Apple Calendar vs In Your Face

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

Apple Calendar

Free built-in calendar for iPhone, iPad, Mac and iCloud.com

Free

In Your Face

Full-screen meeting reminders for Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPad

Free trial · from $3.99/mo

Where they differ

Apple Calendar is free. In Your Face starts at $3.99 per month, or $24.99 per year.
Apple Calendar has a free plan. In Your Face does not, though it has a free trial.
Only Apple Calendar lists a web app.
Only In Your Face lists a Windows app.
In Your Face can be bought with a one-time purchase.
Apple Calendar also covers tasks and natural-language input.
In Your Face also covers menu bar app.

In commonmacOSiOSCalendar

	Apple Calendar	In Your Face
Pricing	Free	Free trial
Starts at	Free	$3.99 per month, or $24.99 per year
Free plan	The whole app is free: the US App Store lists Calendar as Free with no in-app purchases shown. Syncing iCloud calendars needs an Apple Account.	None
Free trial	None listed	Free trial with a limited number of alerts; when they are used up, the app stops showing alerts
Web
macOS
Windows
iOS
Made by	Apple Inc.	Blue Banana Software
Price read from	apps.apple.com	inyourface.app
Checked	Oct 5, 2026	Oct 9, 2026

Apple Calendar

In Your Face

People who miss meetings because banner notifications are easy to ignore
Remote workers who want to join a video call straight from the reminder
People with ADHD, hyperfocus or time blindness, the audience the developer names

Apple Calendar

Apple's setup guide covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and iCloud.com, with Windows handled by syncing to Outlook through iCloud for Windows. No Android app is listed.
Calendar on iCloud.com needs a tablet or computer; Apple's guide says it cannot be used from a phone browser.
Editable sharing is limited to iCloud calendars and people with iCloud accounts. Everyone else can only view a public, read-only calendar.
Time-to-leave alerts are not sent for destinations more than three hours away, and travel time does not update when an event's location changes.

In Your Face

There is no free plan: once the trial's free alerts are used, the app shows no alerts until you subscribe or buy a license.
On Mac, website license keys work only with the direct-download version; App Store versions use Apple's in-app purchases.
It cannot read calendars held in Microsoft Outlook, Fantastical or BusyCal; Google and Microsoft accounts are connected directly instead.
The site lists Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch only, and the iPhone and iPad app requires iOS 26 or later.

Apple Calendar

Several accounts in one calendar: Add iCloud, Google, Microsoft Exchange and other CalDAV accounts and see their events together in List, Day, Week or Month view, with a color for each calendar.
Natural-language event entry: On Mac, typing a phrase such as "Football Game on Saturday from 11 am - 1 pm" creates the event with its date and time filled in. Siri can add or change events by voice.
Travel time and time-to-leave alerts: Adding a location attaches a map and weather, and Calendar sends an alert when it is time to leave, based on traffic or transit conditions. Travel time can be added to the event's duration.
Shared and public calendars: Share an iCloud calendar with other iCloud users as view-only or editable, or turn on Public Calendar so anyone with the link can view and subscribe to it.
Reminders next to events: Scheduled reminders from the Reminders app appear on the calendar, where they can be created, edited and marked complete.
Invitations and video call links: Send and answer invitations through iCloud, Exchange and other accounts. Events can carry a video call link, a FaceTime call on Mac, attachments and notes.

In Your Face

Full-screen alerts: An alert takes over the screen before each event, one minute ahead by default or at a time you set. Alerts can also adjust for travel time when the event includes it.
Join calls from the alert: The app detects video conference links in calendar events for more than 60 services, including Zoom, Teams and Meet, and opens the call from the alert or the event list.
Calendar accounts and filters: On Mac and Windows it connects directly to Google and Microsoft accounts; on Apple devices it also uses the calendars in Apple Calendar. Filters limit alerts to the calendars and events you choose.
Custom reminders: Set a reminder for something that has no calendar event, and get the same full-screen alert for time-critical Apple Reminders.
Per-event settings, pausing and themes: Override the default alert for an individual event, pause alerts while sharing your screen, pick alert sounds and change how alerts look with themes.
Menu bar, widgets and Apple Watch: The Mac app lives in the menu bar with upcoming events and has desktop widgets, the Windows app sits in the tray, and the iPhone app can send alerts to an Apple Watch.

Apple Calendar

Free$0
Every feature of the app on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, plus Calendar on iCloud.com with an Apple Account.

In Your Face

Monthly Subscription$3.99
per month
Unlimited full-screen reminders across Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPad, bought on the website or in the App Store.
Yearly Subscription$24.99
per year
The same access billed once a year. The pricing page labels it the best value.
One-time License$69
one-time purchase
A perpetual license for the direct-download desktop version, including bug fixes and small feature updates.
EnterpriseCustom
Volume licensing, arranged by contacting the developer.

Apple Calendar

No public discounts listed.

In Your Face

Annual discount
Yearly subscription costs about 48% less
The pricing page lists $24.99 per year against $3.99 per month, which is $47.88 over twelve months. It labels the yearly subscription the best value.
Lifetime license
$69 one-time license
A perpetual license for the direct-download desktop version costs $69 once. The pricing FAQ says it includes bug fixes and small feature updates, with any major new version an optional paid upgrade.