Comparison

My Notes vs Ploegen Kalender

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

Head to head
About

My Notes

Capture ideas, manage tasks, and organize information with this versatile note-taking app. Create separate notebooks, use checklists, draw, record audio, and customize with themes. Secure your notes with a codelock and back them up to the cloud.

Highlights
  • Separate notebooks for organization
  • Daily checklists and to-do lists
  • Text formatting, drawing, and audio notes
  • Customizable backgrounds and themes
  • Home screen widget for quick access
  • Codelock for enhanced security
  • Cloud backup and restore
Features
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Get ready to experience the power of efficient note taking and task management with My Notes - Notebook, Notepad. This app is designed to be your go-to tool for capturing and managing all your ideas, thoughts, and important information in one place. This notebook with calendar will revolutionize the way you write down things and keep a log of your tasks. No need to wonder how to stay organized any longer! With My Notes - Notebook, Notepad, you can create separate notebooks for different subjects or projects, ensuring a well-organized workspace for lists or audio notes. Take advantage of its useful features such as daily checklists, drawing capabilities, text formatting, lovely backgrounds and themes, and a convenient widget that allows you to access your quick notes with ease. Also bear in mind that protection is important so you can keep your secrets safe with the built-in codelock feature. Say hello to a digital memo notepad that enhances your productivity and creativity! REDEFINING THE ART OF TAKING NOTES: Create separate notebooks for different purposes, keeping your writings organized and easily accessible. Use the checklists option to manage your tasks list and to-do lists efficiently, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. Capture your thoughts and ideas effortlessly with the ability to type, draw, or even record audio notes. Enhance your notebook with rich text formatting options, including bold, italic, underline, and bullet points. Archive writings that you no longer need but still want to keep for future reference. The archive feature helps you maintain a clean and organized color notes app. CUSTOMIZATION THAT SETS YOUR NOTEBOOKS APP APART: Choose from a wide range of attractive backgrounds and themes to personalize your notes taking experience. Adjust font sizes, colors, and styles to make your notes visually appealing and easy to read. Access your memo notes with ease using the convenient widget shown on your device's home screen just like sticky notes. MULTIMEDIA TO VISUALIZE YOUR IDEAS: Unleash your creativity and sketch or draw notes to illustrate your thoughts visually. Insert photos, images, and videos to create multimedia-rich entries that bring your memories and concepts to life. Record notes to capture lectures, interviews, or important discussions, ensuring you never miss a detail. PROTECT AND SECURE YOUR NOTE WRITER: Safeguard the thoughts that you jot down, a checklist or voice notes by backing them up to the cloud or internal storage. Set up a codelock to protect sensitive information like tasks schedule or an important to do list. Restore your notebook entries from previous backups, giving you peace of mind even if your device is lost, damaged, or replaced. WHY GO PREMIUM? Unlock the full potential of this new take notes app with the premium version, granting you access to advanced features and exclusive benefits, access to premium backgrounds, themes and additional customization options. Enjoy an ad-free experience, allowing you to focus solely on your creative moments and tasks without any distractions. Lifetime access with one-time payment is available for users, but you can choose the subscription plan as well that best suits your needs. We can offer you a Premium 1-year subscription or a 1-month subscription plan. Your iTunes account will be charged at confirmation of purchase. The subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the billing period. You can go to your iTunes Account Settings to manage your subscription & turn off auto-renew. Any unused portion of the free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.ascendik.com/privacy-policy/ Do you have questions or feedback? Feel free to contact us at notebook.support@ascendik.com

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Ploegen Kalender

Features
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Shift Roster Calendar helps you keep your shift roster, leave and balance organized. View your shifts by day or month, choose your team, and set roster changes or team changes. With clear calendar views, color coding per shift type and support for multiple roster variants, such as 5-shift, GP1 and GP2, you can quickly see your roster and leave balance. With iCloud sync, your settings, balance and entries can stay automatically in sync across your own devices. Your data remains available locally, and iCloud sync is optional. The app also helps you plan your workday. Set reminders for your shifts, choose a time and sound per reminder, and let future reminders be rescheduled automatically when your roster changes. You can also sync shifts with Apple Calendar, update synced calendar items again, and export your calendar as a PDF or image. For leave and balance, the app gives you extra overview. Register leave days, manage bookings and corrections, and keep track of your balance, ADV and overtime. You can export your balance overview as a PDF. Your data is stored locally on your own device. No account is required. Optionally, you can use iCloud sync to keep your data aligned across your own devices. Main features: • View your shift roster by day and month • Navigate by month or year • Support for 5-shift, GP1 and GP2 rosters • Choose your team color • Set roster changes and team changes • Compact and wide calendar views • Desk clock with time, date, current shift and today’s and tomorrow’s shifts • Color coding per shift type • Show public holidays • Optional iCloud sync across your own devices • Sync shifts manually or automatically with Apple Calendar • Export your calendar as PDF or image • Set shift reminders • Adjust reminder time and sound • Register leave • Track balance, ADV and overtime • Export balance overview as PDF • Manage manual corrections • Export and import backups • Adjust language and theme • Available in Dutch, English, Spanish and Turkish

Screenshots

My Notes4 screens
Ploegen Kalender4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My Notes at Free against Ploegen Kalender's $2.99. My Notes also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 5 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). Ploegen Kalender's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ads (none vs shown).

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

My Notes is free to download; Ploegen Kalender costs $2.99 up front. My Notes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Ploegen Kalender asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Notes ships an update every 11 days, Ploegen Kalender every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
My Notes versus Ploegen Kalender: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy NotesPloegen Kalender
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMARKO NIKOLIC PR RACUNARSKO PROGRAMIRANJE ASCENDIK NISJack Schaap

In-app purchases

8 purchases

My Notes

Subscriptions5
  • My Notes Premium (monthly)$3.991 Month
  • Limited offer Premium (yearly)$14.991 Year
  • My Notes Premium (yearly)3 Days trial$18.991 Year
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  • My Notes Premium (yearly)$18.991 Year
  • My Notes Premium user (yearly)$39.991 Year
One-time3
  • Limited offer Pro (lifetime)$29.99
  • My Notes Premium (lifetime)$34.99
  • My Notes Premium (lifetime)$69.99
None

Ploegen Kalender

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Notes free?
My Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ploegen Kalender free?
Ploegen Kalender costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Notes or Ploegen Kalender have ads?
My Notes shows ads; Ploegen Kalender does not.
Which is updated more often, My Notes or Ploegen Kalender?
My Notes ships an update every 11 days, and Ploegen Kalender every 5 weeks. Most recently, My Notes was updated on November 3, 2026 and Ploegen Kalender on November 5, 2026.

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