PLANBELLA - Planner App Reviews

PLANBELLA is so beautiful and perfect for me. It’s exactly how I set up my bullet journal, except it’s on my phone so i always have it with me. I have ADHD so to function I need to have my appointments and tasks laid out in sequential order all together which PLANBELLA allows me to do, rather than having separate views for calendar and to do’s. A lot of people complain that the calendar sync is only one way but I don’t really mind that since I prefer to manage my events in ical anyways. I would like to be able to reorder tasks by dragging and dropping but in the meantime I workaround by slightly adjusting the times.

The only complaint I have is that it doesn’t sync across devices. When I’m on the go I use my phone but at home I prefer my iPad. Also if there is in fact a desktop app coming soon the sync function would be mandatory for me. Currently I do have a workaround by backing up from my phone to iCloud, then loading the backup onto my iPad but this is really something that should be done automatically.

I saw this advertised on IG awhile ago and thought it was gorgeous. The only thing that kept me from buying it right then was the lack of sync with other calendars. I appreciated what the developer was trying to do in keeping it private, but having the option to sync for those who wanted/needed is pretty important in this day and age of technology. So when I saw yesterday that it was available in an update, I immediately bought PLANBELLA . It is gorgeous and so well made, but what wasn’t clear was that it’s only a one way sync. I can click a button and everything in my gmail calendar will show up in PLANBELLA. But I can’t create a new event in PLANBELLA and add it to one of my calendars. That’s disappointing because it still just makes this a “view only” app for me. I have five children. Each of them have a calendar within gmail. I also have one for my husband and one for myself, as well as a couple other calendars. Not being able to choose which calendar to add to in PLANBELLA defeats the purpose. I wish I had realized this before I paid $8 for it.

Love the simplicity of PLANBELLA . Very easy and straightforward to make the task that you want. And it is beautiful. Also the calendar sync is great. Just a few things I would want to see updates
For imported calendar, right now you can add a label, but it would be great to assign all items of that calendar a color. Right now you must set a highlight color to each one individually
Able to switch between light and dark mode. Not making it be whichever your phone setting is. Option to have app in light mode even if your phone is in dark mode
Able to move unchecked task to new day. If you didn’t check off a task it will disappear. Wish there was a simple way to simply move the task to a new day
But so far so good, I like that it keeps it simple. I will continue to see how it goes

PLANBELLA is so pleasing to the eye! Love the font and the eloquent pastel highlights but definitely room to improve. 1) I bought PLANBELLA on my iPhone and began using immediately. When I downloaded PLANBELLA on my IPad, nothing transferred- it was completely blank. Most of your users will want to use PLANBELLA on multiple devices so hopefully the developers will allow it to sync. 2) I tried multiple time to create a recurring event on my calendar with no end date and it would not save. I then created the event with an end date decades in advance and it saved- suggest the developers ensure both features work. 3) The journal feature is not working. When you click on it, the week of event are displayed but no option for journal entries.
I’m leaving this detailed of a review in hopes these bugs can be resolved because it is quite a beautiful looking product.
Also, if more colors can be added to the palate that will allow more categories.

I dwelled on purchasing PLANBELLA for about two weeks before I bit the bullet. I kept receiving ads for it on Instagram and followed their page, with the promise of added widgets in January and it seemingly looking like an aesthetic but also well functioning planner app I went ahead and purchased. It is a great looking app and I’m happy it syncs to my other calendars but that’s about all their is to be happy about. I don’t utilize it because they haven’t added widgets which although a new feature, all of my other planner and calendar apps already have them. Why am I going to use the one that doesn’t, the developer said they would come in January and we’re almost in March already! The unprofessional attitude of posting stories on their Instagram while ignoring several comments asking for updates really turns me off. As a developer myself I’m highly dissatisfied and would gladly undo this purchase if I could. They don’t deserve your money when they won’t even respond to simple questions on social media.

I love the aesthetics and how simple it is to use! I also love the journal feature! I also like how you can view tasks and events at the same time on the calendar view.

Overall it’s a very nice app. Works perfectly for everything if you just have one calendar. I have mine synced with multiple, so it becomes less organized. A minor change I would like is being able to add a default color for each calendar, instead of manually needing to add a color for each single event.

The biggest issue I have is syncing to the Apple calendar app. Since there is no option to pick which calendar when adding an event, I have to use my calendar app to add to a shared calendar instead of just simply adding it on this app. As most of my calendars are shared, I find myself using mostly the default calendar app and then opening this app just for the aesthetics. Additionally, if you add something directly on this app, it won’t show up on the Apple calendar. Kind of like writing everything in two different planners, which is not as efficient. Basically your calendars are not “synced”, it only transfers data over from your Apple calendar.

Some other suggestions I have to improve PLANBELLA:
- A feature where you can add the location to events, and it will route you to that address.
- More colors! Like pastel green and yellow

Each year, I buy my vertically aligned white, marble planner. The medium size. But ever since Covid, I’ve been working from home and it’s been a lot of work to carry my planner around to different locations.

I never bothered using google calender because it just inst a planner. And I have to have things visually linear for a planner to work for me. Otherwise it drives me nuts!! (I have to be ocd for my job). So, one day, I saw an online ad for this and thought it could work. It also looked cute which is really important for me. If it were ugly, I probably wouldnt have gotten it.

Ive used it a few times and I could really see myself using this daily!!! I have never been a fan of digital planners even though Im a Millennial but this is changing my mind! Im definitely telling all my friends about this.

Loving PLANBELLA so far, it’s gorgeous and just the kind of simple aesthetic I’m looking for. Just two little things holding me back from using it full time. 1) If the calendar colors be synced. I love how the highlights look, but I have my calendars color coded and don’t want to have to highlight each event individually. 2) Sync with Apple Reminders. I like using Reminders to manage and setup for my lists and folders for my tasks, but I would love to view them in this app in the daily journal feed. One last thing is that there seems to be a lag syncing calendars, or else I have to do it manually.

Beautiful app overall, can’t wait to see how it develops!

1. Is there a way we could get a macbook version of PLANBELLA so i can sync use it on multiple devices?
2. Also has very strange interface features such as: when i create a task, it assigns it for the day before?? And if i am i click on the three tabs in the top left corner it sends me straight to the main menu and i cant easily go back one screen(i.e. main menu > settings> options> “click three tabs in top left” > main menu? Cant it just send me back one?
3. As for things i love: i like the look, i like the colors, the font, the structure of different ways to see your tasks and calendar. I feel like i would use it so much more if it had a better user interface. However, i still really love your app and will be using it. Hope any of this feedback helps.

I loved switching over to this app. Love the asthetic and that it combines my calendar and to-do’s/reminders into one app. Only two (rather impactful!) things I think are missing:

1) Search function - ability to search for key words so that a past/future events/task pops up, rather than having to scroll through all of the Journal or search manually through the calendar to find them. iCal has the magnifying glass icon which allows for this and I didn’t realize how often I used it until it was no longer an option within this app.

2) if I do not complete a task and check it off, there is nothing that alerts me that it has yet to be completed after the day has passed. I’d have to go back to the day I scheduled it for on the calendar in order to see that something was left unchecked. I wish it would show up as still incomplete, similar to how tasks within Apple reminders do not disappear until you check them off.

Again, aesthetically, I absolutely love PLANBELLA. I also love the combo of both a calendar and a task/reminder app, and I do really love being able to switch between journal and calendar views.

I absolutely love PLANBELLA! I love that it’s an actual day planner, not just a calendar. I like that I can differentiate between events or daily tasks I need to check off. That is awesome! The only thing I would say is that it needs more event highlight colors... you have cream, pink, or gray to choose from. While it’s very aesthetically pleasing, I like to color-code my events and tasks based on work, doctor appointments, personal life, daily goals, and the list goes on. More colors would be nice! Also, the journal feature doesn’t seem to work. I can write a journal entry as a note on a given day, but the journal feature itself doesn’t work. Still, I use this every single day. Highly recommend!

I really love PLANBELLA! It’s beautiful and easy to operate. A lot of planner apps can feel cluttered but this one keeps it simple and uses nice fonts/color schemes. There is definitely room for improvement. For example, I wish after highlighting events with a particular color, the dots on the calendar would reflect that highlight color. That way I can tell which dates are actual events and which dates are just notes/tasks. Currently every calendar date that has an event/note/task is just a beige dot so it’s hard to tell them apart at a glance. I look forward to future updates and the direction PLANBELLA will take.

I really like PLANBELLA. It’s easy to use, I love the journal section and separate calendar; I love the layout, font and colors, basically the whole entire look. My only complaint is that I wish PLANBELLA would sync entirely with my Apple products, my phone, iPad and desktop. It syncs with my google calendar but I stopped using it since I got PLANBELLA,(personally I prefer the this app layout better) but when I’m out and add a task or event on my phone it will not sync/ or update on my desktop or iPad which I find really frustrating. If and when PLANBELLA is able to sync throughout all my personal products, then I would rate five stars. Please add this feature!

PLANBELLA is so visually appealing which is one of the reasons why I originally purchased PLANBELLA . I have used it consistently for over a year, maybe longer now. Recently I started using the widget feature but it has not been updating on my Home Screen so I cannot see the recent things on my task list. It also doesn’t allow you to cross the task off. The actually app has also been freezing every time I try to click on a day to update task. I’m a little disappointed at this and now am tempted to search for another every day app to use. I really wish this one would work correctly because I’m used to it and I do like it. Please fix these bugs!

Been using this app for over a year now and I LOVE ITT. Simple , minimalist and chic. However there are a few things that I wish was updated and added. Whenever I go to my journal section I could see my events . Things should be separate from each section. Also the task section I have found to be a little frustrating. The title area for task would be better if you can name the list and add the task in the description area with the boxes next to them. Also new background colors and pictures to add to notes and journal would be awesome 🤎

I love the layout. It is aesthetically pleasing, and tasks are easy to create.I would prefer holidays to be added to calendar instead of having to set them up manually. There could be a holiday section under options so users could turn it on or off if they prefer. Also, it would be nice if the recurring task option could be scheduled by day instead of date. For example, I would love to schedule monthly house chores like “change air filter” by second Saturday of the month. If you have standing meetings or classes that are always fall on first Friday of the month, they will need to be added manually.

This is by far the most gorgeous app I’ve seen. I love the aesthetic, but it just isn’t user friendly. It’s really frustrating that you can’t just click on a day and add an event or task—every time you add something you have to scroll to select the date. It would be amazing if you could access PLANBELLA on the computer too, because I found between the functionality and it only being mobile, I spend more time entering things into PLANBELLA than just getting them done. I hope some of these things are changed because I would love to use PLANBELLA , but right now it feels like just a waste of $8

It looks very nice, although my reason for 3 stars is that I feel is a little excessive having to pay $1 for each widget. At least include 3 or 5. It really adds up and I don’t think is worth it. I recently found free ones on other apps. And I only paid $2.99 for the week trial. Downloaded everything I wanted around 100 icons and widgets. Could have downloaded more but that’s just what I needed. Imagine having to pay a $1 each? It sounds cheap but it really isn’t. When you buy all of them it will be more that $20. I still like PLANBELLA so will keep using it. Also very limited with task reoccurring ones.

First off, PLANBELLA is visually pleasing and minimalistic. If that is all you need then it is perfect for you. But…

There isn’t a to-do list. Yes, there are “Tasks”, but they require a “Due Date”. There isn’t a running to-do list. Also, a big bummer is they don’t rollover if you do not complete them, unless you have a reoccurrence on them. The task section is only usable if you know you will complete the task that date by said time, OR you purchase the “Overdue Tasks” widget.

The “Notes” sections is identical to the tasks, and requires a “Due Date”. This is just weird for an option called “Notes”.

Widgets that may or may not offer other options listed above cost extra. I did in fact purchase one of the widgets, but at this point I cannot validate purchasing others. Especially when I already have apps on my phone that do all this.

I ogled PLANBELLA for months before deciding to purchase it. It sounds amazing, but overall it’s just a really pretty calendar app. Not really worth the cost in my opinion.

***Updated rating to reflect the fact that calendar sync doesn’t work!***

I love PLANBELLA! I love that I can put events and tasks into PLANBELLA and set reminders. I do wish I could set a custom reminder, like set it to a certain time instead of a day or a couple hours before the event. It would be cool to set multiple reminders for events too. It would also be nice if the notifications for an event would show the actual day the event is supposed to happen. It’s confusing when you set a reminder 2 days out for an event and then the notification tells you now when it pops up

I LOVE everything about PLANBELLA, the only thing I count as a negative (and it’s a big one for me) I can not get it to sync the info I have input into PLANBELLA downloaded on my ipad, to sync with PLANBELLA on my phone. Having to enter info twice is not cool, and is going to get very old very quick. Now as I am super picky about my planning, planners, and apps used in the process, and this by far is my favorite. Fix that sync problem between devices (maybe as an upgrade feature even) and it would be 5 stars hands down and I would promote this to all my fellow planner nerds.

So far I really enjoy PLANBELLA . I like that I can have my events, appointments, and to-dos on one platform in bullet points. It’s also easy to use and the widgets are super cute.

My only suggestion would be that the days on the calendar wouldn’t show up as circled/highlighted if there are just tasks and no events.
If I put in all my tasks then almost every day is highlighted and I don’t know which days have the important events. Make the small widget to show tasks free so we can have our tasks and events shown separately.