Comparison

InkPlanner vs NovaNote

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

NovaNote

This app merges your digital life and ideas with advanced rich text formatting, image and PDF attachments, and voice recording. Seamlessly integrate maps and calendars into your notes for effortless organization and task management.

Highlights
  • Rich text formatting
  • Map integration
  • Calendar integration
  • Image and PDF attachments
  • Voice recording
  • Color-coded categories
  • iCloud sync
Features
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NovaNote is your space to write, organize, and create without interrupting the flow of your ideas. Take notes, create notebooks, add images, scans, drawings, PDFs, audio recordings, tasks, events, and locations: everything stays together in one simple, complete app designed to support your everyday work and creativity. With notebooks, you can organize pages and notes more naturally, keeping projects, study, work, and personal ideas separate and easy to find. Rich text tools let you format text, create lists, adjust alignment, and structure every note with clarity. NovaNote also helps you preserve context. Add locations to notes, connect calendar events, record multiple audio clips in a single note, import attachments, and turn images, scans, and drawings into resources that are always within reach. Attachments are a core part of the experience: add photos, PDFs, images, scans, and drawings, then edit, annotate, crop, and export them whenever you need. Color-coded categories make it easier to quickly find what matters. iCloud sync keeps your content updated across your Apple devices, while improvements to performance, zoom, gallery, scanner, and overall stability make the experience smoother and more reliable. NovaNote is built for anyone who wants functionality and creativity in one place: notes, ideas, documents, and memories, always with you.

Screenshots

NovaNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NovaNote at none against InkPlanner's 1. NovaNote also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 1). InkPlanner's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (10 vs 3). On price, review sentiment 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. InkPlanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NovaNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

InkPlanner holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of InkPlanner's written reviews are positive against 33% of NovaNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

InkPlanner ships an update every 4 months, NovaNote every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
InkPlanner versus NovaNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkPlannerNovaNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (10 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChristian MerkFrancesco Salvati

Customer experience

InkPlanner

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative37.5%

NovaNote

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

InkPlanner

One-time1
  • Calendar$6.99
None

NovaNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is InkPlanner free?
InkPlanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NovaNote free?
NovaNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, InkPlanner or NovaNote?
InkPlanner is rated higher. InkPlanner averages 4.2 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while NovaNote averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do InkPlanner or NovaNote have ads?
Neither InkPlanner nor NovaNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, InkPlanner or NovaNote?
InkPlanner ships an update every 4 months, and NovaNote every 9 days. Most recently, InkPlanner was updated on November 3, 2026 and NovaNote on November 6, 2026.

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