Eventail vs Calendar Z
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eventail
Enhance your iPhone's home screen with compact calendar widgets. View upcoming days or today's/tomorrow's events in a scrollable, customizable format. Integrates with other apps for seamless event management.
- Compact week widget (3-7 days)
- Day widget (today/tomorrow events)
- Scrollable widget pages
- Customizable themes and colors
- Event shortcuts
- App integrations
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Eventail is the missing calendar widget for your iPhone. Eventail brings two nifty calendar widgets: - A week widget that can display from 3 to 7 upcoming days in a very compact manner. - A day widget which can display either today's or tommorrow's events. What makes eventail special? - The widgets have pages, put multiple copies in a stack and you can scroll on hour homescreen! Ingenious! - Both widgets are fully themable with custom colors, backgrounds and provide several styles of event displays. - The larger sizes of the day widget provide shortucts to do more than just look at the even titles. Eventail integrates with many apps on your device: you can open events in a calendar app, join meetings in video-conferencing apps, open navigation to your destination, and more. Visit https://eventail.app for more information. If you have questions or suggestions do not hesitate to ping me at @eventailapp on Twitter.
Calendar Z
A straightforward yet powerful calendar application designed for efficient schedule management. It features an integrated reminder system, supports Apple Watch, and offers advanced options for recurring events and event display.
- Integrated reminder system
- Apple Watch compatibility
- Advanced repeating event setup
- Event display on Map
- Widget support
- Template function for quick event addition
- Customizable appearance
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Calendar Z is a simple yet high-level calendar app. With an integrated reminder system, it makes schedule management just that much easier. ・Works with the AppleWatch. ・Integrated reminder system. Both reminders and events are displayed on the calendar. ・Works with the iPad's Multitasking feature. Start this app while using other apps by sliding from the sides. ・Set up complicating repeating events, such as "the end of every month", "the last Saturday of each month", etc. ・Display events on the Map, and quickly access links. ・Works with widgets; you can quickly check your schedule. ・Can be displayed in landscape mode. When using side view, event start time is also displayed on the calendar. ・The calendar automatically adjusts; even if you have many events planned they will not be hidden. ・Includes a template function. Register events and reminders to a template to make addition even faster. ・Customize its appearance as you see fit. Change the calendar theme color to your favorite color. ・Change when the week begins as well as the color. ・You can use 3D touch shortcut menu for create new event or reminder.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Eventail at none against Calendar Z's shown. Eventail also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.6). Calendar Z's advantage is review sentiment (65% vs 55%) and ratings volume (722 vs 183). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Eventail sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Calendar Z sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Eventail against 4.3 for Calendar Z. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 183 and 722 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Eventail's written reviews are positive against 65% of Calendar Z's.
Eventail ships an update every 2 weeks, Calendar Z every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eventail | Calendar Z |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (183 ratings) — better | 4.3 (722 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.4% of reviews | 65.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 183 | 722 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jozef Legeny | PiyoLog Inc. |
Customer experience
Eventail
Calendar Z
User reviews
Eventail
From 183 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great calendar widget
- 👍 Compact and well-featured
- 👍 Interactive event opening
- 👍 Useful for students
- 👍 Highly customizable
Room to improve
- 🐛 No longer supported on iOS
- 🐛 Broken on iOS 17
- 🐛 Glitchy at times
- 🐛 Widget doesn't update automatically
- 🐛 Disappointed this stopped working
Calendar Z
From 722 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 🎨 Customizable colors and views
- 🗓️ Comprehensive monthly calendar view
- 🔗 Integrates with reminders and other calendars
- 🔍 Clear event details and overview
Room to improve
- 🐛 Disappearing past events and data loss
- ⚠️ Sync and compatibility issues with other devices
- 🔍 Difficulty deleting or editing events
- 🗓️ Continuous calendar view can be confusing
- 🔔 Unreliable or missing notifications
Bugs and requests
Eventail
Reported bugs
25 issues- No longer supported with current iOS
- Broken on iOS 17
- Widgets are blank on iOS 17
- Does not appear in widget list on iOS 17
- Widget doesn’t update automatically
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- Stopped working with iOS 15.1
- Settings won’t load
- App keeps crashing
- Widget stopped loading on iPad
- Widget doesn’t always show calendar
- Widgets only say unable to load
- Widget not always working
- Widget blank on iPad
- Calendar widget not showing info
- Widget doesn't display properly on new iPad Mini 5
- Widget doesn't load correctly
- Stuck in configuration mode
- Doesn’t show calendars data in a widget field
- Fails to load
- Unable to load error on iPhone X
- Widget shows it cannot load after buying pro
- App cannot load onto widget page
- Ugly and buggy
- With turned off empty days still shows empty days
- Detects closest day with event incorrectly
Requested features
6 requests- Hide weekends and hold Monday-to-Friday view
- More rows showing the whole month
- Option to launch Google Calendar app
- Separate widget for reminders with dates
- Widget showing next 3 to 7 occurrences of a single day of the week
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- More options for appearance settings
Calendar Z
Reported bugs
4 issues- Events disappearing or not saving properly
- Incorrect date/time display and sync issues
- Crashes or freezes after updates
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to view and restore past events
- Improved sync and cross-device functionality
- More customization options for layout and colors
- Easier event management (editing, deleting, repeating)
- Better notification system and controls
In-app purchases
Eventail
- Eventail PRO$4.99
Calendar Z
- Disappear Ads$1.99
