Comparison

Pocket Informant vs Studiolo

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Informant

This digital planner app helps you organize your life with integrated calendar, task, and project management. It syncs with popular services and offers customizable views for efficient scheduling and task tracking.

Highlights
  • Customizable calendar layers and views
  • Tasks and calendar on one view
  • Projects with tasks, subtasks, and checklists
  • Focus View with weather and daily tasks
  • Sync with Google Calendar, iCloud, and more
  • Email integration to create tasks
  • Offline access to all data
Features
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Informant is a trusted digital planner app with Calendar, Tasks, and Projects. More than just a calendar app, Informant also organizes your tasks into projects, and has many options for your agenda organized. Informant is a planner in your pocket. Free calendar app version or paid version unlocks more sync options and tasks, projects, and contacts. It works with native Apple data including iCloud, Exchange, Outlook.com, Microsoft 365, Google Calendar, Yahoo, AOL and more. Easy Immediate Setup. No account required. Use your current calendar accounts (free) or setup a Informant Sync account (paid feature). NEWEST FEATURES: - Lock screen widgets - Reordering tasks in Focus View - Expanded icon list - Search all MOST LOVED FEATURES: -Customizable calendar layers & views: Use both local and iOS data calendars at the same time with direct sync options to various services. -One purchase covers iPhone and iPad -Show tasks and Calendar together on one view -1 Day Daily Planner view -7 Day Stacked Week calendar view -30 Day monthly calendar view with tiny-text and emojis -*Projects with Tasks, subtasks, and checklists -Focus View: combines weather, and current day tasks and events -*Sync: Informant Sync, Google sync, Native (iOS) data and more. -*Triggers: create templates for frequently used appointments & tasks that you can trigger while typing event/task name -*Saved Filters feature allows you to combine your calendars together into multiple display views while keeping the data separate. -Powerful Customization of views, colors, tags, emoji, and sync options. -Offline access. Access all your data, all the time. Internet connection only required for syncing. -Trusted developer. Developing calendar & agenda apps for 21 years. -TravelAssist: helps with scheduling appointments that will take place in other time zones. -ForceTouch on App (when device supported) Icon for: Create new Task/Event/Note - 3 Task Modes - Simple, GTD, or Franklin Covey. Manage your tasks in your own way! -*Email integration. View emails & easy turn emails into tasks. *CONNECT BUNDLE (*Requires Subscription) •Sync Options Include: Google Calendar & Tasks, Toodledo, and Informant Sync • Weather and Email integration Sync Options Note: Informant can access Native Apple data calendars/reminders so you can set up iCloud, Exchange, 365, Outlook.com, AOL, Yahoo, and more.. 2 WAYS TO USE #1) FREE • Essential Calendaring with Apple Calendar support • No Tasks/Projects, Contacts • No Connect Bundle #2) Subscribe • Full features Access including: Full Calendaring, Tasks, Contacts with access to Apple Events and Reminders • Free Updates • Connect Bundle (email, sync & weather) • Choose: -Monthly: (30 days) -Reverts to Free version after subscription ends -Quarterly: (90 days) -Reverts to Free version after subscription ends -Year: (365 days) -Get a 7 Day trial of full version by selecting this option. Subscription automatically renews and your account will be charged unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Subscriptions are billed through iTunes every 30/90/365 days (as selected by you) until cancelled. Manage subscriptions including cancel or auto-renew on/off in iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. SO MUCH MORE! Visit https://www.pocketinformant.com/ for more information! Our privacy Policy: https://www.pocketinformant.com/company-press/privacy/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.pocketinformant.com/tou/ Franklin Covey, GTD and Getting Things Done are Trademarks of their respective owners.

About

Studiolo

Features
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Photograph a piece, and minutes later it's cropped clean, described in gallery-placard prose, and live on a website designed around your work. Studiolo is one place for a working artist's whole practice: printmakers, painters, jewelers, ceramicists, photographers, sculptors. POINT YOUR CAMERA; THE CATALOGING IS DONE • The AI finds the artwork in your photo and crops it to a clean, straightened image, with draggable corners when you want manual control • Gallery-placard catalog copy, a palette of named colors, and search tags, written from what it sees (and from your own notes) • Fields that fit your medium: editions and frame sizes for printmakers, materials and stones for jewelers, glazes for ceramicists. Start from a template, add anything KNOW WHAT'S WHERE, AND WHAT IT EARNS • Check pieces out to galleries and always know what's hanging where, and since when • Record sales with the price and, for your files, who bought it • Optional labor and materials costs compute profit per piece • Download your entire inventory as a spreadsheet any time A GALLERY SITE COLLECTORS TAKE SERIOUSLY • Tap Generate Designs and the AI studies your work, its palettes and subjects, and proposes complete bespoke sites, previewed on your real gallery before you publish • Or design it yourself: themes, typography, layout, works per row. Every published design is kept, so you can switch back any time • Pin your best piece to the top; choose exactly what appears • Inquiries go straight to your email, and you reply directly to the collector • yourname.studiolo.gallery, or connect your own domain ONE STUDIO, THREE DOORS The app, the full-screen web admin at studiolo.gallery/admin, and your public site stay in step instantly. Sign in anywhere with just your email: a 6-digit code, no passwords. Invite family, assistants, or partners as studio members. PLANS Free: 10 works, 10 AI enhancements/month. Studio ($5.99/mo): 50/50. Gallery ($12.99/mo): 100/100. Unlimited ($24.99/mo): no limits. Subscriptions bill through your App Store account and renew monthly until cancelled in Settings. Privacy policy: https://studiolo.gallery/privacy Terms of use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pocket Informant4 screens
Studiolo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Pocket Informant at 4 against Studiolo's 1. Pocket Informant also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Pocket Informant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Studiolo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pocket Informant versus Studiolo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket InformantStudiolo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (6.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews43.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings6.1K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFanatic Software, Inc.michael Schoenfeld

Bugs and requests

Pocket Informant

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when accessing settings
  • Monthly view not populating correctly
  • Issues with time zone handling
  • Widgets not updating automatically

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improve Apple Watch app functionality
  • Add more color theme options
  • Simplify time entry process
  • Improve search and filtering capabilities

Studiolo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pocket Informant

Subscriptions3
  • Premium Month7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium 3 month$9.993 Months
  • Premium Yearly14 Days trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Studiolo

Subscriptions3
  • Studio$5.991 Month
  • Gallery$12.991 Month
  • Unlimited$24.991 Month

Questions

Is Pocket Informant free?
Pocket Informant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Studiolo free?
Studiolo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pocket Informant or Studiolo have ads?
Neither Pocket Informant nor Studiolo shows ads.

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