Comparison

Yearly Calendar vs Årshjul

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

Head to head
About

Yearly Calendar

Visualize your entire year in a single grid, focusing on how your time is distributed across different activities. Easily highlight date ranges, compare time allocation, and spot patterns without constant view switching. It offers a fast, visual, and distraction-free planning experience.

Highlights
  • Yearly grid view
  • Highlight date ranges
  • Compare time distribution
  • Spot patterns and gaps
  • Distraction-free design
Features
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Yearly is a different kind of calendar. Instead of focusing on days and weeks, it shows your entire year in a single, clean grid. This makes it easier to understand how your time is actually distributed — across work, family, travel, and everything else. Use Yearly to: * Highlight date ranges like school holidays, annual leave, co-parenting schedules, or projects * Compare how your time is split across the year * Spot gaps, overlaps, and patterns at a glance * Plan ahead without constantly switching views It’s designed to be fast, visual, and distraction-free. No clutter. No complex setup. Just a clear view of your year.

About

Årshjul

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Plan a whole year, then explain it in ten seconds. Årshjul lays the twelve months out as a wheel, so the shape of the year is visible before anyone has read a word: the quarter that is overloaded, the empty stretch in July, the two campaigns landing in the same week. Built for consultants, project managers, marketing and communications leads, school and nonprofit teams, and anyone who has to walk a room through next year on an iPad and then look it up on an iPhone afterward. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create tracks for projects, teams, or areas of responsibility, and place activities across the year • Switch between the wheel and a chronological list: the same plan, read two ways • Present straight from the iPad in the meeting, with no sign-in and no browser tab • Hand the plan over as a PDF or PNG for the board packet, the staff handbook, or the wall IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open versioned Årshjul files and JSON • Import and export CSV and iCalendar • Export to PDF and PNG • Warnings appear before an import changes your plan. Nothing is altered silently. FOURTEEN DAYS OF FULL ACCESS Everything is open from the first launch. No account, and no payment request before you have tried it. After fourteen days, creating and editing require a subscription. Reading and exporting your own wheels keeps working either way, so you never lose access to work you have already done. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. INSTEAD OF A BROWSER TOOL OR A TEMPLATE A browser-based year wheel wants an organization account and a login — in the meeting, from every colleague, every time. A PowerPoint or Miro template looks right once and then has to be redrawn by hand every time a date moves. Årshjul is a real app on all three Apple platforms: it opens immediately, needs no account, keeps the plan on your own device, and lets the same plan leave as CSV or iCalendar when someone else needs the dates. LOCAL FIRST No account. No tracking. Your plans stay on your device unless you choose to share them or save an export yourself. ACCESSIBILITY Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and WCAG 2.2 AA. The plan can be read and understood without relying on color. LANGUAGES English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://annualwheel.pages.dev/privacy

Screenshots

Yearly Calendar3 screens
Årshjul4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yearly Calendar at none against Årshjul's 2. Årshjul's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Årshjul sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Yearly Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yearly Calendar ships an update weekly, Årshjul fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Yearly Calendar versus Årshjul: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYearly CalendarÅrshjul
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSlower LtdJesper Sachmann

In-app purchases

None

Yearly Calendar

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Årshjul

Subscriptions2
  • Annual Wheel Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Annual Wheel Pro – Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Yearly Calendar free?
Yearly Calendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Årshjul free?
Årshjul is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Yearly Calendar or Årshjul have ads?
Neither Yearly Calendar nor Årshjul shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Yearly Calendar or Årshjul?
Yearly Calendar ships an update weekly, and Årshjul fortnightly. Most recently, Yearly Calendar was updated on October 2, 2026 and Årshjul on October 18, 2026.

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