When comparing Calendars 5 vs Rooster: Calendar and Tasks, the Slant community recommends Calendars 5 for most people. In the question“What are the best calendar apps for iPhone?” Calendars 5 is ranked 5th while Rooster: Calendar and Tasks is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Calendars 5 is:
Calendars 5 uses the reminders that already exist, and can add new reminders with Siri.
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Pros
Pro Syncs with iOS reminders
Calendars 5 uses the reminders that already exist, and can add new reminders with Siri.
Pro Unique portrait week view
Unique and efficient way to display weeklong agenda in portrait view.
Pro Natural Language Input
Calendars 5 makes it very easy for users to create an event by just typing it in human language.
Simply write something like 'Meet Ben tomorrow at 5PM at Starbucks' and Calendars 5 will parse everything, creating an event for tomorrow, inviting Ben from the address book and picking the Starbucks on the map.
Pro Pleasant and intuitive interface
The choice of font size, color and user interface widgets are all esthetically pleasing.
Pro Notification center
The new notification center puts all the info in one place, and lets users choose from several different views.
Pro Repeating tasks is easy
The UI provides a very simple approach to repeating events or reminders. Users can choose from daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, number of weeks, or by specific days.
Pro Supports Drag-and-drop of events to reschedule
Moving the date of an appointment is easy.
Pro "Executive Summary" toggle view
Don't need to know all the particulars? Toggle them off for an even cleaner list.
Pro So, so easy to add appointments
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.
Pro UI is clean and sleek
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.
Pro Responsive developer
Responsive, friendly and helpful if you ever need to get in touch.
Pro Works with the main calendar for use on laptop/iPad
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.
Pro Beautifully easy to use
Standout design. This app makes staying simple. Very well thought out. Even fun to use.
Pro Roll over incomplete tasks
Any tasks you don't finish carry forward to the next day.
Pro Recurring events are the easiest to create ever
The keyboard entry makes it so easy to create repeating events.
Pro Pin board is great for floating tasks
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.
Pro No unnecessary complexity
Has everything you need, without adding bulk that you'll never use. Gestures and animations are just clean and intuitive
Pro Personal data is kept on the device only
They aren't trying to mine information from personal events and tasks.
Cons
Con The Calendar does not clearly show dates
Con Limited map compatibility
Calendars 5 only uses Apple's Maps app, so Google Maps is out of the question.
Con Privacy Policy missing in app
It is unclear what they are doing with our data since there is no official policy posted on the website. UPDATED: It is available on their website