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24 alternatives to iOS iCal Helper
Hello HN! Long time lurker and Apple user here. I made this simple tool to load .ics files client-side and open it in-browser so Apple's iCal integration enables adding it to their calendar. To say the app is barebones is an understatement: I made it in 2 minutes. Visual enhancements might come. Source: https://github.com/VladCuciureanu/iCalHelper Useful context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36116650
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. iOS iCal Helper launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Fantastical 3.0▲267Much more than just a calendar. It’s Fantastical.
2020 · flexibits.com · its alternatives →
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The calendar app you won't be able to live without
2015 · flexibits.com · its alternatives →
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Sharing, Feedback & Planning Made Easy
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Import .ics files on iPhone the easy way. CalAction adds the share sheet import, file open, URL import, and more that iOS is missing. Completely free, every feature included.
Jun 2026 · calaction.mijndertstuij.nl · its alternatives →
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Supercharged calendar for busy professionals & remote teams
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Impocall▲67Really useful and simple iOS app to manage your calendar.
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Lumical▲102I built an iOS app that lets you point your phone at a paper invite or screenshot, review the parsed details, and drop the event straight into your calendar, so you can capture meetings in seconds instead of typing.
Nov 2025 · lumical.app · its alternatives →
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Around 3 weeks ago, I came across a reddit post from someone who was looking to see if anyone was interested in taking over a 12-14 year old objective c app which hadn't been on the app store for many years. I responded and decided to do it. The app is called Painteresque. It lets you turn photos to charcoal drawings, paintings etc while doing all the processing locally on device: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/i... The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello and Happy New Year HN! Hope all the bests in 2022. So I've been working on a minimal calendar app , named Clendar (Calendar without an 'a'). I know, it's not a good SEO name, but I will go with it :) I've been building Clendar on my spare time. At first, it's just a side weekend project so that I can learn new Apple technologies, but, the app came to the point of usability that I think I should publish on the App Store anyway for the world to know and use it. Besides, I have been trying to design the app for minimal and usability in mind. Also, the app is fully open-source, as a way…
2022 · its alternatives →
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AppDesk▲90Every morning I'd open App Store Connect in Safari, enter my password for the millionth time, then wait 8 seconds for the dashboard to load and continue fumbling around for what I needed. Everything took too many clicks and way too long to load. I did this for years and got tired of it. Good thing Apple provided API access for all this data. So I finally built the app I wanted, just the way I liked. Fast, keyboard-friendly navigation, data syncs and gets stored only on the local device. Meet AppDesk — a native macOS client built with SwiftUI for App Store Connect. Everything runs locally —…
Mar 2026 · appdesk.dev · its alternatives →
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Know exactly what you earned this month, from your calendar
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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I'm a iOS and Mac developer and the thing that mostly bothered me when I first started learning Cocoa programming was the lack of full featured sample code. Now things have changed and more projects have been released, but I still want to do my part. I've already released Color Picker Pro for Mac: https://raw.github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro This time I built a copy of the iPhone Calculator which (I hope) will be simple to follow for beginners: https://github.com/oscardelben/iPhoneCalculator I hope this will be useful to people who are learning Cocoa. Feedbacks are very appreciated.
2011 · raw.github.com · its alternatives →
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iCorner▲26Effortless Mac productivity—access tools with a corner hover
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Download NeatList by NonMonkey.com on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like NeatList.
2011 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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It's just a whimsical little portfolio piece. I just missed putting stickers on a calendar like I did when I was a kid. The calendar is my own and it contains some clever code. (Note how the "leftover" days on the previous and next month behave.) There's also a O(1) double-ended queue behind the UIScrollView so that there's the illusion of infinite scrolling with only 5 objects.
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Free calendar tool for airbnb & short-term rentals
2025 · rentalsummary.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a minimal iOS app called PocketServer (~1MB in download size) that creates persistent local HTTP/WebDAV servers which can actually run in the background. Functionalities: - Serve a folder via WebDAV — browse/add/delete files from others devices on the same network. - Host a static website or directory listing, accessible locally. - Share files cross-platform on the same network, no app needed on the receiving side. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocketserver-local-server/id67...
2025 · its alternatives →
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