Comparison

Årshjul vs Productivity Planner

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

Head to head
About

Årshjul

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Plan a whole year, then explain it in ten seconds. Årshjul lays the twelve months out as a wheel, so the shape of the year is visible before anyone has read a word: the quarter that is overloaded, the empty stretch in July, the two campaigns landing in the same week. Built for consultants, project managers, marketing and communications leads, school and nonprofit teams, and anyone who has to walk a room through next year on an iPad and then look it up on an iPhone afterward. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create tracks for projects, teams, or areas of responsibility, and place activities across the year • Switch between the wheel and a chronological list: the same plan, read two ways • Present straight from the iPad in the meeting, with no sign-in and no browser tab • Hand the plan over as a PDF or PNG for the board packet, the staff handbook, or the wall IMPORT AND EXPORT • Open versioned Årshjul files and JSON • Import and export CSV and iCalendar • Export to PDF and PNG • Warnings appear before an import changes your plan. Nothing is altered silently. FOURTEEN DAYS OF FULL ACCESS Everything is open from the first launch. No account, and no payment request before you have tried it. After fourteen days, creating and editing require a subscription. Reading and exporting your own wheels keeps working either way, so you never lose access to work you have already done. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. INSTEAD OF A BROWSER TOOL OR A TEMPLATE A browser-based year wheel wants an organization account and a login — in the meeting, from every colleague, every time. A PowerPoint or Miro template looks right once and then has to be redrawn by hand every time a date moves. Årshjul is a real app on all three Apple platforms: it opens immediately, needs no account, keeps the plan on your own device, and lets the same plan leave as CSV or iCalendar when someone else needs the dates. LOCAL FIRST No account. No tracking. Your plans stay on your device unless you choose to share them or save an export yourself. ACCESSIBILITY Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and WCAG 2.2 AA. The plan can be read and understood without relying on color. LANGUAGES English, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Dutch. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://annualwheel.pages.dev/privacy

About

Productivity Planner

Features
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Productivity Planner brings your day into one calm place: to-dos, habits, routines, shopping lists, and focus time in a clear, thoughtfully designed app. Build a daily plan that actually fits your life. Add tasks with times and durations, start focus sessions, create morning and evening routines, track habits, and keep your shopping list close. The Today timeline shows what is coming next. Routines help you move through repeated steps without thinking from scratch every time. Habits show your progress and streaks. Home Screen widgets keep the important things visible at a glance. With iCloud sync, your data stays up to date across iPhone and iPad. Reminders, time-sensitive notifications, and alarms help you return to your plan at the right moment. For anyone who wants to be more productive without using an app that feels loud, cluttered, or overwhelming. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Årshjul4 screens
Productivity Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

Årshjul and Productivity Planner are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Årshjul sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Productivity Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Årshjul versus Productivity Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterÅrshjulProductivity Planner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJesper SachmannIlias Akasmou

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Årshjul

Subscriptions2
  • Annual Wheel Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Annual Wheel Pro – Annual14 Days trial$34.991 Year
3 purchases

Productivity Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is Årshjul free?
Årshjul is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Productivity Planner free?
Productivity Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Årshjul or Productivity Planner have ads?
Neither Årshjul nor Productivity Planner shows ads.

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