Comparison

Ultimate Planner App vs Noted

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

Head to head
About

Ultimate Planner App

This digital planner app offers a flexible system for organizing your life on iPad and iPhone. It combines handwriting and typing with calendar syncing and customizable layouts for daily, weekly, and yearly planning.

Highlights
  • Handwriting with Apple Pencil or finger
  • Calendar sync (Apple & Google)
  • Customizable planner layouts and templates
  • Habit and goal tracking
  • Notes, journaling, and sketching
  • Cross-device and offline sync
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Ultimate Planner is a flexible digital planner app for iPad and iPhone, built for handwriting, calendar planning, tasks, notes, habits, goals, routines, and personal organization. Plan your day, week, month, and year on visual planner pages, write naturally with Apple Pencil or your finger, type text when needed, and sync your real schedule with Apple Calendar and Google Calendar. Use Ultimate Planner as your daily planner, weekly planner, monthly planner, yearly planner, task planner, habit tracker, goal planner, note-taking app, and visual calendar planner in one simple planning system. It is designed for people who want the feel of a real planner with the flexibility of a modern productivity app. More than a to-do list, Ultimate Planner gives you real planner pages for daily schedules, weekly routines, monthly plans, yearly goals, notes, trackers, budgets, meal planning, projects, journaling, wellness, study, work, and home organization. It helps you build a planner that fits the way you actually plan. Ultimate Planner is not a static PDF planner. You can customize layouts, add pages, create multiple planners, change covers and themes, sync calendar events, type text, use checkboxes, add images, paste content, write by hand, and continue planning across future years without rebuilding your planner from scratch. Capture plans without friction. Add tasks, notes, ideas, reminders, routines, and calendar events, then organize everything into daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or custom planner pages when you are ready. Ultimate Planner is flexible enough for detailed planning, but simple enough to keep using every day. Key Features: • Digital planner app for iPad and iPhone • Handwriting with Apple Pencil or finger • Apple Calendar sync and Google Calendar sync • Daily planner, weekly planner, monthly planner, quarterly planner, and yearly planner pages • 500+ flexible planner layouts, templates, and page designs • Checklists, reminders, recurring plans, and routines • Habit tracker, goal planner, routine tracker, progress tracker, and wellness planner pages • Notes, journals, sketches, stickers, images, handwriting, typed text, and pasted content • Budget planner, meal planner, project planner, student planner, teacher planner, ADHD-friendly planner pages, and more • Light and dark mode, planner themes, covers, colors, fonts, and custom sections • Multiple planners for work, study, home, wellness, school, projects, and personal life • Cross-device and cross-platform sync • Offline planning support when you do not have internet access Use Ultimate Planner for: • Daily planning and time blocking • Weekly routines and recurring tasks • Monthly planning and long-term goals • Work planning, project planning, and meeting notes • Budget planning, expense tracking, and personal finance organization • Meal planning, grocery planning, wellness planning, habits, and journaling • ADHD planning, visual planning, flexible routines, and personal productivity • Notes, checklists, schedules, trackers, and custom planner pages Ultimate Planner helps you organize your life without forcing you into one rigid productivity system. Start free and build a digital planner that works the way you do. Subscriptions: - App subscriptions are paid on either monthly or yearly intervals - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription - Privacy Policy: https://ultimate-planner.app/privacy/ - Terms of Service: https://ultimate-planner.app/terms/

About

Noted

Organize all your school assignments, tests, and study tasks in one clear, structured place. Plan your learning effectively and study more efficiently to always know what's next and prepare with focus.

Highlights
  • Organize homework, tests, and study tasks
  • Clear and structured task display
  • Integrated study planning
  • Effective learning planning
  • Efficient studying
  • Prepare for upcoming tasks
Features
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Noted helps you organize all your school tasks and display them in a clear and structured way. Homework, tests, and study tasks are all in one place. With the integrated study planning feature, you can plan your learning more effectively and study more efficiently than ever before. You always know what’s coming next and can prepare in a focused way.

Screenshots

Ultimate Planner App4 screens
Noted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Noted at none against Ultimate Planner App's 4. Noted also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Ultimate Planner App's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, ads, device support 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

Both are free to download. Ultimate Planner App sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Noted asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Noted holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ultimate Planner App has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Planner App ships an update fortnightly, Noted every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ultimate Planner App versus Noted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate Planner AppNoted
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (21 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB6 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperEvopaperMARTINA DR. STACHER-REIF

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Ultimate Planner App

Subscriptions3
  • All in One Access$4.991 Month
  • All in One Access (Yearly)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • All in One Access (Yearly)$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$69.99
None

Noted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ultimate Planner App free?
Ultimate Planner App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Noted free?
Noted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Planner App or Noted?
Noted is rated higher. Ultimate Planner App averages 4.6 out of 5 from 21 ratings, while Noted averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Ultimate Planner App or Noted have ads?
Neither Ultimate Planner App nor Noted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Planner App or Noted?
Ultimate Planner App ships an update fortnightly, and Noted every 6 days. Most recently, Ultimate Planner App was updated on November 12, 2026 and Noted on November 12, 2026.

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