Comparison

Penbook vs Excel Formula Generator

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

Head to head
About

Penbook

Create custom digital notebooks with a vast library of stationery or import your own PDFs for annotation. Write naturally with a stylus and organize your notes with dynamic features like live planners and searchable handwriting.

Highlights
  • Live Paper dynamic stationery
  • Over 400 stationery types
  • Import and annotate PDFs
  • Natural handwriting with stylus
  • Searchable handwritten notes
  • Shape recognition
  • Customizable notebook covers
Features
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Write naturally with your Apple Pencil on Live Paper with Penbook. Build your perfect notebook from more than four hundred types of stationery. Then, use the best digital inking technology to pour your ideas, notes, plans, and dreams into it. Penbook's Live Paper is way smarter than ordinary stationery. Schedule your life on a monthly planner that shows a real calendar, organize your day with a day planner that shows you what time it is, and record your nutrition on a food diary that knows what day it is. Or, bring your own stationery! Import your PDFs into Penbook for quick annotation and editing. Give your notebooks colorful covers with fun art, and share them so your notes are always where you need them. FEATURES • Live Paper, the dynamic stationery that uses the smarts of your iPad and iPhone • Over 400 of academic, scientific, and planning stationeries • Import PDFs and use them as notebooks • Write naturally with your Apple Pencil, stylus, or finger • Unlimited unique cover combinations for your notes • Search your handwritten notes for words or phrases • Snap your strokes to perfect shapes with shape recognition INCLUDED STATIONERIES Penbook has a huge selection of customizable stationery. Each page of your notebook can be different, turning your iPad or iPhone into a magic notebook: • Blank stationery, with an optional date and configurable margin • Ruled paper with variable density • Graph paper with four options for square sizes • Dot stationery, either squared or isometric (offset) • Cross stationery with configurable margins and density • To Do pages with four layout options • Monthly habit paper for tracking streaks, habits, and goals • Day planner paper with a live updating timeline and calendar, and three layouts • Weekly planner paper that highlights the current time and date • Monthly planner paper that keeps track of the current day and shows you what's coming next • Yearly stationery for getting a complete overview of your next 365 days • Cornell paper for taking perfect study notes • French ruled (Séyès) paper • Penmanship practice paper • Table stationery for hand-written spreadsheets • Polar graph paper for plotting radial data • Semi-log and loglog paper for data with exponential growth or decay • Isometric stationery with equilateral (60-60-60) or isosceles (75-75-30) triangles • Perspective paper, configurable with one, two, or three vanishing points • Developer stationery with device stencils and configurable note-taking areas • Storyboard paper with 3 frame aspect ratios • Engineering paper with variable density • Chemistry paper for easily sketching molecules • Staff and tablature (music) paper with optional linked staves GET THE MOST OUT OF PENBOOK Use all of Penbook's stationery and writing features in a single notebook for free for as long as you like. Upgrade to Penbook Premium to create and export unlimited notebooks, receive access to new stationery and covers as they're designed, and get regular app updates. Penbook Premium is available by purchasing a yearly subscription or a one-time (lifetime) in-app purchase. When you choose to upgrade with the yearly subscription, you can start using Penbook Premium for free with a 7-day free trial. During the trial, cancel any time until 24 hours before the trial expires, and you will not be charged. If you do not cancel, you will be automatically billed for the yearly subscription when your free trial ends. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Our customer-first privacy policy: https://penbook.app/privacy-policy Penbook's terms of use: https://penbook.app/terms-of-use

About

Excel Formula Generator

Features
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Stop wrestling with Excel and Google Sheets formulas. Formulify turns plain English into ready-to-paste formulas in seconds, so you can finish your work instead of fighting with syntax. Whether you are a student, analyst, accountant, marketer, or small business owner, Formulify removes the guesswork from spreadsheets. Just describe what you want in your own words and get a clean, working formula with a clear explanation of how it works. WHAT YOU CAN DO Generate formulas from plain English for Excel, Google Sheets, and Numbers Explain any formula in simple language so you actually learn what it does Fix broken formulas and resolve common errors like #REF, #VALUE, #N/A, and #DIV/0 Convert formulas between Excel and Google Sheets syntax Build advanced lookups, conditionals, date math, text parsing, and array formulas Generate and explain regular expressions for data cleanup Format and clean messy data with the built-in formatting tools Save your favorite formulas to your personal library Browse your full history and reuse past results with one tap Snap a photo of a formula or screenshot to instantly get help POWERFUL FUNCTION COVERAGE VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, IF, IFS, IFERROR, FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, TEXTJOIN, CONCAT, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, FIND, SEARCH, SUBSTITUTE, ARRAYFORMULA, QUERY, IMPORTRANGE, pivot table helpers, date and time math, financial functions, and many more. DESIGNED FOR SPEED Clean, distraction-free interface built for mobile Instant results with a single tap Copy formulas to your clipboard ready for any spreadsheet Works offline for saved formulas and history PRO SUBSCRIPTION Upgrade to Formulify Pro for unlimited formula generations, advanced AI models, image-to-formula scanning, and priority access to new features. Subscription options: Monthly: 4.99 USD per month Yearly: 29.99 USD per year (best value, save over 50 percent) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0ffMhqmxex6FlJ9pftfjRYVGnrlj8lXDi2ofdrqNe4/edit?usp=sharing Terms of Use (EULA): https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_joVvTvej6JwCL4usDbe-C-D2et6hSzQapPRc5IwcI/edit?usp=sharing

Screenshots

Penbook4 screens
Excel Formula Generator3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Penbook at Free against Excel Formula Generator's $5.99. Excel Formula Generator's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Penbook is free to download; Excel Formula Generator costs $5.99 up front. Penbook sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Excel Formula Generator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Penbook versus Excel Formula Generator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPenbookExcel Formula Generator
PriceFree — better$5.99
Rating4.5 (46K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews58.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings46K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.115.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPencil ResearchBrittney Pilarcik

Bugs and requests

Penbook

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Sticker resizing issues causing app freezes
  • Ruler placement and alignment problems
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between pages
  • Calendar sync not working as expected
  • PDF import and annotation functionality not reliable

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow custom notebook covers or images
  • Add text box and typing capabilities
  • Improve organization with folders or tags
  • Provide more customization options for templates
  • Implement a more intuitive undo/redo system

Excel Formula Generator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Penbook

Subscriptions7
  • Penbook Premium5 variants$4.991 Month
  • Penbook Premium$7.991 Month
  • Penbook Premium7 Days trial3 variants$14.991 Year
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  • Penbook Premium7 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Year
  • Penbook Premium7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Penbook Premium$29.991 Year
  • Penbook Premium7 Days trial3 variants$39.991 Year
One-time4
  • Premium Lifetime (Loyalty)$29.99
  • Penbook Premium Lifetime2 variants$49.99
  • Penbook Premium Lifetime$59.99
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  • Penbook Premium Lifetime$69.99
2 purchases

Excel Formula Generator

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

Questions

Is Penbook free?
Penbook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Excel Formula Generator free?
Excel Formula Generator costs $5.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Penbook or Excel Formula Generator have ads?
Neither Penbook nor Excel Formula Generator shows ads.

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