Comparison

HiCal vs PlanPop

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

PlanPop

This app helps you turn social ideas into real plans with friends. Easily share suggestions, coordinate events, and manage RSVPs on a shared calendar. It's designed to simplify social planning and keep everyone updated.

Highlights
  • Share ideas with friends
  • Schedule and coordinate plans
  • Manage RSVPs
  • Create recurring events
  • Shared group calendars
  • Add photos and locations to ideas
Features
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One calendar. Everyone's plans. Nothing forgotten. PlanPop is a shared calendar for you and your people. Your partner, your family, your friends, your dog. Add your plans, see theirs, stop double-booking yourself. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Work shifts, appointments, pickups, lunch dates. If it's happening, it's on the calendar in a tap. SET IT ONCE Weekly Tuesday dinner? Rent due? Set it and (never) forget it. WE'LL REMIND YOU Reminders before plans, for everyone in your calendar. Less texting, more doing. IDEAS FOR LATER Date nights, trips, someday stuff. Jot them down and move them to the calendar when you're ready. CUTE AS A BUTTON Colorful, simple, and not a gray grid of office sadness. You might actually like opening it. Share your calendar in two taps. Get everyone on the same page.

Screenshots

HiCal4 screens
PlanPop4 screens

Verdict

The call

HiCal and PlanPop both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of PlanPop's written reviews are positive against 55% of HiCal's. PlanPop also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (994 vs 25). HiCal's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for HiCal against 4.8 for PlanPop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlanPop has 994 ratings behind it against 25, 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 89% of PlanPop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HiCal ships an update every 2 months, PlanPop daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HiCal versus PlanPop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiCalPlanPop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (25 ratings)4.8 (994 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews89.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25994 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB280 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNakagawa YugoMoments Technologies Inc.

Customer experience

HiCal

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive55.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative35.0%

PlanPop

All ratings994 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews120 reviews
Positive89.2%
Neutral1.7%
Negative9.2%

Bugs and requests

HiCal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

PlanPop

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widgets not working
  • Time/date auto-changing issues
  • Formatting problems in event chat

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sync with other calendar apps
  • Ability to remove users from shared calendars
  • Customizable notification settings
  • Widget support
  • Export events to phone calendar

In-app purchases

None

HiCal

No in-app purchases

None

PlanPop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HiCal free?
HiCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlanPop free?
PlanPop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HiCal or PlanPop?
PlanPop is rated higher. HiCal averages 4.8 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while PlanPop averages 4.8 from 994 ratings.
Do HiCal or PlanPop have ads?
Neither HiCal nor PlanPop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HiCal or PlanPop?
HiCal ships an update every 2 months, and PlanPop daily. Most recently, HiCal was updated on October 21, 2026 and PlanPop on October 24, 2026.

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