Plan your day with Apple Pencil. Write around your calendar events, organize your week, and keep your notes close at hand.
Write on your calendar with Apple Pencil. Pencil Planner brings the freedom of a paper planner to your digital calendar, so you can handwrite plans, highlight appointments, and take notes around the events already in your schedule.
Plan on iPad, then check your calendar and handwritten plans on iPhone. Cloud backup and sync keep your planner and notes connected across devices.
YOUR CALENDAR, WITH ROOM TO WRITE
* See events from the calendars you use with Apple's Calendar app
* Write directly over and around your calendar events
* Bring tasks into your planner with Apple Reminders integration
* Add handwritten priorities, time blocks, and sketches
PLAN YOUR DAY, WEEK, MONTH, AND YEAR
* Bring your schedule, tasks, and linked notes together in Day view
* Plan your week, highlight important dates, and see the year ahead
* With Version 2 layouts, schedule handwriting is shared between Day and Week, and daily highlights appear in Day, Week, and Month
KEEP NOTES WITH YOUR PLANS
* Create handwritten or typed notes for meetings, classes, projects, and ideas
* Link notes to dates or calendar events and open them alongside your day
* Organize notes into folders and pin your favorites
* Add pages to handwritten notes with blank, lined, or dot-grid paper
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
* Write with Apple Pencil, Logitech Crayon, or your finger
* Choose pens, pencils, and highlighters with adjustable colors and thickness
* Move handwriting, erase whole strokes or parts of them, and undo or redo changes
* Pinch to zoom for precise writing
* Use light or dark mode in portrait, landscape, or Split View
PRO ACCESS
Unlock all planner features with a monthly or annual Pro Access subscription, including unlimited entries, storage, and devices, plus cloud backup and sync. Subscription prices and any available trial offers are shown in the app.
QUESTIONS?
Contact support@pencilplanner.app with questions or feature requests.
Terms of use: https://pencilplanner.app/terms-of-use/
I have no words to say except this app is worth every penny. If you have been debating for months on end in how to combine both a digital and paper-formatted planner, this is your solution! It is digital, yes, but it saves you from backaches of carrying around a ton of paper/physical planners. First of all, it can import your precious cloud calendars such as google calendar— with all its complex, recurring programmed events— into the app, but, still maintains a paper-like planner format by allowing users to have the freedom to annotate calendar dates using a stylus/ drawing tool on top of said calendar date in any of the three calendar views of the app. The calendar views include monthly, weekly, or daily views. You are able to annotate with a drawing tool on any calendar date, even if the calendar date contains digitally-created events such as that from google calendar or other cloud calendars. Pencil Planner can then seamlessly sync those drawing annotations into all the other calendar views (unlike artful agenda which is a similar app but has so far not been able to synchronize your drawing annotations from one calendar view to another). Pencil Planner can also sync all your drawing and or text annotations on all three devices- ipad, iphone or mac computer easily! I also just discovered its note feature on my mac which can seamlessly copy the format of google calendar events’s description (specifically, my google calendar app for Mac OS desktop computer) even with its bulleted/indentation format. You can edit the event’s description easily into pencil planners’ notes page. For example you can remove bullets, add bullets, or even add a checklist without any formatting bugs! The notes are EASY to access from your pencil planner app on any device— whether you are trying to view them from you comptuer, ipad and/or phone! Great. App.
Great concept decent implementation, but room for growth
a certain regular user
The concept is exactly what I was aiming for when I was trying to find a paper planner style planer for my iPad. It’s integration with the Calendar app and Reminders app is exactly what I was hoping for, and I like that the notes are able to link to the individual events or to a particular day. However, it does not seem that it has had any updates since 2022 and the list of features and updates has not been updated in several years which worries me with regard to support and whether or not this is going to be a maintained application in the future. A feature that would be really nice and I was hoping for would be the ability to either export notes using the share sheet or even better having the notes in this app synchronize with the Notes app just like it does with the Calendar and Reminders app that would be a superb option which would allow the notes that are created outside of this app to be linked as well and also accessible outside of this app on other devices. I am hopeful that the developer is still working on implementing some of the features listed on the website and I understand that it can take a long time to develop some features so I am not assuming that they are not coming. I just would like to see them sooner so that this can be more useful as a one stop planning application that would justify the subscription cost.
Won’t update on synced device
KP-361
I downloaded this app about a week and a half ago. I first downloaded it to my iPad. It linked my calendars and I was able to write notes on the individual days which is exactly what I wanted to be able to do. I then downloaded the app on my phone and signed in with my account. Everything transferred over that I had entered up to that point. However, I have made changes since then on my iPad and the new info that I put in my iPad won’t update on my phone. I’ve done all of the trouble shooting tips, refreshed the app, closed out the phone and iPad m, restated, even uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. When I signed back in after reinstalling the app on my phone it still only shows the info that had been input at the time I had originally installed the app on my phone. It still won’t update. It’s been over a week. I tried reaching out to the support email within my free trial period and am still waiting for a response. I give this app 2 stars because I really like the design of linking to my calendars and being able to write on it but if it will only work on my iPad and not update to my phone then it’s pointless for me to have this app and I would have cancelled it before the free trial. I’m hoping the app support group will eventually have a solution to fix this at which point I could update my review. Not sure how long their typical response time is for getting back to emails but it’s been over a week so far with no response.
I want to give this app 5 stars, but cannot unless some features are added.
taboo2damfly
I am a paper journal planner. I have journals for different things. And with all the paper journal planners I own comes limited physical space. I am really trying to declutter and that starts with not buying anymore and converting some paper work into digital. I have a couple journal/planners I purchased from Etsy and use in Goodnotes. LOVE them. But they don’t sync up with my iOS calendar and I really LOVE that feature. I want that feature. And now, after having it with this planner, I feel I need that feature to organize my schedule. I am working on organizing myself in all areas of my life and having that calendar sync really frees me up from the redundant option of writing in the same task/meal planning/course schedule daily. The missing stars come in for me because I really like to personalize my planners. Stickers, drawing (which I am not the best at so I use stickers) different color pens and different types of pens, pencils, markers, and highlighters. I would love customized templates, color changes or something. The annual cost isn’t a bad price for a digital planner, for a planner period. I pay good money for a paper planner each year. And at one point in time, I bought two; one for work and the other one for personal planning. So….if the developers are taking suggestions or if they want to spruce up the app and take it to the next level, I would definitely re-rate and re-review. I LOVE using my Apple Pencil. It is such a great addition to the iPad Pro. Thank you for reading my review.
* Restored tapping dates and links through the drawing canvas when links are enabled, while keeping drawing available.
* Improved drawing save handling.
If you have any questions or issues, please email us at support@pencilplanner.app.
Version 2.1.1
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Information
Seller
Wasdesign, LLC
Size
48.8 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
