Calendarly: Calendar Wallpaper

Looks and sounds great on paper, and fills a need I’ve been looking for to help out dementia addled parents, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. I don’t know if it’s a lack of testing or foresight, but absolutely nothing about this app is simple, intuitive, or actually working. There is no amount of fiddling with layouts or setups that can actually get anything displayed on the lock screen, or even allow me to pick what to show. I have multiple reminders and calendars for it to pull data from and yet it showed nothing. In the process it deletes my previous wallpaper setup replacing it with nothing but black and a poorly composited image of a widget with the drop shadow from the clock that used to be there. I really tried for about 30 minutes to make this work, but it just doesn’t. For the amount of money they’re asking for this, it should be far more intuitive and actually work. This is a hard avoid for now.

Was one of the first to try this app. Loved it at first! Then, after a recent update, my layouts became stuck behind a paywall. Can’t customize your background without paying. Would love to see more from having a free version. And if the dev is going state that the first 1000 get early access privileges, they should stick to their word. If positive changes come, I will update this review.

Just what I was looking for. I can see my day at a glance on my lock screen. I have it update every hour to show my upcoming events. Easy to set up. No bugs or crashes. Perfect