This year I went to create my 2020 calendar, and after duplicating the 2019 calendar and renaming it 2020, I double-clicked it, and the app never loaded. I tried it a few times, then gave up.
I downloaded Motif from the Mac App Store and opened it through the CREATE menu on the Photo app.
It opened right up.
After dragging the photos that I wanted to use in my new calendar, it's simple to drag and drop photos on to each page.
Here's my cover:

On the month pages, you can choose to use up to 9 photos on each page in many different configurations, that are able to be modified. Lots of power here.
This is my December:

Here are some of the features you can use when creating your Motif calendar.
I like the feature that allows you to add a photo to an important date.
I'd like to be able to edit the text more to allow the background photo to show up more.

I had an overall great experience with Motif making my calendar for 2020.