Draw Calendar vs Folio
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.
Folio
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Folio brings your calendar and your meeting notes together in one app. Open Folio and you see your day: your meetings, synced from your calendar, each one ready for notes. Tap a meeting, start writing. No folders to organise, no hunting for that thing you wrote three Tuesdays ago — every note lives with the meeting it came from. TYPE OR DRAW • Type your notes, or draw and handwrite them — beautifully at home with Apple Pencil on iPad • Choose paper styles that suit the way you take notes • Organise notes into notebooks when you want structure LET AI DO THE BORING PART Powered by Apple Intelligence, entirely on your device: • Summaries — the TL;DR of any meeting in seconds • Meeting minutes — decisions and actions, properly formatted • Follow-up emails — a ready-to-send recap drafted from your notes • Action items — captured automatically the moment you stop writing YOUR NOTES FOLLOW YOU • iCloud sync keeps iPhone and iPad in step — through your own private iCloud, never our servers • Export action items to Apple Reminders • Search everything, instantly PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes never leave your devices. AI runs on-device with Apple Intelligence — nothing is sent to the cloud for processing, and we collect no data at all. ONE PRICE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Try everything free for 14 days, then a single one-time purchase of $5.99 unlocks Folio forever. No subscription, ever. AI features require Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later, or iPad with M1 or later). Note-taking works on any supported device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Folio at daily against Draw Calendar's every 6 months. Draw Calendar's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). 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 Folio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Draw Calendar ships an update every 6 months, Folio daily. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draw Calendar | Folio |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fishington Studios | ARUBAI ARAIN |
In-app purchases
Draw Calendar
- Upgrade to Pro$4.99
Folio
- Folio Full Access$5.99









