Comparison

Planner vs WeNote

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

Head to head
About

Planner

This digital organizer combines a notepad, planner, and to-do list to help you manage personal and work tasks. It offers a familiar paper-like interface for effortless planning and goal achievement, with features like reminders and habit tracking.

Highlights
  • Digital diary, calendar, and organizer
  • Habit tracker and to-do list
  • Paper-like interface
  • Weekly and daily views
  • Task prioritization with formatting
  • Voice notes and stylus support
  • iCloud sync and backup
Features
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Diary, Calendar, Organizer, Planner combines a notepad, planner, reminder, calendar, habit tracker, and to-do list into one easy-to-use app for both your personal life and work. It replaces your traditional paper planner with a fully digital version, letting you effortlessly create and track your plans to achieve your goals. A dream written next to the date becomes a goal! Millions of people worldwide rely on our planner. Organize class schedules, keep notes, manage client tasks, create shopping lists, build habits, boost productivity, and never forget important things. The planner’s interface mimics the classic paper notebook used for generations. It’s the simplest, most user-friendly way to plan—like a school agenda or minimalist paper planner. View your entire week’s plans on one screen—the perfect timeframe for smart scheduling. Easily swipe through weeks, months, or years. Add, edit, or remove tasks, plans, and habits with ease. No complicated forms or data entry—just type or speak your notes, just like making an ordinary memo. Key Features of Diary, Calendar, Organizer, Planner: • Enjoy a satisfying page-flip experience like a paper calendar or planner—no need to carry a physical notebook anymore. • See your full week at a glance plus a detailed daily view for extra notes. Keep all your plans in clear sight. • Choose from a variety of backgrounds to fit your style—and change them as often as you like. • Quickly navigate to any date, past or future. • Highlight notes with color, underline, strikethrough, bold, or italics to prioritize and mark tasks complete. • Maintain a separate notes list (to-do list) untethered to dates—perfect for shopping lists or jotting down ideas. • Display week numbers and jump back to today’s date anytime. • Customize colors and font sizes of your entries. • Change app language settings. • Select your preferred first day of the week. • Add voice notes or use a stylus on tablets. • Sync and back up with iCloud. • Search for words within your notes and plans. Also included: • Recurring events (daily, yearly, etc.) for birthdays, workouts, and more. • Automatic reminders. • Checkboxes to mark completed tasks. • Integration with your iPhone Calendar. Coming soon: • Hourly day views for detailed scheduling. • Options to share your calendar with colleagues, friends, and family. • Integration with other calendar services like Google Calendar. • And much more. The essential features of Diary, Calendar, Organizer, Planner are always free. Upgrade to Premium via one-time purchase or subscription for additional features. Questions or feedback? Contact us at appweeklyplanner@gmail.com Standard Apple LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT applies to this app: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

WeNote

This app helps you organize your life with color-coded notes, to-do lists, and a calendar. It offers features like reminders, voice recording, and secure note locking. Work offline without an internet connection and sync securely to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Create color notes and to-do lists
  • Organize with labels and colors
  • Attach photos and voice recordings
  • Secure note locking with PIN or fingerprint
  • Calendar with holiday support
  • Sync notes to iCloud
  • Export notes to PDF
Features
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# Simple notepad & memo. Take notes, shopping list, to-do list, calendar, reminder WeNote - Notes,To-do,Calendar is a simple and awesome note taking app. You can create color notes, to do lists, shopping lists, reminders, and calendars quickly. Users love WeNote® as their life organizer, work planner, or study note app. Note taking with WeNote® is easier than any other notepad, memo app. When you write down memos, emails, phone numbers, messages, cooking recipes, diary, journal, shopping lists, and to do list, you will realize this is a good notes taking app. WeNote® is a privacy-focused notepad. WeNote® can work offline perfectly, even without an Internet connection. No login is required. Lock notes and to do list via PIN, pattern, password, or fingerprint, to protect confidential information. # How to Take a Note? WeNote® can act as a simple word processing app. You can type unlimited characters. After saving the note, you can pin it to the top screen, check off, password lock, share or delete through the menu. # How to Make Todo List or Shopping List? In to-do list mode, you can add an unlimited checklist. Arrange their order with a simple tap and move. When finishing with an item, you can perform a simple tap to strikethrough it. # Features • Create color notes and todo list • Organize memo using label & color • Labels designed as tabs, to let you swipe between notes at blazing fast speed • Attach photos and images into notebook • Voice recording allows hands-free note taking. You can add unlimited voice recordings into notepad • Pin important notes to the top. You will not miss out on any important thing • Place a sticky note widget on your Home Screen. View and access your note directly from Home Screen • Secure lock notes and keep them private • The completed to-do list will move to the bottom of the checklist • Customize notes via various fonts, viewing modes, sorting modes • 13 different app color themes to make notebook looks great • Unlimited notes color choices • Reminders memo and calendar • Powerful notes reminder. Notepad able to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and highly customizable. Never miss anything from the notebook • Show holidays on the calendar notes, which supports up to 250 countries, 3,680 states & provinces • Secure sync to iCloud. Never lose any notes • Local backup and restore to keep notes safe • Share notes to email, SMS, social networking & messaging apps • Undo/ redo enables mistake correction during note typing • Convert URL and phone number to clickable links • Export notes to PDF • Search notes and todo list, instantly # Color Notes This notebook can categorize notes into different colors. Manage notes with 12 pre-defined beautiful colors. WeNote® also provides an unlimited favorite color. # Notes Category WeNote® allows you to categorize notes by creating labels. Labels can display as Tabs. # Calendar Memo This notepad has a calendar. You can write a memo and create a reminder in the calendar. Due to its remarkable easy-to-use built-in calendar, you can use WeNote® as agenda planner and family organizer. Either plan next trip itinerary or schedule business meetings. # Secure Lock to Keep Notebook Private This notepad can secure lock and keep notes private. Either lock a note or lock the entire app to keep the notebook safe. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Planner4 screens
WeNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Planner at none against WeNote's shown. WeNote's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Planner sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and WeNote sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planner against 4.8 for WeNote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 765 and 1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Planner's written reviews are positive against 86% of WeNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planner ships an update monthly, WeNote every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Planner versus WeNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlannerWeNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (765 ratings)4.8 (1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.5% of reviews86.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7651K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size667 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigital Legal TechYan Cheng Cheok

Customer experience

Planner

All ratings758 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews467 reviews
Positive59.5%
Neutral10.9%
Negative29.6%

WeNote

All ratings1,037 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews351 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative8.0%

User reviews

Planner

From 765 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great app for what I need
  • 👍 Excellent tool for tracking tasks and events
  • 👍 Useful for business notes and CRM tracking
  • 👍 Fantastic app, not a lot like it on the App Store
  • 👍 Perfectly simple and EXACTLY WHAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR!

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Glitch when trying to organize the order of tasks
  • 🐛 Couldn't even do two notes, no help on how to start a simple new note
  • 🐛 Repeat option not operable
  • 🐛 Reorder of items doesn't save well
  • 🐛 Lacks options for optimal use

WeNote

From 1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • ❤️ Loved the app
  • 👍 Easy to use and organize
  • 🎨 Customizable colors and layouts
  • 📆 Helpful calendar and reminders
  • 🔒 Ability to lock notes

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Paid features like dark mode and iCloud sync
  • ⚠️ Occasional sync issues between devices
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality

Bugs and requests

Planner

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Reorder of tasks doesn't save properly
  • Repeat/recurring event functionality not working
  • Crashes and data loss issues after updates
  • Sync between iPhone and iPad not working
  • Cut/copy/paste functionality not working
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  • Formatting options (bold, underline, etc.) not working in Pro version
  • Inability to add time/hour indicators for events in Pro version
  • Search functionality not available despite being advertised

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add ability to add images and handwrite with Apple Pencil
  • Add more color options for customization
  • Add ability to add links
  • Add ability to set recurring events
  • Add ability to set reminders/alarms
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  • Add ability to change text formatting (bold, underline, etc.)
  • Add ability to set time/hour indicators for events
  • Add ability to search through past entries
  • Add ability to print or export to PDF
  • Add ability to sync across devices automatically
  • Add ability to set password or fingerprint protection
  • Add ability to add voice notes
  • Add ability to create multiple note pages per day
  • Add ability to change page backgrounds and themes

WeNote

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Repeated prompts for reviews
  • Checklist items not updating properly
  • Reminders not always triggering

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add undo/redo functionality
  • Improve calendar integration to show note details
  • Provide more font and formatting options
  • Allow sharing and collaboration on notes

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Planner

Subscriptions2
  • PREMIUM 1 month3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • PREMIUM 1 year7 Days trial$11.991 Year
One-time7
  • Holiday designs (lifetime)2 variants$1.99
  • 3D Shapes (lifetime)$1.99
  • Art Lines (lifetime)$1.99
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  • Gradients (lifetime)$1.99
  • Daily Planner PRO (lifetime)$6.99
  • PREMIUM for PRO (lifetime)$11.99
  • PREMIUM (lifetime)$23.99
10 purchases

WeNote

Subscriptions5
  • Ad-free$2.991 Month
  • WeNote Premium Monthly Deal$2.991 Month
  • WeNote Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
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  • WeNote Premium Yearly Deal$24.991 Year
  • WeNote Premium Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time5
  • Sticky note$7.99
  • Color$7.99
  • Label$7.99
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  • Cloud sync$14.99
  • Combo$34.99

Questions

Is Planner free?
Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WeNote free?
WeNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planner or WeNote?
WeNote is rated higher. Planner averages 4.7 out of 5 from 765 ratings, while WeNote averages 4.8 from 1K ratings.
Do Planner or WeNote have ads?
WeNote shows ads; Planner does not.
Which is updated more often, Planner or WeNote?
Planner ships an update monthly, and WeNote every 6 days. Most recently, Planner was updated on November 3, 2026 and WeNote on November 3, 2026.

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