Comparison

Pencil Planner vs MyTaskFlow Planner

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 offers a handwritten digital planner with calendar, notebook, and reminder features. It allows natural writing with a stylus, visual planning using stickers, and easy navigation between linked pages. Organize notes, set timed reminders, and plan across daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views.

Highlights
  • Handwritten digital planner
  • Calendar views (Day, Week, Month, Year)
  • Note pages with templates
  • Stickers for visual planning
  • Reminder Label Stickers
  • Link Stickers for navigation
  • Bookmarks for quick access
Features
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YOUR PLANNER, YOUR WAY PencilTime brings the freedom of a paper planner to iPad and iPhone, with the convenience of digital tools when you need them. Write naturally with Apple Pencil on iPad, sketch with your finger, or type when text works better. Plan your days, weeks, months, and year, keep notes alongside your plans, and organize everything without giving up the flexibility of pen and paper. PLAN ACROSS YOUR WHOLE LIFE Move naturally between Day, Week, Month, and Year views. Write directly on your planner, add typed details where supported, and keep projects, meetings, ideas, journals, and reference material on dedicated Note pages. Whether you're planning a busy workday, outlining a project, keeping a journal, or simply figuring out what comes next, PencilTime gives you room to plan without forcing you into a rigid system. WRITE, TYPE, AND MARK THINGS UP • Write, sketch, and highlight with Apple Pencil or touch. • Type on Note pages and supported planner areas. • Format Note text with size, color, bold, italic, underline, highlighting, alignment, lists, and indentation. • Add editable lines, arrows, rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses. • Mix handwriting, typed text, shapes, stickers, links, and images on the same page. FIND WHAT YOU NEED AGAIN Search typed content across planner and Note pages from the top-bar magnifying glass. Filter results to Planner or Notes, sort in several ways, choose whether capitalization must match, and jump directly back to the page you need. Search includes supported typed page content, Note titles, Note text, Day entries, and Link labels. Handwriting, drawings, template labels, attachments, and live Apple Calendar events are not included in text search. START WITH A LAYOUT, MAKE IT YOUR OWN Choose from bundled Note layouts for Paper, Study, Work, Productivity, Personal, Home & Money, and Creative uses. Use layouts for meeting notes, assignments, exam prep, projects, budgets, checklists, habit tracking, brainstorming, sketching, and more. Change a Note page's background later while keeping your existing content in place. KEEP EVERYTHING CLOSE • Connect planner and Note pages with Page Links. • Add website, email, phone, message, and file links. • Attach files and preview them with Quick Look. • Add reminders, photos, images, labels, and emoji. • Return quickly with Bookmarks, Recent Pages, and Back navigation. • Export completed pages as PDF or PNG. WORK THE WAY YOU PREFER Use PencilTime with the on-screen keyboard or a hardware keyboard. Choose Fit Page or Fit Width when viewing portrait pages in landscape, set your preferred first day of the week, and use your device language for planner date labels. START FREE, ADD PREMIUM WHEN YOU NEED IT Start with handwriting, supported typed text, search, bundled Note layouts, and one new Note page per day. Premium adds unlimited Note pages, Tags and Smart Folders, Apple Calendar integration, iCloud sync, and access to future planner dates. Apple Pencil is supported on compatible iPads. iPhone supports touch and keyboard input. iCloud sync requires Premium and the same Apple Account on your devices. --- Privacy Policy: https://semore-software.com/penciltime-privacy-policy.html Support: support@semore-software.com By using this app, you agree to Apple’s standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

MyTaskFlow Planner

Features
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MyTaskFlow is a fast, private task manager for everything from a quick thought to a complete project. Capture tasks in Inbox, bring tasks and calendar events together in Today, and review Upcoming, Anytime, Someday, and Logbook. Organize areas, projects, tasks, and subtasks with headings, tags, colors, filters, and progress. Add start dates, deadlines, reminders, repeats, and attachments. Private iCloud CloudKit sync keeps Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch up to date. No advertising or tracking. Free for up to 2 areas, 2 tracking areas, 5 active projects, and 50 pending tasks; Premium removes the limits and unlocks biometric lock. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pencil Planner4 screens
MyTaskFlow Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: MyTaskFlow Planner at 4 against Pencil Planner's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and MyTaskFlow Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pencil Planner ships an update every 8 days, MyTaskFlow Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Pencil Planner versus MyTaskFlow Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPencil PlannerMyTaskFlow Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (34 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSemore SoftwareFrancisco J. Camacho

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Pencil Planner

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Premium3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Premium3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Premium$19.99
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99
2 purchases

MyTaskFlow Planner

Subscriptions2
  • MyTaskFlow Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
  • MyTaskFlow Annual Premium$17.991 Year

Questions

Is Pencil Planner free?
Pencil Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MyTaskFlow Planner free?
MyTaskFlow Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pencil Planner or MyTaskFlow Planner have ads?
Neither Pencil Planner nor MyTaskFlow Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pencil Planner or MyTaskFlow Planner?
Pencil Planner ships an update every 8 days, and MyTaskFlow Planner weekly. Most recently, Pencil Planner was updated on October 24, 2026 and MyTaskFlow Planner on October 25, 2026.

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