Comparison

Elegant Planner vs PlanDay

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

Head to head
About

Elegant Planner

Organize your day with a clean timeline and focus-driven planning. This app offers smart reminders and a beautiful, native iOS design to help you stay in control without complexity. It prioritizes privacy with an offline-first approach.

Highlights
  • Clean timeline view
  • Focus mode for important tasks
  • Smart native iOS reminders
  • Minimalist, iOS-native design
  • Offline-first and private
  • Drag-and-drop task scheduling
Features
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See your whole day as a timeline instead of a list. Give each task a time, a length, a color and an icon, and watch the day take shape — including the gaps you actually have. SPEAK YOUR DAY Say "gym at 9 for an hour, then lunch at noon" and get tasks with times, durations and titles filled in. Speech is processed entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is saved until you review it and tap Apply. A VISUAL TIMELINE • Your day from morning to night, at a glance • Color-coded tasks with icons and durations • A live line showing where you are right now • Week view to see what is coming CAPTURE NOW, PLAN LATER • An Inbox for thoughts that do not have a time yet • Move them into the day when they fit • Reusable templates for days that repeat FOCUS • Focus sessions drawn straight from your plan • Choose 15, 25, 45, 60 minutes or your own • Sessions survive closing the app END THE DAY WELL • Close the day and move what is unfinished to tomorrow in one tap • Everything keeps its time of day • Undo if you change your mind SEE WHERE YOUR TIME GOES • A week of your own patterns • How much you planned against how much fits • No streaks to protect, no guilt WIDGETS AND WATCH • Home Screen widgets in small, medium and large • Lock Screen widgets for what is next • An Apple Watch app for today's plan on your wrist PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. Nothing to sign up for. • Your planner stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud Sync • Calendar access is read-only and optional • No third-party analytics, no advertising, no tracking ELEGANT PLANNER PRO Pro adds planning that thinks ahead: calendar-aware planning, Repair My Day, Voice Planning, Weekly Review, Advanced Filters, Bulk Actions and Custom Repeat. The core planner, including Timeline, Inbox, Focus, templates, reminders, search, statistics and iCloud Sync, stays free. Available in Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 10 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://elegantplanner.app/privacy

About

PlanDay

A straightforward daily planner designed for focused task management. Easily organize your day, week, and month with intuitive swiping and task management. Enjoy a clean interface with customizable themes, all without ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Day, week, and month views
  • Add and check off tasks
  • Drag and drop tasks to reschedule
  • iCloud data syncing
  • Four customizable themes
  • Instant opening, no login
Features
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PlanDay is a planner for your day, week, and month. Swipe between views to see what's ahead. Add tasks, check them off, move them to another day if plans change. No accounts. No syncing headaches. No overwhelming feature lists. Just a clean, focused space to plan your day, your week, and your month — all in one place. Swipe between Day, Week, and Month views to see your life at every level. Add tasks in seconds. Check them off as you go. Move them forward when plans change. FOUR HANDCRAFTED THEMES • Classic — Clean and minimal, like a fresh notebook • Journal — Warm leather and ruled paper, for the old soul • Trapper Keeper — Bold, loud, and unapologetically '90s • Nature — A calm sunset backdrop for a calmer mind WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Opens instantly — no loading, no login • Swipe between day, week, and month views • Drag tasks to tomorrow when life gets in the way • Your data stays on your device and syncs via iCloud • No ads. No subscriptions. No tricks. PlanDay was built for people who want to do more and manage less. If you've ever abandoned a productivity app because it felt like a second job, this one's for you.

Screenshots

Elegant Planner4 screens
PlanDay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Elegant Planner at every 9 days against PlanDay's every 2 months. Elegant Planner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). PlanDay's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Elegant Planner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Elegant Planner's written reviews are positive against 71% of PlanDay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Elegant Planner ships an update every 9 days, PlanDay every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Elegant Planner versus PlanDay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElegant PlannerPlanDay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.8 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings826 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB6 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperElegantMind LLCSunset Labs, LLC

Customer experience

Elegant Planner

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PlanDay

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Elegant Planner

No in-app purchases

None

PlanDay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Elegant Planner free?
Elegant Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PlanDay free?
PlanDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Elegant Planner or PlanDay?
Elegant Planner is rated higher. Elegant Planner averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while PlanDay averages 4.8 from 26 ratings.
Do Elegant Planner or PlanDay have ads?
Neither Elegant Planner nor PlanDay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Elegant Planner or PlanDay?
Elegant Planner ships an update every 9 days, and PlanDay every 2 months. Most recently, Elegant Planner was updated on October 30, 2026 and PlanDay on November 5, 2026.

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