Eventail vs Calendar Widget
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 Widget
This app offers a free, user-friendly calendar experience with extensive customization options. It includes widgets for your home screen and allows for detailed event management, including recurring events and notifications. Enjoy a personalized schedule without any registration or syncing requirements.
- Home screen widgets
- No registration required
- Customizable event details
- Recurring event support
- Daily event notifications
- Unlimited calendars
- Dark mode
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It's a simple and easy-to-use calendar app. Widgets are available. All features are completely free to use. Features: - No registration required, no sync with iPhone calendar - Calendar horizontal / vertical scroll - Select calendar start / end year - 24 hour notation - Select calendar start day - Any holiday selection - Getting holidays - Holiday, days off color - Rokuyo support - Event label color - Color selection for event label font only - Event label font size, thickness - Time display on event label - Event time interval selection - Select event length - Default all-day selection - Daily event notification - Daily event number badge display - Select update time for daily notifications - Unlimited number of calendars - Calendar color - Pin the calendar - Notification for each calendar, badge availability selection - Highlight the date of the day on the calendar - Button to return to this month - Any date selection - Tap a date to add an event on that day - Select multiple dates and add events at once - Background color for calendar dates - Batch addition of background color - Event title, memo, color - Event time, all day selection - Event start time / end time - Repeat event (weekly / monthly / yearly) - Automatic save of event addition history, bookmark save - Add an event with one tap from history and bookmarks - Event list display by date - Batch event deletion, color change, sharing, - Move and duplicate events between calendars - Home screen widget support (calendar selection, this month / next month / last month selectable) - Icon badge display (number of events on the day) - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: calendarwidget://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Calendar Widget at none against Eventail's 1. Calendar Widget also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3). Eventail's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Calendar Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calendar Widget holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 186 and 236 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Eventail's written reviews are positive against 58% of Calendar Widget's.
Eventail ships an update every 2 weeks, Calendar Widget every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eventail | Calendar Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (186 ratings) | 4.5 (236 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.4% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 186 | 236 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jozef Legeny | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Eventail
Calendar Widget
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 Widget
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Eventail
- Eventail PRO$4.99
Calendar Widget
No in-app purchases
Questions
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