Comparison

OrbitCal vs Swipe Sort

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

Head to head
About

OrbitCal

Features
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OrbitCal: Your Schedule, Reimagined Spatially. Break free from the grid. OrbitCal transforms your calendar into a beautiful, interactive series of concentric rings, turning time management into a tactile, spatial experience. ### TIME AT A GLANCE See your year, month, day, and hour as nested rings. Navigate from a bird's-eye view of your entire year down to the ticking seconds of your current meeting with intuitive pinch-to-zoom and drag gestures. ### THE RING PARADIGM * Outer Rings: Months and Days provide a long-term horizon. * Inner Rings: Hours and Minutes visualize your immediate focus. * Central Hub: A dynamic "Command Center" that surfaces your next meeting, countdowns to your current event's end, and one-tap actions. ### SMART FOCUS * Visual Whitespace: OrbitCal automatically highlights "Focus Windows"β€”the gaps in your scheduleβ€”helping you find time for deep work. * Pastel Aesthetic: A clean, soft design optimized for clarity and serenity. * Haptic Precision: Feel every hour and minute as you navigate through your day with custom-tuned haptic feedback. ### FEATURES: * Fluid Navigation: Smoothly zoom from the macro (Year) to the micro (Seconds). * EventKit Integration: Seamlessly syncs with your existing iCloud, or Outlook calendars. * Contextual Actions: One-tap access to meeting links and directions directly from the center of the OrbitCal view. * Conflict Visualization: Instantly spot overlaps and scheduling crunches. The calendar isn't a list; it's a cycle. See your time in OrbitCal.

About

Swipe Sort

Features
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Swipe Sort turns any list of text into a fast visual sorting game. Paste in lines from anywhere β€” jokes, quotes, ideas, todos, brainstorm notes β€” and Swipe Sort turns each line into a card. Swipe left, right, up, or down to drop it into one of four colored categories. No typing, no menus, no friction. WHY SWIPE SORT Paste hundreds of lines at once Four customizable colored categories Swipe any of four directions to sort instantly Export sorted results back out, category by category Clean, distraction-free card interface Works fully offline BUILT FOR Comedians sorting jokes by opener, closer, callback, cut Writers triaging ideas into keep / maybe / cut / later Teams running quick voting or prioritization rounds Anyone with a messy list who needs it organized fast Swipe Sort isn't a notes app, a task manager, or a spreadsheet. It does one thing: turns a wall of text into something you sort with your thumb in minutes, not an hour of scrolling.

Screenshots

OrbitCal4 screens
Swipe Sort3 screens

Verdict

The call

OrbitCal and Swipe Sort are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
OrbitCal versus Swipe Sort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbitCalSwipe Sort
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better17.2
Further details β€” not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPosition Games LimitedSergei Prostokishyn

In-app purchases

None

OrbitCal

No in-app purchases

None

Swipe Sort

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OrbitCal free?
OrbitCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swipe Sort free?
Swipe Sort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OrbitCal or Swipe Sort have ads?
Neither OrbitCal nor Swipe Sort shows ads.

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