Draw Calendar vs Drawlendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draw Calendar
This app reimagines traditional scheduling by allowing users to plan their day with handwriting and doodles. It offers a fun, creative, and productive way to manage your calendar on iOS devices, freeing you from tedious data entry.
- Plan your day by sketching
- Handwriting and doodles for scheduling
- Clean and stylish interface
- Entries synced across iOS devices
- Creative and productive organization
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Draw Calendar helps you plan with sketches instead of plain text. Every date can hold a quick drawing, handwritten note, or visual reminder. Your month stays readable because saved sketches appear right on each day. Open any day to draw on a full-screen canvas, then return to the month view without breaking your flow. The app keeps planning flexible for personal routines, family schedules, and creative project timelines. **Sketch on any day** Tap a date to open a dedicated PencilKit editor and start drawing immediately. You can zoom for detail and keep writing naturally with touch or Apple Pencil. **See context at a glance** Saved drawings show up as thumbnails inside their day cells, so your notes stay anchored to real dates. This makes busy weeks easier to scan without opening each entry. **Manage multiple calendars** Create separate calendars for work, home, study, or side projects in a few taps. You can switch calendars quickly and keep each timeline clean and focused. **Stay oriented across months** Scroll smoothly through past and future months while keeping the same familiar grid layout. Use the Today button to jump back to the current month whenever you need a reset point. **Edit with confidence** Undo and redo actions help you refine sketches without restarting your page. If plans change, you can remove a day sketch and keep the rest of your calendar intact. Download Draw Calendar and start turning daily plans into visual notes you can understand in seconds.
Drawlendar
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Drawlendar turns your calendar into a hand-drawn journal and digital planner. Instead of typing plain events into boxes, draw, write and decorate your days the way you would in a paper planner, with all the flexibility of digital. DRAW AND WRITE ON YOUR CALENDAR • Sketch, highlight and jot notes on any month or day with Apple Pencil or your finger • Add typed text in a choice of fonts, including handwritten and Chinese calligraphy styles • Separate undo and redo for drawing, photos and text A JOURNAL PAGE FOR EVERY DAY • Tap any day to open its own page • Write about your day, add photos, and resize and rotate them freely STICKERS FOR EVERY MOOD • Floral, botanical and black-and-white sticker sets • Import your own images as stickers PAPER THAT FEELS REAL • Blank, cream, grid, lined, dot-grid and more, for your month and day pages YOUR REAL SCHEDULE, TOO • See your Apple Calendar events next to your drawings • Create and edit events without leaving the app • A month widget for your Home Screen shows every event as a colour bar YOURS, PRIVATELY • Syncs across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID • No accounts, no servers, no ads. Your journal never leaves your devices and your iCloud. KEEP IT FOREVER • Export any month or day as an image • Create a PDF keepsake of your whole journal to print or archive Unlock everything with a monthly or yearly subscription, each starting with a 1-month free trial, or with a one-time purchase. Privacy Policy: https://bymilly.co/drawlendar-privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Drawlendar at weekly against Draw Calendar's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Draw Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Drawlendar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Draw Calendar ships an update every 6 months, Drawlendar weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draw Calendar | Drawlendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 19.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fishington Studios | BY MILLY CO. LTD |
In-app purchases
Draw Calendar
- Upgrade to Pro$4.99
Drawlendar
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription1 Month trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Unlock$19.99









