Calendar Planner vs Orbit Dashboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calendar Planner
Effortlessly convert handwritten notes and planner entries into digital calendar events. Simply snap a photo, review the AI-detected details, and sync them to your preferred calendar app. Enjoy a beautiful daily timeline and manage tasks directly from your Lock Screen.
- AI Planner Recognition
- Review and Edit Events
- Calendar Integration (Apple, Google, Outlook)
- Daily Timeline View
- To-Dos & Live Activities
- Quick Capture Widget
- iCloud Sync & Dark Mode
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Your calendar for handwritten plans and everyday life. SnapJournal brings your events and to-dos together in a visual calendar. Add plans yourself, or photograph your paper planner and let AI turn your handwriting into editable events. Keep planning on paper. Get reminded on your phone. Manage the details in SnapJournal. FROM PAPER TO YOUR CALENDAR 1. Take a photo of your planner or choose one from your photo library. 2. Review the events and to-dos AI finds, with your photo close at hand. 3. Edit the details and save your plans in SnapJournal. You can also add your events to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook Calendar. PLAN YOUR DAY, WEEK, AND MONTH Switch between Day, 2-Day, Week, and Month views. See your schedule in a color-coded timeline or get an overview of the month. Pinch to expand the month and reveal more events and to-dos. EVENTS AND TO-DOS, TOGETHER Create events manually, manage daily to-dos, and set reminders. Drag events to adjust your schedule, or move a to-do into the timeline to turn it into an event. Collapse your to-do list when you want more room for your calendar. CALENDAR CONNECTIONS AND EXPORT Keep events in SnapJournal and optionally send them to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook Calendar. Export reviewed events as an .ics calendar file to share or open in a compatible calendar app. WIDGETS AND LIVE ACTIVITIES Open the camera from a Home Screen widget, check today's plans, and follow your to-do progress on the Lock Screen with Live Activities. DARK MODE AND ICLOUD Use light or dark mode and keep your SnapJournal events and to-dos synced across your devices with iCloud. FREE AND PRO Calendar views, local event storage, to-dos, photo-based event extraction, and Apple Calendar connections are available for free. SnapJournal Pro unlocks Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar connections, .ics export, widgets, and Live Activities. Terms of Use https://snap-journal.app/terms
Orbit Dashboard
Consolidate your life into a single dashboard, integrating calendars, reminders, health data, weather, contacts, and finances. It uses on-device AI to capture notes and tasks, offering insights and a private assistant.
- Unified dashboard for calendar, reminders, health, weather, people, and money
- On-device AI for instant capture of tasks, notes, and ideas
- Private, on-device AI assistant for data queries and daily summaries
- Cross-device syncing via iCloud
- Configurable widgets for Home and Lock Screens
- Integration with Apple services like Siri and Shortcuts
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Orbit brings your whole life onto one dashboard. Instead of hopping between ten apps to see what matters, Orbit overlays your calendar, reminders, health, weather, people, money, and more onto a single Today screen — then surfaces what actually needs you. ONE DASHBOARD, EVERY HORIZON Switch between Today, This Week, This Month, and This Year to see what's coming — an appointment weeks out, a bill due, a birthday — across every area at once. CAPTURE ANYTHING, INSTANTLY One box. Type or dictate, and Orbit's on-device AI files it as a task, note, idea, quote, or person. No folders, no friction. ASK ORBIT A private, on-device assistant that answers from your own data, plus a daily summary of your day. ORBIT NOTICED Insights that connect two parts of your life no single app sees — a birthday during a busy week, poor sleep before a demanding day, a bill due while you're traveling. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE • Calendar & Reminders — your events and lists, with inline complete • Health — activity rings, steps, heart rate, and sleep • Weather — current conditions, forecast, and threshold alerts • People — birthdays, important dates, and who to reconnect with • Money — App Store sales, a stock watchlist, a retirement forecast, and bills • Projects, Content, Travel, Garage, Journal, Library, Email, Deliveries, and more WIDGETS EVERYWHERE One configurable Orbit widget in every size — Home Screen and Lock Screen. Pick what it shows, check off reminders and routines without opening the app, and it follows your theme in Light and Dark. WORKS WITH APPLE Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, Handoff, and interactive widgets — no setup. Just say "Hey Siri, capture in Orbit." BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, synced over your private iCloud. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There's no Orbit account and no Orbit server. What you create stays on your device and in your private iCloud. Capture cleanup and Ask Orbit run on-device with Apple Intelligence. Only a coarse location ever leaves your device — and only to fetch the weather. Available in English and Spanish. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ericrogerstechnology.com/Orbit/PRIVACY.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Orbit Dashboard at every 3 days against Calendar Planner's weekly. Orbit Dashboard also leads on device support (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Calendar Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Orbit Dashboard sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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 Calendar Planner against 5.0 for Orbit Dashboard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
Calendar Planner ships an update weekly, Orbit Dashboard every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calendar Planner | Orbit Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tenere LLC | Eric Rogers |
Customer experience
Calendar Planner
Orbit Dashboard
In-app purchases
Calendar Planner
- Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Orbit Dashboard
- Orbit Plus — Monthly$4.991 Month
- Orbit Plus — Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Generous Tip$19.99
- Orbit Plus — Lifetime$39.99
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