Comparison

WeekPad vs Portbase

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

Head to head
About

WeekPad

This app offers a simple, private weekly planning experience, mimicking a paper notebook on your iPhone and iPad. It focuses on essential features like writing notes and attaching photos without distractions like accounts or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Weekly agenda layout
  • Notes and photo attachments
  • Multiple planner creation
  • Search functionality
  • Data export to ZIP
  • No accounts or subscriptions
Features
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The closest thing to a paper planner on your iPhone. WeekPad is a weekly planner for iPhone and iPad built to feel like paper: one week to view, you swipe to turn the page, and it sends no notifications at all. Not fewer — none. You already have notes — on your phone, on sticky pads, in the margins of last year's diary. WeekPad gathers them somewhere calm: your year, one clean week at a time. Write your days, drop in photos, tick off your lists, then turn the page. No feeds. No pressure. A weekly planner and agenda for people who think in weeks. WHY IT FEELS LIKE PAPER • One week per page — the whole app is built around it, not an infinite scroll • You turn the page. Swipe from week to week, at your pace • No notifications, no reminders, no alerts — there's no setting to disable, because there are none • No streaks, no completion scores, no analytics. Nothing is measuring you • A blank page — write what you want, how you want, in plain text • Your handwriting belongs here too — photograph or scan a handwritten page, sticky note or ticket, straight onto the day • Works fully offline. No account, no sign-up, no server • Separate notebooks for separate parts of your life. They never mix WHAT IT ISN'T WeekPad isn't a calendar and doesn't try to replace one — no invites, no meetings, no availability. There's no stylus or Apple Pencil input either; you type. But your handwriting still belongs here: photograph or scan a handwritten page, a sticky note or a ticket, and it lands on the day it belongs to. There's no PDF export or printing. And it won't nag you into using it. WHY PEOPLE STAY • A full year at a glance — 52 weeks, one clean page each • Write freely — notes, bullets and checklists, in plain text you fully control • Keep the real stuff — photos, document scans and sticky-note snaps, right on the day they belong to • Share into WeekPad from any app — a photo, a note, a link — straight onto the right day • Search across every planner at once • Scroll, swipe from week to week, and journal if you like • Export anytime — your data, in your hands ONE PLACE FOR EACH PART OF YOUR LIFE Work shouldn't live next to your journal. Keep separate agendas for work, family, training and studies — each its own clean notebook. They never mix. WHAT YOU PAY, AND WHAT YOU GET Get WeekPad once and the whole app is yours — as many agendas as you like, with notes, photos, checklists, search, sharing and Export, all working offline. No free tier that runs out, no limits, no in-app unlocks, no ads. • WeekPad Sync PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account to create. No servers of ours. No database. Turn on Sync and your planner lives in your own iCloud — only you and Apple can reach it, never us. No ads, no trackers, no analytics, no data brokers. MADE BY ONE PERSON WeekPad is built and maintained by a single independent developer, not a company. THE HONEST PART Sync keeps your devices matching each other — it isn't a backup, and a change or deletion travels to your other devices. We can't see, control, or recover what's in your iCloud. Export regularly, and keep anything important stored safely elsewhere too. One week per page. Your year, on paper that syncs. IMPORTANT WeekPad is winding down. This is the last planned update. There will be no further updates, WeekPad may stop working with future versions of iOS, and iCloud Sync is now unsupported — it may stop working from 31 December 2026. Everything you have written stays on your device, exactly as it is. Nothing has been removed or locked. Please export your planners and keep your own copies of anything you care about. Settings > Export All Agendas. Terms of Use (EULA): https://weekpad.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://weekpad.app/privacy

About

Portbase

A native mobile client for MySQL and PostgreSQL, enabling quick production data lookups and database management on the go. It offers features like syntax highlighting, autocomplete, schema browsing, row editing, and data visualization.

Highlights
  • Connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • SQL syntax highlighting and autocomplete
  • Live database and schema browsing
  • Inspect and edit query results
  • Build charts from SQL results
  • Save chart presets
Features
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Portbase is a database client for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, ClickHouse and Elasticsearch on iPhone and iPad. • SQL consoles with autosaved drafts, completion, formatting, Explain and execution at the cursor. • Browse supported schemas, views, indexes, keys and DDL; follow related SQL rows. • Resize, pin, hide and sort result columns. Select and copy cell ranges. • MongoDB Find, Aggregation and Command editors with typed BSON document editing, table views and charts. • Create local SQLite databases or import a consistent snapshot. Files stay on this device. • Browse Redis keys with SCAN; inspect strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets and streams; manage expiration and reviewed writes. • Query ClickHouse over HTTP(S). Inspect Elasticsearch mappings, search documents and aggregations. • Inspect chart points, filter dates, open matching loaded rows and export PNG/PDF. • Save unlimited connections, queries and charts, with Trash and recovery. • TLS and SSH connection options. Connection secrets stay in this device’s Keychain. Operations vary by engine. Manual Commit/Rollback is available for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL. CSV/JSON import and full query export are available for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and SQLite; other engines export loaded results. Tables display up to 10,000 rows. Charts inspect loaded results; full exports respect the query’s filters and limits. MongoDB document editing requires MongoDB 4.2 or later and a transaction-capable replica set or sharded cluster. Redis supports standalone endpoints, without Cluster/Sentinel discovery or scripting. SQLite commands commit individually; manual console transactions and temporary objects are unavailable.

Screenshots

WeekPad4 screens
Portbase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: WeekPad at 4.7 against Portbase's 4.0. WeekPad also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Portbase's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

WeekPad holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WeekPad ships an update every 5 weeks, Portbase every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WeekPad versus Portbase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekPadPortbase
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGiuseppe LucarielloKitta Ltd

Customer experience

WeekPad

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Portbase

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WeekPad

No in-app purchases

None

Portbase

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WeekPad free?
WeekPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Portbase free?
Portbase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WeekPad or Portbase?
WeekPad is rated higher. WeekPad averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Portbase averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do WeekPad or Portbase have ads?
Neither WeekPad nor Portbase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WeekPad or Portbase?
WeekPad ships an update every 5 weeks, and Portbase every 10 days. Most recently, WeekPad was updated on October 9, 2026 and Portbase on October 15, 2026.

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