Comparison

Timestripe vs Penloop

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

Head to head
About

Timestripe

This app offers a unique planning system with flexible time frames for daily, yearly, and lifetime goals. It provides step-by-step guides for various life areas and allows users to organize tasks, ideas, and lists with customizable templates. Users can also share their creations with the community.

Highlights
  • Flexible time frames for goals
  • Step-by-step educational programs
  • Organize tasks and ideas
  • Customizable templates
  • Community sharing
  • Dark mode support
  • Rich Text notes
Features
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Expand your planning horizons Timestripe is a unique planner with flexible time frames. Planning your daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and lifetime goals allows you to think strategically, have a clear vision, and focus on things that are really important to you. We call this planning system Horizons. Achieve more with step-by-step guides Big goals require a good plan, consisting of small, measurable and clear objectives. Timestripe helps you achieve your dreams with step-by-step educational programs for all kinds of goals. Fitness and health, finance and career, relationships and awareness. Organize your life with skill Organize endless lists of tasks, ideas, plans, movies to watch, books to read, anything you want to organize into an endless number of boards. Use a wide range of templates from our community to speed up your train of thought Share your best practices with others Create your own productivity templates, favourite movie lists, or share your bucket list with the world. And other beautifully crafted experience · Dark mode support · Color labels · Rich Text notes for your goals (subgoals, links, quotes, headlines and more) · Hashtags · Link goals between boards and calendar Users love Timestripe More than 70,000 people used Timestripe to change their lives for the better iF design awards 2018 Product Hunt #4 product of the week, December 2020 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://timestripe.com/privacy/

About

Penloop

This app helps you organize your life by capturing events, todos, notes, and more. It offers a flexible system with calendars, folders, and tags to manage your information privately on your device.

Highlights
  • Capture events, todos, notes, journals
  • Organize with calendars, folders, tags
  • Private, on-device data storage
  • Automatic backups
  • Create multiple spaces
  • Sync via iCloud Drive
Features
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Penloop isn’t just a tool for storing information—it’s a space for thinking, creating, and growing. It adapts to your needs, so you can focus on what truly matters. Designed for doers, creators, and those who want to make a difference, Penloop is for the ones who are always thinking, moving, and striving to be better. It’s for those who want to live more mindfully and seek more than just an app. It’s for people who value privacy, clarity, and balance—those who are tired of tools that control them, and instead, want something that empowers them. It’s where your life can thrive. Rethink how you organize your life. At its core, Penloop isn’t just a note-taking app. It’s a better way to think, plan, and create. In one place, you can capture everything: • Events — so you’re always on top of your appointments • Todos / Reminders — so you never forget what matters • Notes and Journals — for your ideas and reflections • Timers and Stopwatches — to master your time • Logs — to monitor progress on what matters most • Bookmarks — for inspiration and future plans A system, tailored to you. With Penloop, you’re in control. Organize your world using: • Sleek Calendars — Keep your schedule on track by planning and visualizing events and appointments. Organize your day, set reminders, and never miss an important event, all while boosting your productivity and reducing stress. • Intuitive Folders — Streamline your workflow by grouping related items and reducing clutter. Folders help you stay organized, improve efficiency, and maintain focus, making it easy to find and manage your content. • Powerful Tags — Quickly organize, search, and filter your notes, tasks, and events. Tags help you find related content, track progress, and stay focused, so you can stay organized and effortlessly boost productivity. Privacy, Built Right In. • Your data stays yours. Always. Penloop doesn’t rely on servers. It stores your notes as ‘.space’ files directly on your device. Move them effortlessly between your project folders or sync them via iCloud Drive. This is your digital space—beautiful, flexible, and private. Reliable. Intuitive. Effortless. • With automatic backups and the ability to create multiple spaces, Penloop ensures your notes are safe and ready whenever inspiration strikes. It’s not just a tool. It’s a leap forward in how you organize your life. This is Penloop. Start today.

Screenshots

Timestripe4 screens
Penloop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Timestripe at Free against Penloop's $6.99. Timestripe also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (125 vs 3). Penloop's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Timestripe is free to download; Penloop costs $6.99 up front. Timestripe sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Penloop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Timestripe holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timestripe has 125 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Timestripe's written reviews are positive against 100% of Penloop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timestripe ships an update every 6 weeks, Penloop fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Timestripe versus Penloop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimestripePenloop
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating4.5 (125 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews63.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings125 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB17 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTimestripe OÜDynaPlastic Ltd.

Customer experience

Timestripe

All ratings123 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive63.9%
Neutral12.8%
Negative23.3%

Penloop

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Timestripe

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Login and password recovery issues
  • Tasks not saving or disappearing
  • Repeated weekly events not working correctly
  • Dragging and sorting functionality not reliable
  • App freezing or not loading on some devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Offline mode support
  • Improved calendar sync and integration
  • Quantitative goal tracking and progress visualization
  • Customizable widgets and home screen integration
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription

Penloop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Timestripe

Subscriptions4
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Pro Annual Subscription$49.991 Year
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  • Pro Annual Subscription1 Month trial$99.991 Year
None

Penloop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Timestripe free?
Timestripe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Penloop free?
Penloop costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Timestripe or Penloop?
Timestripe is rated higher. Timestripe averages 4.5 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while Penloop averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Timestripe or Penloop have ads?
Neither Timestripe nor Penloop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Timestripe or Penloop?
Timestripe ships an update every 6 weeks, and Penloop fortnightly. Most recently, Timestripe was updated on November 7, 2026 and Penloop on November 4, 2026.

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