Comparison

Sijilli vs Athar

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

Head to head
About

Sijilli

Features
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"Sijilli is more than just a scheduling app; it's your social network to organize your time and share events with ease and flexibility. Designed to be your daily companion in managing your busy schedule, whether you're planning a meetup with friends, arranging a business meeting, or simply managing your personal agenda. Key Features: Smart Appointment Management: Create events quickly with our intelligent auto-complete feature that learns from your typing habits. Micro-Social Network: Follow people and organizations that matter to you. View their public schedules or restrict your view to trusted "Accredited" connections. Seamless Invitations: Send invites to friends and colleagues with a single tap, and track RSVP statuses (Accepted, Declined, Pending) in real time. Flexible Privacy: Total control over who sees your events. Set your schedule items to be public, for accredited followers only, or strictly private. Clear Status Indicators: Instantly know the state of your upcoming meetings through color-coded host rings that indicate confirmed, pending, or canceled events. Dual Calendar Support: Beautifully crafted UI natively supporting both Gregorian and Hijri (Islamic) calendars.

About

Athar

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I made Athar because so many days passed that I could no longer remember, and because I wanted a place to keep the moments worth keeping. Athar (“trace” in Arabic) is a journal drawn like a sketchbook. Paper you can almost feel, ink in the color you choose, and a scene on the home page that changes with the hours of your day, from dawn to night. What you write stays on your phone alone: • No account, no sign-up. • No servers, no ads, no tracking. • We never see what you write, and we don’t know who you are. Free, with no limits: • Write as many memories as you like. • Ink colors and paper types for every page. • Writing prompts for when you don’t know where to begin. • A gentle daily reminder, with nothing you wrote in it. • Echoes: a page you wrote on this day a month or a year ago, brought back to you. • Share a page as a beautiful image, whole or split for TikTok and Instagram Stories. • Night mode: a dark journal with soft light ink. • Search, trash, and backup to a file you keep wherever you like. Athar Plus, one payment that stays yours, no subscription: • A letter to the future: write it today, read it on the day you choose. • Handwriting fonts for your pages. • Home scenes: sea, lavender field, blossom tree and window. • Stories told in moments: pages that continue one another. • Photos, videos and voice recordings inside your pages. • A PDF book of your journal. • Face ID lock for the whole journal, or for a single memory. Everything you’ve written and added stays yours and readable, always. Athar works in English and Arabic. Support: https://cols0.github.io/athar/en/ Privacy: https://cols0.github.io/athar/en/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sijilli4 screens
Athar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sijilli at none against Athar's 1. 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. Athar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sijilli asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sijilli ships an update every 4 days, Athar every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Sijilli versus Athar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSijilliAthar
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperABDULHUSAIN MALALLAMUTEB ALOTAIBI

In-app purchases

None

Sijilli

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Athar

One-time1
  • أثر بلس$6.99

Questions

Is Sijilli free?
Sijilli is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Athar free?
Athar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sijilli or Athar have ads?
Neither Sijilli nor Athar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sijilli or Athar?
Sijilli ships an update every 4 days, and Athar every 5 days. Most recently, Sijilli was updated on November 13, 2026 and Athar on November 10, 2026.

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