creates birthday events from your device contacts. WEATHER FORECAST 14-day forecast in Day and Week views. Free, no tracking. OFFLINE FIRST Create and edit events without an internet connection. Changes sync automatically when you're back online. PRIVACY FOCUSED No analytics. No telemetry. No ads. Your calendar data stays on your device and syncs only to your own calendar accounts. We never see your passwords — Google and Microsoft use secure sign-in, and other credentials are stored securely on your device. Available in English, German, Spanish, French, and Japanese. Terms of Use: https://caffeinatedsoftworks.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://caffeinatedsoftworks.com/privacy/
PenDate Notes
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A digital planner, calendar notes and journal in one app. Plan by date, write by hand, and keep every note with the day it matters. PenDate Notes brings your calendar, notes, to-do lists and handwritten pages together. Keep a meeting note with the day it happened, a packing list with your trip, or a sketch beside the date you want to come back to. PLAN BY DATE Move between year, month, week and day views. Add events with times, repeats and reminders, and see your PenDate events in your phone's calendar app if you choose. WRITE, CHECK OFF OR SKETCH Choose a text note, a checklist or a handwriting canvas. Take study notes, plan meals, sketch ideas or keep a shopping list with quantities and totals. Write with a stylus or your finger, with pens, highlighters and a smooth eraser. FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS Sort notes and tasks into Do now, Plan, Handle and Later. Drag them between categories, switch between Cards and Compact views, and use filters to see one folder, tag or kind of note at a time. DIGITAL PLANNERS AND JOURNALS Write in beautiful planner and journal pages for every part of life: everyday planning, daily life, work sprints, study, wellness and habits, budget and savings, fitness, travel, gratitude, creative work, home and meals. Tappable links jump straight to the page you need. FIND IT AGAIN Search your notes, checklists and canvas text. Organise with folders, tags, covers and Archive, and restore deleted notes from the Recycle Bin. SYNC AND BACK UP Turn on optional Google Drive sync to keep your library on your other devices. Prefer to stay offline? PenDate works fully without an account. SHARE AND EXPORT Export notes and planner pages as PDF or images to print or share. FREE EVERYDAY NOTES, OPTIONAL PRO Everyday notes, checklists, the calendar and handwriting are free. PenDate Pro, a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase, adds every planner and journal family, Signature stickers and covers, saved Focus views, Split Workspace for two notes side by side on tablets and wide screens, and selected-page PDF export. Individual planners and Signature packs are also available as one-time purchases. Subscription prices and billing periods are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before that period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Canceling renewal keeps access until the end of the paid period. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pendatenotes.com/privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Caffeinated Calendar at every 5 days against PenDate Notes's every 6 weeks. Caffeinated Calendar also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). 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. Caffeinated Calendar sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and PenDate Notes sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Caffeinated Calendar ships an update every 5 days, PenDate Notes every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Caffeinated Calendar | PenDate Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Caffeinated Softworks LLC | SAMUEL NANA ESHUN |
In-app purchases
Caffeinated Calendar
- Individual Account (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Duo Account (Monthly)$7.991 Month
- Family Account (Monthly)$14.991 Month
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- Friends & Family Account (Monthly)$19.991 Month
- Individual Account (Annual)$49.991 Year
- Duo Account (Annual)$79.991 Year
- Family Account (Annual)$149.991 Year
- Friends & Family (Annual)$199.991 Year
PenDate Notes
- PenDate Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- PenDate Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
- Signature Stickers$2.99
- Signature Covers$2.99
- Gratitude Journal$5.99
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- Student Planner$6.99
- Travel Memory Journal$6.99
- Home & Meal Planner$6.99
- Budget & Wealth Journal$7.99
- Creative Studio Journal$7.99
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