Calvetica  vs Rooster: Calendar and Tasks

Calvetica's month view offers continuous scrolling and shows how long events are, and whether or not they overlap.

Unlike many other apps, Calvetica offers flexible customisation of alarm times.

Quick and straightforward adding of new events.

For each event entry, a custom color can be assigned.

For some reason, many calendar apps don't include task lists. Calvetica offers tasks that sync between devices, and come with a snooze option.

To add an event, just tap and hold. Two fields will appear, event name, and time. When filling in the time field, a number pad will automatically be displayed for faster entry.

Alerts are automatically added and set to go off at a standard custom amount of time before the event.

Don't need to know all the particulars? Toggle them off for an even cleaner list.

To add an appointment, you just need to tap them in. No long forms. No interpretation error of natural language. It's truly unique and superior to other calendars.

It has been designed to show you everything you'd want to about your schedule on one screen. You don't need to tap through for address details, room location or for the title of your meeting. It's clean and easy to read too.

Responsive, friendly and helpful if you ever need to get in touch.

You can use iCal on your laptop and Rooster on your phone. The phone version of iCal takes longer to enter events and the UI isn't as streamlined.

Standout design. This app makes staying simple. Very well thought out. Even fun to use.

Any tasks you don't finish carry forward to the next day.

The keyboard entry makes it so easy to create repeating events.

Super handy for any tasks that you don't want to put on a date and just want to keep it around to be completed one day.

Has everything you need, without adding bulk that you'll never use. Gestures and animations are just clean and intuitive

They aren't trying to mine information from personal events and tasks.