Comparison

Draw Calendar vs Bindex Planner

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

Head to head
About

Draw Calendar

This app reimagines traditional scheduling by allowing users to plan their day with handwriting and doodles. It offers a fun, creative, and productive way to manage your calendar on iOS devices, freeing you from tedious data entry.

Highlights
  • Plan your day by sketching
  • Handwriting and doodles for scheduling
  • Clean and stylish interface
  • Entries synced across iOS devices
  • Creative and productive organization
Features
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Draw Calendar helps you plan with sketches instead of plain text. Every date can hold a quick drawing, handwritten note, or visual reminder. Your month stays readable because saved sketches appear right on each day. Open any day to draw on a full-screen canvas, then return to the month view without breaking your flow. The app keeps planning flexible for personal routines, family schedules, and creative project timelines. **Sketch on any day** Tap a date to open a dedicated PencilKit editor and start drawing immediately. You can zoom for detail and keep writing naturally with touch or Apple Pencil. **See context at a glance** Saved drawings show up as thumbnails inside their day cells, so your notes stay anchored to real dates. This makes busy weeks easier to scan without opening each entry. **Manage multiple calendars** Create separate calendars for work, home, study, or side projects in a few taps. You can switch calendars quickly and keep each timeline clean and focused. **Stay oriented across months** Scroll smoothly through past and future months while keeping the same familiar grid layout. Use the Today button to jump back to the current month whenever you need a reset point. **Edit with confidence** Undo and redo actions help you refine sketches without restarting your page. If plans change, you can remove a day sketch and keep the rest of your calendar intact. Download Draw Calendar and start turning daily plans into visual notes you can understand in seconds.

About

Bindex Planner

Features
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Bindex Planner brings your paper planner and iPhone schedule together in one place. Beyond managing events and TODOs, it turns your daily progress into books and grows a personal study as you keep going. FIVE CLEAR TABS • Calendar: Switch between a color-coded month and an event list • TODO: Switch between a month and all months; organize by date, priority, category, duration, and subtasks • Import: Capture a paper planner and create editable event candidates • Bookshelf: Store the days you open the app and your TODO progress as books • More: Access Focus Study, anniversaries, passwords, settings, and backup tools IMPORT YOUR PAPER PLANNER Take a photo or choose one from your library. On-device OCR reads the text and creates editable event candidates. For monthly-block planner pages, Bindex reads the date grid and turns what you wrote in each day's box into candidates for that day. Pages with an uncertain month are not saved until you confirm the month, and candidates with an uncertain date or time are marked Needs review. Save pending skips them until you tap Mark as checked. • Check and correct candidates side by side with the original photo • Use the import history for each photo to resume unsaved candidates or undo what you saved • Images are not sent to cloud AI. Only after your explicit consent can recognized text be sent to an external AI service to format dates, times, and titles. You can keep processing on device only. A BOOKSHELF THAT GROWS FOR FREE Each day you open the app can become a book, with its design reflecting your TODO progress. Weekly quests, study levels, spine collections, and a growing room make consistency rewarding. Progression does not require a purchase. TODO AND FOCUS STUDY Core TODO management remains free. The one-time Pro purchase adds Import multiple pages (choose up to 12 planner photos and read them one at a time on your device; photos and recognized text are not sent), a TODO-linked focus timer, Live Activities, batch replanning for unfinished TODOs, weekly and monthly reports, bookshelf display integration, and extra room items. Importing one photo at a time is free. FIND AND ADD QUICKLY • Search: Find events, TODOs, and notes on your device without a network connection, filtered by date range, type, and TODO status • Saved templates: Save events and TODOs you use often and add them again quickly (stored on your device) • Apple Shortcuts: Run Add TODO, Start focus timer, and Open today from the Shortcuts app. A TODO is not created until you save it on the review screen (the focus timer requires Pro) AI PLANNER BETA AI Planner Beta turns goals and unfinished TODOs into actionable TODO suggestions. On devices that support Apple Intelligence with iOS 26 or later, suggestions are created on your device and your goals and TODOs are not sent anywhere. On other devices it is a limited beta (time, users, and uses) that requires sign-in and sends your goal and selected TODOs to an external AI service only with your consent. It may be closed or paused. SHARING, INTEGRATIONS, AND USEFUL TOOLS • Apple Calendar integration • Optional account-based shared calendars for family or teams • Weather and a Home Screen widget • Anniversaries, password storage, backup, and image sharing Supports Light, Dark, and System themes, adjustable text size, and VoiceOver. Personal events, TODOs, and notes are stored on your device by default. To provide account sign-in and sync, shared calendars, Pro purchase verification, push notifications, weather, external calendar integrations, and optional AI features, required data—such as account and purchase information, push tokens, approximate location, shared content, or recognized text—may be sent to the relevant service providers. We do not sell personal data or use it for advertising tracking. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Screenshots

Draw Calendar4 screens
Bindex Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Bindex Planner at every 9 days against Draw Calendar's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Draw Calendar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Bindex Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Draw Calendar ships an update every 6 months, Bindex Planner every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Draw Calendar versus Bindex Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraw CalendarBindex Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews19.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB94 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFishington StudiosNaohiro Kamio

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Draw Calendar

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Pro$4.99
1 purchases

Bindex Planner

One-time1
  • Bindex Planner Pro$0.49

Questions

Is Draw Calendar free?
Draw Calendar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bindex Planner free?
Bindex Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Draw Calendar or Bindex Planner have ads?
Neither Draw Calendar nor Bindex Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Draw Calendar or Bindex Planner?
Draw Calendar ships an update every 6 months, and Bindex Planner every 9 days. Most recently, Draw Calendar was updated on November 6, 2026 and Bindex Planner on November 5, 2026.

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