Pencil Planner & Calendar Pro 4+

Can it be free for students?

I’m going to be a freshman in college and I’ve been looking for apps that might help me stay more organized vs having to find them while I’m in college and change my entire workflow. However, I no longer have the luxury of a heavy cash flow to pay for app subscriptions. I wish we could have a free plan for students who desperately need professional tools like this but can’t afford them. Many companies do this and I think this’d be a great way to advertise your app and company. I did buy a physical planner but am not sure how much use it’ll get as I often loose interest in them after a couple months and wanted to try something new on my iPad Pro. However, as cheap as the subscription is I don’t want it slowly chipping away at my monthly allowance. I’m only going to keep this app if we can have a free student plan or a one time purchase plan because in that case I’d DEFINITELY buy this!! The wealth of features and flexibility amazes me and this app definitely seems underrated but my only qualm is the subscription. Please add more subscription and purchase models. Thank you!!

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback! Definitely reach out at support@pencilplanner.app if you are a student. We may be help out with a discount on the first year.

Need better payment options

This app from the looks of it seems very productive and useful. I also believe that I would easily learn the interface as it seems very clean and organized. With that being said I could not bring my self to using the app. For starters the app isn’t even useable without paying for the Pro version. The app lets you use some things for free but it is so limited without paying that it is basically unusable. It won’t let you plan more than a week ahead. If you are going to offer a free version with so many limitations do not even offer a free version to begin with. I am fine with paying for a powerful app like this but you have to pay for it in a subscription format. These days EVERYTHING wants you to pay for a subscription. Eventually that adds up. I know the subscription price isn’t the worst price out there, but I would much rather pay a one time payment up front. Apps like Procreate and GoodNotes use the one time pay option that lets you have full access to their powerful apps. So in the end I would like to see A. An one time payment option upfront, or B. A less restrictive free version that is actually usable. Consumers shouldn’t be trapped in a subscription cycle to use everything.

Digital Planning & Apple Calendar Combined

I've been using this for several days and very glad I purchased the pro version. I can make appointments, as well as create Reminders (from Reminders app) and they show up in Pencil Planner app on my iPad and iPhone. I haven't found a search feature on Pencil Planner, but hope that's in the future. For now if I have to search an appointment, I'll use the Apple calendar app.

I love that I can write a note to myself for the day using my Apple pencil on the iPad and it shows up on my iPhone app as well. It looks awesome too. The roadmap shows additional features for stickers in August, which will add a little extra fun to planning my day. Drawing on my iPad and seeing on my phone is great as well. Keep up the good work! I'd not heard of this app before joining a digital planning group on FB. I checked out your FB and IG page and seems like your team has decided to not use these two SM options, which seems odd to me. This is a very visual product and using IG would be a great resouce.