Best iPhone calendar apps for a full month view

See your month on the Home Screen

The full-month Calendar widget can show event titles and bars. How much detail fits depends on the widget size and settings; select a day in TapCal for its full details.

1. 1Touch and hold an empty area of your iPhone Home Screen.
2. 2Tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for TapCal.
3. 3Choose Calendar and a medium or large size. Add the widget, then touch and hold it and choose Edit Widget to check its options.

TapCal: month-first planning with personal widgets

TapCal shows event titles in a month grid and the selected day’s events and reminders below it. Medium and large Calendar widgets show a month or week, while Month & List combines a compact monthly heat map with a day list. It is a good fit if you want to keep plans visible and choose how your calendar looks. Core planning and base widgets are free; Pro adds options including more event density, custom colours and natural-language date and time recognition.

Apple Calendar and TapCal

Apple Calendar is included with iPhone and offers event titles in its Month view and scheduled Apple Reminders. TapCal builds its experience around the month and selected day together, with a choice of calendar, list, heat map and countdown widgets and independently styled app and widget themes.

Fantastical and TapCal

Fantastical offers configurable month views, widgets, calendar sets and task support. TapCal combines a month-first iPhone and iPad experience with flexible Home Screen layouts, free OpenDyslexic and independent calendar and widget appearances.

Calendars by Readdle and TapCal

Calendars by Readdle offers a month view and interactive widgets. TapCal gives you a choice of month and week calendars, a combined Month & List, upcoming lists, agenda, heat map and Event Countdown, so you can keep the right amount of detail in view.

SimpleCal and TapCal

SimpleCal connects to calendars configured on the device and offers event widgets, colour customisation and weather. TapCal also brings existing plans together and adds flexible month and day widgets, separate app and widget themes, and reminders beside your events.

How to choose a month view

Try a real week of your own schedule. Check whether you can read enough event detail at your preferred text size, whether the day list is convenient, and which widget fits your Home Screen. Dense days have limited space in any month grid, so consider how each app handles overflow.