Comparison

Blocknotes vs Gifting Planner

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

Head to head
About

Blocknotes

This app saves your notes as local HTML files, ensuring complete offline privacy. Your notes sync automatically across devices via iCloud Drive. It requires an iCloud account to function.

Highlights
  • Local HTML file storage
  • Completely offline functionality
  • No internet connection required
  • Automatic iCloud Drive sync
  • Cross-device synchronization
Features
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Own your data! This app stores your notes as simple, local HTML files. Blocknotes never connects to the internet. It’s completely offline and private. Files are stored in your iCloud Drive, so it automatically syncs across devices. Requires you to be signed in with iCloud.

About

Gifting Planner

Features
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Gifting Planner is the app you need for all gifting occasions. Birthdays and Multi Faith Festivals. This Gift Planning app was designed from the ground up with one purpose, for you to Give Great Gifts. How does it do it? Simple… 1 Capture Gift Ideas when Inspiration strikes. This Gift app is super fast for entering your gift ideas so you can use it anytime anywhere. Add a picture, maybe a quick photo of that perfect gift in a store or from the web. Talking of the web, you can assign a URL to a gift if you are buying online. In Gift Planner you can store UNLIMITED gift ideas, only constrained by the spare capacity on your phone. 2 Make a list of Special People. Gifting Planner makes this super easy too, you only enter what is really needed. This comes down to their date of birth and which faith they follow (if you happen to know). This makes Gifting Planner a very special kind of Gift Tracking app - we live in a multi cultural world, this app will keep you aware of the special days in other cultures calendars. Great for friends but even better for business contacts In Gift Planner you can create UNLIMITED special friends, only constrained by the capacity of your phone. Some Faith Festivals change each year, so for a the very low ONE TIME price you get all the updates I release and each December a special release to give you the following years festivals. All included for the life of the app. At your leisure match your gift ideas to the people that will love them the most. And customise the idea for that person. This works great for things like the value of a Gift Voucher. 3 Occasions are at the heart of Gifting and so at the centre of Gifting Planner too. From one quick to use screen get a view of a month at a time; Birthdays and Festivals. From here you can hop to specific users to update the status of their gift or see a list of which of your special friends are likely to be celebrating a religious festival. No adverts. No recurring subscription and ABSOLUTELY no great features locked away behind a paywall. For the very low price of less than you might pay for a coffee you get all the great features plus free maintenance and support for the life of the app. With this Gifting Planner on your phone you will Give Great Gifts. If you have a feature suggestion or need a little support you can get in touch online at edstivala.co.uk/support

Screenshots

Blocknotes4 screens
Gifting Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Blocknotes at Free against Gifting Planner's $0.99. Blocknotes also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Blocknotes is free to download; Gifting Planner costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Blocknotes versus Gifting Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlocknotesGifting Planner
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAutomatticEd Stivala Limited

In-app purchases

None

Blocknotes

No in-app purchases

None

Gifting Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blocknotes free?
Blocknotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gifting Planner free?
Gifting Planner costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Blocknotes or Gifting Planner have ads?
Neither Blocknotes nor Gifting Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blocknotes or Gifting Planner?
Blocknotes ships an update monthly, and Gifting Planner monthly. Most recently, Blocknotes was updated on October 24, 2026 and Gifting Planner on October 27, 2026.

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