Comparison

Walli vs GridCal

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

Head to head
About

Walli

Visualize your entire year's major events, from trips and school breaks to birthdays and multi-day plans. This app offers a comprehensive overview of your schedule, allowing you to add detailed notes, locations, and people to each event. Collaborate with others by sharing household calendars and stay organized with reminders for upcoming activities.

Highlights
  • Yearly, 6-month, 3-month, and monthly views
  • Multi-day event management
  • Add dates, people, places, and notes
  • Household calendar sharing
  • Today view with reminders
  • Color-coded event bars
Features
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Walli Calendar brings your major events across the year into one place. See trips, school breaks, sports, birthdays, and the plans that stretch across several days. Colored bars make it easy to see how everything fits together. SEE YOUR YEAR View all twelve months together, or switch to six months, three months, or a closer look at one month. Tap a day to see the details. WHERE YOU'LL BE. WHAT YOU'LL DO. Keep places and events alongside each other. See when you'll be in Boston and when the work conference happens, without losing the bigger picture. BRING THE DETAILS Add dates, people, places, notes, and optional times to your plans. Keep multi-day events connected instead of splitting them into separate daily entries. PLAN TOGETHER Share a household calendar and use people and colors to see who is involved. Keep your household plans together with Walli Cloud. KNOW WHAT'S NEXT Check Today for what's happening now and what's coming up. Add reminders to the plans you don't want to miss. WALLI PLUS Choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm a purchase. Privacy: https://wallicalendar.com/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://wallicalendar.com/support

About

GridCal

Features
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Most calendar apps open on a day or a week. GridCal opens on the month — the whole month, first. On Apple Watch, the full month grid fills the screen. Turn the Digital Crown to move month by month, swipe up or down to change months, swipe sideways to jump a year, and tap any date to see that day's events. A circular complication shows today's date inside a ring that fills as the month goes by. On iPhone, pick the view that fits how you plan: • 1+ — one big month, wall-calendar style, with holiday names right in the cells • 1 — one month plus a detail panel for the day you tap • 2 — two months side by side • 3 — three months at a glance Swipe to move one month at a time, in every view. Your calendar events appear right on the grid — a dot under days that have something on, and a full list when you tap a date. Holidays for 16 countries are built in — no downloads, no subscriptions. Choose the countries you care about in Settings, and their holidays show in red with their names: United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and India. Holiday data covers 2025–2032. GridCal follows your device's language and your region's first day of the week, automatically. No account. No ads. No tracking. Your events never leave your device.

Screenshots

Walli4 screens
GridCal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Walli at Free against GridCal's $1.99. GridCal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Walli is free to download; GridCal costs $1.99 up front. Walli sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. GridCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walli ships an update every 3 weeks, GridCal every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Walli versus GridCal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalliGridCal
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrey BurkettSOOYEON CHO

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Walli

Subscriptions2
  • Walli Plus Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Walli Plus Yearly1 Month trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Walli Plus Lifetime$29.99
None

GridCal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walli free?
Walli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GridCal free?
GridCal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Walli or GridCal have ads?
Neither Walli nor GridCal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Walli or GridCal?
Walli ships an update every 3 weeks, and GridCal every 3 days. Most recently, Walli was updated on October 31, 2026 and GridCal on October 29, 2026.

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