Comparison

Libreto vs Scribble Calendar & Planner

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

Head to head
About

Libreto

This app offers a comprehensive digital notebook, planner, and drawing studio for iPad and iPhone Duo, with streamlined PDF editing for iPhone. It features on-device AI and a private, notebook-like interface with customizable covers and page-turning effects.

Highlights
  • Digital notebook with customizable covers
  • Planner with daily, weekly, and monthly views
  • Full drawing studio with layers and brushes
  • PDF editor with annotation and redaction tools
  • On-device AI for handwriting recognition
  • Support for Apple Pencil and finger input
  • Export to PDF, image, text, Word, and Markdown
Features
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Libreto is a digital notebook, planner, PDF editor and full drawing studio for iPad and iPhone Duo, and a streamlined PDF editor and notes app for iPhone. A notebook that opens like one, private by design, with on-device AI included and one fair price. START WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Libreto opens on Start: your latest work up front, and a new Notepad, Planner or Sketchbook one tap away. Everything you make lives in one Library, sorted into notebooks, planners, sketches and PDFs. A NOTEBOOK THAT OPENS LIKE ONE Every notebook opens on its cover, full screen: your own photo, a seasonal design, or one you make. Slide the elastic band to the lock to open it, turn pages that curl like paper, and swipe a closed cover to reach the next notebook. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Folded, the cover screen shows the notebook you were writing in, band and all. Unfold it and the notebook lies open across both pages, each one whole on the screen, right where you left off. Every control sits in one row at the top. NOTEBOOKS FOR APPLE PENCIL (iPad and iPhone Duo) Lined, dot grid, graph, Cornell and to-do paper, or a photo, in any paper colour. Ink thickens on slow strokes and tapers at the ends, like a real nib. Draw a rough line, box or circle and hold: it snaps clean. Underline, strike out or circle typed words and the mark stays with them. Type around photos, or lay out text frames with columns that run on from page to page. Search your handwriting and convert it to text on-device, in 20+ languages. Add stickers, washi tape, photos and AI art with Image Playground. No Pencil, or another iPhone? Write with a finger. PLANNERS, YOUR WAY (iPad and iPhone Duo) Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Pro planners, plus ready-made planners for school, work, fitness and money. Real dates, a tappable Contents page, and every day linked to its month. Light or Dark theme. DRAW & SKETCH (iPad and iPhone Duo) A full drawing studio: pressure brushes with textured tips, dual brushes, and brushes made from your own pictures. Layers, groups, Layer Sets, blend modes, layer masks and live adjustment layers you can change at any time. Vector shapes and text with gradients, tapered and dashed lines. Heal, clone, dodge, burn and liquify. Warp and rig your art, and draw on isometric planes. History with branches lets you step back to any point. Symmetry: vertical, horizontal, both axes or radial. Choose a Dark or Light look. Open and save PSD files, or export as PNG or PDF. PHOTO TOOLS IN SKETCH STUDIO (iPad and iPhone Duo) Develop RAW photos. Merge shots into panoramas, HDR images, or a crowd-free scene. Mask hair and fur with the Edge Mask Brush, and measure in real units. PDF TOOLS (iPad and iPhone) Highlights, ink, shapes, stickers and signatures, with undo and redo for every mark. Reorder, rotate, split and extract pages. On-device OCR and Scan Enhance for scans. Redact for real: the hidden text is destroyed, not just covered. Export as PDF, image, text, Word (RTF) or Markdown. LIBRETO INTELLIGENCE, ON YOUR DEVICE Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with tappable page citations. Summarize a document, a page range or a selection. Turn any document into flashcards and quizzes with spaced-repetition review. Record a lecture, then transcribe and summarize it on-device. All of it runs with Apple Intelligence, right on your device: nothing uploaded, nothing metered, no AI credits. Prefer no AI? One switch hides every AI button. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No third-party AI. Your work stays on your devices, with optional private iCloud sync and App Lock with Face ID. MEMBERSHIP Unlock every premium feature for $19.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $2.99/month. Prefer not to subscribe? Buy Libreto once for $59.99 and keep every feature, including future updates, forever. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Scribble Calendar & Planner

This app offers a digital canvas for planning and journaling, allowing users to write, sketch, and annotate their days. It provides versatile calendar views, infinite notes, and habit tracking, with a privacy-first design. Users can organize their lives with a focus on intention and purpose.

Highlights
  • Handwritten planning and sketching
  • Versatile calendar views (Yearly to Daily)
  • Infinite notes for brainstorming
  • Time-boxed daily planner
  • Mood and health tracking
  • Habit tracking
  • Calendar integration
Features
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Scribble Calendar & Planner feels like a canvas for your life - a place where you don't just schedule dates, but draw your days and design your future. Write, sketch, annotate and plan with Apple Pencil or any compatible stylus. Turn scattered thoughts into something you can see, shape and make your own. PLAN. FOCUS. REFLECT. Plan your days with clarity. Focus your time on what matters. Reflect on your habits, health and how your days really feel. In a world where calendars are often rigid and impersonal, Scribble Calendar offers softness, freedom and a bit of soul... a quiet invitation to plan with intention, reflect with clarity and live with purpose. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE • Versatile Views - Switch between Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly and Daily planning pages. • Infinity Notes - Endless space for sketches, mind maps, brain dumps and whatever is on your mind. • Time-Boxed Daily Planner - Give your day a shape, see where your time goes, and stay focused without the stress. • Mood & Health Tracker - Keep track of your mood, sleep, water and food in your own handwriting. • Habit Tracking - Build awareness around the habits and routines that shape your days. • Calendar Integration - Your device's calendars appear alongside your handwritten plans. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN Your life, your timeline, your design. No account is required, and your planner is never uploaded to a cloud service of ours. Keep it on your device, or sync it between your devices through your own iCloud Drive. Your planner stays yours. FREE TO WRITE, OPTIONAL TO UPGRADE Write, draw and plan on the yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily pages for free, and your planner stays on your device. Premium, a one-time purchase, lets you create and edit calendar events in the app. The sync subscription uploads your pages to your own cloud storage and keeps them in step across your devices: Simple two-way sync, or Smart sync, which also merges a page changed on two devices. Downloading pages from your cloud storage is free. A DIFFERENT KIND OF DIGITAL PLANNER Whether you use it as a productivity tool, a digital bullet journal, a handwritten calendar or a life organizer, Scribble Calendar helps you get thoughts out of your head, focus on what matters today, and design where you want to go next. Your life is your canvas. Optimized for iPad, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Terms of Use: https://scribblecalendar.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://scribblecalendar.com/privacy

Screenshots

Libreto4 screens
Scribble Calendar & Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

Libreto and Scribble Calendar & Planner are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Libreto sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Scribble Calendar & Planner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Libreto against 5.0 for Scribble Calendar & Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Libreto ships an update every 9 days, Scribble Calendar & Planner every 6 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Libreto versus Scribble Calendar & Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLibretoScribble Calendar & Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB52 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJC Mobile App Studio LLCGabor Auth

Customer experience

Libreto

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Scribble Calendar & Planner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Libreto

Subscriptions2
  • Libreto Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • Libreto Premium (Annual)3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Libreto Lifetime$59.99
5 purchases

Scribble Calendar & Planner

Subscriptions4
  • Simple two-way sync7 Days trial$0.491 Month
  • Smart two-way sync$1.491 Month
  • Simple two-way sync7 Days trial$4.991 Year
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  • Smart two-way sync$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Libreto free?
Libreto is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scribble Calendar & Planner free?
Scribble Calendar & Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Libreto or Scribble Calendar & Planner?
Libreto and Scribble Calendar & Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Libreto or Scribble Calendar & Planner have ads?
Neither Libreto nor Scribble Calendar & Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Libreto or Scribble Calendar & Planner?
Libreto ships an update every 9 days, and Scribble Calendar & Planner every 6 days. Most recently, Libreto was updated on November 13, 2026 and Scribble Calendar & Planner on November 13, 2026.

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