SheetPlanner vs Noto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SheetPlanner
This app provides a powerful and flexible outliner for organizing information, planning life, and scheduling tasks. It offers advanced features like timeline and calendar views, smart filters, and collaboration, with a free core outliner and an optional trial for premium functionalities.
- Outliner with customizable columns
- Timeline and calendar views
- Smart filters for focused task management
- Syncing via iCloud Drive
- Collaboration features
- Linking to files, folders, and webpages
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SheetPlanner helps you organize information, plan your life and schedule your tasks and activities with unparalleled power and flexibility. FREE OUTLINER; advanced features available via 21 day in-app trial: SheetPlanner's outliner supporting multiple columns, styles, notes, links, and more is available completely free forever. Try advanced features including timeline and calendar views, multiple sheets, smart filters, and more, free for 21 days. At the end of the trial, purchase to unlock those features, or continue with the free outliner. Get organized: Organize all your activities in an outliner, categorize them using the standard columns including progress, start and finish dates. Create your own date, text, number, symbol or drop down list columns. Auto enter cell values. Link to documents and web sites. Make a plan: Plan and visualize your goals, project tasks and schedule in the timeline view. View task duration and sequence. View timeline by days, weeks, months, quarters or years. Create dependencies between rows. View predecessors and successors. Get things done: Use filters or focus to concentrate on whats important, due today, due tomorrow, or whatever criteria you decide. View tasks in a month or year calendar or both. Features: Outliner with columns: Organize and give structure to text. Add your own text, number, date, symbol or list type columns. Sync Syncing via iCloud Drive is now supported. Edit a document on multiple Macs, and the changes will periodically sync. Collaboration Collaborate with other people. Share a document, and see their changes highlighted, and even their selection. Notes: Notes inline below row topic and in own tab with full text editor. Row Styles: Custom fonts, size, color at each row level or specific to individual rows. Focus: Focus on a row or a row and its children. Transverse hierarchy via path bar. Search: Search the outline across columns from the toolbar with an option to save as a Smart Filter. Sorting: Sort the outline by any column, by ascending, descending order or by the order of values in a ‘List’ type column. Smart filters (in-app purchase): Create Smart Filters with simple or complex criteria and save them for future use via the Filter Bar. Link files, folders & webpages. Link to web pages, documents and folders on your Mac or in the cloud, or view them via Quick Look or tabs. Multiple Tabs: View sheets in multiple tabs at once in any combination of views: month view, outline, timeline or year view. Monthly Calendar (in-app purchase): View outline rows with assigned dates in a monthly view. Yearly Calendar (in-app purchase): Heat-mapped year view indicating number of activities commencing and/or finishing on each day. Timeline (in-app purchase): View and adjust key dates for each task on a horizontal timeline. Create dependencies between rows. Dependencies can be of the following types: Finish to start, start to finish, start to start, finish to finish. Board View (in-app purchase): View Outline rows on a board. Organize cards by Topic, column list values, symbol list values, people. Organize by vertical and horizontal lanes. Drag to move cards between lanes. Multiple Sheets: A document can now include multiple sheets, each with their own columns, rows, styles, filters, etc. Organize and access multiple sheets using the sidebar and folders. Printing: See a preview of what will be printed, including printing the outline and timeline together. Properties: Customize cell, column, row, calendar and timeline settings. Import & Export: Import & export in CSV or OPML format. Copy & Paste: Copy and Paste from/to Excel & Numbers. Themes: Personalize Outline view with green-bar, yellow notepad or green notepad themes. Templates: Ready to go templates for business, education and personal use. Save templates for future use via the template chooser.
Noto
A modern writing and note-taking application offering powerful text editing tools and extensive organization features. It supports unlimited attachments and various export formats, with optional Pro features for enhanced functionality. Syncs seamlessly across devices.
- Powerful text editing tools
- Unlimited attachments (Pro)
- Dark mode
- iCloud sync
- Gesture organization
- Multiple export formats
- Desktop-class organization
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Features: - Powerful text editing tools - Bold / Italic / Underline / Strikethrough / Highlight - Number list / Bullet list / Check list - Unlimited attachments (Pro): - Image / Video / Scan / Drawing / File - Table / Block quote / Code / Math Equation - Dark mode - iCloud sync - Organize with gesture - Export to HTML, Markdown, PDF, & JPG - Lock notes (Pro) - Desktop class organization - Drag to reorder your list and paragraph - Drag to organize your notes - Rapid multi select Noto is free to use, including iCloud Sync support. Unlock Noto Pro to enable all features including * Attachments * Note lock * Export * Support future Noto development Terms and Conditions: https://noto.ink/terms Privacy Policy: https://noto.ink/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Noto at none against SheetPlanner's shown. Noto also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 3). SheetPlanner's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (86% vs 68%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. SheetPlanner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Noto sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SheetPlanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Noto has 1.3K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of SheetPlanner's written reviews are positive against 68% of Noto's.
SheetPlanner ships an update every 2 weeks, Noto every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SheetPlanner | Noto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 68.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SheetPlanner Software LLC | Soysauce Lab |
Customer experience
SheetPlanner
Noto
Bugs and requests
SheetPlanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Noto
Reported bugs
4 issues- Syncing issues between devices
- Folders and notes disappearing after updates
- Crashes when trying to access certain folders
- Widgets not displaying note content properly
Requested features
6 requests- Add tags or keywords for better organization
- Improve table editing and formatting
- Implement better export options (PDF, HTML, etc.)
- Add support for Apple Pencil and handwriting
- Integrate calendar and reminder features
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- Allow custom backgrounds and themes
In-app purchases
SheetPlanner
- Free Trial2 variantsFree
- Upgrade SheetPlanner$39.99
- Unlock SheetPlanner$49.99
Noto
- Noto Pro Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Noto Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Noto Lifetime$24.99









