# CalendarLife

> Classic Style Calendar & Tasks

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id391409467](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id391409467)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id391409467`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** OvalKey Ltd.
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (544 ratings)
- **Version:** 26.7
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2010-11-04
- **Size:** 29 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calendarlife/id391409467)
- **Website:** [http://www.ovalkey.com](http://www.ovalkey.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.ovalkey.com/privacy-policy](https://www.ovalkey.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

CalendarLife offers a classic-style calendar experience on iPhone with automatic syncing across Calendar, iCloud, Google, and Outlook. It preserves the familiar look while adding flexible customization: choose fonts, colors, and photos, view calendars in List, Day, Month, Week, and Agenda, and enjoy easy date navigation.

This app includes Apple Watch support, a Notification Center widget, and fast swipe gestures for deleting or editing events. It supports multiple calendars, image-backed Month view, and a Calendar Store add-on for extra calendars. Note: Lite version is free with ads; full version unlocks calendars and removes ads; in-app purchases available.

## Rankings

- #70,194 — Overall
- #49 — calendar
- #69 — button for google calendar

## Review summary

Reviews consistently praise CalendarLife for its color-coded events, strong customization, and feature set that beats the stock iPhone calendar. Users value the readable UI, the ability to share events, set reminders, and customize per-entry colors. However, several recurring issues emerge: lack of a search function, renewal/purchase friction (repeated charges and failed restores), date accuracy glitches after iOS updates, UI changes that erase familiar layouts, and occasional SSL/server identity warnings. Overall, it’s beloved for visuals and flexibility, but users cite pricing friction and several stability and feature gaps that show up across multiple reviews.

### Pros

- Color coding across events and per-entry color bars.
- Versatile feature set that beats the built-in calendar (notes, reminders, sharing, color bars).
- Readable UI with strong accessibility benefits for vision-impaired users.
- High reliability and stable performance with ongoing updates.
- Easy to use and visually appealing interface.

### Cons

- No search function for events.
- Renewal/purchase friction and restore purchase failures; recurring charges.
- Date/time accuracy issues (lagging behind and incorrect day/date) after OS updates.
- UI changes in updates that remove familiar setups or make it hard to revert.
- SSL/server identity verification warnings that interrupt usage.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id391409467)