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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Double Charge. They charged me once on my iPad now they want me to pay again. Don’t get suckered in.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Deletes Appointments Scheduled. This is my second time having all my appointments wiped out! BEWARE

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Early adopter, one time paid subscriber, now extorted for future improvements. ***Edit: I wrote this review originally on 5/30/26, mentioning the $160 “unlock all” option. It was listed at the time of writing, and now - three days later - that option has also been removed. No response from devs. This goes to my point about their money hungry ways. OG Review follows next. // No longer worth it. I was an early adopter and paid a one-time upgrade fee for PRO in 2012. I was to have access to everything and all future upgrades. Now that prices have gone up, they are extorting me to upgrade to a subscription, when I already paid my dues as an early adopter. Even the one-time “everything unlocked” upgrade has increased 80x to $159.99. I already paid for my one time access to everything, but they are money hungry wanting early adopters to pay more. Now every time I open my app and try to do something, it takes me to, and locks me on, the upgrade screen. I have “restored” successfully repeatedly, but it does nothing. I had recommended this app countless times over the years, but it’s worthless to me now. They do not appreciate customers who made them the success they are today. Searching for new product.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Pushes in every way for purchasing upgrades…terrible feeling. Have been using weekcal since the beginning. It only gets worse after every updates. Pushing to purchase upgrades by limiting functions step by step, making it impossible to use if you don’t pay. Recent updates limits the font to only 10pt which is small and only can use the tools(copy&past etc) for 5 times. In general, terrible experience. I would look for alternatives.

5. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Problems after 14 years.. App stopped working and cannot get support to fix the problem. Used for 14 years but customer service will not resolve refresh problem. Wife’s phone same problem. Not isolated to my phone or settings.

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   pro levels. App store lists multiple pro options. But app itself has only one upgrade for $70 PER YEAR! All I want is agenda view. For $70? Per year?? Outrageous. What a RIPOFF!

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Cannot look at a task in previous year without upgrading. Poorly designed app for users, unless paying for upgrades

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Finally Fix!. Edit: I finally solved my problem. Customer support had reached out to me last time I posted. Nothing they suggested resolved the issue of the calendar not working. I had added a “Focus” on my iPhone with my name showing on the front screen. Once I removed it. My calendar went back to working correctly. …………………. I have had this app for years. For years, it was my go to for scheduling my day to day life. No alarms go off. I paid for the “no ad” version years ago.

9. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Some great functions are broken. Keeps getting worse. Some of the apps functionality is broken. The multiple selection works BUT one events are selected you cannot mass edit or use the tools, only print and share (that is pretty much the differentiator factor of WeekCal and other calendar apps; if that doesn't work there is no point in using this app, except the automatic rescheduling). That got broken three drops ago. I have been expecting they fix it every time there is an update. Just roll back to the version of a few weeks ago. There are no discernable changes anyway. Custom colors got lost too. You can now change a calendar color to a custom one but it doesn't save it. I have been using this app since 2013-ish. It is a mature app. I don't understand how these issues happen. Just roll back...

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bug filled for years!!. In the past this was such a fantastic app but every year it gets more glitchy, more dysfunctional. The same core bugs have remained unfixed for 5-6-7+years. Support always responds but they never actually follow up with solutions. Update Oct 2025… I was just gonna post a review and found I already posted! Sadly it’s only gotten worse every year.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Repeat Error. Have loved this for years. Now my repeating events are listed on 2 days rather than 1.

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    A fee to use a widget lol. Y’all have issues with only 9000 downloads trying to Bogard the widget of all things behind a paywall.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bug when adding a full day event. Tap the area where whole day events are on weekly view, save the event. It's not automatically set as full day. This used to work correctly. Used to be great, now developed by someone else and continuously getting worse.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not easy set up. I just wasted $50. This app isn’t doing anything more than what I IPhone calendar can already do. I couldn’t connect family share. The contact support button was disabled. I was excited for efficiency and I have wasted days and hours trying to get it to work and get connected to my husband’s phone. Ugh. I am super irritated with the time I wasted with this app and even more irritated to have lost the $50. Hope the money is taken and makes the app more user friendly!

15. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Booooo. Another calendar app forcing me to connect my IOS calendar. CLEARLY I am wanting a SEPARATE calendar or I wouldn't've downloaded this.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No longer works across devices. I’ve used WeekCal for years on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. But now it no longer syncs across the devices. This has been going on for about a week now

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Corrupted Free Option with nonstop popups to upgrade and price to upgrade is ludicrously expensive. Corrupted Free Option with nonstop popups to upgrade and price to upgrade is ludicrously expensive

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Update is bad. Bring back mini month

19. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    There is no way to view the Month. The latest update has removed the ability to have Month View. I need to have the whole Month in view when scheduling my calendar.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Month view. Why did you get rid of the month view

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Losing long-time users. What the other recent 1-star reviews are saying is true, and what the company says (“You shouldn’t have to pay for the same features twice”) is false. I am yet another loooong-time user who purchased the app in the early days. I used to sing its praises to everyone. There’s been little bugs that have crept in, but nothing too bothersome. And I’ve avoided updating as much as possible once I started to see folks complaining about intrusive ads, and subscriptions. This past week I noticed I was unable to edit recurring event info—I would change the days or the number of repetitions, but it wouldn’t save it. This was a big issue for me because I am constantly entering and editing recurring events. I thought maybe I could try an app update without losing any features I’ve had since I purchased but I backed up my phone just in case. Glad I did, because once I updated, I couldn’t use day or month views anymore, only week view and agenda, without it requiring a pro subscription. I think there were other limitations, but that was enough to make the app pointless for me. I spent 24 hours restoring my phone from backup, and fortunately the app was back to what it was before I upgraded. But I lost use of my phone for a whole day, and a couple of my older apps that I use regularly no longer work (because their companies are defunct). Bottom line is, I don’t tell anyone about this app now, and I sure am hoping the other options out there now have caught up over the past decade because I may have to switch…sigh.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    What happened. I’ve been using this calendar app for many years. I absolutely love having the agenda layout, which I don’t believe too many other calendars have. But suddenly I’ve been having a lot of issues where my events are disappearing, and the app is suddenly extremely glitchy. I am so disappointed. I am going to have to go to another Calendar app because I don’t even know what some of the appointments that disappeared from my calendar are at this point. I’ve never had any issues with this app and now there’s so many. Time to say goodbye to this calendar. I can’t believe how bad it got.

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Do not update. Do not upgrade if you already have it! You’ll lose the ability to look at future months and other functionality. “General optimization and stability improvements” = lost functionality and $30/yr nag screens each time I try to use previous version functionality. Dishonest! Clicking ”restore purchase” does nothing.

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Scammed.. It’s a scary day when you wake up and all your information is removed from your view. I’ve used this app since 2012 and it houses over a decade of charted events, notes, important data along with future appts and events. Imagine opening it one day to find all that information locked behind a paywall. And, after paying for the requested amount for the same plan ($24.99) you’ve had for 13 years, you REMAIN locked out. Evidentially the ransom to regain access to all my personal information is now $49.99! There was no notice of these changes, no option to transfer your information or even view it- it was just hijacked overnight. My heart is broken for all those nostalgic events I won’t be able to browse through from the past- including my children’s first bdays, first days of school etc. It’s all just gone. Unless ofc I pay the $49.99. And even then, I don’t know that I’ll have access. SHAME ON YOU.

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Cost change-now expensive subscription. I paid for app awhile back. Updated the app and now it’s subscription and I can’t access my calendar. Bait & switch. Terrible. Don’t get this app. Just use Apple calendar if on iPhone. I hate paying for an app, then they change and lock you out. Let’s get this info out to everybody! They need to know.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    New update requires a subscription 👎. Ive been using Week Cal since 2011. Now with the new update, I have to pay a subscription to use the app. I’ll be finding a new way to track my events.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    New update is awful. The new update will not allow me to look ahead to the next month or look back to the previous month. I get a page where I have to pay. This is not fair. Is there no free version still available? Can I still use the free version? If not does anyone know of a good free calendar app similar to this one?

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Have to pay more. This is one of the few apps that I was willing to pay for and I loved it, until one of the recent updates is now forcing me to pay a monthly subscription if I want to continue to use the app. Deleting.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I hate the new update. I loved this app, I have been using it for several years. I loved how you could see the whole month days and clicking one day would show you that day in half the screen. I tried many calendar apps until I found this jewel. Well, it’s all gone. Some new guy just destroyed it. I unsubscribed, what a shame!!

30. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not able to contact support. When I try to contact support I’m not able to as I receive an error that my email is not setup in settings. So I try to search for where to enter email address and can not find the location; tried the help docs and no help there; tried search on internet and no help. I’ve paid for an app that I can’t figure out how to contact support when I need support; very disappointing….maybe they’ll see this review and reach out; hopefully… Update; 1 week later after review; STILL no feedback from support/developer! Won’t be renewing this subscription that’s for sure….