# SheetPlanner — Organize. Plan. Do.

> Flexible outliner and planner for organizing, scheduling, and task management. (iPhone/iPad app by SheetPlanner Software LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sheetplanner/id1438761088 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [SheetPlanner Software LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1438761087)
- Category: Productivity, Business
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 3 App Store ratings · 21 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 55 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2018-11-26
- Data updated: 2026-07-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sheetplanner/id1438761088/reviews.md

## What is SheetPlanner?

SheetPlanner helps you organize information, plan your life and schedule your tasks and activities with unparalleled power and flexibility.


FREE OUTLINER; advanced features available via 21 day in-app trial:

SheetPlanner's outliner supporting multiple columns, styles, notes, links, and more is available completely free forever. Try advanced features including timeline and calendar views, multiple sheets, smart filters, and more, free for 21 days. At the end of the trial, purchase to unlock those features, or continue with the free outliner.


Get organized:

Organize all your activities in an outliner, categorize them using the standard columns including progress, start and finish dates. Create your own date, text, number, symbol or drop down list columns. Auto enter cell values. Link to documents and web sites.

Make a plan:

Plan and visualize your goals, project tasks and schedule in the timeline view. View task duration and sequence. View timeline by days, weeks, months, quarters or years. Create dependencies between rows. View predecessors and successors.

Get things done:

Use filters or focus to concentrate on whats important, due today, due tomorrow, or whatever criteria you decide. View tasks in a month or year calendar or both.

Features:

Outliner with columns:
Organize and give structure to text. Add your own text, number, date, symbol or list type columns.

Sync
Syncing via iCloud Drive is now supported. Edit a document on multiple Macs, and the changes will periodically sync.

Collaboration
Collaborate with other people. Share a document, and see their changes highlighted, and even their selection.

Notes:
Notes inline below row topic and in own tab with full text editor.

Row Styles:
Custom fonts, size, color at each row level or specific to individual rows.

Focus:
Focus on a row or a row and its children. Transverse hierarchy via path bar.

Search:
Search the outline across columns from the toolbar with an option to save as a Smart Filter.

Sorting:
Sort the outline by any column, by ascending, descending order or by the order of values in a ‘List’ type column.

Smart filters (in-app purchase):
Create Smart Filters with simple or complex criteria and save them for future use via the Filter Bar.

Link files, folders & webpages.
Link to web pages, documents and folders on your Mac or in the cloud, or view them via Quick Look or tabs.

Multiple Tabs:
View sheets in multiple tabs at once in any combination of views: month view, outline, timeline or year view.

Monthly Calendar (in-app purchase):
View outline rows with assigned dates in a monthly view.

Yearly Calendar (in-app purchase):
Heat-mapped year view indicating number of activities commencing and/or finishing on each day.

Timeline (in-app purchase):
View and adjust key dates for each task on a horizontal timeline. Create dependencies between rows. Dependencies can be of the following types: Finish to start, start to finish, start to start, finish to finish.

Board View (in-app purchase):
View Outline rows on a board. Organize cards by Topic, column list values, symbol list values, people. Organize by vertical and horizontal lanes. Drag to move cards between lanes.

Multiple Sheets:
A document can now include multiple sheets, each with their own columns, rows, styles, filters, etc. Organize and access multiple sheets using the sidebar and folders.

Printing:
See a preview of what will be printed, including printing the outline and timeline together.

Properties:
Customize cell, column, row, calendar and timeline settings.

Import & Export:
Import & export in CSV or OPML format.

Copy & Paste:
Copy and Paste from/to Excel & Numbers.

Themes:
Personalize Outline view with green-bar, yellow notepad or green notepad themes.

Templates:
Ready to go templates for business, education and personal use. Save templates for future use via the template chooser.

## Key features

- Outliner with customizable columns
- Timeline and calendar views
- Smart filters for focused task management
- Syncing via iCloud Drive
- Collaboration features
- Linking to files, folders, and webpages

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free Trial | Free | one-time |
| Unlock SheetPlanner | $49.99 | one-time |
| Free Trial | Free | one-time |
| Upgrade SheetPlanner | $39.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 21)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sheetplanner/id1438761088/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Mondays Copycat needs work

*2025-11-15*

I’ve used a LOT of apps, and many like this style.  I love the multiple views it can present, but the most basic of functions is either missing or VERY not intuitive.  For example, I selected “Sales Forecast” to start with.  There’s the option for 0-30 days, 30-90 days, and 90+ days.  I wanted to make it by MONTH, to match the way my company wants a forecast.  But, there’s no way to modify those defaults, so your dropdown will ALWAYS be those three until you manually write over the top of them.  I tried every conceivable option, right-click, change tabs, file/edit/view menus, and NOTHING gave me the ability to change these defaults.  Mind-blowing ththat using an Excel Sheet self-created would be easier to use for Data Validation…

**Developer response:** RaeotRae,

Thank you for your review.

Bear in mind the Sales Forecast template is just an example.

It can be easily customized using the properties sheet.

Simply click on a cell in the column you want to customize and click the 'I' in the toolbar (top right) to reveal the properties sheet. All sorts of column settings can be changed including drop down menu values.

There are videos in the help menu that explain all this, although the layout of the properties sheet has changed in 5.0 but you should still be able to follow along.

Alternatively, please contact us at support@sheetplanner.com and we will walk you through it step by step.

Regards
Peter

### 5/5 — An easy-to-use interface hides a powerful program

*2024-08-17*

This program is ridiculously easy to use for project management and associated information storage. It is one of a small number of programs with the combination of outliner and columns, with the ability to easily filter and hoist items for focused study. Programs with similar approaches (e.g., OmniOutliner, InfoQube) while also good, seem to be biased toward information first and time/project management secondarily (I’ll still keep Ecco in its own special place). SheetPlanner takes the opposite approach and places project management first. I am not aware of other apps that make it so simple and intuitive to generate simultaneous outline, calendar, Gantt, and/or Kanban views (with swimlanes) with basically no learning time investment on the part of the user. If you think this might fit into your workflow, I would recommend you look into this. For me, it is the type of program that I have begun to think of first when I have a number of things or obligations to juggle or put into some semblance of order. As a final note, the developer in my experience is very responsive to email should any issues arise. I’m very happy with this program, happy to not have yet another subscription, and I look forward to its continued development.

**Developer response:** MikeonMac73,
Thank you for the great review.
We really appreciate it.
Peter

### 4/5 — Good App but some issues

*2023-01-23*

The print feature is useless.  It will preview and size perfectly but something is lost in translation -- have not successfully printed yet.  Just blank pages.   After leave print the UI is a little messed up with the check boxes cut off at the top -- have to restart the program to make it look good again.   Hope the owner will help with this.

**Developer response:** July4man,
Version 3.03 is now released which amongst other things fixes printing under Ventura.
Please contact us at support@sheetplanner.com if you have any questions.

### 3/5 — On the right track, has a way to go

*2022-06-04*

I really like using this app, but there are a couple frustratioins that at times make it almost unusuable.  The easier problem is it crashes every other time I make changes in Preferences. The more frustrating problem is that when copying from one sheet to another things paste in reverse order and not everything is pasted into the new sheet.

**Developer response:** Sam, we have addressed the issues you describe in 3.01 which is available for download on the Mac App Store. Thank you from the team at SheetPlanner Software.

### 5/5 — THE Mac Project Software

*2022-02-14*

SheetPlanner is perfect. It’s robust, with all the features you need, but so intuitive and with such a clean interface, you’ll be able to employ it “right out of the box”. I’ve used planning software that required crawling through tons of documentation before you could start using it. SheetPlanner has simple entry, noting, tagging, etc.; plus quick switch (or side-by-side) for sheet, Gantt, and month and year calendar views. 
Their support is responsive and you can use this for proper projects as well as RACI, to-do lists, and other applications. This software (at a very reasonable, one-time cost) is helping me with a cohesive and trackable PLAN during a challenging 2022.

### 5/5 — Great App w/ Lots of Potential

*2022-02-14*

Hello,
I purchased SheetPlanner hoping to organize my business materials and EWO's. It's a nice app but after using it for a few weeks, I found it to be very "glitchy". 
Be sure to double check everything. It drop #'s after the decimal when copying and pasting columns. You can't input a decimal before a zero. you have to type the whole number and then go back and place the decimal before the zero. 
after saving to your desktop or a folder, when you re-open it, you loose changes made to font colors. 
Also, when you re-open it opens to an untitled copy instead of the original. 
Basically, these glitches create additional work and time to your schedule.
I like SheetPlanner. It has lots of potential. They just need to "iron" some things out in the future releases. 
Support is very expedient. I've contacted suppot a few times and Peter was very quick to respond with help.

**Developer response:** Slowbono, We have addressed the bugs you cited here in the latest update.
Thanks from the team at SheetPlanner Software....

### 3/5 — Good for Basic Overview

*2021-03-27*

I cut my teeth on the earliest PC project management software (1984 onwards). I've owned most every major app out there for consulting and business development work. Sheetplanner actually offers the main tools I find useful at a good price and it's fairly easy to figure out. These days I write books so that's what I'm using SP for. It's perfect for my basic scheduling and tracking needs. My main problem though is that a good amount of the text formatting operations don't work (unless there's a trick or something I don't know). I'm sure I'll find more issues, but the formatting one is pretty buggy. Commands don't always take; alignment can't be controlled (although there are commands...they don't work, at least for me), and there really needs to be separate level controls for formatting in general. Still, I'm sold and will use this tool happily. The useful stuff is there and that's my main concern.

**Developer response:** Jango, thanks for the review. Can you please contact us at support@sheetplanner.com and we will try to address your issues directly. Please note there are specific format settings for each level of the outline. Thanks from the team at SheetPlanner Software.

### 5/5 — I have been looking for an app like this for a LONG time!

*2021-03-19*

I only downloaded SheetPlanner yesterday, but I love it so far! I have been looking for a suitable replacement for IN CONTROL by Attain (released in 1993), since the early 2000's and I think I might have finally found it. I still use IN CONTROL in emulation, because no project management outliner has come close. The controls, features, and feel of the software are spot on! Are there any plans for an iPad version? That would pretty much complete my wish list.

### 5/5 — Best project management software and powerful

*2021-02-12*

This app is one of the hidden gems of the Mac app store. A must-have for anyone tackling major projects. 
I use SheetPlanner for to-do lists as well more complex project management with full Gannt charts. It’s agile and flexible. I love the ability to create custom columns with custom drop-down lists, move the columns around, reorganize rows by dragging and the ability to create custom filters to focus on what’s important at the time. The flexibility is great. 
It's packed with all the stuff you need and wished you always had. I highly recommend it to all Mac OSx users. 5 Stars!!!

**Developer response:** Thank you Salama for your great review. We really appreciate it. We hope you continue to enjoy using SheetPlanner. There is plenty more to come. Thanks from the team at SheetPlanner Software.

### 5/5 — Easy To Use - Great Alt to MS Project

*2021-01-02*

Update:  Since the update on Jan 1, the main issue that I had with this software (printing), has been addressed and works perfect.  Really great alternative to MS Project, if you're looking for something dedicated to just schedules.  Super easy, great options, love it...  Nice work!!

**Developer response:** Hi Formatt, Thanks for updating your review and giving us 5 stars to reflect the changes in 2.0. Great to hear you are happy with the update. Thanks from the team at SheetPlanner Software!

## Frequently asked questions about SheetPlanner

### What is the core functionality of SheetPlanner that is free?

The core functionality of SheetPlanner is its outliner, which supports multiple columns, styles, notes, and links. This outliner is available completely free forever, allowing users to organize and structure text effectively.

### How long is the free trial for SheetPlanner's advanced features?

SheetPlanner offers a 21-day in-app trial for its advanced features. During this period, users can explore functionalities like timeline and calendar views, multiple sheets, and smart filters without charge.

### What happens after the SheetPlanner trial ends?

After the 21-day trial, users can purchase SheetPlanner to unlock the advanced features permanently. Alternatively, they can continue using the free outliner functionality without access to the premium features.

### Can I collaborate with others using SheetPlanner?

Yes, SheetPlanner supports collaboration. You can share a document with other people, see their changes highlighted, and even view their current selection within the shared document.

### What devices is SheetPlanner compatible with?

SheetPlanner is available on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, allowing users to organize and plan across multiple Apple devices.

### How often is SheetPlanner updated?

SheetPlanner was last updated on March 22, 2026, indicating a commitment to ongoing development and feature enhancements. The latest version is 5.2.1.

### What is the age rating for SheetPlanner?

SheetPlanner has an age rating of 17+, suggesting it may contain content or features more suited for mature users.

### Does SheetPlanner offer different views for tasks?

Yes, SheetPlanner offers multiple views. Users can see tasks in an outline, timeline, month calendar, or year calendar view, with the calendar and timeline views being part of the advanced features.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.3.1 — 2026-05-01

- Fixed Button cells not fitting larger title fonts.
- Made the pinned row indicator larger.
- Fixed an iPad crash that could occur when changing the sidebar display mode with split view gestures or buttons.
- Added the completed display mode options to the iPhone More Actions menu.
- Fixed the Image theme losing its selected background image when an iCloud Drive sync replaced the local document package.
- Fixed the Topic column width resetting when reloading the Outline, and increased the maximum column width (remember, column widths can be changed via pinching in the column header).
- Fixed the Resize to Fit Content column menu command not being available for the Topic column.
- Fixed indenting or outdenting multiple selected rows when the selection includes both parents and their children.
- Fixed rows completed on previous days remaining visible when they shouldn't be after a document is left open overnight.

### 5.2.1 — 2026-03-22

- Fixed imports from OPML and similar local files so publisher status doesn't get stuck in Preparing.
- Fixed the View submenus so Board and Outline items update for the current sheet state again.
- Left Focus available while using Board view.
- Fixed Timeline placeholder row lines so they continue through the full empty area when a document has only a few rows, and are aligned with the Outline view when that is visible.
- Fixed Month and Year events disappearing when Hide Completed was used and incomplete dated items were under a completed parent.
- Fixed iPad and iPhone sidebar/Inspector presentation so the correct panel opens and dismisses reliably in inline and overlay modes. 
- Fixed iPhone document opening, sheet selection, and rotation handling so portrait uses sheets, landscape uses split view, and the app no longer jumps back to the wrong panel. 
- Fixed the iPhone navigation bar so view controls stay visible in portrait and expand to individual view buttons in roomier landscape layouts.

### 5.2 — 2026-03-10

- Major usability improvements across Outline, Timeline, Board, and Year views, including better editing behavior, safer multi-row pasting, and multiple visual and interaction fixes.
- Significant Inspector improvements across platforms, including smoother updates, restored group states, improved layout behavior, and better integration with Outline editing.
- Sidebar enhancements on iPad, including inline sidebar display by default on iPad, improved folder handling and drag behavior, document title controls in the sidebar, and better keyboard navigation.
- Modernized toolbar and menu system with an adaptive toolbar controls on iPad and iPhone, improved menu organization, and additional keyboard shortcuts.
- Improved focus-based filtering, including hierarchical topic selection, automatic sidebar expansion to show focused rows, and better preservation of focus state when filters are cleared.
- Date picker enhancements in the Outline view, including support for parent rows with calculations, additional value options, and improved reliability.
- Expanded live sync support to cloud providers such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, with improved coordination between devices to avoid cloud-drive conflicts.
- Reliability improvements to live sync, including fixes for missed sync starts, and multiple stability improvements.
- Added sync diagnostics logging tools to help trace and debug syncing and publisher behavior.
- Major performance improvements throughout the app, reducing unnecessary reloads, layout work, logging overhead, and view refresh churn.
- Updated completed button styling with a new circular style, customizable colors, and consistent appearance across views.
- Added a new About window on iPad and iPhone.
- Added new settings for spacebar behavior in the Outline and default font and color for notes.
- Plus many other improvements; see the full release notes on the SheetPlanner website for details.

### 5.1.1 — 2025-11-05

- When focusing on one or more rows, any active filter is cleared, and similarly when selecting a filter, any active focus is cleared. (Saving focus in filters coming in version 5.2!)
- When the sheet or parent row containing the selected row is collapsed in the sidebar, the focus is cleared.
- Fixed some rows appearing twice when using a Smart Filter with the new "matches & children" option if they are child rows that also match the criteria.
- Fixed Row appearing twice in the Smart Filter editor column menu.
- Fixed a crash when there are lots of Smart Filters.
- Fixed sidebar selection sometimes being unresponsive after expanding a disclosure.
- Fixed the sheet favorite button overlapping the disclosure in the sidebar.

Version 5.1 included several nice improvements:

- Added a new Tags default column.
- Added Smart Filter options to include children with matches, and to restore views.
- The Focus feature now supports multiple selection.
- The sheets in the sidebar can now disclose their contents to quickly see the structure and focus on different parts of the document.
- Added special handling for importing CSV exported from OmniFocus.
- Plus many other improvements; see the full release notes on the SheetPlanner website for details.

### 5.1 — 2025-10-24

- Added a new Tags default column.
- Added Smart Filter options to include children with matches, and to restore views.
- The Focus feature now supports multiple selection.
- The sheets in the sidebar can now disclose their contents to quickly see the structure and focus on different parts of the document.
- Added special handling for importing CSV exported from OmniFocus.
- Plus many other improvements; see the full release notes for details.

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