Comparison

Tearpad vs Yearscape

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

Head to head
About

Tearpad

Features
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I kept opening my notes app to jot down one quick thing and getting hit with folders, tags, and a pile of old notes I forgot to delete. I just wanted a pad of paper. So I made one. Tearpad opens straight to today's page. Cursor's already blinking, so you just write. There's no title to fill in, nothing to file, no place to put it. When tomorrow rolls around, it turns to a clean page on its own. Yesterday's is one swipe back, curling away like a real notebook. That's really the whole thing. It's for the notes you'd scribble on a sticky and throw out later. A phone number, a grocery list, the two things you have to do before lunch. Stuff that doesn't need a filing system. What you get: • Opens to today every single time • A fresh page shows up on its own, so you're never staring at last week's leftovers • Swipe to flip back through your old pages • Checklists, bullets, and numbered lists, right there in the text • A few paper colors, textures, and typefaces if you want to make it yours • No account, no sign in, nothing to set up If you like it, there's one optional purchase that unlocks the extras. It's a one time thing. I'm not going to charge you every month for a notepad.

About

Yearscape

Display customizable calendar grids and year views directly on your Home Screen and Mac desktop. Mark days off, identify long weekends with holiday insights, and print your calendar in various formats. Designed for offline use with no ads or accounts.

Highlights
  • Home Screen and Mac desktop widgets
  • Customizable month grids and year views
  • Mark personal days off
  • Long weekend identification
  • Printable calendar layouts (PDF)
  • Offline functionality
  • Colorblind-friendly palettes
Features
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A calendar that belongs on your Home Screen, not in another app you have to open. The three-month wall calendar from the office and the pocket calendar from your wallet — in one widget. WIDGETS A grid of one to twelve months — on the iPhone and iPad Home Screen and the Mac desktop. The range is set per widget in "Edit Widget": from this month, last month or two months back, from next month, or from the start of the year. Three months can sit one below the other, like a wall calendar. On iPad, and on iPhone with iOS 27 (a full Home Screen page), a widget holds the whole year; on the Mac there is also a separate "Year" widget with all twelve months in one tile. The Lock Screen gets something else, because it has less room: seven contents to choose from — mini month, three weeks, current week, next holiday, long weekend, workdays, year progress. Each widget can pin its own theme or follow the app's settings. YOUR DAYS OFF Tap a day and mark it as a day off — holiday, a day taken back, whatever it is. Marked days show up in the month-grid widgets and count in the workday totals. They stay on the device; there is no account for them to land in. LONG WEEKENDS Holidays for nine countries: Poland, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, France, Czechia, Ireland, Spain, Norway. A holiday that is a workday for you can be switched off with one touch and hold. PRINTING Print the calendar straight from the app: a year on one page, a quarter, or a month as a planner with empty boxes to write in. A4 and Letter, portrait and landscape. Black and white is the default and reads without colour. No printer nearby? Save the same thing as a PDF. READABLE WITHOUT COLOUR Weekends can be set in a heavier weight, your own days off have a shape rather than just a hue, and every palette has been measured for contrast — including simulations of two kinds of colour blindness. WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT HAVE No internet connection. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no permission requests, and no peeking at your system calendar. Every feature is there from the start, with nothing to buy inside. Interface in 15 languages. For iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Screenshots

Tearpad3 screens
Yearscape4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yearscape at none against Tearpad's 1. Tearpad's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tearpad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Yearscape asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tearpad ships an update daily, Yearscape every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tearpad versus Yearscape: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTearpadYearscape
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua HutchinsPawel Piskurewicz

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tearpad

One-time1
  • Support Tier$0.99
None

Yearscape

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tearpad free?
Tearpad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yearscape free?
Yearscape is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tearpad or Yearscape have ads?
Neither Tearpad nor Yearscape shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tearpad or Yearscape?
Tearpad ships an update daily, and Yearscape every 4 days. Most recently, Tearpad was updated on November 10, 2026 and Yearscape on October 31, 2026.

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