Comparison

miCal vs Timely Tracker

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

Head to head
About

miCal

This app enhances your scheduling experience with a clear dashboard, intuitive controls, and natural language input for event creation. It offers comprehensive views, task management, birthday reminders, and weather forecasts.

Highlights
  • Dashboard overview of events, tasks, and weather
  • Intuitive navigation and event creation
  • Natural language input for events
  • iOS Reminders integration
  • Birthday reminders with custom music
  • 5-day weather forecasts
  • Event export (CSV, ICS)
Features
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miCal is THE calendar that you’ve always wished your iPhone or iPad had! miCal makes scheduling easier, clearer—and better looking—than ever before. Quick Overview The dashboard displays your current appointments and events, tasks and birthdays. You can also see the current weather and an overview of the current month at a glance. Intuitive Controls Intuitively navigate through your calendars and quickly, easily add events and tasks thanks to predefined settings and simple controls. Standard settings like repeating events and reminders/alarms are just a tap away. And powerful special settings are also available, without sacrificing comfort or control. Swipe through views and open events or days with just a tap. miCal Understands You Quickly create events with the new natural language input feature. Natural language input allows you to create events just by describing them. And if you have Siri enabled on your device, you can even dictate your event details instead of typing. The Total Package miCal provides complete, well-organized day, week and month views and displays the calendar week in all the important views. Relax You don’t need to contort yourself with miCal. miCal supports portrait as well as landscape formats in nearly every view. Use each view however it’s most comfortable for you. Tasks/Reminders miCal now supports iOS reminders. Create reminders for all the important tasks in your private and professional life right in the app. Birthday Manager Never again miss an important birthday. Get reminders at preset times featuring the music of your choice. Nice Weather Five-day weather forecasts plus the sunrise/sunset times, humidity and wind speed for the current day. The dashboard even features a quick summary of the current weather as well as a brief forecast of the coming days. Comprehensive miCal offers a unique range of features. Copy, move or send your events. Export your events in the date range of your choice as CSV (for Excel, etc.) or ICS (the calendar format). Set colors for your calendars and individual appointments or automatically add colors based on keywords in event titles. Up to Date and Secure miCal communicates with your device’s integrated calendar. miCal works with all the calendar services that your device currently supports (iCloud, Google Calendar, Outlook, Exchange, Facebook Events, subscriptions) without requiring additional configuration. That way, you can store your data locally or via the services you know and trust—it’s up to you. miCal itself does not transmit any data to external services or other servers. That allows us to ensure 100% data security. Award-Winning - 3rd place in the "Best German iPhone App" competition at the 2010 iPhone Developer conference. - Featured as App of the Week in 13 countries. - Recommendation from iPhoneWelt and a 5-star rating from iPhone&Co, two of the leading iPhone magazines - Honored at the 2010 App Developer Conference

About

Timely Tracker

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TimeTracker helps you capture every minute spent on work, school, or personal projects—and turn raw minutes into real insights. Quick & Easy Logging • Start/stop a timer with a single tap, or enter hours manually • Pick from recent tasks or create new ones on the fly Organize with Tags & Categories • Assign custom tags (and people involved) to every entry • Add extra comments to capture context or billable notes Powerful History & Reports • See daily, weekly, or monthly breakdowns at a glance • Identify your most productive hours and spot time sinks Cloud Sync & Offline Mode • All data stored locally, with seamless Firebase sync to back up and share across devices • Keep tracking even when you’re offline—changes merge automatically Privacy & Security • Built on Firebase Auth so only you can access your data • No ads, no profiling—just honest time tracking Getting Started 1. Create your first task or tap a suggestion. 2. Hit “Start” when you begin working, “Stop” when you’re done. 3. Tag, comment, and review your history whenever you like. Whether you’re a freelancer billing clients, a student juggling assignments, or just someone who wants to own their day—TimeTracker makes it effortless to log, organize, and analyze your time. Download now and turn every minute into meaningful data!

Screenshots

miCal4 screens
Timely Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Timely Tracker at Free against miCal's $1.99. Timely Tracker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks). miCal's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.1). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Timely Tracker is free to download; miCal costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

miCal ships an update every 5 weeks, Timely Tracker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
miCal versus Timely Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermiCalTimely Tracker
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (592 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings592 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.1
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerentwicklungsschmiede UG & Co KGSamuel Akai-Nettey

Bugs and requests

miCal

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Reminders not working as expected
  • Sync issues between iPhone and iPad
  • Crashes and freezes after iOS updates
  • Incorrect anniversary year calculations
  • Unable to edit event titles on iPad

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for time zones
  • Improve natural language input
  • Introduce a dark mode option
  • Allow for more calendar customization
  • Integrate with additional third-party services

Timely Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

miCal

No in-app purchases

None

Timely Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is miCal free?
miCal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timely Tracker free?
Timely Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do miCal or Timely Tracker have ads?
Neither miCal nor Timely Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, miCal or Timely Tracker?
miCal ships an update every 5 weeks, and Timely Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, miCal was updated on September 24, 2026 and Timely Tracker on September 7, 2026.

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