Comparison

SheetPlanner vs TheBill

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

TheBill

Manage all your financial obligations, from paychecks to bills and savings goals, in one intuitive application. It provides clear insights into your spending and income, helping you stay on track without complex spreadsheets.

Highlights
  • Financial dashboard with spending balance
  • Add recurring and one-off expenses
  • Instant 'Safe to Spend' calculation
  • Income tracking and payday forecasting
  • Savings goal setting and progress tracking
  • Bi-weekly and weekly pay support
  • Automatic budget carry-over
Features
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the bill — Master your money before it masters you the bill keeps your entire financial rhythm — paychecks, due dates, budgets and goals — in one delightfully simple app. Designed for the average person juggling rent, utilities, loans and subscriptions, it replaces scattered reminders and mental math with crystal-clear insight and calm confidence. Core Features Tab What it does Dashboard At a glance: available-to-spend balance, countdown to next payday, and a rolling list of bills that fall inside your pay period. One screen, total clarity. Bills Add any recurring or one-off expense in seconds. See the amount, due-in counter, and automatic sorting so the most urgent items stay on top. Budget We crunch your income, upcoming bills and savings goals to show an instant “Safe to Spend” figure — no spreadsheets, no formulas. Income Enter your paycheck amount and frequency (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc.). The app forecasts future paydays and aligns every budget calculation around them. Small Touches That Make a Big Difference • Savings Goals – Set a target (“Pay off credit card”, “Holiday fund”) and watch the progress bar fill as you tuck away leftovers from each paycheck. • Bi-weekly & weekly pay support – Perfect for hourly workers whose bills rarely line up with payday. • Automatic carry-over – Unused budget rolls into the next period so you’re rewarded for coming in under plan. • Upcoming-bill widgets & notifications – Gentle nudges keep you on time without nagging. • iCloud Sync – Your data stays private and securely mirrored across iPhone & iPad; no third-party servers required. • Dark Mode-first design – Looks sharp, saves battery, eases the eyes. • Zero hidden costs – All functionality unlocked from day one; no subscriptions, no paywalls. How It Works 1. Add your paycheck – Tell us how much you bring home and how often. 2. List your bills – Enter due date, amount, and (optionally) recurrence. 3. Watch the math – “Safe to Spend” updates instantly while timelines slide bills into the correct pay period. 4. Hit your goals – Shift leftover cash into savings, watch debt shrink, celebrate progress. Privacy & Security Your numbers never leave your device unless you enable iCloud backup. We don’t connect to your bank or harvest personal data. You stay in control—always. Made for Real Life Whether you’re splitting rent with roommates, tackling student loans, or just tired of overdraft surprises, the bill gives you a calm pulse check on your cash flow—no finance degree required. Give your wallet some breathing room and see what true financial clarity feels like with the bill. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SheetPlanner4 screens
TheBill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: TheBill at none against SheetPlanner's shown. TheBill also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). SheetPlanner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. SheetPlanner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and TheBill sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SheetPlanner against 5.0 for TheBill. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SheetPlanner ships an update every 2 weeks, TheBill every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SheetPlanner versus TheBill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSheetPlannerTheBill
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB34 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSheetPlanner Software LLCMohammed Sayf

Customer experience

SheetPlanner

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

TheBill

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SheetPlanner

One-time3
  • Free Trial2 variantsFree
  • Upgrade SheetPlanner$39.99
  • Unlock SheetPlanner$49.99
2 purchases

TheBill

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is SheetPlanner free?
SheetPlanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TheBill free?
TheBill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SheetPlanner or TheBill?
SheetPlanner and TheBill are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do SheetPlanner or TheBill have ads?
SheetPlanner shows ads; TheBill does not.
Which is updated more often, SheetPlanner or TheBill?
SheetPlanner ships an update every 2 weeks, and TheBill every 6 days. Most recently, SheetPlanner was updated on October 2, 2026 and TheBill on October 15, 2026.

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