PlanPop vs Emend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PlanPop
This app helps you turn social ideas into real plans with friends. Easily share suggestions, coordinate events, and manage RSVPs on a shared calendar. It's designed to simplify social planning and keep everyone updated.
- Share ideas with friends
- Schedule and coordinate plans
- Manage RSVPs
- Create recurring events
- Shared group calendars
- Add photos and locations to ideas
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One calendar. Everyone's plans. Nothing forgotten. PlanPop is a shared calendar for you and your people. Your partner, your family, your friends, your dog. Add your plans, see theirs, stop double-booking yourself. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Work shifts, appointments, pickups, lunch dates. If it's happening, it's on the calendar in a tap. SET IT ONCE Weekly Tuesday dinner? Rent due? Set it and (never) forget it. WE'LL REMIND YOU Reminders before plans, for everyone in your calendar. Less texting, more doing. IDEAS FOR LATER Date nights, trips, someday stuff. Jot them down and move them to the calendar when you're ready. CUTE AS A BUTTON Colorful, simple, and not a gray grid of office sadness. You might actually like opening it. Share your calendar in two taps. Get everyone on the same page.
Emend
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Emend is a quiet place to write fiction on your iPhone. Your library is a shelf of books. Each book has chapters, and each chapter is one continuous page of prose — no cards, no blocks, no formatting toolbar in the way. Open a chapter and you are back exactly where you stopped, caret and all. Ideas that don't belong to a book yet go in Ideas: a searchable list you can tag, attach to a book later, or start a new book from. Every save keeps a revision. Wander down the wrong path for an afternoon and you can read the earlier draft, restore it, or keep both as alternatives. Anything you remove goes to Trash first. For working with an AI in another app, Emend prepares a focused passage for the clipboard and brings the response back as a draft you review before it touches your manuscript. Nothing leaves Emend on its own. Everything stays on your device. There is no account, no sync service and no analytics. When you want a copy elsewhere, export a book as Markdown or back up the whole library as a single file you keep wherever you like — and restore it on a new phone in one step. • Books, sections, chapters and one continuous page per chapter • Ideas with tags, search and one-tap attach to a book • Saved revisions, alternative drafts and a per-book dictionary of names • Trash with restore • Markdown export and full-library backup and restore • Works entirely offline Made for people writing a novel a few hundred words at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PlanPop at every 2 days against Emend's weekly. Emend's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PlanPop ships an update every 2 days, Emend weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PlanPop | Emend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (996 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 89.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 996 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Moments Technologies Inc. | Sunlit Game Studio LLC |
Bugs and requests
PlanPop
Reported bugs
3 issues- Widgets not working
- Time/date auto-changing issues
- Formatting problems in event chat
Requested features
5 requests- Sync with other calendar apps
- Ability to remove users from shared calendars
- Customizable notification settings
- Widget support
- Export events to phone calendar
Emend
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PlanPop
No in-app purchases
Emend
No in-app purchases









