Comparison

PlanDay vs Pocket Pages

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

Head to head
About

PlanDay

A straightforward daily planner designed for focused task management. Easily organize your day, week, and month with intuitive swiping and task management. Enjoy a clean interface with customizable themes, all without ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Day, week, and month views
  • Add and check off tasks
  • Drag and drop tasks to reschedule
  • iCloud data syncing
  • Four customizable themes
  • Instant opening, no login
Features
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PlanDay is a planner for your day, week, and month. Swipe between views to see what's ahead. Add tasks, check them off, move them to another day if plans change. No accounts. No syncing headaches. No overwhelming feature lists. Just a clean, focused space to plan your day, your week, and your month — all in one place. Swipe between Day, Week, and Month views to see your life at every level. Add tasks in seconds. Check them off as you go. Move them forward when plans change. FOUR HANDCRAFTED THEMES • Classic — Clean and minimal, like a fresh notebook • Journal — Warm leather and ruled paper, for the old soul • Trapper Keeper — Bold, loud, and unapologetically '90s • Nature — A calm sunset backdrop for a calmer mind WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Opens instantly — no loading, no login • Swipe between day, week, and month views • Drag tasks to tomorrow when life gets in the way • Your data stays on your device and syncs via iCloud • No ads. No subscriptions. No tricks. PlanDay was built for people who want to do more and manage less. If you've ever abandoned a productivity app because it felt like a second job, this one's for you.

About

Pocket Pages

Features
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Your paper planner, everywhere, without the weight. Please note: it doesn't turn your paper planner into a digital one. It keeps photos of your pages on your phone, and your pen and paper stay in charge. Photograph this week's spread and it goes in your pocket, with sticky notes that live right on the page, like pastel post-its on paper. Try the whole app free for a week, no card needed. SNAP YOUR PLANNER, TAKE IT WITH YOU Photograph this week's pages before you head out the door. Straighten, rotate or crop them, and label each page with the dates it covers. A week to a spread or a day to a page, it doesn't mind. When a week passes its page steps aside, but stays there to look back on. DATES THAT FILL THEMSELVES IN Label your first page, say July 1 to 7, and Pocket Pages offers to fill in the following weeks: 8 to 14, 15 to 21, and on. Snap a stack of pages once and they line up in order, no fiddly typing. STICK A NOTE WHERE IT BELONGS Catch a thought the moment it lands. Tap once and type it, or tap the mic and just say it, all on your device. Stick it to the week it belongs to, or leave it loose on the wall. Change it, recolor it or move it whenever you like. FLIP THROUGH TO KEEP OR CLEAR Flip through your notes one big pastel post-it at a time, and keep or clear each one as you go. BUILT FOR PLANNERS, HAPPY WITH ANY PAPER It started as a planner app, but any paper you live by can come along: the shift roster, a recipe, the knitting pattern, the school notes pinned to the fridge. Photograph it into Others, sort it into your own categories, and stick notes to those pages too. IN STEP ON EVERY DEVICE, AND SAFE Your planner keeps itself in step across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud. Back it up and restore it on a new phone, and anything deleted waits in the trash for 30 days in case you change your mind. SHARE IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT Share your planner over iCloud and they see it live on their phone. You decide whether they can add to it or only look, and exactly which parts go. Their planner can come the other way at the same time, and nothing of theirs mixes into yours. DARK MODE The whole app, easy on the eyes at night. Your post-its keep their pastels, like real stickies on a dark desk. YOURS, AND PRIVATE No account and no sign-up. Everything lives on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers. No tracking, and dictation happens on the device itself. FREE TO TRY Enjoy the whole app free for a week, no card needed. After that keep going free with up to 10 notes and 3 pages, or unlock Pocket Pages Pro once for unlimited notes and pages. One small payment, no subscription, yours forever. Made in Ireland by a maker who missed her planner the day she left it at home. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PlanDay4 screens
Pocket Pages4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlanDay at none against Pocket Pages's 1. Pocket Pages's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads 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. Pocket Pages sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PlanDay asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlanDay ships an update every 2 months, Pocket Pages every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PlanDay versus Pocket Pages: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanDayPocket Pages
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB50 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSunset Labs, LLCRuth McCarthy

In-app purchases

None

PlanDay

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pocket Pages

One-time1
  • Pocket Pages Pro Lifetime$3.99

Questions

Is PlanDay free?
PlanDay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Pages free?
Pocket Pages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PlanDay or Pocket Pages have ads?
Neither PlanDay nor Pocket Pages shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlanDay or Pocket Pages?
PlanDay ships an update every 2 months, and Pocket Pages every 4 days. Most recently, PlanDay was updated on October 28, 2026 and Pocket Pages on October 23, 2026.

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