Comparison

Essential vs withday

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

Head to head
About

Essential

This minimalist calendar app offers a clean interface with a combined monthly and timeline view. It features integrated weather forecasts, historical "On This Day" facts, and a unique "Postpone" function for rescheduling events.

Highlights
  • Minimalist design
  • Combined monthly and timeline view
  • Detailed weather forecasts
  • "On This Day" historical facts
  • One-day event postponement
  • Integrated search and event adding
Features
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Introducing Essential, a new calendar. Essential boldly holds back on colour to create a minimalist design focused on what truly matters. Unlike other apps, events carry no colours, giving your schedule a calm, well-organised feel. Essential brings a [Monthly Calendar] and a [Timeline] together on a single screen. No need to switch screens to see the details of your day. Essential is built around [Continuity]. Whether you're searching for an event or changing a setting, you can do it without leaving the page. For example, tap the magnifying glass in the top right corner. Instead of taking you to a new screen as most apps do, the icon turns straight into a search field, so you can search right where you are. Beyond its design, Essential offers a few special features. 1. Detailed Weather Useful for those who work outdoors. Hourly forecasts, daily highs and lows, and more, made for anyone who keeps an eye on the weather. 2. A little joy in checking your schedule: "On This Day" An ordinary day for some was a meaningful one for others. While checking your schedule, discover events from history based on real facts. Topics span world history, film, art, economics, design and more. 3. Postpone Move an event to the next day. Plans don't always go as planned, so Essential's postpone feature embraces that uncertainty. It simply moves your event by one day. A little room for the days that don't go perfectly. It's okay not to be perfect. 4. The Dial Essential is inspired by the design philosophy of Dieter Rams, the world-renowned industrial designer. To celebrate his work, we've included a tribute object: the dial in the bottom right corner. Press it to add (+) a new event. Turn it like a dial to move through the timeline in one-hour steps. โ€•โ€•โ€• Privacy Policy: https://dieter-rams-project.minimal-calendar.workers.dev/privacy/en

About

withday

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๋‚ด ๋ง˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๊พธ๋ฏธ๋Š” ํ”Œ๋ž˜๋„ˆ, withday. ๋ฉ”๋ชจ, ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅ, ํˆฌ๋‘๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํ™”๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ๋„, ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋„ ๋‚ด ์ทจํ–ฅ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด์š”. ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ปค, ๊ธ€๊ผด๊ณผ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ณจ๋ผ ๋‚˜๋งŒ์˜ ํ”Œ๋ž˜๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์ ฏ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์„ธ์š”. โ€ข ๋‹ฌ๋ ฅยท๋ฉ”๋ชจยทํ•  ์ผยท๋””๋ฐ์ดยท์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์กฐํ•ฉ โ€ข ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ปค์™€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธ€๊ผด๋กœ ๊พธ๋ฏธ๊ธฐ โ€ข ์ž‘๊ฒŒ(2ร—2), ์ค‘๊ฐ„(4ร—2), ํฌ๊ฒŒ(4ร—4) ์ค‘ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ํฌ๊ธฐ ์„ ํƒ โ€ข ์œ„์ ฏ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋””์ž์ธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ โ€ข ํ™ˆ ํ™”๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ•  ์ผ ์ฒดํฌ โ€ข ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ชฉ๋ก์„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ”Œ๋ž˜๋„ˆ์—์„œ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉ โ€ข ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์— ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋œ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋”์˜ ์ผ์ • ํ‘œ์‹œ โ€ข ํ…œํ”Œ๋ฆฟ์„ ๊ณจ๋ผ ๋‚ด ๋‚ด์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ธฐ ํšŒ์›๊ฐ€์ž… ์—†์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์— ๋จผ์ € ์ €์žฅ๋˜๋ฉฐ, iCloud ๋™๊ธฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ผœ๋ฉด ๊ฐ™์€ Apple ๊ณ„์ •์˜ ์ง€์› ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ํ”Œ๋ž˜๋„ˆ์™€ ํ•  ์ผ์„ ์ด์–ด ์“ธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ํ”Œ๋ž˜๋„ˆ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ง„๊ณผ ์Šคํ‹ฐ์ปค๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋™๊ธฐํ™”ํ•ด์š”. iCloud ์ €์žฅ ๊ณต๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์™€ ์œ„์ ฏ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž ์‹œ ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋ฌธ์˜: lhj1583@naver.com

Screenshots

Essential4 screens
withday4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: withday at daily against Essential's every 4 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Essential ships an update every 4 days, withday daily. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Essential versus withday: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEssentialwithday
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews95.5% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size44 MB171 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChang Hyun Leehyeokjin Lee

In-app purchases

None

Essential

No in-app purchases

None

withday

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Essential free?
Essential is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is withday free?
withday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Essential or withday have ads?
Neither Essential nor withday shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Essential or withday?
Essential ships an update every 4 days, and withday daily. Most recently, Essential was updated on November 12, 2026 and withday on October 31, 2026.

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