Comparison

X Calendar vs Forge Fire

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

Head to head
About

X Calendar

This app offers a simple, visual method for tracking daily habits, goals, and events. Mark your progress with Xs, Ticks, or Blocks to build a visual history and gain insights into your activity patterns. Customize your tracking experience with various markers and widgets.

Highlights
  • Visual habit and goal tracking
  • Customizable markers (X, Tick, Block, Emoji)
  • Daily overview of tracked items
  • Progress insights and history
  • Home screen widgets
  • Unlimited calendars with Premium
Features
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Track anything. One X at a time. X Calendar is a simple, visual way to track the things that matter to you. No complicated setup. No pressure to maintain a perfect streak. Just create a calendar and mark an X whenever something happens. Track your habits and goals, log workouts, remember work days, count no-spend days, follow routines, record events, or simply see the last time you did something. 1 X. Endless uses. TRACK IT YOUR WAY Create a calendar for anything you want to keep track of. Mark a day with an X, Tick or Block, choose your colors and build a visual history over time. Want something more personal? Premium unlocks Emoji markers for even more ways to make your calendars yours. EVERYTHING TODAY, AT A GLANCE The Today view brings your calendars together in one simple place. Quickly see what you’ve tracked recently and mark today without jumping between calendars. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Turn your Xs into useful insights. See your total activity, this month’s progress, current and longest runs, activity over time, patterns by day of the week and monthly history. Whether you’re building habits, working towards goals or simply tracking life, X Calendar makes your progress easy to see. WIDGETS AT A GLANCE Keep your calendars visible from your Home Screen with Small, Medium and Large widgets. See your recent activity or current month without needing to open the app. SIMPLE BY DESIGN X Calendar is built around one idea: tracking shouldn’t feel like work. Use it as a habit tracker if you want. Use it as a goal tracker. Track workouts, work shifts, reading, routines, events, days you avoided something, or anything else that matters to you. You decide what an X means. X CALENDAR PREMIUM Upgrade to Premium for the complete X Calendar experience, including: • Unlimited calendars • Full calendar insights • Weekly summaries • Emoji markers • Home Screen widgets • Smart Reminders • Live cloud sync • CSV and PDF export • Additional customization Or keep things simple with the free version and track up to four editable calendars. Your days. Your Xs. Your story. Track anything with X Calendar. Privacy Policy: https://xcalendar.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Forge Fire

This app helps you break down ambitious goals into manageable steps and track your progress. It offers features for challenges, projects, habits, and tasks, providing a clear view of what to do next and visualizing your momentum to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Goal breakdown into challenges, projects, habits, and tasks
  • Daily 'Today' view for prioritized actions
  • Progress tracking with streaks and milestones
  • Momentum visualization
  • Shrink feature for large steps
  • Premium features for unlimited challenges and summaries
Features
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Forge Fire helps you turn ambitious goals into clear, manageable action—one step at a time. Whether you’re training for a race, building a business, improving a habit, or just trying to get through your to-do list, Forge Fire gives every kind of progress a place. BUILD A SYSTEM THAT FITS YOUR LIFE • Challenges — Work toward a specific achievement with a clear finish line. • Projects — Break larger outcomes into practical steps and milestones. • Habits — Build consistency through repeatable daily or weekly actions. • Tasks — Capture one-off things that simply need to get done. KNOW WHAT TO DO TODAY Your Today view brings together the next important step from every area of your life, so you can stop deciding and start moving. BREAK BIG GOALS DOWN When a step feels too large, use Shrink to turn it into smaller, more approachable actions. Keep breaking it down until the next move feels easy enough to start. SEE YOUR MOMENTUM AND STAY MOTIVATED Track completed sessions, streaks, milestones, habits, projects, and tasks in one history view. See how often you showed up and where your effort is adding up. MAKE REAL PROGRESS Forge Fire is designed around a simple idea: motivation is unreliable, but a clear next step changes everything. You do not need to finish the whole goal today. You just need to move it forward. PREMIUM Forge Fire is useful without Premium. Free users can keep up to three Challenges active at once. Forge Fire Premium includes: • Unlimited active Challenges • A personalized monthly accountability summary All Premium price options unlock the same features. Choose the monthly price that feels right for you. Start with one goal. Take one step. Keep the fire going. Privacy Policy: https://forgefire.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

X Calendar4 screens
Forge Fire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Forge Fire at daily against X Calendar's weekly. Forge Fire also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. X Calendar sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Forge Fire sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for X Calendar against 5.0 for Forge Fire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X Calendar ships an update weekly, Forge Fire daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
X Calendar versus Forge Fire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterX CalendarForge Fire
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCAMERON NEIL PAUL COOKEMoki Labs

Customer experience

X Calendar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Forge Fire

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

X Calendar

Subscriptions3
  • X Calendar Weekly Premium7 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • X Calendar Monthly Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • X Calendar Annual Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • X Calendar Lifetime Premium$39.99
3 purchases

Forge Fire

Subscriptions3
  • Forge Fire Premium - Im In7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Forge Fire Premium - Committed7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Forge Fire Premium - All In7 Days trial$8.991 Month

Questions

Is X Calendar free?
X Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Forge Fire free?
Forge Fire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, X Calendar or Forge Fire?
X Calendar and Forge Fire are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do X Calendar or Forge Fire have ads?
Neither X Calendar nor Forge Fire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, X Calendar or Forge Fire?
X Calendar ships an update weekly, and Forge Fire daily. Most recently, X Calendar was updated on November 6, 2026 and Forge Fire on October 31, 2026.

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