Google Calendar vs Simple Solutions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Calendar
This official app helps you manage your schedule and stay organized. It automatically adds events from Gmail, syncs across devices, and allows for shared calendars. You can also create tasks, customize views, and integrate with Google Meet for collaboration.
- Automatic event import from Gmail
- Cross-device synchronization
- Shared calendars for collaboration
- Task management alongside events
- Customizable views and themes
- Google Meet integration
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The official Google Calendar app helps you stay organized and plan your day with easy event creation, multiple calendars, customizable views, widgets, and tasks. With Google Calendar, you can: • Get events automatically added to your Calendar from Gmail, including flight, hotel, concert, and restaurant reservations. • Go from using Calendar on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch to your computer without missing a beat when you’re logged into the same Google account. • Consolidate and view Google Calendar events side-by-side with other calendars on your device, including Exchange and iCloud. • Keep family, friends, and colleagues in the loop with shared calendars, so they can view, add, or modify events. • Quickly switch between month, week, and day views. • Stay on top of to-dos by creating and managing tasks alongside your events in Calendar. • Personalize your Google Calendar with light or dark mode or by color-coding your events • Always know what's next while on the go with Google Calendar on Apple Watch by customizing your watch face with Calendar complications or adding widgets. Google Calendar is part of Google Workspace, allowing you and your team to easily connect, create, and collaborate across all your favorite Google tools. You can: • Collaborate in a hybrid work environment by adding a Google Meet video call to an Calendar event • Get access to professional booking pages to easily book clients and customers*. • Schedule meetings with teammates by checking their availability or layering their calendars in a single view • Add your working location to your calendar to make it easier for your teammates to schedule meetings with you*. • Keep everyone on track for a meeting by attaching meeting notes, pre-read materials, and other documents directly to a calendar event. • Use Google Calendar with confidence knowing it’s supported by Google’s enterprise-level privacy, user safety and data security. * Requires a Google Workspace or Google One AI Premium subscription
Simple Solutions
This communication system is designed exclusively for administrators and property owners in gated communities and condominiums. It facilitates exclusive communication channels for managing and coordinating within these residential areas.
- Exclusive communication system
- For administrators and owners
- Supports gated communities
- Supports condominiums
- Growing user base
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Simple Solutions es un sistema de comunicación exclusivo para administradores y propietarios. + de 60 barrios cerrados + de 500 consorcios (y seguimos creciendo)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Google Calendar at 4.5 against Simple Solutions's 2.4. Google Calendar also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (132K vs 13). Simple Solutions's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 32) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Google Calendar sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $0.89 per month. Simple Solutions asks for nothing beyond the download.
Google Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Calendar has 132K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Google Calendar's written reviews are positive against 29% of Simple Solutions's.
Google Calendar ships an update weekly, Simple Solutions every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Calendar | Simple Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (132K ratings) — better | 2.4 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.1% of reviews — better | 28.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 132K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #16 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 284 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Elicagaray | |
Customer experience
Google Calendar
Simple Solutions
Bugs and requests
Google Calendar
Reported bugs
3 issues- Events not syncing properly between app and web versions
- Incorrect time zone changes for events
- New events automatically added to wrong calendar
Requested features
5 requests- Allow recurring events on specific days (e.g. 2nd Wednesday of the month)
- Add ability to set reminders for event end times
- Integrate with more email/calendar providers beyond Gmail
- Provide more customization options for event colors and icons
- Display the current date on the app icon
Simple Solutions
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Calendar
- 30 GB1 Month trial$0.891 Month
- 30 GB$0.891 Month
- 100 GB2 variants$1.991 Month
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- 100 GB1 Month trial2 variants$1.991 Month
- 200 GB1 Month trial2 variants$2.991 Month
- 200 GB2 variants$2.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)$4.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)1 Month trial2 variants$9.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)2 variants$9.991 Month
- Google AI Pro (5 TB)2 variants$19.991 Month
- 100 GB1 Month trial$19.991 Year
- 100 GB$19.991 Year
- 100 GB1 Year trial$19.991 Year
- Google One AI Premium (2 TB)$19.991 Month
- 5 TB$24.991 Month
- 200 GB1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- 200 GB$29.991 Year
- 20 TB$99.991 Month
- 2 TB1 Month trial$99.991 Year
- 2 TB$99.991 Year
- Google AI Ultra (30 TB)$249.991 Month
- 5 TB2 variants$249.991 Year
Simple Solutions
No in-app purchases








