Pencil Calendar & Planner Pro 4+

I use this app every day for work! It is easy and straightforward to use, the only thing I wish I could do is download this on my phone as well. I am not always able to get to my iPad but I do always have my phone on me. It would be nice to be able to pull up the planner on my phone if I need to see what I have scheduled and am not near my iPad. but overall this is a great app and definitely worth the money!

Thanks for the nice review Daisy_Bud! Sorry it’s only available for iPad but hope you understand.

Updating my review to 5 stars. The developer is attentive and receptive and some of the quality of life features I suggested have been implemented! It now shows you what days you have notes in and you can change the color of the background planner!

Still not able to do a dark background instead of white/light pages but the fact that you can pick a darker planner already helps the eyes.

Thank you and can't wait to see how this app continues to evolve!
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Only just started using it so I may adjust my review in the future but for now, the biggest issues for me are:

- No keyboard support
- No search function/feature
- Unable to change background colors

Aside from that, it does what it needs to do, keeping track of whatever you input. Be sure to make some kind of note or system to indicate a date has notes though, as the app doesn't put a marker on the date at all to signal that you had placed notes on that particular day.

For example, you might have put a note for something in the daily section of the calendar but the monthly area won't show anything and since you can't search, if you're having to look back for something (for auditing or accounting purposes), you'll have to look through every day unless you create your own system on the monthly view. Kind of redundant to make detailed notes on the daily view and another kind of note in the monthly view, though.

Hi Dunnowhat2b, thanks very much for your detailed review and feedback. I think your points are all fair and valid.

For this first version of Pencil Calendar Pro we focused on getting the core drawing, calendar and saving functionality just right, and I'm happy to hear that's working well for you.

Now we are continuing to develop the app further to add new options/features and we already have plans to address most, if not all of what you mentioned :) in addition your suggestion to add a mark to the monthly views to show which daily views have notes is a very sensible suggestion, thanks very much. I'll add this to the plan and hope to add it to the app soon too.

Thanks again for using the app and hope you will continue to support us going forward. If you have any other feature requests, etc, feel free to get in touch again anytime and we'll see what we can do! /Adam

Update 11/01/20: Hi again Dunnowhat2b. I'm pleased to let you know we just released an updated version of Pencil Calendar Pro that implements one of your requested features - the monthly view now automatically adds a mark next to all dates for which you have saved notes in their daily view. So you don't need to manually search for these anymore. Please be assured we are going to keep on going to continue developing the app further, so hopefully we can address some of your other suggestions/requests soon too! /Adam

Update 3/2/20 - FYI as of v1.60 we now have selectable background themes!

Update 28/9/20 - thank you very much for your updated review, and very happy you are still using the app and enjoying our updates and improvements!

I have been using UPAD, a note-taking app, to manage my schedule. UPAD provides a calendar template and I am wrting my schedule on it. That's exactly what this app is aiming at.

I like the idea of handwriting calendars, but this app is wasting too much space on screen. Even though the diary-look-like design is fancy, it wastes too much space at the side and on the middle. I think that it would be better to provide a different template as an option like a minimalism design that maximizes the use of screen space.

Hi, thanks very much for the 5-star review! We're happy to hear you like the design, but also we fully understand your point about creating an option to have a more minimalist design option to create extra space. We'll look into this for future updates. FYI, maybe you already realised this, but you can pinch to zoom in to just focus on the area you want to write-in; perhaps you can use this as a workaround for now. Thanks again and please keep watching for future updates! /Adam