Comparison

Mailendar vs Calendar Widgets Suite

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

Head to head
About

Mailendar

Features
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Mailendar turns emails, paper letters, and flyers into calendar events. The app puts that power in your pocket. SNAP A LETTER, GET AN EVENT This is the app at its best. Point the camera at the invitation from school or the flyer on the fridge, or pick a photo from your library, and we read it, pull out the date, time, and place, and file the event in the calendar you choose. No typing, no copying. (Mailendar Plus) CONFIRM EVENTS WITH ONE TAP Not every email is crystal clear, so when we are less than certain about an event we found, we ask you first. The app is where you answer. New events and updates wait in the Review tab with the original message shown next to what we filled in. Check it, tap Approve, and it goes live in your calendar. You get a push notification the moment something needs your eyes. ALL YOUR CALENDARS IN ONE PLACE A compact view of your family, work, school, and hobby calendars and their upcoming events. Edit or delete events, share a calendar as a read-only feed, or invite a co-owner who can add and update events too. WORKS WITH THE CALENDAR YOU ALREADY USE Mailendar is not another calendar to check. Every calendar is a live feed you subscribe to once from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or any ICS app, and it keeps itself current. Create your free account at mailendar.app. FREE AND PLUS Free includes one calendar and 25 emails per month. Mailendar Plus adds scanning letters and flyers, unlimited calendars and emails, events from PDFs and screenshots, and co-owner invites. A Mailendar account is required to sign in.

About

Calendar Widgets Suite

Display your calendar events and reminders directly on your Home Screen with a variety of customizable widgets. Choose from month, week, timeline, and list views to see your schedule at a glance. Personalize colors, fonts, and display options to match your device's theme.

Highlights
  • Dozens of customizable widgets
  • Month, week, timeline, and list views
  • Integrates with Reminders
  • Extensive visual customization
  • Privacy-focused, no data leaves device
  • Free Month widget, optional Premium unlock
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Unlock. Hunt for the app. Wait. Close it. Dozens of times a day, for a five-second glance. Month, weeks, an hour-by-hour timetable, today at a glance, or just what's next — plus your reminders, right on your Home Screen. The Month widget is free; the other eleven are one optional purchase. TWELVE WIDGETS, NINE WAYS TO SEE YOUR SCHEDULE • Month — the full month at a glance, with event titles right in the day cells • Weeks — one, two, three, or four weeks; just the horizon you actually plan against • Week Timeline — an hour-by-hour grid for one to seven days, so the gaps read as clearly as the meetings • List — what's coming up next, in order, with colored chips or simple dots • Today — today's date with the day's events right beside it • Today + Mini Month — a mini month grid with today's events alongside • Week Agenda — a seven-day strip you tap to pick a day, with that day's events below • Week Grid — the whole week at a glance, each day's events stacked in its own cell • Up Next — today and tomorrow side by side, hour by hour, so the rest of today and the start of tomorrow fit in one glance Medium, large, and extra large — wide on iPad, tall on iPhone with iOS 27. Month is free. Every other widget is part of the one-time Premium unlock. REMINDERS, ALONGSIDE YOUR EVENTS Switch Reminders on and anything with a due date joins your events in every widget — marked with a Reminders-style ring, in its list's own color. Choose which lists appear, and whether completed ones do. Reminders without a due date are skipped, and nothing is ever written back: the widgets show your reminders, they don't change them. Part of the Premium unlock. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE IT BELONGS Stock widgets clash with your Home Screen. This one doesn't have to. • Six skins, plus no skin at all • Separate colors for event titles, dates, times, and locations • Date and event font sizes, tuned independently • Word wrap: never, always, auto, or capped at two, three, or four lines • First day of week, including a rolling "Today" • Dim past events so the day ahead stands out • Highlight Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays • Choose exactly which calendars appear • Group events by calendar, or sort them by start time, end time, title, or duration • A 12- or 24-hour clock in the Week Timeline • Separate settings for the month, timeline, and list widgets YOUR CALENDAR AND REMINDERS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Your events and reminders are read on the device and drawn into the widget. Nothing about your calendar or your reminders ever leaves it. There is no account to create, no server to sync with, and no analytics or tracking of any kind. iOS asks for Reminders access only when you switch reminders on, and the app never writes back to either. Your settings live in a private container shared only between the app and its own widgets. FREE AND PREMIUM The Month widget is free, and so are the styling controls that come with it — weekday, Saturday and Sunday colors, date and event font sizes, word wrap, sorting, calendar selection, and the rest. A single optional one-time purchase unlocks every other widget — Weeks, Week Timeline, List, Today, Today + Mini Month, Week Agenda, Week Grid, and Up Next — plus the six skins, the blurred wallpaper backgrounds, custom event text colors, and Reminders in your widgets. It is a one-off unlock, not a subscription — nothing recurs. AVAILABLE IN 27 LANGUAGES Questions or ideas? Email admin@joshuanco.com — every message is read.

Screenshots

Mailendar4 screens
Calendar Widgets Suite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mailendar at none against Calendar Widgets Suite's 1. Mailendar also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.2). 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. Calendar Widgets Suite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mailendar asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mailendar versus Calendar Widgets Suite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMailendarCalendar Widgets Suite
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXyzero ABJoshua & Company Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Mailendar

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Calendar Widgets Suite

One-time1
  • Lifetime Purchase$19.99

Questions

Is Mailendar free?
Mailendar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calendar Widgets Suite free?
Calendar Widgets Suite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mailendar or Calendar Widgets Suite have ads?
Neither Mailendar nor Calendar Widgets Suite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mailendar or Calendar Widgets Suite?
Mailendar ships an update every 4 days, and Calendar Widgets Suite every 4 days. Most recently, Mailendar was updated on October 31, 2026 and Calendar Widgets Suite on November 6, 2026.

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