Pencil Planner vs InkPlanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pencil Planner
This app allows users to visually plan their schedules by drawing appointments directly onto a calendar. It offers an intuitive, pen-on-paper experience for effortless scheduling, making it ideal for families and couples to coordinate activities and boost overall productivity.
- Draw appointments directly on calendar
- Intuitive pen-on-paper planning
- Visual family planner
- Couple calendar for shared planning
- Boost productivity and organization
- Supports iPad stylus input
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Ditch the Text, Draw Your Schedule with Stift! Tired of typing appointments? Stift lets you unleash the power of your tablet pen. Draw your schedule directly on the calendar! Why Stift? Effortless Scheduling: Draw appointments for any day, week, or month. It's that simple! Natural Planning: Forget the keyboard frustration. Stift feels intuitive, just like using a pen on paper. Perfect for Families: Coordinate everyone's activities with a visual, fun family planner. Keep track of soccer practice, music lessons, and movie nights - all in one place! Boost Productivity: Manage your time visually and stay organized with Stift. Work together: Use the calendar as a couple calendar and plan your year together. Stift: The fun and easy way to schedule your life. Please read the licensed application end user license agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ And our Terms of Service: https://www.s5t.app/terms
InkPlanner
A digital wall calendar app for iPad and Apple Pencil, offering a clear yearly overview. It allows handwritten entry of appointments and notes with a customizable color-coded legend for enhanced organization and a minimalist planning experience.
- Yearly overview at a glance
- Handwritten notes and appointments
- Customizable color-coded legend
- Minimalist and simple design
- Digital replication of physical wall calendars
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InkPlanner: Your digital wall calendar for iPad & Apple Pencil. Features: + Clear planning: your entire year at a glance. + Developed for Apple Pencil: Simply enter appointments and notes by hand. + Customized legend: Color-coded legend with five categories. Why did we develop InkPlanner? With InkPlanner, we want to transfer the proven clarity of a physical wall calendar to the digital world. With iPad and Apple Pencil, this feeling can be replicated in the best possible way, leading to more clarity, minimalism and simplicity. What does InkPlanner cost? InkPlanner is available for you to test free of charge. After the trial, you can unlock unlimited entries with a one-time payment. We do not use monthly subscription fees.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pencil Planner at 84% against InkPlanner's 38%. Pencil Planner also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pencil Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months and InkPlanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pencil Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Pencil Planner's written reviews are positive against 38% of InkPlanner's.
Pencil Planner ships an update every 3 weeks, InkPlanner every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Pencil Planner | InkPlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (12 ratings) — better | 4.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TNX Apps UG | Christian Merk |
Customer experience
Pencil Planner
InkPlanner
In-app purchases
Pencil Planner
- Quarterly Pro$2.993 Months
- Yearly Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Pro$12.99
InkPlanner
- Calendar$6.99
Questions
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