Dawn - Minimal Calendar 4+

Almost Perfect

I love just about everything about this app. It’s the best Ui I could find and I love how easy it is to create tasks and view them. I like the various views to looks at my day, week, or month view. The most underrated feature is the little haptic vibration it makes when clicking certain things it’s my absolute fav. I have the paid version and I love how it syncs to my phone so I can tell Siri to add things to my calendar or add reminders and it will auto sync for me. It’s so simple and actually fun to keep track of my schedule.

I’ve tried to use the spaces feature a few times and although I find myself not utilizing them much, I think they’re a great addition to the paid version.

I wish the app got more attention from the developers because there were a few bugs, and without an in app account, I always fear that the app will disappear someday due to lack of support and I will lose everything. I rely heavily on this calendar I don’t know if I could live without it. I also would like it to sync to my computer or new phone if I were to get one so I hope for it to one day be account based or have some type of sign in feature through Apple.

Widgets

Was only using this because the calendar widget was solid black which matched my background. Still the most beautiful calendar small widget currently available but will be back on the hunt for solid black :/ App is alright, I find the way to add events to my calendar is more tedious than the stock and timepage calendar, it’s also the most expensive of those mentioned. I love the heatmap on the widget but on weekends it’s too transparent to see if you only have 1 event.

*Edit*
Quick fix on the widget, thank you! Pricing is cheaper than Timepage monthly but not yearly, could be some discount they are running at the time of review. I appreciate having the option for a one time purchase unlike timepage, this is the most likely purchasing option for me. I would like to see the monthly view adjusted somehow. I really like having a quick one swipe to enter month view. As well as it filling the whole page while keeping an easy way to view other months. I’m not a fan of the card that pops up when you select a day in the month view. Feels like it breaks the ux. I love the salmon color theme but it would be nice to have the option to have a custom accent color as well as a solid black dark mode as an option. I’ll look forward to the heat map adjustment. And I think the only thing I find slower when adding a task is scrolling horizontally for the time, it looks really clean though. Changing 4* to 5* because I love the developers responses to everyone :)

Developer Response ,

Hey there! I've misconfigured something for v2.1.0, I've since reverted the widgets back to solid black in v2.1.1, please give it a go again!
I'll definitely look into streamlining the add task UX as this is very important to me, as well as tweak the Widget heatmap opacities.
From what I remember though, Dawn should be less expensive than Timepage as I've purposely done this!
Thanks so much for the feedback, good day!

Beautiful, but lacking in paid version

I love this calendar app because of its minimalistic approach and simple UI. Truly unmatched in its aesthetics and feel, minus some minor bugs that you can easily work around.

The only downside is that its paid feature of using Spaces is lacking. (“Spaces” are essentially separate calendars.) There is no option for showing all appointments for all spaces at once, which is a big inconvenience when you want to be able to review all the upcoming items you have for a single day.

For example, if you have a Space for School, a Space for work and a Space for personal appointments you can only see calendar appointments for one Space at a time, and it does not offer the option to see all spaces at once. I regret making the upgrade but if you stick to the free version it truly is a beautiful simple app.