Comparison

Map Note vs Planmore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Map Note

Organize your thoughts on an infinitely expanding canvas. This app is designed for non-linear thinking, allowing you to freely expand ideas radially for brainstorming and mind mapping.

Highlights
  • Infinitely expanding canvas
  • Radial idea expansion
  • Mind mapping
  • Brainstorming
  • Idea sketching
  • Non-linear note-taking
Features
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Using map notes, you can spread your ideas anywhere on an infinitely spread canvas. I think the brain's work when considering ideas is a random and radial working image rather than linear. Traditional notes that need to be written sequentially from left to right are not very suitable for this process. If you use this infinite size notebook application, you can freely expand ideas from the center of the page, so you can make ideas more natural. Ideal for creating rough mind maps, brainstorming and idea sketches. * Please check out MapNote 2 that can add images, add folders, and sync with iCloud.

About

Planmore

This app consolidates your calendars, events, tasks, reminders, and notes into a single, organized interface. It offers multiple views and customization options to help you stay focused and never miss an important appointment or deadline.

Highlights
  • Integrated calendar, tasks, reminders, and notes
  • Multiple schedule views (day, week, month, year)
  • Customizable event creation
  • Smart task management with recurring tasks
  • Rich text notes with custom labels
  • Automatic iCloud syncing
  • Widgets for at-a-glance viewing
Features
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Planmore is a professional planning app that helps you plan more schedules. It integrates all in one place, including calendars, events, tasks, reminders, and notes, so you can keep track of them anytime, anywhere. You're always focused on what's important and nothing can distract you. If you want to never be worried about forgetting an appointment, missing a deadline task, or forgetting the long lists of your to-dos or shopping items, and want to keep everything organized, Planmore is the must-have app for you. It also has a very easy-to-read appearance and you can flip the pages like your real paper planner to view all your schedules quickly. Basic Features - Integrate calendars, tasks, reminders, and notes into one place at a glance. - Multiple views to manage your schedule together, including day view, week view, month view and year view. - Easily create and modify events. Supports setting custom colors, setting recurring rules, adding reminders, inviting people to your events, and more. - Smart Task Manager helps you easily keep track of all overdue and pending tasks. - Multi-functional tasks with due date, recurring rule, priority and reminder. - Integration of iOS reminders within our planner. - Take notes of everything anytime and anywhere. - Rich Text Format. - Custom labels to categorize all your notes. - Provide more customized options for people with different needs. - The data will be synced automatically between devices signed into the same iCloud. - Beautiful widgets for you to see at a glance. Advanced Features - No Ads. No Distractions. - Stickers and Emojis. - More views to manage your schedule more easily, including all agenda views. - Create unlimited task lists to better categorize tasks. - Create recurring tasks. When a recurring task is completed, a new task is automatically created according to the repeating rules. No need to create the same task over and over again every time. - Support adding subtasks to a task. - Share your task lists with others to manage together, making your life and work more efficient. - Add more photos and canvases for notes. - Export your schedule by daily, weekly and monthly. - More fonts and theme colors, you will be sure to find your favorite. If you want to purchase an upgrade, you can choose to one-time payment for lifetime access all advanced features. You can also upgrade to the premium version with a monthly or yearly subscription. And it is carried over to other devices associated with your Apple ID. So it's time to say goodbye to other planner apps and use Planmore instead. If you enjoy using Planmore and it really helps you plan more, it would be great to leave us a nice review and we’ll be very appreciate to all of your reviews. And if you have any problems or suggestions when using our app or want to leave negative reviews, please contact us at planmorefeedback@outlook.com anytime, as we will respond in a short time to help you solve problems and make better use of our app. Privacy Policy https://planmore-luck.blogspot.com/2022/03/privacy-policy-planmore.html Terms of Use https://planmore-luck.blogspot.com/2023/09/terms-of-use-planmore.html

Screenshots

Map Note3 screens
Planmore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Planmore at Free against Map Note's $2.99. Planmore also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 56%) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 69). Map Note's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Planmore is free to download; Map Note costs $2.99 up front. Planmore sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Map Note asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planmore holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planmore has 4.9K ratings behind it against 69, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Map Note's written reviews are positive against 92% of Planmore's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Map Note ships an update every 4 weeks, Planmore monthly. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Map Note versus Planmore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMap NotePlanmore
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (69 ratings)4.8 (4.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.1% of reviews92.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings694.9K — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaoya EnokidaDaily Calendar & Planner Apps

Customer experience

Map Note

All ratings69 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral7.2%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive56.1%
Neutral15.9%
Negative28.0%

Planmore

All ratings4,880 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews997 reviews
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative5.0%

Bugs and requests

Map Note

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Planmore

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Completed tasks not disappearing
  • Syncing issues between iPhone and iPad

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add ability to draw on days
  • Add more text formatting options in notes
  • Add ability to attach files to tasks
  • Add ability to use different sounds for alerts
  • Add ability to manually sort tasks in Day view
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  • Add ability to group notes into folders
  • Add habit tracking and experience tracking features

In-app purchases

None

Map Note

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Planmore

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium Version$19.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$29.99

Questions

Is Map Note free?
Map Note costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Planmore free?
Planmore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Map Note or Planmore?
Planmore is rated higher. Map Note averages 4.5 out of 5 from 69 ratings, while Planmore averages 4.8 from 4.9K ratings.
Do Map Note or Planmore have ads?
Neither Map Note nor Planmore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Map Note or Planmore?
Map Note ships an update every 4 weeks, and Planmore monthly. Most recently, Map Note was updated on October 20, 2026 and Planmore on October 20, 2026.

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