Comparison

Google Calendar vs Schedule

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Automatic event import from Gmail
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Shared calendars for collaboration
  • Task management alongside events
  • Customizable views and themes
  • Google Meet integration
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

Schedule

This app helps you plan your work and life efficiently with a simple and flexible schedule. It focuses on daily plans, task management, and timeline visualization, offering features like reminders and data statistics.

Highlights
  • Daily task management
  • Timeline visualization
  • Task reminders
  • Data backup and restore
  • Category statistics
  • Theme background switching
Features
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Make room for what matters with CatCarp Schedule, a simple planner for your work and everyday life. • Plan your day: create, edit, copy and postpone tasks, set their times and mark them complete. • See your schedule: browse the calendar and daily timeline to spot busy periods and overlapping tasks. • Build a routine: set repeating tasks and reminders. • Understand your time: review statistics by date and category. • Make it yours: organize tasks into categories and choose a theme. • Keep plans close: view tasks in Home Screen widgets, sync and restore data with iCloud, and export data to CSV. Annual subscription / Lifetime VIP Renews annually. Cancel in Manage Subscriptions; access continues until the paid period ends. One purchase unlocks VIP features forever. From 3.2.0, annual VIP lasts only for the subscription term and no longer becomes lifetime VIP automatically. Icons: Icons8 Questions or feedback: catcarp@163.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Google Calendar4 screens
Schedule4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Google Calendar at Free against Schedule's $6.99. Google Calendar also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (133K vs 13). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Google Calendar is free to download; Schedule costs $6.99 up front. Google Calendar sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $0.89 per month and Schedule sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. 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 — 4.5 for Google Calendar against 4.6 for Schedule. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Calendar has 133K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google Calendar ships an update weekly, Schedule every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Google Calendar versus Schedule: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle CalendarSchedule
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating4.5 (133K ratings)4.6 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings133K — better13
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#22 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size290 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogle LLC依雯 黄

Customer experience

Google Calendar

All ratings132,482 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews1,820 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral16.5%
Negative46.0%

Schedule

All ratings13 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%

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

Schedule

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

22 purchases

Google Calendar

Subscriptions22
  • 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
2 purchases

Schedule

Subscriptions1
  • 一年期会员$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • 猫鱼日程永久会员$9.99

Questions

Is Google Calendar free?
Google Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Schedule free?
Schedule costs $6.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Google Calendar or Schedule?
Schedule is rated higher. Google Calendar averages 4.5 out of 5 from 133K ratings, while Schedule averages 4.6 from 13 ratings.
Do Google Calendar or Schedule have ads?
Neither Google Calendar nor Schedule shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Google Calendar or Schedule?
Google Calendar ships an update weekly, and Schedule every 6 weeks. Most recently, Google Calendar was updated on November 1, 2026 and Schedule on October 24, 2026.

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