Comparison

World Cal vs Snip

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

Head to head
About

World Cal

Easily schedule global meetings and events across different time zones. This app helps you find the perfect time for international calls and trips by comparing multiple time zones and integrating with your calendar.

Highlights
  • Cross-timezone scheduling
  • View calendar in multiple timezones
  • Time travel into the future
  • Add unlimited timezones
  • Day/night indicators
  • Home screen and watch widgets
  • DST accuracy
Features
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Coordinate global meetings, calls, and events without the timezone math. Standard world clocks only tell you what time it is right now. World Calendar goes further: it’s a powerful timezone converter and international meeting planner that lets you look into the future to find the perfect time for everyone. Whether you are scheduling a global team sync, planning an international trip, or calling family overseas, World Calendar integrates directly with your iOS Calendar to make cross-timezone scheduling effortless. CROSS-TIMEZONE SCHEDULING Compare multiple timezones side-by-side to instantly pinpoint the ideal meeting time. Tap anywhere to set a target time, and tap twice to seamlessly create an event directly in your calendar. VIEW YOUR CALENDAR IN MULTIPLE TIMEZONES World Calendar displays your existing events across all your selected timezones. Create, edit, and share events with a single tap, ensuring your global schedule is always perfectly aligned. KEY FEATURES: • Time Travel: Scroll into the future to plan days, weeks, or months ahead. • No Limits: Add and compare as many timezones as you need. • Day/Night Indicators: Instantly see if your contact is awake or asleep. • Home Screen Widget: Check your favorite timezones at a glance without unlocking your device. • Watch Widget and App: Put your recently selected timezones on your wrist • Easy Search: Find locations by city name, timezone abbreviation (e.g., EST, GMT), or UTC offset. • Global Sharing: Send event invites to other users that automatically adapt to their local timezone. • DST Accuracy: Fully automatic adjustments for daylight saving time changes globally. • Nautical Time Zones: Full support for standard UTC offsets without DST adjustments. • Landscape View: Turn your device for a wider, comprehensive timeline view.

About

Snip

Capture, organize, and quickly retrieve important personal details. Save everything from measurements to instructions, with smart search and automatic structuring. Build a personal reference library that grows with you.

Highlights
  • Save and organize personal details
  • Capture with photos and text scanning
  • Automatic information structuring
  • Smart search and retrieval
  • Customizable snip types
  • Nudges and reminders for dates
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Some information is too useful to lose, but too occasional to keep in your head. Snip gives those details a place of their own: easy to capture, organized for quick retrieval, and ready when you need them. From window dimensions when shopping for curtains to plant care instructions you want to keep handy, Snip helps you save the little things that make everyday life easier. Keep product details, measurements, instructions, dates, or anything else you want to find again. Add photos and custom details to items, and scan text with your camera for easy capture. Snip automatically brings everything into a consistent structure, making your information easy to browse and search without having to spend time and effort on structuring and organizing all your content. Over time, tall your captures become a personal reference library built around your life. And as it grows, everything stays organized and easy to find. No more trying to remember that little detail you need, only to realize it’s slipped your mind. Now you just open Snip. --- For free, Snip includes: - Save up to 20 snips to capture your details - Create up to 3 contexts. Your snips are organized into contexts so you can easily find them again - Six different Snip types designed specifically for intuitively adding and recalling your most important bits and details – sizes, items, specifications, dates, how-tos, and scribbles (free text). Each type has a structured and simple input format that fits it perfectly, and its own display format that intuitively shows the nature of the information. - Automatically surface the types and contexts you use most - Pin items to the app's home screen for easy access - Add custom details to snip items if their default structure is too simple - Set nudges (notifications) for date-type snips, either before the snip's date or a certain time after the date has occurred - Search snips by type, context, name, or contents. Show related snips and smarter AI search results when Apple Intelligence is enabled. - iCloud syncs items across your devices (iPhone, iPhone Duo, and iPad) PREMIUM offers, in addition to the above: - Unlimited snips - Unlimited contexts - Smart snip insights – computed and derived values and conversions (for Size and Date type snips) - Attach up to 3 images to your snip items - Roll forward Date type items automatically after a date passes - Scan text using your camera - Lock screen and Home screen widgets for adding and finding your details even more easily Snip Premium is available as Monthly or Yearly subscriptions, or as a Lifetime purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.koenhanselman.com/snip/#privacy

Screenshots

World Cal4 screens
Snip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Snip at none against World Cal's shown. Snip also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 76%). World Cal's advantage is ratings volume (315 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. World Cal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Snip sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for World Cal against 5.0 for Snip. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: World Cal has 315 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of World Cal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Snip's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

World Cal ships an update every 4 months, Snip every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
World Cal versus Snip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorld CalSnip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (315 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings315 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGeospike Pty LtdKoen Hanselman

Customer experience

World Cal

All ratings315 ratings
Positive98.7%
Neutral0.6%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive76.5%
Neutral9.8%
Negative13.7%

Snip

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

World Cal

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • 🐛 Inappropriate ads in free version
  • 🐛 Widget settings not saved
  • 🐛 Cannot add new events with double tap
  • 🐛 Timezone abbreviations not displayed
  • 🐛 Search feature doesn't work
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  • 🐛 Crashes when adding a city
  • 🐛 Widget expansion settings not saved

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more cities
  • Option to freeze time zones for comparison
  • Switch between 24-hour and AM/PM clock
  • Cleaner design with better calendar event integration
  • Ability to pick a specific date to view

Snip

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

World Cal

One-time1
  • Remove Advertising$19.95
3 purchases

Snip

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is World Cal free?
World Cal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snip free?
Snip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, World Cal or Snip?
Snip is rated higher. World Cal averages 4.9 out of 5 from 315 ratings, while Snip averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do World Cal or Snip have ads?
World Cal shows ads; Snip does not.
Which is updated more often, World Cal or Snip?
World Cal ships an update every 4 months, and Snip every 2 weeks. Most recently, World Cal was updated on November 6, 2026 and Snip on October 31, 2026.

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