Personal Calendar vs Folio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Personal Calendar
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Personal Calendar is a calm, beautifully themed daily companion. It unifies your calendar, assistant, notes, habits, to-dos, weather, and market rates into a single glanceable home screen β then gets out of your way. THREE VISUAL DIRECTIONS β’ Morning Light β clean, minimal, indigo. A crisp everyday look. β’ Almanac β warm editorial paper with cream, ink, and amber. β’ Midnight β dark glass with electric lilac. Beautiful at night. Switch themes any time from Settings. Every surface, icon, and category color is routed through the active theme β no bleed, no compromise. CALENDAR THAT ACTUALLY WORKS β’ Six views β Day, Week, Month, Agenda, Kanban, Timeline β all from one cursor. β’ Overlapping events render side-by-side as parallel columns, like Apple Calendar. β’ Week auto-scrolls to today. Month cells show category-colored dots; tap a day to jump to Day view. β’ Customizable week start β Monday or Sunday. NATURAL-LANGUAGE QUICK ADD Type βDentist tomorrow at 3pm for 1hβ β we parse the title, category, date, and duration. No forms to fill. ASSISTANT CHAT Ask for events, todos, and notes in plain English. The assistant adds them straight to your calendar, with a subtle thinking indicator while it works. CUSTOMIZABLE HOME β’ Weather hero with conditions, highs/lows, humidity, and a live feels-like. β’ Today / habits / todos counters. β’ USD, EUR, and gram gold in Turkish Lira β refreshed automatically. β’ Up next, habit chips, open to-dos, and a gorgeous moon phase / sunrise / sunset card. Use the pencil button in the header to toggle sections on or off. WEATHER YOU CAN TRUST Live Open-Meteo data in Β°C or Β°F, hourly for the next 24 hours and daily for 10 days. Real sun, moon, cloud, rain, snow, thunder, fog, and cloud-moon glyphs β no more sun icons on rainy days. PRIVATE CLOUD SYNC Your data is backed up to your private cloud in the background. Works fully offline too β nothing is ever required to be online. HABIT STREAKS, NOTES, WEATHER LOCATIONS Build small daily habits with streak counters. Keep lightweight notes with pin and search. Watch the weather in every city you care about. NO ADS, NO TRACKING, NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED.
Folio
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Every PDF tool you need β and not one byte of your document ever leaves your device. Online PDF tools are convenient until you read the fine print. Your contract, your payslip, your client's financial statement β uploaded to a server you don't control, retained for purposes you didn't agree to, mined for data you didn't consent to share. Folio makes that trade-off unnecessary. Folio is a full-featured PDF toolkit that runs entirely on your iPhone and iPad. No network connection. No account. No cloud sync. No analytics. Your files go in, your files come out β nothing in between. WHAT YOU CAN DO Organise β Merge multiple PDFs into one document β Split a PDF into separate files by page range β Reorder, rotate, or delete individual pages Reduce & Prepare β Compress PDFs to shrink file size without rebuilding content β Add watermarks or page numbers β Flatten form fields and annotations into a fixed document Convert (best-effort, on-device) β PDF to images: export pages as JPG or PNG β Images to PDF: combine photos into a single document β PDF to Word, Excel, or PowerPoint β conversion is handled entirely on-device using Apple's document frameworks; complex layouts may not reproduce with pixel-perfect fidelity, but no file is ever sent to a remote service to achieve it Protect β Password-protect a PDF with your chosen password β Remove password protection from a document you own Fill & Sign β Fill text fields in PDFs β Add your signature to any document Extract & Search β OCR: turn a scanned or photographed document into searchable, selectable text using Apple's on-device Vision framework β Extract all text from a PDF for copying or reference ZERO NETWORK DESIGN Folio ships with no networking capability. It cannot phone home. It cannot upload a file even if it wanted to. Every operation β compression, conversion, OCR, signing β runs on your device's own processor using Apple's built-in frameworks. This is not a marketing claim; it is a technical constraint we built in by design. This matters most when you are handling documents that should never leave your hands: NDAs, medical records, legal filings, HR documents, financial statements, tax returns. NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED Open the app. Use every feature. Close the app. No sign-up screen. No email address. No subscription prompt. No paywall on any v1.0 feature. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO HANDLE SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS Folio is built for lawyers, accountants, HR professionals, and anyone else who regularly works with documents that are nobody else's business β and for anyone who is simply tired of feeding their files to free websites that profit from what they read. Your documents are yours. Folio keeps them that way.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Personal Calendar at 15.1 against Folio's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Personal Calendar | Folio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yakup Keskin | Vuyo Nkadimeng |
In-app purchases
Personal Calendar
No in-app purchases
Folio
No in-app purchases









