Eventail vs Simple Calendar
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.
Simple Calendar
Quickly view your monthly schedule and upcoming events with this easy-to-use calendar app. It offers widget support for at-a-glance access to your day and plans, with all data stored securely on your device. Enjoy a comfortable viewing experience with dark mode support.
- Monthly schedule overview
- Quick event registration
- Widget support for daily plans
- Secure on-device data storage
- Dark mode compatibility
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【Features】 ● You can check your schedule for the month at a glance. You can quickly register your events and check them quickly. There are no complicated settings before using the calendar. ● Widget support You can quickly check the date, day of the week, and future plans for the day with the widget. We have added a monthly calendar to the widget. If you change the day of the week in the app, it will be reflected in the widget. ● The security is safe and secure. The information you add to the calendar is stored only on your device. You can use the calendar with peace of mind because the information is not sent to an external server. ●You can also use it in dark mode, which is easy on the eyes. This app also supports dark mode, so you can use it in dark mode, which is easy on the eyes. [Premium Plan (optional)] An auto-renewable subscription that unlocks all color themes, photo backgrounds, and custom colors. - Monthly: $1.99/month - Yearly: $11.99/year (7-day free trial included) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. * If you previously purchased "Remove Ads", ads stay hidden without a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://calendar.heart-relay.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Eventail at none against Simple Calendar's shown. Eventail also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 Simple Calendar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. 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 4.4 for Simple Calendar. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 186 and 73 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Eventail's written reviews are positive against 60% of Simple Calendar's.
Eventail ships an update every 2 weeks, Simple Calendar every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eventail | Simple Calendar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (186 ratings) | 4.4 (73 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.4% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 186 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 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 — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jozef Legeny | Heart Relay Inc. |
Customer experience
Eventail
Simple Calendar
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
Simple Calendar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Eventail
- Eventail PRO$4.99
Simple Calendar
- Premium Plan (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Premium Plan (Yearly)7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Hide ads$11.99
Questions
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