WidgetCal vs Clockbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WidgetCal
View your weekly or monthly schedule directly on your Lock Screen without unlocking your device. This app displays events and reminders with customizable layouts, offering quick access to your personal occasions. It also integrates with other powerful calendar applications.
- Lock screen widget support
- Weekly and monthly schedule views
- Event and reminder display
- Integration with AwesomeCalendar
- Customizable font and size
- ToDo carry over
- Lunar calendar support
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Full support iOS 14 widget! Do you still unlock your iPhone/iPad to check your schedule? Want to see weekly or monthly schedule in LockScreen? Here is the WidgetCal. This app shows weekly or monthly view for your events and reminders with a beautiful layout in Notification Center. Quick as a wink, you can access your personal occasions without hassle. Moreover, this widget seamlessly works with AwesomeCalendar, which is the most powerful calendar application in AppStore. It's for FREE. Just give it a try. +Display events and reminders in the Notification Center. +Week/Month view. +Navigate prev/next month. Tap 1st day of next month or last day of prev month. +Integrated with AwesomeCalendar. +Automatic and real-time update events and reminders. +Sunday/Monday start option. +Custom font and size. +ToDo carry over. +Visible calendars control. +Fade out past events. +Lunar calendar for Chinese and Korean. +Cute stickers on view. Some features listed above are available for a premium subscription. WidgetCal Premium is $3.99 USD per year (price may vary by location). The subscription will automatically renew at the end of each term and will be charged through your iTunes account within 24 hours of the end of the term. We offer 3 months free for WidgetCal Premium. Whenever you don’t want to pay or stop using Premium, you can manage your subscription in iTunes. Terms of use: http://wp.me/P1YDeW-rI Private policy: http://wp.me/P1YDeW-q3
Clockbook
This app allows managers to monitor and analyze the work progress and productivity of their remote workforce. It offers real-time timesheet management, project breakdown, and GPS location tracking for enhanced transparency and accuracy.
- Remote time tracking
- Real-time timesheet management
- Work progress monitoring
- Breakdown by project, task, client
- GPS location tracking
- Cross-device syncing
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Clockbook is a simple and powerful remote time tracking app that helps managers monitor and analyzes the work progress and productivity of their remote workforce. With this time tracking app, employers can track their remote workers’ working hours and manage their timesheets in real-time with just one click - filling timesheets has never been this easy. Clockbooks stands out from the other similar time trackers because of its user-friendly interface, exclusive features, and highly competitive pricing, which makes it ideal remote hours and productivity tracking solution even for small businesses. With a simple tap, you can track the hours and see where your remote employees are spending their time and use this data to go through their time reports and break down their hours by projects, tasks, and clients. Clockbook’s time tracking capability lets you know what is making you money, and what’s holding you back. The app covers all devices! All of your tracked timesheets and reports are safely synced between desktop, phone, web & browser extension. Integrated with the latest GPS technology, Clockbooks lets employers track where their employees’ workday starts and ends – leading to a more comprehensive and automatic time tracking experience of a remote workforce. Adding Location tracking feature is not at all an invasion of the privacy of employees; rather it helps both the manager and the employees show accuracy that eventually pays off when needing to determine hours worked, time spent with tasks, pay owed, and what kind of time is needed to complete projects. Adding Location tracking via GPS improves the overall efficiency of the business by ensuring transparency, productivity, and accuracy in the work hours reported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clockbook at 5.0 against WidgetCal's 3.6. Clockbook also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). WidgetCal's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. WidgetCal sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Clockbook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clockbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WidgetCal has 1.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WidgetCal ships an update every 3 weeks, Clockbook every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WidgetCal | Clockbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (1.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YunaSoft Inc. | CDMBase LLC |
Customer experience
WidgetCal
Clockbook
Bugs and requests
WidgetCal
Reported bugs
5 issues- Calendar events disappearing after updates
- Widget not showing correct month or events
- Inability to add or edit events in the app
- Syncing issues with Google Calendar
- Crashes and freezes after iOS updates
Requested features
5 requests- Allow more calendar customization options
- Improve widget functionality and appearance
- Provide an ad-free paid version
- Enhance syncing with other calendar apps
- Add a daily/weekly view in the widget
Clockbook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WidgetCal
- Premium Subscription3 Months trial$9.991 Year
- Religious holidays$0.99
- Week Numbers$0.99
- Moon Phases calendar$0.99
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- Holidays United States$0.99
- Calendars - Pro Football USA 2014-2015 edition$0.99
- Calendars - Pro Baseball USA 2015 edition$0.99
- Calendars - US Pro Basketball 2014-2015 edition$0.99
- Weather calendars$1.99
- Remove Advertisement$9.99
Clockbook
No in-app purchases
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