Comparison

Weekly Planner vs Simply Planned

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

Head to head
About

Weekly Planner

This app offers a straightforward way to plan your week, manage tasks, and record appointments. It mimics the simplicity of paper planners with a digital interface, allowing for easy scheduling and review of past and future events. Get organized with a focused, minimalist approach to daily life and work.

Highlights
  • Weekly planning interface
  • Add appointments and tasks
  • Recurring event scheduling
  • Digital diary and notes
  • Past and future event review
  • Customizable views and designs (PRO)
  • Password lock protection (PRO)
Features
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Get organized with our simple Weekly Planner. Plan your life a week at a time and turn the page to schedule the following week. Add appointments, to-do lists, tasks, and recurring events. Miss the ease of paper planners and calendars? You’ll love this digital version. We created Weekly Planner - Diary, Notes for people frustrated by visiting multiple screens to write down an appointment or task. It’s for individuals who don’t have the time or want to add endless details about each task or appointment. They need an effortless way to see and record to-dos and events. Open Weekly Planner and you’ll immediately see the current week. You can instantly add items to your Calendar or go to your Notes page with one tap on the Notes icon. When you finish a task, add a check. Weekly Planner allows you to record events weeks and years in advance. You can also review your past events. If you prefer a focused, minimalist approach to organizing your life and work, Weekly Planner - Diary, Notes app is for you. Don’t search for paper refills for your old planner! Learn to use Weekly Planner today and easily track your tasks, appointments, goals, and priorities. Get started You can start with a FREE version or with a 7-day free trial of Weekly Planner's PRO version. After 7 days, you can purchase the PRO version for $5.99, if you wish. Use it for a lifetime with no monthly or annual subscription fees. Or use the FREE version as long as you like. The purchase screen will always show you the difference between FREE and PRO. PRO Features Optional password lock protection Synchronize Weekly Planner with iCloud, Google Cloud, and other devices Save manually or automatically Save versions for printing in customizable PDFs Create recurring events happening daily, weekly, monthly, or annually Create recurring events on exact dates-keep track of birthdays and anniversaries Search events and entries Copy, paste, and move entries Customization options available in PRO settings Set Sunday, Monday or any other day as the first day of the week Select a one-day, two-day, four-day, or weekly view Select from your choice of app icons Select a page design Select font size and color Additional designs are available as in-app purchases. Contact us for help or support or to share suggestions for improving Weekly Planner at appweeklyplanner@gmail.com. Standard Apple LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT applies to this app: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Simply Planned

Features
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Simply Planned takes the thing you have been putting off and turns it into a plan you can actually follow. Answer a few questions and you get a plan built around your answers, not a generic checklist someone else wrote. THE SCHOOL YEAR, IN ONE PLACE Term time runs on a calendar, not a to-do list, so this part of the app opens on one. • A family calendar that opens on today. Week and month are a tap away. • Every child gets a colour, so a day reads at a glance instead of by reading every name on it. • Add something that clashes and it tells you before it is saved — including when it falls during school hours, and when it is two children in two places at once. • Paste a text or an email from a coach and it reads out the event — date, time, place. It is read on your phone; nothing is sent anywhere. • A card for each child: their photo, their school and its hours, their doctors, their documents, who to call when the school cannot reach you, and what they have cost so far. • Documents belong to the child, not to each place that asks. Photograph an immunization record once and every club that needs it gets that same file. • Share a child's card and choose exactly what goes. Everything starts unticked except their name. TASK LISTS WHEN YOU NEED ONE A school year is not one run-up, it is a series of them. Pick the occasion — back to school, a new season, exams, a break, the end of the year — and get a short list for that, now. Old lists stay, with everything you ticked off. WHAT IT ALL COSTS • Photograph a receipt and the amount, the date and the shop fill themselves in. It is read on your phone, not uploaded. Correct anything it misread. • Where the money actually went, by child and by category. • What the year should cost, built from what you have already entered. • Export the lot to a spreadsheet. EVERYTHING THEY ARE SIGNED UP FOR Before and after care, sports, music and summer camps in one place. Contacts, costs, seasons, coaches and the other team parents. Put a whole season of sessions into your phone's calendar in one go. ALSO FOR KIDS AND SCHOOL • Back to school — a supply checklist by grade, from kindergarten to college. • Activities, sports and camps — find what is near you and keep the dates. EVERYTHING ELSE Projects with a finish line, planned the same way: starting a business, renovating, a deep clean or clear-out, a garage sale. A week-by-week timeline, a shopping list, reminders, and local resources looked up for your area. YOUR FAMILY'S DETAILS STAY ON YOUR PHONE Nothing on a child's card is uploaded. Names, schools, doctors, photos, receipts and documents are written to private storage on your device and never reach us — we cannot read them, because we never hold them. When you send a child's details to a coach or a school, it goes from your own mail app. That is deliberate. This is children's school and medical paperwork, and we would rather not be responsible for storing it. HOW IT WORKS • Quick List is free and needs no account. • Full Plan is a one-time purchase that opens one complete plan. • Premium is a subscription, monthly or yearly, for unlimited plans. The school year is sold this way, with a free trial first. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and are managed in your Apple ID settings. You can delete your account from inside the app at any time.

Screenshots

Weekly Planner4 screens
Simply Planned4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Simply Planned at every 5 days against Weekly Planner's every 5 weeks. Simply Planned also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Weekly Planner sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Simply Planned sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Weekly Planner ships an update every 5 weeks, Simply Planned every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Weekly Planner versus Simply Planned: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekly PlannerSimply Planned
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (15K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size661 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Legal TechStacey Field

Bugs and requests

Weekly Planner

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recurring events sometimes disappear or duplicate
  • Occasional data loss or entries not saving properly
  • Syncing issues between devices

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add recurring events with end dates
  • Implement a calendar view and search function
  • Provide automatic iCloud/cloud sync between devices
  • Include a checkbox or strikethrough option for completed tasks
  • Allow custom text colors for different event types
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  • Support for Apple Pencil and handwriting input

Simply Planned

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Weekly Planner

Subscriptions2
  • PREMIUM 1 month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • PREMIUM 1 year7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time8
  • Textures (lifetime)$1.99
  • Holiday designs (lifetime)2 variants$1.99
  • 3D Shapes (lifetime)$1.99
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  • Gradients (lifetime)$1.99
  • Art Lines (lifetime)$1.99
  • Weekly Planner PRO (lifetime)$6.99
  • PREMIUM for PRO (lifetime)$11.99
  • PREMIUM (lifetime)$23.99
3 purchases

Simply Planned

Subscriptions2
  • Simply Planned - Premium$9.991 Month
  • Simply Planned Premium - Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Simply Planned - Full Plan$4.99

Questions

Is Weekly Planner free?
Weekly Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simply Planned free?
Simply Planned is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Weekly Planner or Simply Planned have ads?
Neither Weekly Planner nor Simply Planned shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Weekly Planner or Simply Planned?
Weekly Planner ships an update every 5 weeks, and Simply Planned every 5 days. Most recently, Weekly Planner was updated on October 30, 2026 and Simply Planned on October 14, 2026.

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