Comparison

HiCal vs TipStuff

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

TipStuff

This app helps working parents organize family life by synchronizing calendars, managing tasks, and sharing household information. It offers features for meal planning and shopping lists, accessible across devices. The app prioritizes user data privacy.

Highlights
  • Shared family calendar
  • Task and errand lists
  • Household information sharing
  • Weekly menu planning
  • Exportable shopping lists
  • Cross-device accessibility
Features
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Reconciling your life as a parent and your work is a real challenge every day! That's why we created TipStuff, the app that helps working parents meet the challenge. All the functions you need to organize your family life together are gathered here and will save you time: - Quickly plan family activities, thanks to the common calendar synchronized with everyone's agendas; - Share with your spouse the list of errands or tasks to do this week; - Share all the practical information of the household: babysitter's phone number, children's clothing sizes, etc. - Compose your menus for the week, and export them to your shopping lists. And all this is accessible from anywhere via your smartphone, tablet or PC. Download and test TipStuff - the app that helps you connect the whole family and synchronize brains! From the very beginning, TipStuff has put your private data at the centre of its concerns (at the same time, we're a family like yours, so it's our data we're talking about too). As a result, unlike some of our "free" competitors, we will never sell your data. Never is never. That means never selling files to merchants, never advertising, never linking to companies like Facebook or Google. Now that "never" comes at a price that is entirely funded by premium recharges. The premium allows us to pay the developers who make the application, the machines that make it work, the storage space to put all your data, the support when you have a problem, etc. That being said, we are aware that some families have a moderate use of TipStuff. That's why we've introduced a free version that does come with some limitations: - Advanced features not available (stickers, multiple alarms, week view, PDF export, global search, etc.) - 100 events per year (on account anniversary date) - 100 tasks per year (on account anniversary) - 3 authenticated accesses maximum - 5 contacts maximum - 2 weeks of calendar synchronization Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Screenshots

HiCal4 screens
TipStuff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HiCal at none against TipStuff's 2. HiCal also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). TipStuff's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 55%). On price, update cadence, 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. TipStuff sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. HiCal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HiCal versus TipStuff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiCalTipStuff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews55.0% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNakagawa YugoarNuméral

Customer experience

HiCal

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

TipStuff

Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative9.5%

In-app purchases

None

HiCal

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

TipStuff

One-time2
  • Recharge Premium valable 1 an$41.99
  • Abonnement Annuel$49.99

Questions

Is HiCal free?
HiCal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TipStuff free?
TipStuff is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do HiCal or TipStuff have ads?
Neither HiCal nor TipStuff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HiCal or TipStuff?
HiCal ships an update every 2 months, and TipStuff every 2 months. Most recently, HiCal was updated on September 7, 2026 and TipStuff on September 22, 2026.

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