Comparison

Calendaria vs Bare

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

Head to head
About

Calendaria

Features
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Calendaria shows your calendar as one continuous list, from January to December, and helps you plan it. Scroll through the year and the days that matter stand out, each with its most notable event next to the date. SEE THE YEAR Drag across the screen or tap the tabs to move between three levels. Months shows the highlights of each month and a bar for every week, so busy weeks and free ones stand out. Days shows every date and what's on it. Hours shows each day in full, with longer events drawn as a single block. Pull past the end of the year to go to the next. PLAN IT YOUR WAY • Write plans the way you'd say them: "Lisbon with the kids April 2 to 10, then pizza night every third Wednesday". With Apple Intelligence, Calendaria reads whole paragraphs in any of its languages, right on your iPhone. • Pencil in the maybes. They show dashed in your year until you confirm them, even from a widget. • Find your free weeks. Calendaria shows the longest free stretch ahead; hold and drag across days to plan a trip and see what's already on. • Add a set in one go: bank holidays for England and Wales, new and full moons, birthdays from Contacts, or school term dates pasted from your school's website. CHOOSE YOUR LOOK • Lume: bright color on black, inspired by the Apple Watch. • StandBy: big, easy-to-read type, with a red night mode after dark. • Duet: soft paper tones with a large numeral of the day you're looking at. • Battersea: clean and familiar, in light and dark. Each look has its own options, and Calendaria can switch between two of them to follow your iPhone's light and dark setting. WIDGETS See today, your year in dots, what's coming up or your next free stretch on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, and add a plan from Control Center. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open it like a book: your days on one page, the hours of whichever day you pick on the other. See which weeks are filling up, and exactly when, without switching views. Fold it shut and the whole year is still there on the cover screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Calendaria reads the calendars you already use, including iCloud, Google and Exchange accounts added in Settings, and you choose which ones appear. Your events stay on your iPhone, and reading your plans happens on your iPhone too. No accounts, no tracking.

About

Bare

This app helps you create and manage grocery lists with automatic categorization by store section. It offers quick item addition, easy checking off, and sharing capabilities. The focus is on a simple, efficient shopping experience without extra features.

Highlights
  • Automatic store section sorting
  • Quick item addition and check-off
  • Share lists with family
  • Widget support for checking off items
  • Suggestions as you type
  • Multiple lists
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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A shopping list that is fast to add to and fast to check off. Type an item and press return. It goes into the right store section automatically, like Produce, Dairy, or Household, so your list follows the way you walk through the store. Tap an item to check it off. The app is intentionally simple. No accounts, settings, ads, recipes, meal plans, or prices. Nothing to set up. It does one thing well: your shopping list. It supports English and Norwegian. ■ Highlights ‣ Sorted by store section automatically, with Apple Intelligence ‣ Share a list with your family and see their changes right away ‣ Check off items from a widget, without opening the app ■ More features ‣ Suggestions as you type, from your earlier items and common groceries ‣ Type “2 milk” to set the quantity ‣ Multiple lists, for example, one for each store ‣ The screen stays on while you shop ‣ Send a list as text to someone without an iPhone ‣ Syncs across your devices with iCloud ‣ Paste a copied list to add one item per line ‣ Lock Screen widgets, a Control Center control, and the Action button ‣ Siri and Shortcuts: “Add to Bare” ‣ Apple Watch app that works on its own Store sections need Apple Intelligence. Without it, common groceries are still sorted, and other items go in Other.

Screenshots

Calendaria4 screens
Bare2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Bare at #177 against Calendaria's unranked. Bare also leads on price ($3.00 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

Calendaria costs $4.99 and Bare $3.00 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Calendaria versus Bare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalendariaBare
Price$4.99$3.00 — better
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#177 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS27.027.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJorge CohenSindre Sorhus

In-app purchases

None

Calendaria

No in-app purchases

None

Bare

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Calendaria free?
Calendaria costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bare free?
Bare costs $3.00, with no in-app purchases.
Do Calendaria or Bare have ads?
Neither Calendaria nor Bare shows ads.

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