Comparison

BigPlan vs NoteThing Planner

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

Head to head
About

BigPlan

This app offers a visual planner to organize tasks, habits, and schedules on a single timeline. It helps users focus, manage projects with nested tasks, and personalize their planning space with custom themes and backdrops. Enjoy seamless synchronization across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Visual timeline for tasks, habits, and events
  • Habit tracking and progress visualization
  • Nested tasks for project breakdown
  • Customizable themes, colors, and backdrops
  • iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Quick search and multi-edit capabilities
Features
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An intuitive visual planner that helps you focus every day on what you want to do, organize your time, and follow good habits. Find calm and focus in your day. Make plans and see all your tasks, habits, and schedule come together on a single timeline. Struggling to focus, juggling all the important stuff, or just keeping your head clear? Reclaim your headspace from all the distraction. – Simplify Your Day – Designed to bring you focus and clarity at a glance: - See Your Schedule Beautifully: Map out your entire day on an intuitive timeline that combines your to-dos, habits, and events. - Build Lasting Habits: Create and track repeatable tasks to build momentum and visualize your progress over time. - Never Miss a Thing: Stay on top of deadlines, meetings, and birthdays with custom reminders. – A Planner Just For You – Make your planning space a place you love: - Custom Colors: Personalize with a color palette that fits your style. - Big Themes: See the entire app transform with special color palettes that magically adapt to your chosen theme. - Serene Backdrops: Set your productive scene with beautiful backgrounds. – Easy Organization – From grocery lists to big projects, have the tools to handle it easily: - Tackle Projects: Break down big things into smaller, manageable steps with nested tasks and lists. - Gain Powerful Perspectives: Use Labels to categorize and quickly filter everything from work assignments to personal errands. - Capture Every Detail: Add notes quickly to your tasks so important information is always right where you need it. – Built For Your iPhone and iPad – - Widgets: See plans at a glance and seamlessly complete your to dos. - iCloud Sync: Your data is always saved and syncs automatically and securely across all your Apple devices. - Drag & Drop: Fluidly plan your day and reorganize with interactive drag-and-drop. - Quick Search: Swiftly find what you need - any task, note, or project. - Multi-Edit: Save time by editing multiple lists and tasks at once. - Dark mode Ready to focus? Get BigPlan now and start easily.

About

NoteThing Planner

This app combines notes, tasks, goals, and reminders into a single, focused experience. It offers a rich text editor, task management with flexible recurrence, habit tracking, and smart reminders. Enjoy a unified productivity toolkit across all your Apple devices with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • Rich text and Markdown editor
  • Task management with recurring options
  • Habit and goal tracking
  • Smart reminders with quiet hours
  • Cross-device sync via iCloud
  • Home Screen widgets
  • Native Mac app
Features
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Notes, tasks, goals, and reminders — together in one beautiful app. NoteThing is the productivity toolkit that replaces four apps with one. Capture quick thoughts, stay on top of deadlines, track habits over time, and never miss a reminder — from a single focused experience that works the same on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. One purchase covers every Apple device you own. No subscription. No in-app purchases. No account to create. NOTES • Rich text editor with formatting toolbar • Full Markdown mode with live preview • Folders and color-coded tags for organization • Fast search across every note TASKS • Due dates with flexible recurrence (daily, weekly, monthly, custom) • Smart notifications: at time, 15 minutes, 1 hour, or 1 day before • Completed recurring tasks automatically create the next occurrence • Upcoming view rolls all your deadlines into a single timeline GOALS • Track habits daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly • Yes/No tracking or quantity goals (push-ups, miles, dollars saved) • Four display styles: checkbox, tally marks, streak counter, progress bar • Complete history with charts and momentum REMINDERS • Recurring schedules with the same flexibility as tasks • Built-in quiet hours so notifications never wake you at 2 a.m. • Pause and resume individual reminders without losing their schedule • Smart batching keeps you under the system's 64-notification limit WORKS EVERYWHERE • One Universal Purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac • iCloud sync via your own Apple Account — never our servers • Home Screen widgets in three sizes • Native Mac app with keyboard shortcuts, multi-select, and file export • Family Sharing supported HONEST PRICING • Buy once, own forever • No subscriptions, ever • No in-app purchases or paywalled features • No account to create — just your Apple Account • No ads, no upsells, no nags • Free updates for the life of the app SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Fully translated into English, French, French (Canada), German, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish, Japanese, and Korean. PRIVATE BY DESIGN NoteThing does not collect or transmit any personal data. Your content lives on your device and — if you choose — in your private iCloud. There are no servers holding your content, no analytics SDKs, and no third-party trackers in the app. Stop juggling four subscriptions. Get the calm of a single tool that does everything you need, owned outright. NoteThing is the productivity app you'll actually use.

Screenshots

BigPlan4 screens
NoteThing Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BigPlan at Free against NoteThing Planner's $2.99. BigPlan also leads on ratings volume (5 vs 1). NoteThing Planner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On rating, update cadence, ads and device support 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

BigPlan is free to download; NoteThing Planner costs $2.99 up front. BigPlan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NoteThing Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BigPlan against 5.0 for NoteThing Planner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BigPlan has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BigPlan versus NoteThing Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBigPlanNoteThing Planner
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJesse SpencerCore Dump Software LLC

Customer experience

BigPlan

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

NoteThing Planner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BigPlan

One-time1
  • Nova$12.00
None

NoteThing Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BigPlan free?
BigPlan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NoteThing Planner free?
NoteThing Planner costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BigPlan or NoteThing Planner?
BigPlan and NoteThing Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do BigPlan or NoteThing Planner have ads?
Neither BigPlan nor NoteThing Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BigPlan or NoteThing Planner?
BigPlan ships an update every 2 weeks, and NoteThing Planner every 2 weeks. Most recently, BigPlan was updated on October 30, 2026 and NoteThing Planner on October 31, 2026.

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