# Finalist: Daily Planner — user reviews > 78 indexed App Store user reviews of Finalist by Diversion Marketing Inc, rated 4.70/5 from 442 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/finalist-daily-planner/id6447014685/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/finalist-daily-planner/id6447014685.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 376 · 4★ 33 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Finalist? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Intuitive day-based organization system - ✨ Beautiful, thoughtfully designed interface - 📅 Excellent calendar and reminders integration - 🎯 Perfect balance of simplicity and functionality - 📝 Effective task management with bring-forward feature - 🧠 Ideal for ADHD users and scattered thinkers - 💰 Reasonable pricing with lifetime purchase option - 🔄 Seamless cross-platform sync (iPhone, iPad, Mac) - 🎨 Customizable colors and design options - ⚡ Fast and responsive developer with active updates - 📖 Feels like a digital paper planner - 🎭 Multiple app icon choices available **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes on macOS and when accessing settings - 🐛 App crashes when opening preferences - ⚠️ Inconsistent subscription recognition issues - ⚠️ Confusing pricing structure with multiple tiers - ⚠️ Limited event creation capabilities - ⚠️ Lacks advanced task management features - ⚠️ macOS version less polished than iOS - ⚠️ Weather feature buggy and unreliable - ⚠️ iPad responsiveness issues on recent updates - ⚠️ Aggressive rating prompts on first use - ⚠️ Incomplete task deletion leaves empty checkboxes **Commonly reported bugs** - Settings/preferences crash the app - Pro subscription not recognized after canceling auto-renewal - Weather widget fails to display without manual toggling - App freezes and becomes unresponsive on iPad - Empty tasks cannot be permanently deleted - App crashes when accessing certain reminder lists - Slow performance after force closing and reopening - Widget functionality discontinued or broken - macOS version crashes and lacks performance **Most requested features** - Apple Watch native app - Recurring/repeating tasks and reminders - Subtasks functionality - Task tagging and filtering - Event location and travel time details - Natural language input for tasks and events - Snooze reminder functionality - Task comments and checklist support - List grouping and archiving options - Menubar-only mode for macOS - Early/advance reminders for tasks - Notes section for daily journaling - School/team collaboration version - Chinese language support - Dark mode option - Family sharing features - Multiple calendar visibility in month view - Invite others to meetings and add conferencing ## Newest reviews (15 of 78) ### 4/5 — iPhone app great. iPad app a mess. Doesn’t sync fully with each other *2026-07-23* Calendars don’t show up on iPad while they do show up on iPhone. **Developer response:** Thanks for the report - can you let me know if 4.0 is having the same problems for you? ### 5/5 — THE Finalist One *2026-03-02, version 3.5.10* Finalist isn't merely a schedule organizer, habit tracker, journal, calendar, appointment tracker/reminder, or note-taking app…It is THE most amazing, oft updated/improved, and most helpful app I’ve ever had the pleasure to own! If you are drawn to passionate developers who’re more interested in giving the world consistently awesome apps rather than seeing how many in-app-purchases they can squeeze out of vulnerable customers, then THIS app should be your FINALIST! ### 5/5 — ADHD life saver *2026-03-02, version 3.5.9* I have tried them all. Truly. Spent gobs of money on both lifetime and monthly subscriptions on all of the heavy hitters. But THIS ONE works with my brain and just plain works. Can’t say enough good things about this small but mighty app. ### 5/5 — Terrific combo of apps! *2026-02-25, version 3.5.9* Been looking for something like this for years. Nicely designed, super convenient. Tasks, reminders, events, journal. Quick notes…etc, all in one place. Excellent & thx to the developer :) ### 5/5 — Finally something that works! *2026-01-31* This app has helped me so much in the past month of using it — and during a very devastating time in my life, where stress, fear, grief, and anxiety have stirred up extra with my ADHD. It has helped keeping up with my to do list, makes it easy to move unfinished tasks to the next day without making me feel guilty, and gives me a space to do some short journaling during the day. The free version is all I need, but I like the app so much I bought the lifetime to support the developer. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for sharing that, I sympathize big time! ### 5/5 — Simplified app *2026-01-27, version 3.5.10* Simply and yet so useful! Love the app and all that it accomplishes in a simple manner. ### 5/5 — Pro subscription not working unless signed up to auto-renew! (UPDATED) *2026-01-08, version 3.5.6* UPDATE 2026-01-08: Never mind, I was wrong about not being prompted for Pro updates despite paying. The problem persists. UPDATE 2026-01-06: I opened the app a few times over the past few days— today I found that the behavior I’d originally described (not recognizing my Pro subscription) was no longer occurring. I don’t have any idea what led to the change; it doesn’t seem like it was anything I did on my end. In any case, I’ve updated my review to 5 stars. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to really put it through its paces, but the app is clearly designed with an attention to detail and looks beautiful. ORIGINAL REVIEW (1 star): When I cancel my auto-renewal in Apple’s settings, even though it shows I still have time left before the Pro subscription ends, the app doesn’t recognize it and still prompts me to sign up for Pro. I’m assuming this is merely a bug and not intentional (I’d guess it would be something that would get an app kicked off the App Store if it were intentional). I’ve never experienced this behavior with other apps so my assumption is that it’s a problem on this app’s end and not something on Apple’s end, but I suppose that could be mistaken. No matter the case, it needs to be addressed! (I actually wound up paying for this app accidentally because of this behavior— I signed up for the trial, then canceled, then realized I couldn’t use the pro features despite having time left on my trial, so I signed back up for the trial, and of course forgot to cancel it in time and was charged for a year’s subscription. And now unless I maintain my subscription as auto-renewing in Apple Settngs, I can’t use the pro features!) The app appears well designed otherwise and I’d still be open to trying it out (provided this app behavior was simply some sort of unintentional bug/mistake). ### 5/5 — Just what I was looking for *2026-01-06* This app has everything I want! I like that you can add notes in the habit tracker. I am not much of a journaler but I’ve actually been enjoying the quick journal feature. ### 5/5 — Now my only Daily Planner *2026-01-01* This is the best to-do/daily planner app I’ve ever used. I sound hyperbolic, but I speak the truth. It has everything I want in a planner & it’s so intuitive to use. The design is appealing and attractive. I love looking at it and if I’m looking at it, it means my stuff is getting done. I’ve gotten rid of all my other “to-do” apps and now this is the only one I’ll use. I love it. ### 5/5 — Great daily planner *2026-01-01, version 3.5.6* It’s one of the few planning apps that feels simple and enjoyable to use. The simple timeline helps me stay focused and get things done without overthinking. ### 5/5 — The best in it’s category *2025-12-31* This app ticks all the boxes for a productivity app. Neatly designed. Useful practical features. Loving it. ### 5/5 — Impressed *2025-12-29* Beautiful and satisfying interface, the fifth star comes from the challenge. Open the app for 30 days and pro for free. Great idea, thanks. ### 5/5 — A focused, thoughtful, original take on a task organizer *2025-12-23* With most apps in this domain, the top-level items are tasks, and tasks have (optional) due dates. With Finalist, the top-level items are days, and days have tasks and events. This might sound like I’m splitting semantic hairs but it gives Finalist a very different feel, one that’s more natural to me. I’m kind of blown away by how robust and thoughtful Finalist is. It’s not a web app with iOS and Mac clients. It’s a suite of native apps designed with care for Apple’s platforms. **Developer response:** ✔️ Bucket list item ### 5/5 — Just started but this makes sense *2025-12-22* It’s organized the way I think. I may actually enjoy this. ### 3/5 — Massive potential *2025-12-19* I think it could have the perfect mix of features, presented in a nice way, but it needs a lot of polish. On macOS it doesn’t feel native or as fast as it should, and is crashing every time I try to open preferences. Looking forward to seeing how it develops! **Developer response:** Thank you and the Preferences bug should be fixed! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — After using it for 949 days I no longer recommend Finalist. *2026-03-21, version 3.6.1* They’re demanding an additional payment of $59.99. Deleting today. ### 1/5 — Fail *2026-03-15, version 3.6* Thought I was getting the full subscription for a month only to discover that it wasn’t the “Pro” plan. Same price though. So I don’t get full functionality even though I paid the same price? Cancelled and deleted. ### 1/5 — Pro subscription not working unless signed up to auto-renew! *2026-01-03* When I cancel my auto-renewal in Apple’s settings, even though it shows I still have time left before the Pro subscription ends, the app doesn’t recognize it and still prompts me to sign up for Pro. I’m assuming this is merely a bug and not intentional (I’d guess it would be something that would get an app kicked off the App Store if it were intentional). I’ve never experienced this behavior with other apps so my assumption is that it’s a problem on this app’s end and not something on Apple’s end, but I suppose that could be mistaken. No matter the case, it needs to be addressed! (I actually wound up paying for this app accidentally because of this behavior— I signed up for the trial, then canceled, then realized I couldn’t use the pro features despite having time left on my trial, so I signed back up for the trial, and of course forgot to cancel it in time and was charged for a year’s subscription. And now unless I maintain my subscription as auto-renewing in Apple Settngs, I can’t use the pro features!) The app appears well designed otherwise and I’d still be open to trying it out (provided this app behavior was simply some sort of unintentional bug/mistake). ### 1/5 — Immediately Crashes *2025-12-17* It seems like this app amalgamates reminders, calendars and lists using a clean notebook-like skin with multi-font headers and styling. It does look like a paper planner, or rather that apotheosis-of-design paper planner with stencil designs and precision layouts common in time management woo-vlogs. The problem is the feature I want to use is paywalled and when I navigate to the Settings option in the UI menu, the app crashes. App Support, dumps me on a marketing page. Navigating to support, I’m invited to create an account and join some Discord so I can open a menu properly in 3-5 business days. **Developer response:** Sorry about this bug, I got it squashed but it took a while to have it approved (holidays!) ### 1/5 — Daily planner *2025-11-09, version 3.3* Needs improvement ### 1/5 — Worst task app *2025-07-07, version 3.0* I heard it is beautiful but it should be useful Hardly any feature is useful here Please close your app and nail your basics before making it look beautiful I was drawn to this app after looking into today view is designed as morning , noon and evening Thought it was great idea which I only saw in reminders app But u can’t move ur tasks , events properly between morning and noon , which is bulshiit No sub task , come on I can list many basic flaws like this I hate to be guinea pig for these useless apps ### 1/5 — Frustrated *2023-08-18* Does not have what I need and won't make it easy to get it! **Developer response:** Sorry to hear that, what do you need?? ### 2/5 — Beautiful, but functionally useless for me *2026-01-01* I see the value here and it’s a beautiful app, but it doesn’t replace using the calendar and tasks app, it just adds another place I can go to see it all together. To super power this app, it needs at least basic event creation elements, like inviting others to meetings, adding conferencing, setting repeating events, toggling which calendar an event will be on, adding descriptions. Without these abilities, I still have to make my events somewhere else, limiting the appeal of having Finalist on my devices in the first place. ### 2/5 — Would be excellent if it weren’t so buggy. *2025-09-18* There are a lot of perfect planner apps on the app store and I hate all of them, I would call this one something better than perfect: It’s excellent. It doesn’t do everything, it’s not super clean, but it does the right amount of things in the right way. If this app did everything it promised without crashing every time I change a setting or open a list, or rather, if it did everything it promises to do, it’d be an easy 5 stars. I so badly want this one to stick! ### 2/5 — Plan pricing is unclear *2025-08-26* I subscribed to the yearly plan for $39.99, then noticed that the planner function isn’t available unless I also subscribe to the Pro yearly plan for $39.99. While I actually like the app, I really don’t like the lack of transparency about pricing. **Developer response:** Sorry to hear that, there is only one license that unlocks everything, you just choose duration. Can you contact me to find out what happened? (In About box) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The right combo for a Visual-Spatial Learner and Visionboard Goal Setter *2026-06-22* The main reason I found this app was for a habit streak tracker. But I’m so glad I found an app as functional and well-displayed as this one. I very much enjoy the view and interface of the main daily page. I also love being able to add photos and daily goals on top of habit tracking. I use the Apple heal to connect how many hours of sleep I got. It’s truly a nicely functional command center for a visual spatial person like myself, while being not too busy and not to overwhelming because you only see the parts you use. I love it. ### 5/5 — Beats Structured, TickTick, Things 3, and all other planner apps *2026-06-19* A firm believer in this app and its potential with future updates. The design language is clean, analog-almost, and feels like a digital extension of a physical planner, with the peace of mind of digital remembrance and continuity between your Apple devices. The two-way seamless sync between this app and the native iOS Calendar and Reminders apps is a game changer. After taking a day to learn it, the investment in finding out about its workings and quirks makes daily planning so much more delightful as your time spent in the day becomes more meaningful. This app is going to change the way people value their time and how they plan their lives. Absolutely love it! ### 5/5 — The best I tried in 10 years *2026-06-07* If you have not tried it yet , get ready for a surprise. Finalist is the best available iOS iPadOS, and macOS task, an event manager in the App Store. The iPad version especially shines with a fantastic yearly planner (yes finally!) synced with a left panel with quick scrolling into the details of the days. Visual interface is a delight. ### 5/5 — Best planned app out there *2026-06-06, version 3.7.3* LOVE this app. By far the best planned app I’ve used. Everything all in one, looks appealing, love it! ### 5/5 — Calendar?? *2026-06-01* I downloaded the app today and installed it. I have a big trip in August on the calendar but finalist doesn’t seem to see it. Also I can’t find an email address for te Update I found it. And I updated the stars But a support email would be helpful ### 5/5 — Awesome Daily planner *2026-04-26* This app has made organizing my day effortless. The interface is clean and intuitive, so adding tasks, setting reminders, and checking my day at a glance are stress-free. Now, I don’t feel overwhelmed with what to do and I can put my plans into perspective. Aside from that, the developer is responsive, so if any issues arise, just send a message and the dev will surely look into it. Worth to download and support! ### 5/5 — Why doesn’t mobile and desktop sync? *2026-04-04, version 3.6.1* I love this app and just bought the lifetime license. However I am very confused as to why my tasks and planner do not sync between my iphone and my Apple laptop. Can someone help me? ### 5/5 — Epic organiser for your life ! *2026-04-02, version 3.6.1* Finalist is a brilliant app for getting yourself organised! With a very responsive developer, and gorgeous UI - finalist is jam packed with features to keep your personal and work lives organised. I thoroughly recommend this. ### 5/5 — Best in Class Daily Planner! *2026-03-30* I’ve explored quite a few calendar and planner apps, especially those with a classic calendar look. Lately, I’ve been drawn to agenda-style planners, so I was thrilled to check out Finalist. After a couple months of use it’s become my go to app. I can confidently say Finalist strikes the perfect balance. It’s an amazing app that offers a lot of flexibility to suit different needs. Finalist draws inspiration from traditional paper planners and really embraces the Day Planner feel. Its standout feature is the Daily tab, which organizes all your calendar events and tasks. You can customize it to only show the information that matters most to you. The design is incredibly detailed, with great typography and color choices that help draw attention to the important stuff. Plus, Finalist works well with Apple’s Reminders in addition to its own tasks function. Between the two, I’ve been able to manage my to-do list very well. Finalist is so beautiful and thoughtfully designed that it makes me want to use it. It’s simplified my planning and made it easier to manage my day and get things done. Highly recommended! ### 5/5 — Finally found my digital planner! *2026-03-20* I have always struggled between using digital tools (which my ADHD brain doesn’t trust), and analog planners (which my ADHD brain misplaces), but now I’ve found the solution - Finalist! It puts all of my thoughts in a single day, whether they be work appointments or personal tasks or intentions or just simple “lines in the sand”. I completely trust the app to sync between platforms, as well as keep everything I need for a day right in front of me, while not overwhelming by me with info I don’t need. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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