HiCal vs Calendar Notes
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!
Calendar Notes
Capture your thoughts and plans directly on a calendar. This straightforward app lets you add notes, ideas, and personal agendas to specific dates with customizable colors. View your entries by month or year in a clean, lightweight interface.
- Save notes and ideas to calendar dates
- Add color to notes
- View notes by month or year
- Perpetual calendar functionality
- Lightweight and small app size
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An very easy app to save your idea and your notes in a calendar date form * beautiful & simple application without any pretension/requirement * add a note, idea, personal agenda, diary into calendar * perpetual calendar * swipe left and right to change month * you can view list of notes by monthly or yearly * multicolor note. add color to a note * optimized & lightweight app * small size App Don't let your idea gone, write it down with this calendar notes app !
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Verdict
HiCal and Calendar Notes both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 93% of Calendar Notes's written reviews are positive against 55% of HiCal's. HiCal's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for HiCal against 4.9 for Calendar Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 74 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of HiCal's written reviews are positive against 93% of Calendar Notes's.
HiCal ships an update every 2 months, Calendar Notes every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HiCal | Calendar Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) | 4.9 (74 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 74 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nakagawa Yugo | Edi Ermawan |
Customer experience
HiCal
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In-app purchases
HiCal
No in-app purchases
Calendar Notes
No in-app purchases
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