This great App actually makes the locked screen on the iPhone and iPod Touch useful. It easily allows you to add a customisable calendar onto your chosen image!  Wallpaper Calendar retails at £1.19, which in my opinion is slightly expensive for what it is at the moment, but it has some good features with a simple easy to use interface.

There are 3 modes:

1. Season Calendar- Set background changes every month
2. Simple Calendar- Blank backgrounds
3. My Calendar- (The most used mode) Use your own photos

Across all three modes you can customise and alter the appearance of the actual month display.  You can decide to show up to 6 months on the page however not only does it become very hard to read them, but it also totally blocks out your photo.  There are countless options to choose from with different colours and colour gradients but in all honesty the default colours are clear to see but there is always the option if you’re bored of white.  Other than that it is a very simple app but it gets the job done, and easily.

The major complaint against the first version of Wallpaper Calendar was that the output was blurry thus rendering the whole idea pointless. However this has been changed in the newest version and once you’ve finished, you use the built in screenshot function (pressing the power and home button simultaneously) to capture it. Then, as you normally would, you go to your Camera roll and select it as wallpaper.  I’ve found no bugs or problems in the new version and I find the interface clean and easy to use which is starting to get rare amongst apps now.  If I was going to improve anything it may be the removal of the simple calendar because I think the blank background is just not useful and also maybe the inclusion of a rotation tool using finger gestures so that the calendar isn’t just straight.  The reason behind this was to fit in with some photos where the calendar rotated might fit in better with the background and add a difference to the application.

So although the Wallpaper Calendar App is not a necessity, once you have it you can see its uses. I can’t remember the countless times I’ve unlocked my iPhone to go to the inbuilt calendar app just to see the date of the weekend.  Now it is so much simpler and all I have to do is look at the unlock screen. Really surprised Apple haven’t added options to put text or data on the unlock screen manually but at the moment Wallpaper Calendar accomplices that need and stops wasting our valuable time!