Comparison

miCal vs Calendars.lu

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

Calendars.lu

Features
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Residents and cross-border commuters in Luxembourg. Available on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Calendars.lu brings together everything you need to live and work in Luxembourg, whether you live here or cross the border: a shared calendar, real-time trains across 6 countries, and leave and remote-work tracking - without juggling five apps. REAL-TIME TRAINS - Next trains for your home-to-work trip, with live platform and delay. - Door-to-door journeys across 6 countries (Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland). - Disruption alerts targeted to YOUR line. - Favorite stations and journeys, kept in Recent. SHARED CALENDAR - Share a calendar with your partner or family: everyone sees each other's events. - Colored events, tags, reminders, notes. - Landscape week view, month view, drag and drop. YOUR LIFE HERE - Luxembourg public holidays and school holidays, plus those of the neighbouring country if you cross the border. - 26 days of leave by default, adjustable: your remaining balance updates itself. - Bridge-day planner on the Luxembourg calendar: it finds the best windows to book time off. - Remote-work day tracking, to stay under your threshold (cross-border commuters). - Import your employer's calendar (ICS). - Morning summary: a notification with the picture of your hourly agenda, reminders included. - Available in Luxembourgish. ASSISTANT (paid plans) - Just ask: "move my Tuesday meeting to Thursday", "how much leave do I have left", "a train to reach the office before 9am". - It prepares the meeting or reminder, with date, time and place: you confirm with one tap. - It reads your calendar and your journeys, and nothing else: nothing is created without your approval. - Find your past requests in Recent, favorites first. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN - Your journey follows the train live: platform, delay and next stop, without opening the app. - On the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, all the way to your arrival. - Your events too: up to four live banners at once (journeys and events), each with its own progress bar. - A Lock Screen widget, "Event in progress". ON YOUR APPLE WATCH - Today's schedule and the next trains, on your wrist. - Complications on the watch face: your next appointment, your next departure. - Check off a reminder or shift it with - and +, and follow the progress bar of the current event. ON IPAD AND MAC - Calendars.lu also runs on iPad and on Mac (Macs with Apple silicon): the same calendar and the same trains, on a bigger screen. WIDGETS - "Today's agenda", "Next trains" and "Month" on your home screen, fully customizable. - Check off a reminder or shift it with - and + without opening the app. Available in French, English, German, Portuguese, Dutch and Luxembourgish, which you pick on the welcome screen. Sign in with Apple, Google or email to get started. SUBSCRIPTIONS (optional) Basic and Family unlock real-time transport, background themes and more. Auto-renewable; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Privacy: https://calendars.lu/confidentialite.html - Terms: https://calendars.lu/conditions.html

Screenshots

miCal4 screens
Calendars.lu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Calendars.lu at Free against miCal's $1.99. Calendars.lu also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks). miCal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#145 vs unranked). On ads and device support 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

Calendars.lu is free to download; miCal costs $1.99 up front. Calendars.lu sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. miCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

miCal ships an update every 5 weeks, Calendars.lu every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
miCal versus Calendars.lu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermiCalCalendars.lu
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (593 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings593 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#145 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerentwicklungsschmiede UG & Co KGLeila SAHBANI

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

Calendars.lu

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

miCal

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Calendars.lu

Subscriptions4
  • Calendars Basic1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • Calendars Family1 Month trial$8.991 Month
  • Calendars Basic1 Month trial$44.991 Year
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  • Calendars Family1 Month trial$89.991 Year

Questions

Is miCal free?
miCal costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calendars.lu free?
Calendars.lu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do miCal or Calendars.lu have ads?
Neither miCal nor Calendars.lu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, miCal or Calendars.lu?
miCal ships an update every 5 weeks, and Calendars.lu every 5 days. Most recently, miCal was updated on October 26, 2026 and Calendars.lu on October 24, 2026.

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