HiCal vs Weekly Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HiCal
This app facilitates collaborative event planning and scheduling for groups. Share timetables, receive real-time updates on changes, and communicate via comments. Ideal for students, project teams, and organizations to stay synchronized.
- Group event scheduling
- Real-time push notifications
- Event comments and discussion
- Shared timetables
- Private and public groups
- Event repetition support
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Organize yourselves for your classes, projects, or company with HiCal, the collaborative calendar! Create or join your class’ or club’s group, and get your shared timetable in your pocket. You can be part of multiple groups. You will receive Push notifications each time that a group’s event is modified, or an event is commented. Event repetition is supported (including “once every two weeks”). HiCal helps you to organize yourself and to collaborate with your friends and colleagues in different situations: - Students and pupils: Add comments to a lesson at a given day, to indicate homework and exams for example, and they will instantly be synced across smartphones and tablets, and shared with your class. You will not ever ask yourself again what is left to do: the answer will be in your pocket, up-to-date, at any moment. Even if only one person indicates the exams to come, everyone will be aware: one for all, and all for one! - Projects: Determine deadlines with your teammates, and discuss them in the comments! Your project is a secret? Then create a secret group, which will be hidden from the group search results. Only the people you add will be able to join the group. - Companies, clubs and organizations: Write down meetings’ or activities’ dates and locations, suggest or edit in real time, and instantly update all your fellows of a schedule change, thanks to push notifications. - Organize public events: Create a group, open to everyone, to let people stay tuned about your upcoming events! In this kind of group, only the group’s administrators can create or edit events. Thus, you can share your events, your live sessions for example if you’re a band, while keeping control. And if something unexpected happens, you can inform group’s members thanks to comments and push notifications! - Education: If you are an educational institution (school, college, university...), you can also use HiCal, by creating a group for each class or course, and inviting your students in them. Simplify your teachers’ and students’ life with HiCal!
Weekly Planner
Organize your life with a simple, visual weekly planner. Easily add appointments, to-do lists, and recurring events. Enjoy a minimalist approach to tracking tasks and priorities, similar to a paper planner but digital.
- Visual weekly calendar
- To-do list creation
- Add appointments and tasks
- Recurring event scheduling
- Notes section
- Task completion checkmarks
- Past and future event review
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Get organized with our simple Weekly Planner. Plan your life a week at a time and turn the page to schedule the following week. Add appointments, to-do lists, tasks, and recurring events. Miss the ease of paper planners and calendars? You’ll love this digital version. We created Weekly Planner - Diary, Notes for people frustrated by visiting multiple screens to write down an appointment or task. It’s for individuals who don’t have the time or want to add endless details about each task or appointment. They need an effortless way to see and record to-dos and events. Open Weekly Planner and you’ll immediately see the current week. You can instantly add items to your Calendar or go to your Notes page with one tap on the Notes icon. When you finish a task, add a check. Weekly Planner allows you to record events weeks and years in advance. You can also review your past events. If you prefer a focused, minimalist approach to organizing your life and work, Weekly Planner - Diary, Notes app is for you. Don’t search for paper refills for your old planner! Learn to use Weekly Planner today and easily track your tasks, appointments, goals, and priorities. Get started You can start with a FREE version or with a 7-day free trial of Weekly Planner's PRO version. After 7 days, you can purchase the PRO version for $5.99, if you wish. Use it for a lifetime with no monthly or annual subscription fees. Or use the FREE version as long as you like. The purchase screen will always show you the difference between FREE and PRO. PRO Features Optional password lock protection Synchronize Weekly Planner with iCloud, Google Cloud, and other devices Save manually or automatically Save versions for printing in customizable PDFs Create recurring events happening daily, weekly, monthly, or annually Create recurring events on exact dates-keep track of birthdays and anniversaries Search events and entries Copy, paste, and move entries Customization options available in PRO settings Set Sunday, Monday or any other day as the first day of the week Select a one-day, two-day, four-day, or weekly view Select from your choice of app icons Select a page design Select font size and color Additional designs are available as in-app purchases. Contact us for help or support or to share suggestions for improving Weekly Planner at appweeklyplanner@gmail.com. Standard Apple LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT applies to this app: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HiCal at none against Weekly Planner's 11. HiCal also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Weekly Planner's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 23) and review sentiment (70% vs 55%). On price, rating, 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. Weekly Planner sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. HiCal asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for HiCal against 4.7 for Weekly Planner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Weekly Planner has 15K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of HiCal's written reviews are positive against 70% of Weekly Planner's.
HiCal ships an update every 2 months, Weekly Planner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HiCal | Weekly Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23 ratings) | 4.7 (15K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews | 70.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 15K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 1.7 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nakagawa Yugo | Digital Legal Tech |
Customer experience
HiCal
Weekly Planner
Bugs and requests
HiCal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Weekly Planner
Reported bugs
3 issues- Recurring events sometimes disappear or duplicate
- Occasional data loss or entries not saving properly
- Syncing issues between devices
Requested features
6 requests- Add recurring events with end dates
- Implement a calendar view and search function
- Provide automatic iCloud/cloud sync between devices
- Include a checkbox or strikethrough option for completed tasks
- Allow custom text colors for different event types
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- Support for Apple Pencil and handwriting input
In-app purchases
HiCal
No in-app purchases
Weekly Planner
- PREMIUM 1 month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- PREMIUM 1 year7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Textures (lifetime)$1.99
- Holiday designs (lifetime)2 variants$1.99
- 3D Shapes (lifetime)$1.99
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- Gradients (lifetime)$1.99
- Art Lines (lifetime)$1.99
- Weekly Planner PRO (lifetime)$6.99
- PREMIUM for PRO (lifetime)$11.99
- PREMIUM (lifetime)$23.99









