Comparison

SimplePlan vs Calendar & Tasks

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

Head to head
About

SimplePlan

Features
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SimplePlan keeps planning simple and helps you focus on what matters today. There are no overloaded dashboards, complicated systems, or endless settings. Just daily routines, today’s tasks, and visible progress. When you need a wider view, group related work into projects, plan the next seven days, and manage dates in the calendar. Features: • A calm, focused plan for today • Projects for related tasks and routines • Progress, upcoming plans, and Later items inside each project • Seven consecutive days starting today • A Later list for ideas and future tasks • Daily items for reading, exercise, nutrition, and other routines • A calendar with month navigation, date selection, and quick task creation • Rescheduling that preserves task history • Monthly insights for tasks, fully completed days, and daily routines • Consistency for each daily item: completed, skipped, and success rate • Morning reminders and timed task notifications • Calm design, smooth animations, and accessibility support Your data stays locally on your iPhone. SimplePlan requires no account, contains no ads, and does not track you.

About

Calendar & Tasks

This app integrates your events, tasks, and weather into a single, clear timeline. It offers natural language input for easy event creation and customizable widgets for quick access to your plans and weather forecasts. Manage your schedule and to-do list efficiently in one place.

Highlights
  • Unified calendar and task management
  • Natural language event and task creation
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Integrated weather forecasts
  • Syncs with Apple Calendar and Reminders
  • Multiple view options (agenda, day, week, month, year)
Features
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A calendar for real life. Including the bits you keep moving to tomorrow. YOUR DAY, TOGETHER Bring events, reminders and habits into one daily Plan. Connect calendars and reminder lists already available through Apple Calendar and Reminders. Your events and tasks stay in the source you choose. GOOD HABITS, VISIBLE PROGRESS Create habits with your own colors and icons. Check them off once or work toward a daily count. See your history in heatmaps, cards, compact lists and calendars, with streaks and statistics. Correct past entries and archive habits while keeping their history. Two active habits are free; Cality Pro unlocks more. Habits appear in Plan and Habits. Give one a time to place it on your Plan timeline. Showing it in Calendar and agenda is optional. APPLE HEALTH, WHEN YOU WANT IT On supported iPhone and iPad devices, connect selected habits to Apple Health with your permission. Supported goals such as steps, sleep and exercise update from recorded Health data. Health readings and derived progress stay on that device and are not sent through Cality's iCloud sync. CLOSE AT HAND A habit heatmap widget lets you add one step to a manual habit from your Home Screen. Set individual habit reminders or a daily check-in. Standard calendar widgets show plans, months and weather. iPhone also offers Lock Screen widgets and an Apple Watch companion. PLAN AROUND REAL LIFE See events, planned reminder sessions and free time together. Reserve time for a reminder without changing its deadline. Pro adds advanced Plan editing and reusable routines. Keep selected repeating events in Plan without showing them in Cality's Calendar and agenda. FINISH WHAT IS LEFT Review unfinished items in a list or one card at a time. Complete, move, reschedule or skip, with session Undo. Completing an event records Cality progress; completing a reminder updates its source. TYPE LIKE A HUMAN Enter an event or task in natural language, review the details and save. Choose suggested places and addresses as you type. Pro search finds words in event titles, locations and notes without requiring matching accents or capitalization. MAKE IT YOURS Choose calendar views, colors, visible sources and the tab Cality opens on. See three days of weather for free. Optional personality adds a little humor. Cality Pro adds more active habits, routines, advanced Plan editing, calendar sets, search, repeat-rule editing, multiple alerts, extra palettes, custom Review gestures, automatic Review prompts, remembered overlap choices and extended weather. Mac Pro also adds advanced menu-bar customization and the Dock date. Existing data is preserved. Calendar and reminder accounts handle their own sync. Supported Cality settings and manual habit records can sync through private iCloud storage; timing depends on your account and connection. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SimplePlan4 screens
Calendar & Tasks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimplePlan at none against Calendar & Tasks's 3. Calendar & Tasks's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 1). On price and ads 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 & Tasks sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SimplePlan asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SimplePlan ships an update every 2 months, Calendar & Tasks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SimplePlan versus Calendar & Tasks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimplePlanCalendar & Tasks
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIldar KhasanovWystone LLC

In-app purchases

None

SimplePlan

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Calendar & Tasks

Subscriptions2
  • Cality Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Cality Pro Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cality Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is SimplePlan free?
SimplePlan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calendar & Tasks free?
Calendar & Tasks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SimplePlan or Calendar & Tasks have ads?
Neither SimplePlan nor Calendar & Tasks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimplePlan or Calendar & Tasks?
SimplePlan ships an update every 2 months, and Calendar & Tasks every 2 days. Most recently, SimplePlan was updated on October 1, 2026 and Calendar & Tasks on October 15, 2026.

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