Comparison

Calendar Pro 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

Calendar Pro

This smart calendar and daily planner helps you schedule events faster and easier. It offers natural language event creation, document scanning for event details, and supports multiple calendar systems. Organize your day with customizable categories and sync with your existing Apple Calendar.

Highlights
  • Natural language event creation
  • AI document scanning for events
  • Support for six calendar systems
  • Home screen widgets
  • Color-coded event categories
  • Apple Calendar sync
  • On-device AI processing
Features
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Plan your time. Organize your day. Never miss what matters. Calendar Pro is a smart calendar and daily planner designed to make scheduling faster and easier. Create events naturally, organize your week, set reminders, and see your entire schedule in one clear view. SMART CALENDAR PLANNING Plan your day with a powerful calendar built around the way you organize your life. • Full month calendar view • Day, week and month planning • Clear event organization • Color-coded event categories • Easy event creation and editing • Quick access to your daily agenda SMART TYPE Create events naturally without filling out complicated forms. Simply type something like: “Team meeting Monday at 3 PM for 2 hours” Calendar Pro can understand the event title, date, time, duration, and location to help you schedule faster. AI DOCUMENT SCAN Turn information from real-world documents into calendar events. Scan invitations, flyers, schedules, PDFs, and other event information using your camera. Calendar Pro uses Apple's on-device Vision technology to recognize event details and help you add them to your calendar. Your information stays on your device. SIX CALENDAR SYSTEMS Choose from six calendar systems: • Gregorian • Hijri • Hebrew • Persian • Buddhist • Chinese Plan and view your schedule using the calendar system that works best for you. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS See your upcoming events and daily agenda without opening the app. Stay informed about what's next directly from your Home Screen. SMART EVENT CATEGORIES Keep your schedule organized with categories such as: • Work • Personal • Health • Social • Travel • Finance • Other Calendar Pro can automatically identify categories based on your event. APPLE CALENDAR SYNC Calendar Pro works with Apple's native Calendar framework, allowing your events to appear in your existing Apple Calendar. Your calendar. Your iCloud. Your control. PRIVACY FIRST Your privacy matters. Calendar Pro uses on-device Apple technologies for AI processing. Your scanned documents and event information don't need to be sent to a cloud server. • No account required • No cloud-based AI processing • Your data stays on your device FREE CALENDAR + PRO FEATURES Use Calendar Pro with full core calendar functionality for free. Upgrade with a one-time purchase to unlock: • Home Screen widgets • Accent color themes • Week numbers • Unlimited AI scans Plan smarter. Schedule faster. Stay organized. Create events in seconds, turn documents into calendar events with AI, stay on top of reminders, and manage your schedule from one beautiful calendar. Download Calendar Pro today and take control of your day. Privacy Policy : https://sites.google.com/view/globalcalendarapp/home Apple Terms of Use : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Calendar Pro4 screens
Shared Calendar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Shared Calendar at none against Calendar Pro's shown. Shared Calendar also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases 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. Calendar Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase 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

Calendar Pro ships an update monthly, Shared Calendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Calendar Pro versus Shared Calendar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendar ProShared Calendar
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB35 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developerxita appsAustin Leitmann

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Calendar Pro

One-time1
  • Calendar Pro$5.99
2 purchases

Shared Calendar

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

Questions

Is Calendar Pro free?
Calendar Pro 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 Calendar Pro or Shared Calendar have ads?
Calendar Pro shows ads; Shared Calendar does not.
Which is updated more often, Calendar Pro or Shared Calendar?
Calendar Pro ships an update monthly, and Shared Calendar weekly. Most recently, Calendar Pro was updated on September 29, 2026 and Shared Calendar on September 9, 2026.

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