Comparison

Inkly Planner vs Polite Fish Planner

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

Head to head
About

Inkly Planner

This AI-powered daily planner helps you organize tasks, track habits, and capture handwritten notes. Visualize your progress with calendar views and personalize your experience with beautiful themes. Cloud sync ensures your data is always accessible.

Highlights
  • AI-powered task suggestions
  • Daily task and schedule planning
  • Visual habit streak tracker
  • Freehand handwritten notes
  • Calendar view for history and planning
  • Cloud synchronization across devices
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Inkly is your all-in-one daily planner with AI-powered assistance, habit tracking, and beautiful themes. DAILY PLANNER Plan your day with tasks and a schedule. Stay organized with an intuitive interface that makes it easy to manage everything you need to do. HABIT TRACKER Build lasting habits with a visual streak tracker. See your progress at a glance and stay motivated every day. HANDWRITTEN NOTES Capture ideas with freehand drawing. Write, sketch, and save notes just the way you like them. CALENDAR VIEW See your history and plan ahead. Review completed tasks and visualize your productivity over time. INK AI ASSISTANT Get smart suggestions, prioritize your tasks, and get a daily summary - all powered by AI. BEAUTIFUL THEMES Choose from Dark, Light, Lavender, Mint, and Rose themes. Personalize your experience to match your style. CLOUD SYNC Your data syncs automatically across devices. Never lose a task, habit, or note. Download Inkly and start planning smarter today.

About

Polite Fish Planner

Design and write in your own custom digital planners and travel journals on your iPad. Tailor pages, layouts, and integrate important dates. Use Apple Pencil for writing and add stickers or photos.

Highlights
  • Custom planner and journal design studio
  • Tailored page selection and layout
  • Apple Pencil writing support
  • Sticker and photo import/layering
  • Customizable travel journal modules
  • Integrated map design studio
Features
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Design your planner and write in it — all in one iPad app. Instead of buying a static, bloated PDF template and importing into another app you have to also pay for, customize and create your planner or travel journal on your iPad, then start writing in it using the same app. TRULY YOUR PLANNERS AND TRAVEL JOURNALS Include only the pages you want across categories like ADHD, finance, faith, content creation, sobriety & recovery, wellness, solopreneurship, travel and more. Add your name and word of the year to the cover, specify your favorite color, specify labels for habit tracker and other pages, choose your layout, the start and end time for your daily schedule and more. Integrate important dates right into the planner. Your planner will be generated and available on your iPad in seconds. After that, open it in the app and start writing. Instead of committing to a single planner for an entire year consider creating a new planner every month. Change the color with the seasons. Adjust the pages according to the changes in your life throughout the year. Each document a chapter in your year. Pages are thoughtfully designed with lots of open space for writing and decorating with stickers. Create planners and travel journals in landscape or portrait orientation. WRITE WITH APPLE PENCIL Write in your planner or travel journal using the Apple pencil. Both pen and pencil line styles are included, as well as three line weights, highlighter, color picker, eraser and lasso tool. STICKERS AND PHOTOS Import sticker packs or photos from your library. Place, resize, rotate, and layer them on any page. Stickers stay with your planner, exactly where you left them. CUSTOM TRAVEL JOURNALS WITH YOUR DESTINATIONS AND BEAUTIFUL MAPS Create travel journals that are not only in your favorite color they have your planned destinations built in. Using the design studio customize your destinations and the number of days you'll be in each destination. Page counts are adjusted for each destination and the name of the destination is printed on each page. There are three separate travel modules, pre-trip planner, daily travel journal and post trip memoir. You can create three separate documents for each stage of your trip or combine them into a single document. You choose which pages you want. You can also use the map design studio to create stunning maps to add to your travel journal pages along with your photos and stickers. With the Pro plan you can create as many travel journal documents as you like. Create a travel journal that compliments your memories. KEY FEATURES • Customize and use your planners and travel journals in one app with the built in design studio — no import needed • Custom-generated PDF tailored to your personal preferences • Apple Pencil writing with full color palette and highlighters • Built in map design studio for adding beautiful maps to your travel journals • Sticker support — import from Photos, Files, or ZIP packs • iCloud sync across all your iPads • Tap-to-navigate links built into every planner and travel journal • Create links from your writing to the calendar, other pages, locations and more • Export individual pages as PDF documents • Undo/redo, archiving, and iCloud sticker library FREE TO START — PLANNER PRO Try it free: create a single 1-week planner and a single travel journal, no subscription needed. Upgrade to Planner Pro ($19.99/year) for unlimited 1-12 month planners , unlimited journals with up to 20 destinations.

Screenshots

Inkly Planner3 screens
Polite Fish Planner1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Inkly Planner at 15.1 against Polite Fish Planner's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Inkly Planner against 5.0 for Polite Fish Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Inkly Planner ships an update every 10 days, Polite Fish Planner weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Inkly Planner versus Polite Fish Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInkly PlannerPolite Fish Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperINTI SUPPLY LLCSeth Bourget

In-app purchases

None

Inkly Planner

No in-app purchases

None

Polite Fish Planner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Inkly Planner free?
Inkly Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Polite Fish Planner free?
Polite Fish Planner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Inkly Planner or Polite Fish Planner?
Inkly Planner and Polite Fish Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Inkly Planner or Polite Fish Planner have ads?
Neither Inkly Planner nor Polite Fish Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Inkly Planner or Polite Fish Planner?
Inkly Planner ships an update every 10 days, and Polite Fish Planner weekly. Most recently, Inkly Planner was updated on November 5, 2026 and Polite Fish Planner on October 31, 2026.

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