Calendar vs Digital Planner for iPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calendar
Organize your entire schedule in one place. View events from multiple accounts, manage tasks, and plan gatherings with others. Stay on top of appointments, holidays, and birthdays with customizable views and shared calendars.
- Unified schedule view
- Event creation and editing
- Task management integration
- Calendar sharing
- Multiple calendar support
- Customizable views
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Calendar Plan your time, and coordinate with others using the Calendar app. See a holistic view of your schedule with events from all your different calendar accounts, alongside reminders, holidays, birthdays and subscription calendars. Invite others to events, respond to invitations, or share entire calendars to make plans with colleagues, family, and friends. Your Complete Schedule Keep track of all your events from different calendar accounts together in the Calendar app. Connect accounts from iCloud, Exchange, Google and others. Organize your events using multiple calendars with different colors. And view all your events alongside each other in List, Day, Week or Month views. Event Planning Create and edit events, appointments, and meetings. Add an alert to be reminded of an event, a location to receive a notification when it’s time to leave, a link to a video call to quickly connect, related attachments, notes and more. Easily send and receive events through invitations using iCloud, Exchange and other calendar accounts. Reminders in Calendar Manage your tasks easily with reminders. Create, view, edit and complete reminders from the Reminders app right alongside all your other meetings and appointments in the Calendar app. Shared Calendars Share an iCloud calendar with family, colleagues or friends. They can easily see events, add more events, receive alerts, or make changes to the calendar. Even More Calendars Add other calendars to keep track of even more events. Holiday Calendars show up-to-date information about global holidays. See contacts’ birthdays with the Birthdays calendar. Events recognized by Siri in apps like Mail appear in the Siri Suggestions calendar. And you can even subscribe to calendars for your favorites sports teams, TV shows and more from the web.
Digital Planner for iPad
Streamline your life and boost productivity with this versatile digital planner. Manage tasks, events, and goals with reminders, calendar sync, and PDF annotation. Optimized for Apple Pencil for a smooth writing experience.
- Task management
- Event scheduling
- Reminder notifications
- Calendar synchronization
- PDF annotation
- Apple Pencil optimized
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Digital Planner is designed first and foremost for iPad, combining the familiar experience of a classic paper planner with the flexibility of digital planning. Plan your days, weeks, and months, write naturally with Apple Pencil, organize your schedule, and keep your tasks, events, goals, and notes in one place. Digital Planner is also available on iPhone and Mac, so you can keep your planning accessible across your Apple devices. Use iPhone for quick access to your planner, calendar, tasks, and events on the go, or open Digital Planner on your Mac when you're working at your computer. Keep your planning synchronized across devices and easily check or update your schedule wherever you are. PLAN YOUR WAY Stay organized with flexible planning views for everything from detailed daily schedules to long-term goals: • Hourly Planner • Daily Planner • Weekly Planner • Monthly Planner • Yearly Planner • Daily goals, notes, and summaries • Checklists and tasks • Birthday calendar • Customizable planning templates WRITE NATURALLY WITH APPLE PENCIL Turn your iPad into a digital notebook and planner. Write, draw, highlight, add typed text, and organize content naturally. Convert handwriting to text or use speech-to-text when typing isn't convenient. CALENDARS & REMINDERS Bring planning and scheduling together: • Sync with Apple Calendar • Sync with Google Calendar • Create and edit Google Calendar events directly in the app • Connect and work with Outlook Calendar • Work with Apple Reminders • Add and manage events • Share your calendar with others NOTES, PDFs & MORE Use Digital Planner for planning, writing, studying, and organizing: • Create notes • Add stickers and images • Select and move content with the Lasso tool • Import and annotate PDF files • Track books with a reading list • Back up and restore your data MADE FOR EVERYDAY PLANNING Whether you're a student, teacher, professional, or simply enjoy the feeling of a traditional paper planner, Digital Planner gives you the freedom to organize your life your way. Enjoy the space and flexibility of planning on iPad with Apple Pencil, quickly check your schedule from iPhone when you're on the go, and access your planning from Mac while working at your computer. Have an idea or suggestion? Contact our support team and let us know what you'd like to see next. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION The app contains the following subscription options: 1-month membership from $6.99. 3-month membership from $12.99. 1-year membership from $29.99 after a 7-day free trial. Prices above are in U.S. dollars (USD) and apply to customers in the United States. Prices in other countries may vary and are displayed in the applicable local currency. Local App Store pricing may differ from a direct conversion based on current exchange rates. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions and auto-renewal can be managed in your Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.digitalplanner.biz/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.digitalplanner.biz/terms-of-use/ EULA: https://www.digitalplanner.biz/eula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Calendar at 4.9 against Digital Planner for iPad's 4.3. Calendar also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (1.5M vs 2.1K). Digital Planner for iPad's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Digital Planner for iPad sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Calendar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Calendar holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Calendar has 1.5M ratings behind it against 2.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 37% of Calendar's written reviews are positive against 44% of Digital Planner for iPad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Calendar ships an update every 4 months, Digital Planner for iPad every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar | Digital Planner for iPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.5M ratings) — better | 4.3 (2.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.6% of reviews | 44.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5M — better | 2.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 223 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple Inc. | Alina Shpak |
Customer experience
Calendar
Digital Planner for iPad
User reviews
Calendar
From 1.5M App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Essential app for staying organized
- 👍 Clean, intuitive, and easy to navigate
- 🔒 Seamless sync across devices
- 👍 Helpful integration with other apps
- 👍 Ability to set multiple alerts, share events, and color-code calendars
Room to improve
- 🐛 Autofill suggestions overwrite event time
- 🔍 Search function not reliable
- 🔍 Inability to delete past/declined events
- 🔍 Confusing interface, cluttered month view
- 🔍 Lack of customization options for alerts and reminders
Digital Planner for iPad
From 2.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Seamless integration with calendar
- 📝 Intuitive and easy to use
- ✨ Visually appealing design
- 🖋️ Great for handwritten notes
- 📚 Helpful book tracking feature
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
- 💰 Subscription-based model
- 🔒 Difficulty canceling subscription
- 🔍 Limited customization options
- 🗓️ Sync issues between devices
Bugs and requests
Calendar
Reported bugs
5 issues- Time zones not handled properly, causing appointment time issues
- Recurring events not deleted properly
- Inability to delete events, leading to a cluttered calendar
- Syncing issues between devices
- Search function not working as expected
Requested features
9 requests- Attachment option to add files, photos, PDFs, etc. to events
- Integration with Reminders app to schedule and view tasks
- Week view in portrait mode
- Option to select which reminder lists show in the calendar
- Openings and proposals feature
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- Ability to change colors of individual events
- Cash flow diary to track expenses/income
- Monthly calendar view
- Ability to highlight the entire week with a color
Digital Planner for iPad
Reported bugs
5 issues- Lasso tool issues with cut and paste
- Disappearing text when writing over stickers
- Inconsistent calendar sync
- Eraser leaving jumbled pieces
- Inability to rearrange pages
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to delete individual pages
- Improved eraser functionality
- Sync with Outlook calendar
- Monthly and yearly view improvements
- Widgets for quick access
In-app purchases
Calendar
No in-app purchases
Digital Planner for iPad
- Digital Planner (Monthly)$6.991 Month
- Digital Planner (Three month)$12.993 Months
- Digital Planner (Annual)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Questions
Is Calendar free?
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