Comparison

ACTIS vs Shared Calendar

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

Head to head
About

ACTIS

Features
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ACTIS is an AI to-do list, AI task manager, and daily planner that turns messy thoughts, voice notes, and brain dumps into clear tasks, subtasks, reminders, goals, and a realistic schedule. Use ACTIS to plan your day, organize your week, manage tasks around your Apple Calendar, and ask your AI assistant what to do next when you feel stuck. Capture tasks by voice, text, or manual entry. ACTIS helps you prioritize work, break down complex projects, set task duration, create reminders, and connect daily tasks to bigger goals. Use ACTIS to plan your day, organize your week, connect daily tasks to bigger goals, and view your work through daily, weekly, and Timeline planner views. With Apple Calendar integration, you can plan around your real schedule. ACTIS also includes a Personal AI Chat Assistant. Ask it to list your tasks, recommend what is easiest or most important to do next, break down complex work, search the web, and help you find practical solutions. WITH ACTIS YOU CAN: • Turn rough ideas into actionable tasks Describe what you need to do, and ACTIS helps organize it into clear next steps. • Chat with your Personal AI Assistant Ask ACTIS to list your tasks, suggest what to do first, prioritize your work, or help you move forward when you are stuck. • Find the easiest next step ACTIS can help you decide what is easiest, most urgent, or most important to do next. • Plan smarter with AI Break down vague ideas, complex projects, and long task lists into manageable actions. • View tasks in Timeline Mode See your tasks in a time-based layout, understand what is coming next, and plan your day with more clarity. • Use web search to solve tasks ACTIS can search the web, gather context, and turn information into a practical plan. • Set task duration Add estimated duration to tasks so you can plan your day more realistically. • Plan with Apple Calendar Use Apple Calendar integration to organize tasks around your existing schedule. • Connect tasks to bigger goals Create goals, attach tasks and subtasks, and keep daily work aligned with what matters. • Stay organized by day, time, priority, and timeline Plan tasks with due dates, reminders, priorities, duration, and daily, weekly, or timeline views. • Use voice, text, or manual entry Capture tasks from a quick message, a voice note, or a manually created item. FEATURES: • Add tasks manually, by voice, or from a message • Chat with your Personal AI Assistant • Ask AI to list, prioritize, and organize your tasks • AI turns vague ideas into clear next steps • Create goals and connect them to tasks • Break complex work into subtasks • View tasks in Timeline Mode • Set duration for tasks • Plan tasks with realistic time blocks • Connect with Apple Calendar • Use web search to research tasks and find practical solutions • Plan by date, time, duration, and priority • Set reminders and notifications • View your daily, weekly, and timeline planner • Organize work, personal tasks, ideas, projects, habits, studying, travel plans, and goals ACTIS is designed for people who do not always start with a perfect plan. Whether you need to capture something quickly, organize your week, research a task, plan around your calendar, or ask AI what to do next, ACTIS gives you one place to plan, think, and take action. SUBSCRIPTION NOTICE: Some features require a separate paid subscription, such as ACTIS Plus or ACTIS Pro, including higher AI usage limits and advanced planning capacity. Subscriptions are auto-renewable and billed monthly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, or after any free trial ends. Subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://actisapp.com/privacy

About

Shared Calendar

Features
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Stop retyping your schedule everywhere. Loop is the shared calendar that actually keeps up with your life. Coaches email schedules. Schools send PDFs. Your boss texts you shift changes. Instead of manually entering everything into your calendar, just paste it into Loop — the AI reads it and creates the events for you. PASTE ANY SCHEDULE, INSTANTLY Copy a schedule from an email, a text, or a group chat and paste it into Loop. Or snap a photo of a printed schedule. Loop's AI turns it into calendar events in seconds — no manual typing required. SHARE WITH EVERYONE WHO NEEDS TO KNOW Create a group and invite family members, teammates, or coworkers with a single shareable link. Everyone sees the same calendar. No more "wait, when is that again?" texts. COORDINATE AS A GROUP Propose events to your group and let everyone accept or decline. Flag events that need attention. Everyone stays in the loop without the group chat chaos. WORKS FOR EVERYONE Sports parents juggling practice schedules. Couples coordinating busy weeks. Friend groups planning events. Families keeping everyone on the same page. Free to get started. Loop Pro unlocks the AI schedule parser, unlimited groups, proposed events, event flagging, and all 10 themes — $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Try Pro free for 7 days.

Screenshots

ACTIS4 screens
Shared Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Shared Calendar at none against ACTIS's shown. Shared Calendar also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). ACTIS's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, 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. ACTIS sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Shared Calendar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ACTIS ships an update every 2 days, Shared Calendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
ACTIS versus Shared Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterACTISShared Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNikola VeljicAustin Leitmann

In-app purchases

4 purchases

ACTIS

Subscriptions4
  • ACTIS Plus7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • ACTIS Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • ACTIS Yearly Plus7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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  • ACTIS Yearly Pro3 Days trial$89.991 Year
2 purchases

Shared Calendar

Subscriptions2
  • Loop Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Loop Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is ACTIS free?
ACTIS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shared Calendar free?
Shared Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ACTIS or Shared Calendar have ads?
ACTIS shows ads; Shared Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, ACTIS or Shared Calendar?
ACTIS ships an update every 2 days, and Shared Calendar weekly. Most recently, ACTIS was updated on October 7, 2026 and Shared Calendar on October 24, 2026.

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