PenDate Notes vs Chartula

A digital planner, calendar notes and journal in one app. Plan by date, write by hand, and keep every note with the day it matters. PenDate Notes brings your calendar, notes, to-do lists and handwritten pages together. Keep a meeting note with the day it happened, a packing list with your trip, or a sketch beside the date you want to come back to. PLAN BY DATE Move between year, month, week and day views. Add events with times, repeats and reminders, and see your PenDate events in your phone's calendar app if you choose. WRITE, CHECK OFF OR SKETCH Choose a text note, a checklist or a handwriting canvas. Take study notes, plan meals, sketch ideas or keep a shopping list with quantities and totals. Write with a stylus or your finger, with pens, highlighters and a smooth eraser. FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS Sort notes and tasks into Do now, Plan, Handle and Later. Drag them between categories, switch between Cards and Compact views, and use filters to see one folder, tag or kind of note at a time. DIGITAL PLANNERS AND JOURNALS Write in beautiful planner and journal pages for every part of life: everyday planning, daily life, work sprints, study, wellness and habits, budget and savings, fitness, travel, gratitude, creative work, home and meals. Tappable links jump straight to the page you need. FIND IT AGAIN Search your notes, checklists and canvas text. Organise with folders, tags, covers and Archive, and restore deleted notes from the Recycle Bin. SYNC AND BACK UP Turn on optional Google Drive sync to keep your library on your other devices. Prefer to stay offline? PenDate works fully without an account. SHARE AND EXPORT Export notes and planner pages as PDF or images to print or share. FREE EVERYDAY NOTES, OPTIONAL PRO Everyday notes, checklists, the calendar and handwriting are free. PenDate Pro, a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase, adds every planner and journal family, Signature stickers and covers, saved Focus views, Split Workspace for two notes side by side on tablets and wide screens, and selected-page PDF export. Individual planners and Signature packs are also available as one-time purchases. Subscription prices and billing periods are shown in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before that period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Canceling renewal keeps access until the end of the paid period. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pendatenotes.com/privacy-policy.html

Chartula is a calendar you write in. The name is Latin for “a little sheet of paper”. There are exactly two quick ways to note an appointment: scribble it down or say it. Typing, and fixing the typos as you go, takes far too long. This app is for people who think on paper — and still don't want to give up what only a calendar in a device can do. HANDWRITING IS THE TRUTH Appointments go straight into the time grid with Apple Pencil and stay handwriting. What gets saved is the stroke, not an image of it. Text recognition is a reading aid, not content: it offers up to three readings, but only your tap turns one into a title. Nothing quietly becomes type. OR SPEAK THE APPOINTMENT Say the sentence and the app takes it apart: day, start, duration or end, repeat, alert, location, calendar. Every detail it finds appears on its own and can be changed on its own. Nothing is guessed. Recognition is rule-based and works offline. WHAT PAPER CANNOT DO Written once, the same thing stands in day, week, month and year. One sentence is enough for a series up to "every third Tuesday". Alerts speak up by themselves. Search finds titles, locations, notes — and the handwriting it has read. And what moves isn't crossed out, it is dragged. FOUR ZOOM LEVELS, ONE GESTURE Pinch leads from the day through week and month into the year, swiping turns the page. Press and hold on a time, then drag, and an appointment starts exactly there. PAPER YOU CHOOSE Blank, ruled, dotted or squared; narrow, normal or wide; white, ivory or night paper. The ruling zooms along, so what you wrote stays on its lines. TEMPLATES FROM PRINTED PLANNERS Several layouts per view: the time grid, the day page, the week in rows, the year strip from the office wall. Under the calendar sits a note drawer: the note for the day, the week, the month — next to it every template made for that span: weekly review, monthly goals, habits, mood, task list, meals. A page index with search keeps it together. BINDERS FOR SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND JOURNALING Every lesson in your timetable gets its own sheet, and a binder holds them together: history, maths, the Tuesday lecture. Opened, it reads as one continuous set of notes; as a PDF, one page per lesson. A set square and a circle template lie on the page as on a desk — move them, turn them, snap to whole degrees, and the stroke follows the edge. And the day note becomes a journal that never forgets its date. TOOLS Fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, fineliner, highlighter, chalk, watercolour. The fountain pen follows pressure and tilt, on Apple Pencil Pro rotation too. Erase by stroke or by point, lasso, free choice of colour. 214 shapes lay down real ink: the one you pick lands in a frame right away — drag, distort, rotate, recolour. A shape assist you can switch off smooths lines, boxes and circles; it never touches your writing. EVERY DEVICE, NO ACCOUNT Syncing runs through your own iCloud. No account of ours, no password, no server of ours. Handwriting travels as strokes, not as a picture. One switch turns it off. WHAT ELSE IS THERE — Several calendars with colours, order and a default — Repeats up to "last Friday of the month", several alerts per appointment — Public holidays for German federal states, calculated on the device — System calendars and ICS subscriptions shown along, never changed — Due reminders from the Reminders app — One photo per appointment — Print and export as PDF, PNG or ICS — with the handwriting — Trash, daily backup, export as a file — Widgets for home and lock screen, Spotlight, Siri shortcuts — VoiceOver in every view, Dynamic Type WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ad network, no analytics, no tracking. Your appointments stay on your devices and in your iCloud. PRICE Everything is open for 14 days. After that, a yearly subscription or a one-time purchase unlocks writing; reading stays free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/