SheetPlanner vs Joy To Do
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.
Joy To Do
This task manager helps you organize activities across nine essential life pillars for better balance. It offers multiple task views, calendar sync, and home screen widgets for efficient management. Achieve harmony in all aspects of your life with its intuitive design and privacy-focused features.
- Task tracking across nine life pillars
- Visual strength indicators for life areas
- Multiple task views (Daily, Kanban, List)
- Drag-and-drop task organization
- Apple Calendar sync
- Home screen widget
- Offline functionality
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Discover a new way to manage your tasks while maintaining perfect life balance with Joy To Do. Unlike traditional task managers, Joy To Do organizes your activities across nine essential life pillars, helping you achieve harmony in every aspect of your life. MAINTAIN LIFE BALANCE • Track tasks across nine fundamental pillars of life • Visual strength indicators for each life area • Instant insights into neglected life aspects • Balanced task distribution recommendations EFFICIENT TASK MANAGEMENT • Multiple task views: Daily, Kanban, and List • Drag-and-drop task organization • Quick task creation • Flexible task scheduling and duration setting SEAMLESS INTEGRATION • Apple Calendar sync for all your tasks • 15-minute reminder notifications • Home screen widget for quick access • Sign in with Apple for secure sync LIFE PILLARS Transform your life across these essential areas: • Physical Health - Exercise, nutrition, and wellness • Mental Health - Mindfulness and emotional well-being • Social Connections - Family and friendships • Personal Growth - Learning and self-improvement • Career/Purpose - Work and life mission • Financial Security - Budget and investments • Recreation/Fun - Hobbies and entertainment • Environment/Home - Living space and organization • Spirituality/Values - Personal beliefs and principles THOUGHTFUL FEATURES • Clean, intuitive interface • Dark mode support • Offline functionality • Privacy-focused design • Regular feature updates Download Joy To Do today and start your journey toward a more balanced, productive life! What's New: • Dark Mode support for comfortable viewing • Widget for quick task access • Enhanced calendar integration • Performance improvements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Joy To Do at none against SheetPlanner's 4. Joy To Do also leads on ads (none vs shown). SheetPlanner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and iOS requirement 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. Joy To Do asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SheetPlanner against 5.0 for Joy To Do. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | SheetPlanner | Joy To Do |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SheetPlanner Software LLC | Sahil Pabby |
Customer experience
SheetPlanner
Joy To Do
In-app purchases
SheetPlanner
- Free Trial2 variantsFree
- Upgrade SheetPlanner$39.99
- Unlock SheetPlanner$49.99
Joy To Do
No in-app purchases









