Comparison

PingRoom vs Planwall

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

Head to head
About

PingRoom

Instantly notify groups with a single tap. Create custom rooms for family, friends, or teams, and communicate urgent updates or quick questions without endless group chats. Automate pings based on location or schedule for seamless coordination.

Highlights
  • One-tap instant alerts
  • Customizable rooms and pings
  • Lock Screen quick replies
  • Automated pings (location, schedule, webhooks)
  • Room organization with folders
  • Personal Room for direct contact
Features
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PingRoom: Short-form communication. One Tap, Everyone Knows Quick updates, questions and answers between people, apps and AI. Save the things you say every day as Quick Pings, ready to send with a tap. “Home safe.” “Dinner’s ready.” “Can someone cover this shift?” Create a room, invite your people and send a Ping when they need to know. GET AN ANSWER Ask a Question with two to four options. Members can answer from the Lock Screen or the room. The first response decides, and everyone sees the result. Request confirmation from one person or everyone, in private or public rooms. See who confirms or dismisses; dismissals are saved separately and do not count as confirmations. Choose urgent delivery when timing matters. MAKE EVERYDAY UPDATES QUICK Save Quick Pings with text, emoji, sound, color and links, or just an emoji. Attach a place, or ask for a link or location when tapped. Pro adds photo and file inputs, plus four pages for up to 16 Quick Pings per room. Attach a checklist to a Ping and tick off items on your device. Open a Ping to read its full message. Choose whether Pings use color in Accessibility settings. Use private, public or Personal rooms. Organize rooms in folders, start with templates, and share a folder with one link so others can preview and join its rooms. Explore without signing in. FOLLOW LIVE UPDATES Share status, steps, progress, metrics, countdowns, decisions and matchups. Preview updates before sharing, then follow them in the room, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. FIND ROOMS NEARBY Find public rooms on the map and browse their updates before joining. Public room owners can add a place to help people find them. Find people you share rooms with in My People, and browse public rooms in Discover. See medals earned for in-app milestones on your profile. ON YOUR APPLE DEVICES Send and receive Pings, answer Questions and confirm Pings on Apple Watch. Use Quick Pings in the interactive Smart Stack widget. Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets or a Control Center control. Connect Siri, Shortcuts, NFC tags and personal automations. YOUR PERSONAL ROOM Share your Personal Room link or QR so people can reach you without your phone number. Choose who can Ping you and add private notes to connections. Pro adds insights and custom QR designs. CONNECT APPS AND AI Let apps and AI agents Ping you, ask a Question or request a decision, then continue after your answer. Choose which rooms they can access, view their activity and revoke access when needed. PingRoom AI output is labeled AI-generated. Before the first transfer, you choose which model provider may receive agent data. You can report unsafe output in the app. FREE TO START Create up to five rooms and join up to 20 for free. See the latest 100 Pings in each room and your latest 100 notifications. No credit card required. PingRoom Pro adds unlimited rooms and joins, place and scheduled triggers, incoming and outgoing webhooks, photo and file attachments, extra Quick Ping pages, password-protected rooms, external-channel forwarding, full retained history, Personal Room insights and custom QR designs. PingRoom Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current billing period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://pingroom.io/terms Privacy: https://pingroom.io/privacy

About

Planwall

See your daily schedule and reminders directly on your iPhone's Lock Screen wallpaper. Customize layouts and calendars without needing to open an app. Your data remains private and on your device.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen wallpaper calendar
  • Multiple layout options
  • Customizable calendars and reminders
  • Automatic refresh via Shortcuts
  • Works with all iPhone calendars
  • On-device data processing
Features
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Pick up your phone and see your day. Planwall draws your calendar and reminders onto the Lock Screen wallpaper. No app to open, no widget to find. SET UP ONCE 1. Pick a layout: Today, Agenda, Month, Week Strip, Week Grid, Timeline, Events + Reminders, Note, Countdown, Quote, Life Calendar, Large Text. 2. Choose and order your calendars and reminder lists. 3. Add the ready-made shortcut and link the automation. It refreshes itself every morning. EVERYTHING ON THE PREVIEW Drag the card below the clock, swipe to change layout and background, pinch to enlarge text. WHAT'S FREE STAYS FREE The Today layout, all backgrounds, your own photo, unlimited rows and automatic refresh are free and will never be locked in future updates. Planwall Pro adds 11 more layouts: monthly or yearly. WORKS WITH EVERY CALENDAR ON YOUR IPHONE iCloud, Google, Outlook, Exchange and any other account you've added in iOS Settings. No extra sign-in. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE No account. Calendar and reminders are read and rendered only on your device; nothing is sent to a server. Note: Automatic refresh uses Apple Shortcuts; Planwall walks you through the setup. You can also update the wallpaper manually at any time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://kiyora.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://kiyora.app/privacy

Screenshots

PingRoom4 screens
Planwall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PingRoom at 100% against Planwall's 0%. PingRoom also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PingRoom sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Planwall sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PingRoom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of PingRoom's written reviews are positive against 0% of Planwall's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PingRoom ships an update every 10 days, Planwall weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PingRoom versus Planwall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPingRoomPlanwall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better1.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size249 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindzone Technologies L.L.CBetul Sahin

Customer experience

PingRoom

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Planwall

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PingRoom

Subscriptions2
  • PingRoom Pro — Monthly$9.991 Month
  • PingRoom Pro — Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Planwall

Subscriptions2
  • Planwall Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Planwall Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is PingRoom free?
PingRoom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planwall free?
Planwall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PingRoom or Planwall?
PingRoom is rated higher. PingRoom averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Planwall averages 1.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PingRoom or Planwall have ads?
Neither PingRoom nor Planwall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PingRoom or Planwall?
PingRoom ships an update every 10 days, and Planwall weekly. Most recently, PingRoom was updated on October 25, 2026 and Planwall on October 21, 2026.

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