Comparison

Raven vs Calendar & Tasks

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

Head to head
About

Raven

This app allows you to quickly open and write markdown notes as plain .md files. It offers fast launch times, native performance on iPhone and Mac, and seamless syncing between devices. Your notes are stored directly in your file system for easy access and integration with other tools.

Highlights
  • Plain .md file storage
  • Under a second launch time
  • Native iPhone and Mac app
  • Full-text search
  • Nested folders and pinned notes
  • Syncs between Mac and iPhone
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Beautiful notes. Never locked in. Raven is a native Markdown notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write, journal, capture articles, and turn checkboxes into reminders—without putting your work in a proprietary note format. WRITE WITH CONTEXT Create notes with tables, images, checklists, code blocks, wiki links, and backlinks. Organize them with folders and tags, pin what matters, and find anything with full-text search. TURN NOTES INTO ACTION A checkbox can become a task with a due date and time. Raven gathers open tasks from across your notes, keeps each one linked to its source, and can send a local reminder when it is due. Complete or snooze it from the notification. JOURNAL WITHOUT ANOTHER SILO Daily and weekly journals live beside the rest of your writing. Save articles to Read Later, or capture a thought from widgets, Shortcuts, and the share sheet. MARKDOWN YOU CAN KEEP Raven works offline without an account. Keep notes on this device, choose a folder on Mac, or use iCloud Drive to keep the same Markdown files available in Files and Finder across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No proprietary note format. No forced account. One purchase, with no subscription.

About

Calendar & Tasks

This app integrates your events, tasks, and weather into a single, clear timeline. It offers natural language input for easy event creation and customizable widgets for quick access to your plans and weather forecasts. Manage your schedule and to-do list efficiently in one place.

Highlights
  • Unified calendar and task management
  • Natural language event and task creation
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Integrated weather forecasts
  • Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
  • Multiple view options (agenda, day, week, month, year)
Features
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A calendar for real life. Including the bits you keep moving to tomorrow. YOUR DAY, TOGETHER Bring events, reminders and habits into one daily Plan. Connect calendars and reminder lists already available through Apple Calendar and Reminders. Your events and tasks stay in the source you choose. GOOD HABITS, VISIBLE PROGRESS Create habits with your own colors and icons. Check them off once or work toward a daily count. See your history in heatmaps, cards, compact lists and calendars, with streaks and statistics. Correct past entries and archive habits while keeping their history. Two active habits are free; Cality Pro unlocks more. Habits appear in Plan and Habits. Give one a time to place it on your Plan timeline. Showing it in Calendar and agenda is optional. APPLE HEALTH, WHEN YOU WANT IT On supported iPhone and iPad devices, connect selected habits to Apple Health with your permission. Supported goals such as steps, sleep and exercise update from recorded Health data. Health readings and derived progress stay on that device and are not sent through Cality's iCloud sync. CLOSE AT HAND A habit heatmap widget lets you add one step to a manual habit from your Home Screen. Set individual habit reminders or a daily check-in. Standard calendar widgets show plans, months and weather. iPhone also offers Lock Screen widgets and an Apple Watch companion. PLAN AROUND REAL LIFE See events, planned reminder sessions and free time together. Reserve time for a reminder without changing its deadline. Pro adds advanced Plan editing and reusable routines. Keep selected repeating events in Plan without showing them in Cality's Calendar and agenda. FINISH WHAT IS LEFT Review unfinished items in a list or one card at a time. Complete, move, reschedule or skip, with session Undo. Completing an event records Cality progress; completing a reminder updates its source. TYPE LIKE A HUMAN Enter an event or task in natural language, review the details and save. Choose suggested places and addresses as you type. Pro search finds words in event titles, locations and notes without requiring matching accents or capitalization. MAKE IT YOURS Choose calendar views, colors, visible sources and the tab Cality opens on. See three days of weather for free. Optional personality adds a little humor. Cality Pro adds more active habits, routines, advanced Plan editing, calendar sets, search, repeat-rule editing, multiple alerts, extra palettes, custom Review gestures, automatic Review prompts, remembered overlap choices and extended weather. Mac Pro also adds advanced menu-bar customization and the Dock date. Existing data is preserved. Calendar and reminder accounts handle their own sync. Supported Cality settings and manual habit records can sync through private iCloud storage; timing depends on your account and connection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Raven4 screens
Calendar & Tasks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calendar & Tasks at Free against Raven's $12.99. Calendar & Tasks also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Raven's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Calendar & Tasks is free to download; Raven costs $12.99 up front. Calendar & Tasks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Raven asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Raven against 5.0 for Calendar & Tasks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Raven's written reviews are positive against 100% of Calendar & Tasks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Raven versus Calendar & Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRavenCalendar & Tasks
Price$12.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas SivilayWystone LLC

Customer experience

Raven

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Calendar & Tasks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Raven

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Calendar & Tasks

Subscriptions2
  • Cality Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Cality Pro Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cality Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Raven free?
Raven costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calendar & Tasks free?
Calendar & Tasks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Raven or Calendar & Tasks?
Raven and Calendar & Tasks are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Raven or Calendar & Tasks have ads?
Neither Raven nor Calendar & Tasks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Raven or Calendar & Tasks?
Raven ships an update every 2 days, and Calendar & Tasks every 2 days. Most recently, Raven was updated on October 14, 2026 and Calendar & Tasks on October 15, 2026.

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