Comparison

WeekPad vs Take a Stack

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 — the one optional extra: a subscription with a free trial that keeps your weeks, notes and photos on all your Apple devices, in your own iCloud. It adds no other feature. It renews automatically and you can cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Whether or not you subscribe, the agendas you've written always stay yours to read and edit. 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. Terms of Use (EULA): https://weekpad.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://weekpad.app/privacy

About

Take a Stack

Features
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Save an immutable script and selection manifest, then compare the current project against it. See changed copy, reordered lines, different takes, gap changes and unavailable audio before you deliver again. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open a script and choose Delivery checkpoints. 2. Name and save a checkpoint of the current script, selected takes and gaps. 3. Edit a line or continue recording through the normal project workflow. 4. Return to the checkpoint, filter changed lines and share a detailed change report. Keep line-by-line recording, take selection, Alt Take Rescue, recording tools, stitching, mastering and audio exports. Checkpoints do not alter your selections. WHAT TO KNOW Checkpoints are manifests, not audio backups. They do not copy or restore recordings, measure listening quality or export a mix. Audio contents and export or processing settings are not compared. File presence does not verify playback. Keep separate exported-audio backups. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

WeekPad4 screens
Take a Stack3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WeekPad at Free against Take a Stack's $3.99. Take a Stack's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

WeekPad is free to download; Take a Stack costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WeekPad ships an update monthly, Take a Stack weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
WeekPad versus Take a Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeekPadTake a Stack
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGiuseppe LucarielloRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

WeekPad

No in-app purchases

None

Take a Stack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WeekPad free?
WeekPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Take a Stack free?
Take a Stack costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do WeekPad or Take a Stack have ads?
Neither WeekPad nor Take a Stack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WeekPad or Take a Stack?
WeekPad ships an update monthly, and Take a Stack weekly. Most recently, WeekPad was updated on September 22, 2026 and Take a Stack on September 28, 2026.

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