Comparison

Azangoo vs Calvim

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

Head to head
About

Azangoo

Accurately find the Qibla direction globally and calculate prayer times for your city. Features a multilingual calendar with event reminders and customizable prayer time notifications.

Highlights
  • Precise Qibla direction finding
  • Global prayer time calculation
  • Multilingual calendar with event reminders
  • Customizable prayer time notifications
  • Multiple prayer time calculation methods
Features
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--------------------------- Supporting Language: • English • فارسی • عربی • Russian Azangoo provides you with an easy tool to precisely determine the direction of the qibla from any location around the world and calculate the prayer times for your city. Features: 1. Prayer Times based on your calculation method & location (detects automatically and ). 2. Calendar with 4 languages, without time limit, the ability to record user events and reminders, jump to the desired date in two solar and gregorian base, also have a lunar calendar with the ability to change days different between lunar dates. 3. Prayer Times Notifications based on all prayers. 4. Notification for remain to Azan 5. Find the Qibla direction from any address. 6. It also allows you to find Prayer Times for the following calculation methods: -Ja'fari Ithna Asheri -University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi -Islamic society of North America (ISNA) -Muslim World League (MWL) -Umm al-Qura, Makkah -Egyptian General Authority of Survey -Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran

About

Calvim

This app offers a fast, lightweight, and beautifully designed Shamsi calendar with full Persian and Gregorian date support. It features customizable event selection, comprehensive event management, and modern, user-friendly widgets. Stay organized with its intuitive interface and updated holiday display.

Highlights
  • Lightweight and fast performance
  • Beautifully designed widgets
  • Modern and user-friendly interface
  • Full Persian and Gregorian date support
  • Customizable event selection
  • Comprehensive event management
  • Light and dark mode support
Features
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Calvim (formerly ShamsiPlus) is a free Persian calendar for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch: Shamsi (Jalali) dates, Iranian holidays, tasks, notes, work shifts and widgets. No ads, no account, works offline. کالویم (شمسی پلاس سابق): تقویم شمسی ۱۴۰۵ با تعطیلات رسمی، کارها، یادداشت‌ها، شیفت کاری و ویجت. رایگان و بدون تبلیغات. IRANIAN CALENDAR & HOLIDAYS • Official Iranian holidays, including the 1406 holidays. • 1,000+ occasions: national and religious days, Hijri (lunar) dates, world days and Persian celebrations like Nowruz, Mehregan and Yalda. Turn any category on or off. • Nowruz countdown with reminders. • Choose your first day of the week and your weekend days. TODAY ON ONE SCREEN • Home shows today's occasions, tasks and notes, your week and the year's progress. Move overdue tasks to today in one tap. TASKS, NOTES & REMINDERS • Tasks with dates, times and reminders, grouped into Overdue, Today and Upcoming. Pin important notes. • Personal events on Shamsi or Gregorian dates: all-day or timed, colors, repeats, multiple reminders and custom holidays. • One search for events, tasks and notes. WORK SHIFT CALENDAR • For nurses, doctors and anyone on shifts: set shift types and a repeating rotation, paint days on the month, see a monthly summary and get reminders for each shift. DATE CONVERTER • Shamsi to Gregorian and back, with the exact number of days from today. WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH • 7 Home Screen widgets, including Month and Week. Tick off tasks right from the widget. • 8 Lock Screen widgets in Persian or English: date, next holiday countdown, tasks left, next task and more. • Apple Watch app with complications and a Smart Stack widget. Events and shifts sync from iPhone. WORKS WITH YOUR APPS • Import .ics files from Google Calendar, Outlook and others, and review before saving. • Siri and Shortcuts: open a date or add an event, task or note. • Share any day with its holidays and events. DESIGN & PRIVACY • 10 accent colors, Light and Dark mode, iPhone and iPad layouts, VoiceOver and large text support. • Your events, tasks and notes stay on your device. Usage stats only if you opt in. Download Calvim free, the Persian calendar for your whole year. تقویم فارسی کالویم تقویم شمسی (جلالی) برای آیفون، آیپد و اپل واچ. رایگان، بدون تبلیغات، بدون حساب کاربری و بدون نیاز به اینترنت. تقویم و تعطیلات • تعطیلات رسمی ایران، همراه با تعطیلات ۱۴۰۶. • بیش از ۱۰۰۰ مناسبت: ملی و مذهبی، تاریخ قمری، روزهای جهانی و جشن‌هایی مثل نوروز، مهرگان و یلدا. هر دسته را روشن یا خاموش کنید. • شمارش معکوس نوروز با یادآور. • شروع هفته و روزهای تعطیل به انتخاب شما. امروز در یک نگاه • صفحه خانه: مناسبت‌ها، کارها و یادداشت‌های امروز، هفته شما و پیشرفت سال. کارهای عقب‌افتاده را با یک لمس به امروز بیاورید. کارها، یادداشت‌ها و یادآور • کار با تاریخ، ساعت و یادآور؛ دسته‌بندی عقب‌افتاده، امروز و پیش‌رو. یادداشت‌های مهم را سنجاق کنید. • رویداد شخصی شمسی یا میلادی: تمام‌روز یا ساعت‌دار، رنگ، تکرار، چند یادآور و تعطیلات شخصی. • جستجو در رویدادها، کارها و یادداشت‌ها. تقویم شیفت کاری • برای پرستاران، پزشکان و همه شیفت‌کارها: نوع شیفت، چرخه کاری، رنگ کردن روزها، خلاصه ماهانه و یادآور هر شیفت. تبدیل تاریخ • شمسی به میلادی و برعکس، با فاصله دقیق تا امروز. ویجت و اپل واچ • ۷ ویجت صفحه اصلی، از جمله ماه و هفته، با تیک زدن کارها از روی ویجت. • ۸ ویجت صفحه قفل به فارسی یا انگلیسی: تاریخ امروز، روزهای مانده تا تعطیلی بعدی، کارهای باقی‌مانده و کار بعدی. • اپل واچ با کامپلیکیشن و ویجت Smart Stack؛ رویدادها و شیفت‌ها از آیفون همگام می‌شوند. کنار بقیه برنامه‌ها • وارد کردن فایل ‎.ics از گوگل کلندر، اوت‌لوک و بقیه، با بررسی قبل از ذخیره. • Siri و Shortcuts و اشتراک‌گذاری هر روز. طراحی و حریم خصوصی • ۱۰ رنگ، حالت روشن و تیره، چیدمان آیپد و پشتیبانی از VoiceOver. • اطلاعات شما روی دستگاه خودتان می‌ماند؛ آمار استفاده فقط با اجازه شما. کالویم را رایگان نصب کنید؛ تقویم فارسی شما برای ۱۴۰۵ و ۱۴۰۶.

Screenshots

Azangoo3 screens
Calvim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Azangoo at 21K against Calvim's 491. Calvim's advantage is review sentiment (96% vs 76%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Azangoo against 4.8 for Calvim. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Azangoo has 21K ratings behind it against 491, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Azangoo's written reviews are positive against 96% of Calvim's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Azangoo ships an update every 2 months, Calvim every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Azangoo versus Calvim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAzangooCalvim
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (21K ratings)4.8 (491 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews96.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21K — better491
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.3
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLEOIO INC.Pouya Ahmad Heydari

Customer experience

Azangoo

All ratings14,611 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews501 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative16.4%

Calvim

All ratings491 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.6%

User reviews

Azangoo

From 21K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Ads-free app
  • 👍 Useful features
  • 👍 Accurate prayer times
  • 👍 Reliable app
  • 👍 Great user experience

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Azan not playing properly
  • 🐛 Notifications not working
  • 🐛 App not compatible with newer devices
  • 🐛 App freezing or crashing
  • 🐛 Issues with the latest update

Calvim

From 491 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and user-friendly
  • 🌟 Awesome app
  • 💯 Perfect app
  • 🌟 Awesome update

Room to improve

  • 🌙 Lack of lunar calendar support
  • 🔍 Minimal features

Bugs and requests

Azangoo

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App stuck on update page, unable to access main features
  • Qibla compass not working
  • Prayer times not accurate for certain locations
  • Azan player stopping abruptly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to enter calendar and location from main page
  • Show Lunar date in main page
  • Add ability in calendar to show Athan times for all days
  • Compatibility with Apple Watch
  • Dark mode option

Calvim

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Dark mode icon removed

Requested features

4 requests
  • Lunar calendar support
  • Widget support
  • Date display on app icon
  • More features

In-app purchases

None

Azangoo

No in-app purchases

None

Calvim

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Azangoo free?
Azangoo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Calvim free?
Calvim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Azangoo or Calvim?
Calvim is rated higher. Azangoo averages 4.7 out of 5 from 21K ratings, while Calvim averages 4.8 from 491 ratings.
Do Azangoo or Calvim have ads?
Neither Azangoo nor Calvim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Azangoo or Calvim?
Azangoo ships an update every 2 months, and Calvim every 5 weeks. Most recently, Azangoo was updated on November 8, 2026 and Calvim on November 8, 2026.

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