Comparison

Novaplan vs Whittle

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

Whittle

Features
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Stop keeping a separate app for every small thing you need. Whittle is one home for every app that matters the most — bring one in, or build one — and it installs, hosts, and launches it right on your phone, fully offline. Already have an HTML file or a zipped web app? Import it — Whittle hosts it locally and launches it in its own sandboxed window: its own icon, its own storage, its own home-screen shortcut. Don't have one yet? Describe what you want, and Whittle writes a carefully engineered prompt for the AI app you already use. Paste the result back and it imports the same way. HOW IT WORKS 1. Bring one in, or describe one. Import an HTML file or a .zip bundle, or pick a starter idea and let Whittle draft the prompt. 2. Hand it to your AI, if you're creating one. Whittle shares the prompt to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot or Poe — or copy it anywhere you like. 3. Bring it back. Paste the HTML, or use the one-tap deep link to import straight from your clipboard. 4. It runs. Whittle hosts it locally and launches it full screen, completely offline. 5. Fix it. "Debug with AI" hands the app's own source back to a model for repair, then updates your installed copy. WHAT YOU GET • Offline by default — installed apps run from on-device storage with no server and no connection. • A real library — every app you bring in or create, with size and last-opened details, plus a demo app to start from. • Isolated storage — each app gets its own private data, so they never clobber one another. • Shortcuts — launch any app with a single tap, including from Siri. • Reminders — apps can schedule notifications that deep-link straight back into them. • Preview — check an app before committing to install. Whittle does not run the AI itself. It works with the AI apps you already have installed, so nothing you write is sent anywhere by Whittle.

Screenshots

Novaplan4 screens
Whittle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Whittle at none against Novaplan's 8. Whittle also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.0). Novaplan's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Whittle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Novaplan ships an update every 2 weeks, Whittle every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Novaplan versus Whittle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNovaplanWhittle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB49 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJoel BreckerMovses Arakelyan

Customer experience

Novaplan

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%

Whittle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
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  • 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
None

Whittle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Novaplan free?
Novaplan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Whittle free?
Whittle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Novaplan or Whittle have ads?
Neither Novaplan nor Whittle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Novaplan or Whittle?
Novaplan ships an update every 2 weeks, and Whittle every 2 months. Most recently, Novaplan was updated on October 22, 2026 and Whittle on October 24, 2026.

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