SheetPlanner vs InStock
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.
InStock
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InStock keeps your entire household in sync. One shared pantry inventory. One shared shopping list. No more duplicate purchases, forgotten items, or wasted food. SMART PANTRY TRACKING Everyone in your household sees the same inventory, updated in real time. Check what's at home before you head to the store. No more buying something you already have. AI-POWERED ITEM ENTRY Type what you need in plain language, snap a photo of your fridge, or paste a link from YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok. InStock extracts every ingredient and adds it instantly. EXPIRATION TRACKING InStock predicts shelf life and alerts you before anything goes bad. Stop throwing out food you forgot you had. Reduce waste, save money. SHARED SHOPPING LIST Your shopping list syncs across everyone in the household. Check items off as you shop and everyone sees it in real time. BUILT FOR FAMILIES Create a household, invite your family, and organize everything together. See who bought what, who added what, and what's running low. PRIVACY FIRST Your data is encrypted and never sold. Your household stays yours. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION InStock is a premium app that offers three auto-renewing subscription plans: Pro, Duo, and Family. InStock has a free trial, but does not offer a free subscription tier. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel or manage your subscription from your Apple account settings. Questions or feedback? Reach us at contact@tryinstock.com or via in-app feedback option. Terms of Service https://tryinstock.com/terms Privacy Policy https://tryinstock.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: InStock at none against SheetPlanner's shown. InStock also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. SheetPlanner sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and InStock sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SheetPlanner ships an update every 2 weeks, InStock fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SheetPlanner | InStock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SheetPlanner Software LLC | Marko Pavlakovic |
In-app purchases
SheetPlanner
- Free Trial2 variantsFree
- Upgrade SheetPlanner$39.99
- Unlock SheetPlanner$49.99
InStock
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Duo Monthly$6.991 Month
- Family Monthly$11.991 Month
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- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Duo Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Family Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year









