Timely vs Monthly Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timely
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Timely Calendar turns your everyday schedule into a personal journal — and now you can share it with the people you love. Create a beautiful calendar together with your partner, family, or friends, then make every day yours with AI stickers, curated themes, and a mood diary. SHARED CALENDARS — PLAN TOGETHER - Create shared calendars with your partner, family, roommates, or team - Invite members and keep everyone on the same page - Events and to-dos sync in real time for the whole group - Color-code each member to see who is doing what at a glance - View personal and shared calendars side by side - Perfect for couples, family schedules, trips, and group plans SMART CALENDAR — STAY ORGANIZED - Three views: month, weekly timetable, and daily agenda - Custom color labels for easy sorting - Manage multiple calendars - To-do list with drag-and-drop reordering - Flip-clock countdowns keep important days in sight - Public holidays for Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Japan, Korea, and the US - Full Chinese almanac — auspicious days, solar terms, zodiac, and stem-branch - Optimized for iPhone Duo — uses the full outer and inner displays CUSTOM STICKERS - AI background removal — one tap to cut out any subject - Manual crop — draw freely for precise edges - Sticker decoration mode — frames, doodles, text, and custom colors - Build your own sticker library - Place stickers on any date or calendar background - Sticker backgrounds — turn up to 3 stickers into a patterned calendar background in one tap BEAUTIFUL THEMES - Starry Black — minimal dark - Simple White — clean and classic - Cat Theme — 12 months of hand-drawn illustrations - Heritage Cats — 12 months of traditional Chinese-style illustrations - Flowers — 12 months of floral illustrations - Lovely Pink — soft and sweet - Dreamy Macaron — healing pastel tones - Earth Brown — warm and grounded - Pixel — retro Y2K style MOOD DIARY — JOURNAL - Capture each day with photos and stickers - Log how you feel with mood stickers - Mood insights — pie chart, monthly trends, and logging streaks - Export a month of diary pages to PDF in one tap - Share monthly highlights straight to your IG Story HOME SCREEN WIDGETS - Three sizes: small, medium, and large - Four styles: Modern, Minimal, Cute, and Pixel - Transparent background option - Auto-refresh — always up to date - Today's to-dos, upcoming events, and countdowns at a glance Whether you are sharing a calendar with your partner, organizing the whole family, keeping a team in sync, or you simply love journaling and want a calendar with real personality — Timely makes opening your calendar something to look forward to. Download now and start designing beautiful days with the people who matter. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Monthly Planner
This aesthetic monthly planner displays your entire month in a single, clear calendar grid. Easily add and check off daily tasks, plan your month in minutes, and customize with color themes. It offers a simple, visual approach to staying organized without complex features.
- Monthly grid view
- Checkable daily tasks
- Fast month planning
- Customizable color themes
- Today highlight
- Month navigation
- Apple Pencil support
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Finally, a monthly planner you'll actually stick with. Month+ is an aesthetic monthly planner that turns your entire month into one beautiful calendar: a clear monthly grid, your tasks on each day, and nothing extra to slow you down. Plan your whole month in minutes - then simply check things off as you go. No complicated setup. No empty pages staring back at you. Just a clear, colorful picture of your month. KEY FEATURES - Monthly board - see the whole month at a glance in one beautiful calendar - Checkable tasks - add to-dos to any day and tick them off with a satisfying tap - Task details - time, reminders, repeat, color and tags (right-click on Mac, long-press on iPhone and iPad) - iPhone, iPad and Mac - one planner everywhere, synced through iCloud (Pro) - Fast planning - map out the month ahead in just a few minutes - Color themes - Pastel, Midnight, Vivid, Sage and Ocean to match your mood - Today highlight - the current day always stands out, so you know where to focus - Month navigation - swipe between past and future months effortlessly - Apple Pencil on iPad - handwrite notes, doodles and reminders right on your calendar WHO IS IT FOR - Students balancing classes, assignments and deadlines - Busy professionals who want a clear overview without heavy project tools - Moms juggling family schedules, errands and personal time - Habit and self-care lovers tracking routines and small daily wins - Anyone who downloaded a complicated planner... and quietly abandoned it HOW IT WORKS 1. Open your month - a clean calendar is waiting for you 2. Add tasks to each day - it takes just a few minutes 3. Check things off as you go and watch your month fill up with little victories Pick a theme you love, plan your month in minutes, and enjoy the calm of knowing exactly what comes next. Your most organized - and prettiest - month starts now with Month+. Support: hello@britetodo.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://britetodo.com/legal/PrivacyPolicyBrite.pdf
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Monthly Planner at daily against Timely's every 2 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
Both are free to download. Timely sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Monthly Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Timely ships an update every 2 weeks, Monthly Planner daily. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timely | Monthly Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kui Yan Marc YU | Brite Technologies LLC |
In-app purchases
Timely
- Timely Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Timely Premium Yearly1 Month trial$11.991 Year
- Timely Calendar · Premium$8.99
Monthly Planner
- Weekly$5.997 Days
- Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year









