Comparison

Pencil Planner vs SendSafe

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

SendSafe

Securely redact sensitive information from documents and photos using on-device AI. Protect your personal data by burning black bars into pixels, stripping metadata, and adding optional watermarks. Your files never leave your device.

Highlights
  • On-device AI redaction
  • Manual redaction tools
  • Metadata stripping
  • Custom watermarking
  • PDF and image support
  • Multi-page PDF handling
Features
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Send safer. Redact IDs, bank statements, and insurance cards in seconds — without uploading anything. SendSafe uses on-device AI to find the sensitive information on your document, then burns black bars into the pixels so there's no copyable text underneath. Drag your own black bars on anything the AI misses. Add a watermark for the specific recipient. Strip EXIF and GPS metadata on export. Done. 100% on-device. Your photos, PDFs, and detected fields never leave your phone. WHAT IT DOES • Pick a photo or import a PDF • AI auto-highlights SSNs, credit cards, names, addresses, IDs, dates of birth, phone numbers, and emails • Tap each highlight to redact it, or tap "Redact all" for one-shot • Drag anywhere to redact anything else • Multi-page PDF support — swipe between pages or jump straight to redacted pages • Press and hold the eye icon to peek behind the redactions and verify nothing leaked • Export to flat image-PDF (no underlying text layer) or PNG • Optional watermark, automatically dated for the recipient PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN • No account, no signup, no email • No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs • No cloud upload — Vision and Natural Language run on-device • EXIF and GPS metadata stripped on every export • Source of truth: your phone PREMIUM ($4.99 ONE-TIME) • Remove the SendSafe watermark • Custom watermark text, color, opacity • Document templates (coming soon) • Higher-quality export options One purchase. Forever. No subscription. No usage limits in the free version. Made for renters submitting paperwork to landlords, job seekers sending W-2s to HR, patients sharing insurance cards with new doctors, and anyone who has ever screenshotted an ID and wondered if their address number was still visible behind the marker scribble.

Screenshots

Pencil Planner3 screens
SendSafe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SendSafe at 5.0 against Pencil Planner's 4.6. SendSafe also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Pencil Planner's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Pencil Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 3 months and SendSafe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SendSafe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pencil Planner has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Pencil Planner's written reviews are positive against 100% of SendSafe's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pencil Planner versus SendSafe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPencil PlannerSendSafe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTNX Apps UGWEIXUAN HUANG

Customer experience

Pencil Planner

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%

SendSafe

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pencil Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Quarterly Pro$2.993 Months
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro$12.99
1 purchases

SendSafe

One-time1
  • SendSafe Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Pencil Planner free?
Pencil Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SendSafe free?
SendSafe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pencil Planner or SendSafe?
SendSafe is rated higher. Pencil Planner averages 4.6 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while SendSafe averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pencil Planner or SendSafe have ads?
Neither Pencil Planner nor SendSafe shows ads.

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