CalNote vs Nagi Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CalNote
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Your calendar, as a leather-bound planner. CalNote turns the events in your iPhone Calendar and Reminders into a leather-bound paper planner. No handwriting or Apple Pencil needed: tap to add plans on your iPhone, and decorate big days with stickers and markers (the month page, stickers and markers are free). Your plans are saved right in the iPhone Calendar, so CalNote works alongside the calendar you already use. PAGES YOU CAN FLIP Open the cover and turn the pages. Paper texture, ruled lines, and the curl of the page all feel like a real planner. - Month page (free): a whole month on one page, with all of the selected day's plans in the list below - Two-page week: your week on a vertical timeline across two pages - Weekly grid: seven days in large boxes - Day page: one day, large, on a timeline - Year page: the whole year on one sheet WRITE RIGHT WHERE IT GOES Tap + at the top right, or press and hold an empty spot in a month box or on a timeline to add a plan at that date and time. Save plans you use often as templates. REMINDERS AND NOTES, TOO - Reminders page: see today, overdue, no due date, incomplete, completed, and each list, including reminders without a due date. Pick one on the left page and it opens on the right - Notes page: keep phone numbers, packing lists, and anything you want to look back on, with checkboxes and photos. Place the bookmark on a note to jump straight back to it MARK THE BIG DAYS - Stickers: add them next to a date. New designs are added the more days you open the app - Markers: frame deadlines and big days with a highlighter and a short note - Sticky notes: stick them on the top edge of a page and jump to that month - Bookmark: keep your place and come back from anywhere MAKE IT YOURS Choose the leather color and grain, a name on the cover, paper color, ruled lines, typeface, ink color, how today is marked, and whether weeks start on Monday or Sunday. Lock the planner with Face ID or Touch ID. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets are included. YOUR PLANS STAY ON YOUR IPHONE No account needed. Plans are saved in your iPhone Calendar and Reminders, notes and photos stay on this iPhone, and nothing is sent to our servers. PRICING The month page, Reminders page, Notes page, stickers, markers, sticky notes, bookmark, templates, and look settings are free. Premium adds the two-page week, weekly grid, day, and year pages, My Stickers, the medium and large Home Screen widgets, and the circular and inline Lock Screen widgets. Choose monthly, yearly (7-day free trial), or a one-time purchase. - Monthly and Yearly Premium are auto-renewing subscriptions. Unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, the next period is charged to your Apple ID. You can cancel in your App Store account settings. - When the yearly free trial ends, it automatically becomes a paid subscription. Cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends and you won't be charged. - Lifetime Premium is a one-time purchase that you keep forever. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://daily-apps-showcase.pages.dev/privacy/calnote/
Nagi Planner
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Nagi Planner is a digital planner for organizing your days and moving forward in your own way. Set your values and personal rules, then break your goals down from 10 years ahead to this week, so that what you do this week connects to the future you truly want. ■ What you can do [Free plan] ・Journal time for reviewing and planning (morning, night, weekend, month-end, every 3 months, year-end) ・Answer journal time questions with the keyboard or by hand ・Schedule (Weekly, Monthly and Yearly; shows, adds and edits events in your iPhone calendar, and can notify you of events) ・To-do list (with dates, times, due dates and repeats) and routines (with a timer) ・Plan time (place to-dos on your day's timeline to plan it) ・Memo (handwriting and photos supported; write with Apple Pencil on iPad) ・Notes (organized in notebooks; templates, checklists, tables and cards, plus handwriting, photos and audio recordings) ・For reading notes, scan a book's barcode to fill in the title, author and cover ・Widgets (today's events, to-dos and routines, and buttons that open a screen; extra large sizes on iPad) ・On Apple Watch, check off and time to-dos and routines ・Part of Insights (how your records change over 1 day, 3 days and 1 week) ・Look back on your journal time [Paid plan] ・Values and personal rules (you can add photos; reviewed in each morning journal time) ・Goals from 10 years ahead down to this week (printable as a single table) ・Projects (in the Schedule, each period shown as a bar, grouped by category, with your calendar events alongside) ・Diary with photos (you can add handwriting too; look back at "today" over the past 10 years) ・A slideshow of your memories, to look back on your favorite photos ・Time-stamped notes, filterable by tag ・To-do and routine logs added to your diary automatically ・Logs for meals, drinks, exercise, medicine and meditation (meditation also works on Apple Watch) ・Plan and actual (compare the plan you made in the morning with the time measured by the timer; shown in night journal time, the diary and the TO-DO log) ・TO-DO log (look back on finished to-dos by date) ・Search in Log (search journal time records, to-dos including their notes, and your diary by text and date) ・Insights (2-week to 1-year periods, choosing dates and periods, and Balance) ・A wish list that brings your future to life (with slideshow) ・A map that colors the places you have been and want to go (with check-ins) ・16 color themes and 20 app icons ■ Your records ・No account required ・Your records are stored only on your device and in your own iCloud ・No ads, analytics or tracking ■ Pricing ・Monthly plan: first 3 days free ・Lifetime plan: buy once and use it forever *See the purchase screen in the app for prices. The monthly plan renews automatically. It renews at the same price unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. If you cancel at least 24 hours before the free trial ends, you will not be charged. To cancel: open Settings on your device > your name > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://mikiko-app.github.io/nagi/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://mikiko-app.github.io/nagi/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Nagi Planner at daily against CalNote's every 3 days. Nagi Planner also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. CalNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Nagi Planner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CalNote ships an update every 3 days, Nagi Planner daily. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | CalNote | Nagi Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Atsushi Ito | MIKI SHOJI |
In-app purchases
CalNote
- Monthly Premium$1.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$19.99
Nagi Planner
- すべての機能(月額)3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- すべての機能(買い切り)$79.99









