Comparison

HiCal vs Structured

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

Structured

Organize your day with a visual timeline that integrates your calendar, to-dos, routines, and habits. This app helps users feel calmer, focus faster, and accomplish more daily. It's ideal for work, study, travel, and managing ADHD, offering planning tools and focus timers.

Highlights
  • Visual timeline for day and week organization
  • Inbox for instant idea capture
  • Sub-tasks and notes for project breakdown
  • Pomodoro focus timer and Live Activities
  • Color-coding and icon personalization
  • Recurring tasks and routines
  • AI-powered daily drafting
Features
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Plan your day visually. Stay focused. Get things done. 400,000+ five-star ratings · Trusted by 1.5 million active users The daily planner built for how your brain actually works. Map your tasks and calendar onto a visual timeline, block your time with intention, and finally build a routine that sticks — whether you have ADHD or just a lot on your plate. WHY STRUCTURED WORKS Most planners give you a blank page. Structured gives you a timeline. You see your whole day laid out, with every task, event, and routine in order. It's time blocking made simple. Built for ADHD minds, busy professionals, and students who need more than a to-do list. FREE FEATURES - Visual day planner with an intuitive drag-and-drop timeline - Inbox to capture ideas fast and sort them later - Syncs across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac - Break big projects into sub-tasks with notes - Pomodoro focus timer, Live Activities, and interactive widgets - Color-coding and hundreds of icons to personalize your schedule - Accessibility built in: VoiceOver, Voice Control, dyslexia-friendly font, and multiple languages STRUCTURED PRO - Connect your calendars and Reminders for a complete daily schedule organizer - Build recurring tasks and routines - AI-powered day planning: draft your schedule in seconds - Replan: automatically reschedules missed or forgotten tasks - Custom notifications to match your workflow PERFECT FOR - ADHD-friendly daily planning that actually sticks - Time blocking your work and study sessions - Morning routine and evening routine planning - Students managing class timetables and study tasks - Anyone who wants a simple to-do list app with a timeline view - Habit tracking alongside your daily task planner YOUR DAY, YOUR WAY Structured isn't just a task manager or a habit tracker. It's the daily planner that puts everything in one place — so you can plan your day, build better habits, and get things done without the overwhelm. Structured Pro is available monthly, annually, or as a lifetime purchase. Terms & Privacy: https://structured.app/legal

Screenshots

HiCal4 screens
Structured4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HiCal at none against Structured's 17. HiCal also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Structured's advantage is ratings volume (168K vs 25) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Structured sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. HiCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Structured. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Structured has 168K 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 78% of Structured's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HiCal ships an update every 2 months, Structured every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
HiCal versus Structured: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiCalStructured
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (25 ratings)4.8 (168K ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews77.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25168K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank—#90 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB291 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNakagawa Yugounorderly GmbH

Customer experience

HiCal

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

Structured

All ratings168,146 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews3,727 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral8.0%
Negative14.2%

Bugs and requests

HiCal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Structured

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recurring subtasks not unchecking properly
  • Sync issues between devices
  • Glitches when changing task times

Requested features

7 requests
  • Drag and drop to rearrange tasks
  • Ability to push back all tasks
  • Shared calendars and task lists
  • Routines and habit tracking
  • More icon categories and search
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  • Customizable notifications
  • Improved Apple Watch and Mac support

In-app purchases

None

HiCal

No in-app purchases

12 purchases

Structured

Subscriptions11
  • Structured Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Structured Pro (Monthly)3 variants$6.991 Month
  • Structured Pro (Monthly)$7.991 Month
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  • Structured Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)1 Year trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)14 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Structured Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Structured Pro (Lifetime)$99.99

Questions

Is HiCal free?
HiCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Structured free?
Structured is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HiCal or Structured?
Structured is rated higher. HiCal averages 4.8 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Structured averages 4.8 from 168K ratings.
Do HiCal or Structured have ads?
Neither HiCal nor Structured shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HiCal or Structured?
HiCal ships an update every 2 months, and Structured every 9 days. Most recently, HiCal was updated on October 21, 2026 and Structured on October 30, 2026.

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