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Kalend

Tasks, calendar, habits and journal in one free iPhone and iPad app

Kalend puts your to-do list, calendar, habit tracker and journal in one native app for iPhone and iPad — and syncs them through your own iCloud, so there is no account to create and no company server holding your day.

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Free on the App Store — no subscription, no ads, nothing locked. Built in Edmonton by The Big Head.

What it looks like

Four tabs, one page each, and the same pages on iPad. Nothing here is a mockup — these are screenshots of the app.

New in 2.4 Type “Gym tomorrow at 6pm” and tap Save, move overdue to-dos to Today in one tap, ready-made habits, weekly appointments on several days — and Kalend asks before throwing away anything you typed.

Kalend’s To-Do screen: an Overdue section whose late dates are marked with red stickers, today’s tasks each with a checkbox, priority and project, and the yellow add button beside the name. — To‑Do

Kalend’s Calendar in month view: today circled in yellow, the days with plans marked, and the day’s tasks listed under the grid. — Calendar

Kalend’s Habits screen: six habits with their schedules and streaks, and a strip showing the whole year of completions. — Habits

Kalend’s Journal screen: entries newest first, each with its date, title, an opening line and a word count. — Journal

Kalend on iPad: the four sections down the side, the habit list in the middle, and the chosen habit’s streak, done-today button and month of history beside it. — iPad

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To-Do

Projects, priorities, due dates and real repeating tasks that roll forward instead of just closing.

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Calendar

Your own appointments with reminders and repeats, your tasks by the hour — and your iPhone’s calendars beside them, if you switch that on.

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Habits

Every day, chosen weekdays, a few times a week or every few days — with grace days, so one miss never breaks a streak.

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Journal

A private diary, newest entry first. Write with headings, lists and checkboxes, then read it back like a book.

Your day is not our data

Most productivity apps put your tasks, meetings and personal goals on a company server. Kalend does not have one. There is nothing to breach and no terms that can change later.

No Kalend account — you never create a login
No Kalend server — sync runs entirely through your personal iCloud
Calendar events stay in your own calendar accounts and are never copied out
Fully offline-first — every feature works with no connection
No analytics SDK, no advertising identifiers, no third-party code at all

Why one app instead of three

A typical setup costs around $120 a year across apps that cannot see each other's data. Your habit tracker does not know you are on holiday; your task list does not know your afternoon is already booked.

App	Tasks	Calendar	Habits	Journal	Typical price
Kalend	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Free
Todoist Pro	Yes	Layout only	No	Comments	$60/yr
Fantastical	Via integrations	Yes	No	No	$56.99/yr
Things 3	Yes	No	No	Markdown	$9.99+ per platform
Streaks	No	No	Yes	No	$4.99 once

Competitor pricing as published by each vendor at the time of writing and subject to change.

Built the way iOS wants apps built

Native Swift and SwiftUI throughout — not a web page in a wrapper. That is what makes the small things possible.

Tick things off without opening the app

Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets you can check off in place, an Apple Watch app for your habits, and Siri — “Add a task to Kalend”, “Log a habit in Kalend”.

It understands what you type

Type “gym tomorrow 6pm” and Kalend picks out the date and the time and offers to set them. It runs on your device, so it works on a plane.

Streaks that survive real life

Miss one day and a grace day absorbs it. Research found missing a single opportunity does not derail habit formation, so the app does not pretend otherwise.

A 66-day goal, not a myth

Lally et al. (2010) measured a median of 66 days to automaticity, with a range of 18 to 254 — Kalend tracks that instead of the popular but unsupported "21 days".

Questions

Do I need an account?

No. There is no Kalend account and no Kalend server. Your data stays on your device and syncs between your own devices through your personal iCloud.

Does it work offline?

Yes — Kalend is offline-first. Everything works with no connection, and changes sync when you are back online.

Will it read my calendar?

Only if you turn it on, and only to show your events beside your tasks. It stays off until you choose Show my calendar events in Kalend’s Settings, and iOS asks for your permission at that moment. Your events are read live and never copied into Kalend’s own storage. Appointments you add in Kalend itself need no calendar permission at all.

What does it cost?

Nothing. Every feature is free, including the widgets, the Apple Watch app and iCloud sync. There is no subscription, no premium tier and no ads. The only purchase is an optional tip in Settings, and it unlocks nothing.

How long does it take to build a habit?

Lally and colleagues (2010) measured a median of 66 days for a behaviour to become automatic, ranging from 18 to 254 days. Kalend tracks progress toward 66 days rather than the popular but unsupported “21 days”.

Is there an Android or web version?

No. Kalend is deliberately Apple-only — iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. The system integration it relies on, like EventKit, widgets and Siri, is exactly what a cross-platform build cannot do well.

Is Kalend a calendar and to-do list app in one?

Yes. Your calendar events sit next to today’s tasks, with an overdue section, and your habits and journal are in the same app — free, with no subscription.

Where Kalend is compared

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