Cal List vs Basic Calendar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cal List
This app offers a streamlined way to view and manage your schedule. It presents upcoming events in a clear list format, includes holidays and birthdays, and allows easy sharing of event lists via email or text.
- Calendar overview
- Upcoming events list
- Holidays and birthdays
- Share event lists
- Email and text sharing
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The most intuitive and simple - yet powerful calendar app. Easily manage your calendar events with this app. MAIN FEATURES ● Calendars overview. ● A beautiful list of upcoming events. ● List of Holidays & Birthdays. ● Send you event lists via email, text message or print.
Basic Calendar
This app offers a clean, monthly view of your Apple Calendar data. Personalize your schedule with color themes and stay on top of appointments with home screen widgets. Easily manage your events at a glance.
- Monthly calendar view
- Apple Calendar integration
- Customizable color themes
- Home screen widgets
- Intuitive user interface
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Basic Calendar is an app that conveniently displays your Apple Calendar data in a monthly view. With a clean design and intuitive user interface, you can easily view and manage your schedule at a glance. Additionally, it supports various color themes, allowing you to personalize your experience and differentiate your events using different visual styles. The app also features widget functionality, ensuring that you never miss important appointments even from your home screen.
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Verdict
Cal List and Basic Calendar both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 85% of Cal List's written reviews are positive against 0% of Basic Calendar's. Cal List also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 5) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 17.0). Basic Calendar's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, ads 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. Cal List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Basic Calendar sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Cal List against 4.8 for Basic Calendar. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cal List has 25 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Cal List's written reviews are positive against 0% of Basic Calendar's.
Cal List ships an update every 5 weeks, Basic Calendar every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cal List | Basic Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (25 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JulyApps Ltd | dotori king |
Customer experience
Cal List
Basic Calendar
In-app purchases
Cal List
- Unlimited Events$1.99
Basic Calendar
- Buy Me a Coffee$0.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
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