Planote vs Candor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planote
This app offers a unified productivity space to manage your schedule, tasks, and ideas. It features a visual timeline for organizing your day, smart task management with habit tracking, and a digital canvas for notes and ideation. Enjoy a distraction-free experience with elegant design and fluid animations.
- Visual timeline for daily organization
- Smart task management with habit tracking
- Digital canvas for notes and ideation
- Distraction-free interface
- Haptic and visual feedback for task completion
- Cross-device synchronization
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Design Your Day. Focus Your Mind. Stop juggling multiple apps. Start living with intention. Planote is a unified productivity space that brings harmony to your schedule, tasks, and ideas. It's more than a checklist — it's a refined workspace where elegance meets efficiency. No ads. No distractions. Just focus. Plan – Visual Timeline Turn chaos into clarity with an intelligent timeline. Drag, drop, and organize your day. See everything at a glance. Align your calendar with your goals — effortlessly. Do – Smart Task Management Master your to-dos with priority-based sorting, habit tracking, and custom reminders. Every completed task delivers satisfying haptic and visual feedback. You'll actually enjoy getting things done. Create – Notes & Ideation A digital canvas that feels like paper. Sketch, annotate, or journal with Apple Pencil. Combine text, subtasks, and images in one seamless flow. Capture inspiration before it slips away. Why Planote Stands Out No ads, no pop-ups — completely distraction-free Premium aesthetics with fluid animations Reliable sync across all your devices Tactile haptic feedback for every interaction Perfect for Professionals, students, creatives, and minimalists who want a clutter-free path to peak daily performance. Experience productivity, beautifully refined. Download Planote today. If you have any suggestions or questions while using Planote, please contact us at planotefeedback@outlook.com and we will respond within a short time. Privacy Policy https://sites.google.com/view/planote-privacy-policy Terms of Use https://sites.google.com/view/planote-terms-of-use
Candor
This app uses AI to analyze your written notes, revealing patterns, themes, and contradictions you might miss. It offers on-device and cloud-based AI models, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end encryption and user privacy. Chat with your notes and map clusters by theme for deeper reflection.
- AI-powered note analysis
- Theme and pattern identification
- On-device and cloud AI options
- End-to-end encryption
- Chat with your notes
- Note clustering by theme
- Data export options
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Candor is a AI Note Eighteen AI lenses surface the patterns you'd never see otherwise the themes you keep returning to, the loops you don't notice, the questions you're quietly carrying. Every entry is encrypted with your master password before it leaves the writing surface. No analytics. No cloud-scraping. No support backdoor. Honest writing, in your hands. THE AI HUB Reflect runs your scoped notes through one of these lenses: • Themes — what you keep returning to, ranked by frequency • Recent mind — the 2–3 threads pulling at you this week • Loop — unconscious cycles running through your writing • Salience — what you say you care about vs. what your attention keeps landing on • Contradictions — beliefs you hold that don't fit together • Open questions — the ones you keep asking yourself • What's missing — topics you'd expect to write about but don't • The Outside View — what a stranger reading your journal would assume • Steel Man — the most generous reading of a flaw you keep naming • The Crucible — calibrated challenges at the edge of your capacity • Trajectory — where the next 6–12 months go if nothing changes • Spark for writing — open scenes to write into • Plus: Story, Timeline, Period summary, Growth, Preferences, Key choices Chat with your notes for open-ended dialogue. Map clusters your entries by theme. TWO AIs TO CHOOSE FROM • Apple Intelligence — on-device, fast, included with Backup & Export • Candor AI — cloud, frontier reasoning, included with Bundle Switch any time in Settings. The same notes feed either one. PRIVACY YOU CAN AUDIT Your master password derives a 256-bit key locally with Argon2id. Every entry is sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 before it leaves the writing surface. Search runs in memory and forgets. Nothing leaves your phone unless you turn on iCloud sync — and even then, Apple sees ciphertext only. There is no support backdoor. Lose your password and your recovery key, and the data is gone. That's the point. FREE CANDOR INCLUDES • Writing with auto-save • Voice dictation (on-device — Apple Speech and Omnilingual for 100+ languages) • End-to-end encryption • Full-text and semantic search • Categories, widgets, daily reminders • Local-only — no account required SUBSCRIPTIONS • Backup & Export — $2.99/month or $24.99/year Apple Intelligence on-device + Gemini cloud (bring your own API key) + iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac + .ilbk / ZIP / Obsidian export and import. • Bundle — $5.99/month or $49.99/year Everything in Backup, plus Candor AI — our most capable model, server-managed, no API key needed. 7-day free trial on the Bundle. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings. Family Sharing supported on both tiers. AUTO-RENEWAL DISCLOSURE Subscriptions renew at the price shown above unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Your Apple ID is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in iOS Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://belvantis.com/candor/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Made by Belvantis. Email info@belvantis.com or visit belvantis.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Planote at 24 against Candor's 1. Planote also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.2 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Planote sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Candor sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Planote against 5.0 for Candor. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planote has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Planote ships an update fortnightly, Candor every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planote | Candor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Focus On Timetable Schedule Group | Benyamin Famili |
Customer experience
Planote
Candor
In-app purchases
Planote
- Planote Monthly$1.991 Month
- Monthly subscription$1.991 Month
- Planote Yearly$6.991 Year
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- annual subscription$6.991 Year
- Limited-time event$8.99
- Planote Pro$12.99
Candor
- Backup & Export$2.991 Month
- Bundle$5.991 Month
- Backup & Export7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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- Bundle7 Days trial$49.991 Year









