Comparison

CompactCalendar vs PenSign

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

Head to head
About

CompactCalendar

Display your calendar events and reminders directly on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with customizable widgets. See your schedule at a glance, choose which calendars to display, and enjoy true calendar colors.

Highlights
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Events and reminders together
  • Calendar selection
  • True calendar colors
  • Tap to open Calendar app
Features
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See your calendar and reminders right from the Home Screen and Lock Screen! CompactCalendar shows your events and reminders in clean, beautiful widgets — for both the Home Screen and the Lock Screen. Home Screen widgets: • Today & This Month: A month calendar with today’s events • Daily Schedule: Your events for the next 6 days at a glance Lock Screen widgets: • Up Next: Your next or ongoing event on one Lock Screen line • Next 3 Days: Upcoming events for the next three days • 2-Week Calendar: A compact two-week mini calendar More features: • Events & Reminders Together: See calendar events and reminders in one widget • Calendar Selection: Choose which calendars each widget shows • True Colors: Your calendar colors appear exactly as you set them • Tap to Open: Tap a date to jump straight into the Calendar app CompactCalendar Pro: A one-time purchase unlocks rectangular Lock Screen widgets and medium-size Home Screen widgets — forever. Start a more beautiful calendar experience with CompactCalendar!

About

PenSign

Features
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Make a signature you're proud of, then sign anything with it. Type your name and watch the pen write it in one of 12 signature styles or set it in 8 designer lettering styles, draw your own with a finger or Apple Pencil, or photograph the one you already sign on paper. Then scan a document and sign it in seconds. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. No account, no uploads: your signature stays yours. SIGNATURE STYLES • Type your name and watch it signed stroke by stroke, the way a pen writes • 20 styles in six groups: business, elegant, casual, bold, printed and lettering • Not quite right? Tap for another version of the same style • Five ink colours, from classic black to navy and coral • Save it like any signature and use it everywhere DRAW OR CAPTURE YOUR OWN • Draw with your finger or Apple Pencil, with three pen styles and a guide line • Photograph the signature you already write: PenSign squares up the paper, lifts the ink off the page and removes the background • Refine it: ink strength, thickness, specks and crop, with a before-and-after view • Keep initials alongside full signatures SCAN AND SIGN • Scan paper documents right in the app. PenSign finds the signature line and puts your signature on it • Or import a PDF, or a photo of a document: photos are cropped and squared up just like a scan • Add initials, text, dates and checkmarks, then tap Sign to flatten everything into the page • Sign every page at once; rotate, reorder, add and delete pages • Open password-protected PDFs • Scans stay small, so signed copies fit easily in an email OWN IT AS A FILE • Transparent PNG at print resolution • True SVG vector, built from the real strokes, so it stays sharp at any size • PDF stamp for documents that expect one • Save to Photos, copy it into Mail, Notes or Pages, or share it to any app PRIVATE BY DESIGN Capture, scanning, signing and export all run on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create. Optional iCloud sync keeps your library on your own devices, in your own private iCloud, not on our servers. • Face ID vault locks your signature library • Every edit is kept in version history, so an earlier version is always one tap away AUTOMATE IT Shortcuts actions sign a PDF or fetch your signature image from anywhere in iOS: the Share sheet, Siri, Spotlight and your own automations. Long-press the PenSign icon to scan a document or start a new signature. FREE TO TRY, ONE PRICE TO UNLOCK PenSign is free to try: keep one signature, sign up to three documents and use 13 of the 20 signature styles. The one-time unlock, a single purchase and not a subscription, adds unlimited signatures and initials, unlimited signed documents, every signature style, SVG export, iCloud sync, Shortcuts and the Face ID vault. Buy it once and it's yours. Terms of use: https://muxtor141.github.io/pensign-legal/terms.html Privacy policy: https://muxtor141.github.io/pensign-legal/privacy.html

Screenshots

CompactCalendar4 screens
PenSign4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PenSign at 17.4 against CompactCalendar's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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. CompactCalendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PenSign sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CompactCalendar ships an update weekly, PenSign fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CompactCalendar versus PenSign: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompactCalendarPenSign
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSunghyun KimAbdumukhtor Turgunboev

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CompactCalendar

One-time1
  • CompactCalendar Pro$3.99
2 purchases

PenSign

One-time2
  • PenSign Lifetime$9.99
  • PenSign Unlimited$14.99

Questions

Is CompactCalendar free?
CompactCalendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PenSign free?
PenSign is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CompactCalendar or PenSign have ads?
Neither CompactCalendar nor PenSign shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CompactCalendar or PenSign?
CompactCalendar ships an update weekly, and PenSign fortnightly. Most recently, CompactCalendar was updated on October 28, 2026 and PenSign on October 24, 2026.

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