Comparison

Novaplan vs Bullet

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

Head to head
About

Novaplan

This digital planner offers a flexible and creative way to organize your life on-the-go. Create custom journals, track habits, and build calendars with drawing and photo integration. A subscription unlocks all features and templates.

Highlights
  • Digital bullet journaling
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly organization
  • Customizable cover pages
  • Typed notes and bullet paper for drawings
  • Photo integration with shapes
  • Community-curated page templates
  • Color themes and paper options
Features
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Novaplan is a project planner built around your drawings. Pin tasks and milestones to the floor plan, sketch or sheet they belong to, then switch to a ledger or a live timeline whenever you need the numbers. PLAN RIGHT ON THE DRAWING • Pin task cards and milestone diamonds to any spot on a sheet • Drag dimension lines to change a task's duration • Dependency connectors show what's waiting on what, with the critical path in orange FOUR LENSES, ONE PLAN • Outline: phases and tasks at a glance • Sheet: your plan on top of the drawing • Ledger: a fast table of every task, date and day of slack • Span: a timeline with the critical path and today's line LITE CAD AND APPLE PENCIL • Lines, polylines, rectangles, circles, arcs, text and dimensions • Grid, ortho, endpoint, midpoint and centre snaps • Real units and scales (mm, cm, m, in, ft-in; 1:50 and more) • Move, rotate, scale, mirror, offset and trim • Natural Apple Pencil ink on its own layer • Export sheets as PDF, SVG or DXF STAY AHEAD OF CHANGES • Slip preview: see the new finish date before you commit a delay • Revisions: snapshot the plan as Rev A, B, C • See every moved date and re-timed task since the last revision • Compare a sheet with a revision; ghost cards show where work used to be FOCUS ON TODAY • Your Site shows every project's progress, what's due this week and what's overdue • The Bench holds just three tasks, so you always know what comes next EVERYWHERE YOU WORK • Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac • Private iCloud sync between your devices • Keyboard shortcuts and a command bar on iPad and Mac • Nebula dark and Daylight light themes • English, French and Hindi SUBSCRIPTION Novaplan requires a subscription: monthly (with a free trial for new subscribers) or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. One subscription unlocks Novaplan on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bullet

This app helps you capture tasks, notes, events, and habits using the bullet journal method. It offers a streamlined interface designed for quick logging and organization, replacing multiple productivity tools.

Highlights
  • Rapid logging of tasks, notes, and events
  • Habit tracking
  • Scheduling and reminders
  • Collections and tagging
  • Sync across devices
  • Offline functionality
  • ADHD-friendly design
Features
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The journaling method you know from paper, built for your phone. Tasks, notes, events, and habits - captured in one place so nothing falls through the cracks. Stop juggling five different apps. Start with Bullet. "I've tried close to 20 productivity apps. This is the one I've been looking for." - rcghaseler HOW IT WORKS Open Bullet, tap +, and capture whatever's on your mind. A task for later, a note to remember, an event coming up, a habit to build. Everything lives on one timeline - organized by day, week, month, or year. Schedule entries, set reminders, add sub-tasks, group things into collections, and tag across projects. It's as simple or structured as you need it to be. DAILY LOG, FUTURE LOG, MIGRATION Rapid logging. A Daily Log for today, Weekly and Monthly Logs for planning ahead, and a Future Log for someday. Migration. Collections. If you keep this system in a paper notebook, you'll feel at home in minutes. If you don't, you'll pick it up just as fast - it's simply a quick way to capture and organize your thoughts. Everything the paper system does, without the limitations. Search your entries. Sync across devices. Set reminders. Work offline. "This may be the 1st app to replace my daily notebook planning!" - DiogoSnows REPLACES YOUR APP STACK To-do list, notes app, calendar, habit tracker - Bullet handles all of it. No more switching between tools or wondering where you put something. "It replaces four separate apps that I use." - Pajica ADHD-FRIENDLY BY DESIGN Minimal interface, zero visual clutter, and fast capture. Built for brains that need to get the thought out before it disappears. Multiple users with ADHD have told us this is the first productivity app that actually works for them. "I finally feel like I can declutter my head and have actionable plans." - IMP MD WHAT'S FREE Creating tasks, notes, and events. 3 habits. Calendar sync. Home screen widgets. Collections. Search. Data export. Prompts. Drag and drop. No ads, no tracking. WHAT'S PREMIUM Unlimited habits, recurring entries, sub-tasks, tags, filters, templates, image attachments, and biometric lock. Start with a free trial. BUILT BY ONE PERSON Bullet is indie-developed. No investors, no growth team, no corporate roadmap. Just one developer building the app he wanted to use. Every feature request gets read. "You can tell a lot of thought and care has been put into this." - Samuel Conley Works offline. Syncs across all your devices.

Screenshots

Novaplan4 screens
Bullet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Bullet at freemium against Novaplan's subscription. Bullet also leads on ratings volume (314 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Novaplan's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Novaplan sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Bullet sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Novaplan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bullet has 314 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Novaplan's written reviews are positive against 86% of Bullet's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Novaplan ships an update every 2 weeks, Bullet weekly. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Novaplan versus Bullet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNovaplanBullet
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (314 ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews85.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1314 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoel BreckerMui Studio Ltd

Customer experience

Novaplan

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%

Bullet

All ratings312 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews181 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative6.6%

Bugs and requests

Novaplan

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bullet

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Widget not always showing the correct day's tasks
  • Inconsistent behavior when marking tasks as complete

Requested features

5 requests
  • Sync with native calendar app
  • Option to start the week on Sunday
  • Ability to export data (e.g., CSV, PDF)
  • Support for handwriting/sketching
  • Multiple journal/notebook support

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Novaplan

Subscriptions8
  • Basic Plan3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Plan3 Days trial$6.991 Month
Show 5 more
  • Family Plan$14.991 Month
  • Basic Plan (Annual)$29.991 Year
  • Yearly$39.991 Year
  • Premium Plan (Annual)3 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Family Plan (Annual)$119.991 Year
11 purchases

Bullet

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
Show 5 more
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly2 variants$14.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Yearly$35.991 Year
  • Yearly7 Days trial$35.991 Year
One-time3
  • Habits Lifetime$29.99
  • Lifetime$79.99
  • Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Novaplan free?
Novaplan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bullet free?
Bullet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Novaplan or Bullet?
Novaplan is rated higher. Novaplan averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Bullet averages 4.7 from 314 ratings.
Do Novaplan or Bullet have ads?
Neither Novaplan nor Bullet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Novaplan or Bullet?
Novaplan ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bullet weekly. Most recently, Novaplan was updated on October 27, 2026 and Bullet on October 27, 2026.

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