WidgetCal vs Oakward
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
Oakward
This app gamifies household chores for children, turning tasks into quests with experience points and gold rewards. Parents approve completed work, and children can use their earned currency to 'purchase' privileges or contribute to family goals. It aims to reduce arguments over chores and teach valuable skills.
- Chore gamification with XP and gold
- Quest creation and customization
- Hero creation and customization
- Parental approval system
- Customizable reward shop
- Family Vault for shared goals
- Boss battles for collaborative chores
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Chore apps usually fail for the same reason: nothing happens when a kid finishes something. Oakward borrows the loop that keeps kids glued to their games and points it at the laundry basket. The dishes, the bins, the bedroom floor, all of it becomes a quest worth real XP and real gold. Your kids build a hero. You approve the work. Everybody stops arguing about the chore chart. FOUR STEPS, ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES 1. Write the quests. Turn a chore into a quest in the Quest Workshop. Set the XP, the gold, and how often it repeats. Save the good ones to your library and reuse them forever. 2. Make the heroes. Each kid gets a hero with a class, a look, and a photo if they want one. Assign quests to one hero or to the whole roster at once. 3. They do the work. Kids see their own quest list on their own device, mark things done, and send them in. If the job genuinely is not happening, they can request a skip instead of lying about it. 4. You approve, it pays. Completions land in Approval Hall. Approve and the XP, gold, and streak credit hit instantly. Send it back and nothing does. WHAT'S INSIDE Approval Hall: Nothing is paid out until you say so. Approve, deny, or approve with no reward for a half-finished job. Every decision is written to a running ledger you can scroll back through. Your own reward shop: Gold has to buy something, and you decide what. Screen time, a movie night, choosing dinner, a trip to the shop. Set your own prices, add your own photos, and let kids hold what they have bought in a backpack until they want to use it. Streaks and the daily prize wheel: Finish a daily quest bundle and you bank a spin. Spins pile up, so a kid who has a great week gets to sit down on Saturday and burn through five at once. Freeze tokens mean a sick day does not wipe out a month. The Family Vault: A shared pot with a shared goal on it. Kids deposit their own gold toward a family trip or a pizza night and earn family XP for doing it. Withdrawals come to you for approval by default. It quietly teaches saving without a single lecture about saving. Health, potions, and gentle consequences: Heroes have health. Dock a little for the jobs that did not happen, then let a healing potion or a visit to the Hero Infirmary bring them back. Boss battles: The occasional boss the whole house has to gang up on, so siblings have something to do together instead of compete over. BUILT FOR REAL HOUSEHOLDS - Local first. Quests, gold, and approvals live on the device, so the app stays quick and syncs the moment the connection comes back. - One subscription covers the whole family, up to 20 devices. - Parent Command sits behind a Parent PIN, with Face ID or Touch ID unlock if you want it. - Kids get their own device with their own quest list and no access to yours. - Photos stay on the device that added them. They are never uploaded to us. - No ads. No analytics measuring what your family does. Anonymous crash reports only, and you can switch those off. Everything about your children is entered by you, stays in your family's own area of our backend, and is never used for advertising or profiling. PRICING Oakward is free for 7 days, then $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year for the whole household. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://oakward.redmontlabs.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://oakward.redmontlabs.com/support.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Oakward at 100% against WidgetCal's 48%. Oakward also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and ads (none vs shown). WidgetCal's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. WidgetCal sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year and Oakward sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Oakward 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. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of WidgetCal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Oakward's.
| Parameter | WidgetCal | Oakward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (1.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 277 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YunaSoft Inc. | William Montgomery |
Customer experience
WidgetCal
Oakward
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
Oakward
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
Oakward
- Oakward Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Oakward Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year









