Stoobs vs Polite Fish Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stoobs
This app delivers randomly timed reminders to encourage new habits and add variety to your day. It uses surprise to capture attention, unlike traditional scheduled reminders. Customize notifications, intervals, and create custom lists for personalized prompts.
- Randomly timed notifications
- Customizable reminder lists
- Personalized notification settings
- Flexible scheduling intervals
- No personal data collection
- Inspiration examples provided
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Break free from routine or start a new one with Stoobs! Receive randomly timed reminders that inspire you to try something new, shake up your habits, and bring more variety into your day. Unlike traditional calendars and reminder apps, where everything is scheduled for an exact time, Stoobs uses the power of surprise to capture your full attention, so it feels more natural, less repetitive and much harder to ignore. Instead of reminding you at exactly the same time every day, Stoobs delivers reminder notifications at random moments within the time ranges you choose. List reminders make Stoobs even more varied: you choose a theme and add several possible messages. Stoobs then picks both a random time and a random item from your list. A mindfulness reminder might send a breathing exercise one time and a short reflection prompt the next. A movement reminder might choose squats, stretching or jumping jacks. Stoobs doesn't limit how many reminders you can schedule. Whether you want a few reminders each week or dozens every day, Stoobs keeps them coming. Make Stoobs yours! Customize: • Notification text, color and notes • Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly intervals • Weekdays and time windows • Repetitions per interval • Minimum time between reminders • Random entries from your own list, such as messages, quotes or exercises around one theme Need inspiration? Explore our collection of examples: • Drink water four times a day • Stand up and stretch five times a day • Take a movement break three times a day on weekdays • Take a mindful breath three times a day • Practice a mindfulness exercise twice a day • Stop scrolling and put your phone away every evening • Read a page of a book once a day • Call some friends twice a week • Water your plants once a week • Review your budget once a month • Declutter one small area once a month • Back up your important files once a month • Change your passwords once a year • Schedule a dental check-up once a year • Review your personal goals once a month • Write down one thing you're grateful for once a day • Send yourself a motivational message twice a day • Get some fresh air twice a day • Practice a random mindfulness exercise three times a day • Receive a random motivational quote four times a day • Pick a random workout exercise once a day • Get a random journaling prompt every evening Your privacy comes first. Stoobs doesn't collect any personal data. When you start your journey, an anonymous account is created automatically—no sign-up, no personal information required. Your reminders are for you, and only you. Note: Push reminders require notification permission and internet connection
Polite Fish Planner
Design and write in your own custom digital planners and travel journals on your iPad. Tailor pages, layouts, and integrate important dates. Use Apple Pencil for writing and add stickers or photos.
- Custom planner and journal design studio
- Tailored page selection and layout
- Apple Pencil writing support
- Sticker and photo import/layering
- Customizable travel journal modules
- Integrated map design studio
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Design your planner and write in it — all in one iPad app. Instead of buying a static, bloated PDF template and importing into another app you have to also pay for, customize and create your planner or travel journal on your iPad, then start writing in it using the same app. TRULY YOUR PLANNERS AND TRAVEL JOURNALS Include only the pages you want across categories like ADHD, finance, faith, content creation, sobriety & recovery, wellness, solopreneurship, travel and more. Add your name and word of the year to the cover, specify your favorite color, specify labels for habit tracker and other pages, choose your layout, the start and end time for your daily schedule and more. Integrate important dates right into the planner. Your planner will be generated and available on your iPad in seconds. After that, open it in the app and start writing. Instead of committing to a single planner for an entire year consider creating a new planner every month. Change the color with the seasons. Adjust the pages according to the changes in your life throughout the year. Each document a chapter in your year. Pages are thoughtfully designed with lots of open space for writing and decorating with stickers. Create planners and travel journals in landscape or portrait orientation. WRITE WITH APPLE PENCIL Write in your planner or travel journal using the Apple pencil. Both pen and pencil line styles are included, as well as three line weights, highlighter, color picker, eraser and lasso tool. STICKERS AND PHOTOS Import sticker packs or photos from your library. Place, resize, rotate, and layer them on any page. Stickers stay with your planner, exactly where you left them. CUSTOM TRAVEL JOURNALS WITH YOUR DESTINATIONS AND BEAUTIFUL MAPS Create travel journals that are not only in your favorite color they have your planned destinations built in. Using the design studio customize your destinations and the number of days you'll be in each destination. Page counts are adjusted for each destination and the name of the destination is printed on each page. There are three separate travel modules, pre-trip planner, daily travel journal and post trip memoir. You can create three separate documents for each stage of your trip or combine them into a single document. You choose which pages you want. You can also use the map design studio to create stunning maps to add to your travel journal pages along with your photos and stickers. With the Pro plan you can create as many travel journal documents as you like. Create a travel journal that compliments your memories. KEY FEATURES • Customize and use your planners and travel journals in one app with the built in design studio — no import needed • Custom-generated PDF tailored to your personal preferences • Apple Pencil writing with full color palette and highlighters • Built in map design studio for adding beautiful maps to your travel journals • Sticker support — import from Photos, Files, or ZIP packs • iCloud sync across all your iPads • Tap-to-navigate links built into every planner and travel journal • Create links from your writing to the calendar, other pages, locations and more • Export individual pages as PDF documents • Undo/redo, archiving, and iCloud sticker library FREE TO START — PLANNER PRO Try it free: create a single 1-week planner and a single travel journal, no subscription needed. Upgrade to Planner Pro ($19.99/year) for unlimited 1-12 month planners , unlimited journals with up to 20 destinations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Stoobs at 15.0 against Polite Fish Planner's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stoobs against 5.0 for Polite Fish Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Stoobs ships an update every 10 days, Polite Fish Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stoobs | Polite Fish Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Boehm | Seth Bourget |
In-app purchases
Stoobs
No in-app purchases
Polite Fish Planner
No in-app purchases









