The questions that come up most, however small.
From the Habits tab, the circle in the corner opens a small sheet. Name it, pick a colour, done. On a desktop, the same composer sits at the foot of the list.
Read moreNothing wrong with paper. Planye keeps what paper is bad at (totals, carrying a habit forward, jumping between a day and the year around it) and leaves the rest exactly as blank as a page.
It does the four things a paper planner cannot, and that you end up doing by hand: it adds up a month of spending, carries an unfinished line into next week, redraws a habit's chain as you keep it, and lets you jump from a Tuesday to the year holding it without flipping anything.
What it deliberately keeps from paper is the blankness. A page starts empty, nothing is scored, nothing is due, and no day nags. If a physical planner works for you because it asks nothing of you, that part survives the move.
The honest difference is that it is on a screen. A paper planner never runs out of battery and nothing on it is stored anywhere but your desk. Planye answers the second half by keeping the copy on your device the real one, and syncing only to your own account.
Read moreBecause a plan is only useful where you are. A digital planner is on the phone in your pocket at the moment you agree to something, which is when a plan is actually made, and at the desk later when you decide what to do about it.
After that it is the arithmetic and the repetition. A virtual planner totals a budget while you type it, repeats a habit every week without you rewriting the row, and searches a year of notes in the time it takes to remember which month it was.
What you give up is the ritual of the paper. Planye tries to give some of it back (your own themes, tapes, papers and handwriting on a journal page) rather than pretending it doesn't matter.
A planner's benefit is that you decide what matters once, while you are calm, instead of a dozen times a day by whatever showed up first. It is not that you get more done: ten minutes in the morning mostly buys you an evening that goes the way you meant it to.
It also makes patterns visible. A month of moods, a season of spending, a habit's chain, a year of memories. None of those exist on any single day, and all of them change what you decide next.
Going virtual is what draws those patterns for you. A paper planner can hold the same information and leaves the totalling, tallying and cross-referencing to you; a digital one draws the month back at you the moment you finish writing the day.
Yes, every core part is free, with no time limit and no card: the day, week, month and year planner, the journal, mood, budget, cycle logging, habits, lists, projects, the shelf and writing a time capsule. Free is meant to be a planner you can live in, not a demo that expires.
Planye+ has a free trial. If you want to try what it adds before deciding, starting one from the pricing page sets your card up and charges nothing to it for 7 days. Cancel before then and it costs nothing at all.
Planye+ mostly lets you keep more, rather than unlocking new features. Free keeps five habits, ten lists, ten notebooks, five projects, fifteen things on the shelf and two capsules sealed at a time; Planye+ makes those unlimited, opens the full theme, tape and paper collections, adds the cycle history and forecast, and lets you show a connected calendar on your week.
Nothing you write is ever held hostage. If you pass a limit or stop paying, everything you already made stays exactly where it is: nothing is deleted, nothing is hidden, and what is over a free limit becomes read-only rather than gone.
Yes, and the pages are not the limit. There is a journal for every day of the year, and you can add as many pages to a day as you like. The number of pages is not what Planye+ is about.
Writing, photos, tape, text bubbles and the layout tools are all free. The free plan has a limit on how much media the whole journal holds (500 MB, against 5 GB on Planye+) and a smaller set of papers to write on; the rest of the catalogue comes with Planye+.
Stickers are there, and so is tape. Some packs are free and the rest come with Planye+; every woven tape is free in any colour. Nothing you have already placed is ever taken back off.
Read moreNo. Planye runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet and a computer, and everything is typed and tapped. Any browser can put it on a home screen as an icon if you want it out of your tabs.
The layout changes with the screen: a computer shows the whole week, a phone shows one day at a time. Plan your week on a laptop, tick things off on your phone, and both stay in sync.
Read moreA notes app holds anything and knows nothing about it, so the totalling, the repeating and the looking back are still yours to do. A spreadsheet does the arithmetic, but it knows nothing about your week.
Planye sits between the two: the structure is there when it helps (a budget adds up, a habit repeats, an unfinished line carries forward) and out of the way when it doesn't (a day is a blank page you can write anything on).
It is also one place rather than five. The mood, the spending, the journal and the plan all sit on the same day, which is the whole reason a month of them ever tells you anything.
Notion is a blank workspace you build a planner inside; Planye arrives as one. In Notion the week, the habit tracker and the budget are pages and databases you design, link together and keep working yourself. In Planye they are already there and already on the same days, and a new planner opens with five of them rather than an empty page.
Notion is the better choice if building the system is the part you enjoy, or if your planner has to live beside a team's documents. Planye is for somebody who wants the result without the setup: open it, pick a cover, write one thing down.
What Planye keeps from the build-it-yourself approach is the choice: your own categories, only the modules you switch on, and your own papers, themes and tape, without wiring any of it together.
No, and it is the most common mix-up with the words "digital planner". A PDF planner is a paper planner made for a tablet: designed pages with tabs, written on with a stylus in an app like Goodnotes. It looks like paper and behaves like paper, so it cannot total, repeat or move anything for you either.
Planye is a planner that works like software. A task moves to Thursday instead of being crossed out, a budget adds itself up, a habit repeats every week without being redrawn, and a Tuesday opens into the month and the year around it. It runs on a phone, a tablet or a computer and needs no stylus.
A PDF planner is the better choice if the handwriting is the point and you already own the tablet and the pen. Planye keeps some of that feel (papers, tape, stickers and a journal page you arrange by hand) but it is typed and tapped, not drawn.
Because the useful part is where they meet. In separate apps a low week, a spike in spending and a skipped habit are three facts in three places. In Planye they sit on the same day, so a month of them can actually tell you something.
It is also one thing to open instead of four. Most tracking stops because keeping several apps up to date is a chore of its own, and one planner opened once a day is the version that lasts.
A dedicated app goes deeper at its one job, and if you only ever want to track one thing, it is the better answer. Planye's trackers are deliberately simple, a tap or a line a day, because they are there to be kept alongside a week rather than studied on their own.
Planye is the most complete of them in one place: the week, month and year, habits, mood, budget, cycle, projects, lists, a reading and watching shelf, time capsules and a full journal. Eleven modules on one account, rather than a planner here and a habit tracker there.
It does not hand you all eleven on day one. A new planner opens with five, and the rest are switched on from Customize whenever you want them. A page holding everything you have never used is the reason most planners get abandoned in March.
Everything above is on the free plan. What Planye+ changes is how much of each you can hold and how much you can decorate it, not which parts of the planner you get.
Read moreYes, as a one-way, read-only integration. Connect a Google account and the calendars you pick are drawn onto your week and your day as categories of their own, each meeting in its day and at its hour, beside the things you are planning.
Planye never writes to Google. The permission asked for on Google's own screen is read-only, so nothing here can create, move or delete an event in your calendar. More than one account can be connected at once, work and personal, and two calendars that are really one thing can be merged into a single category.
Reading a connected calendar is part of Planye+. Outlook is arriving now, account by account. Apple calendars are not connected yet, though anything that can publish into a Google calendar arrives that way.
Read moreOnly if you ask it to. There is one email, a look back at the week just gone sent on Monday morning, and it is off until you turn it on in Your account. Signing up puts you on no list.
It is free on every plan, it arrives once a week and never more, and the switch that turns it on turns it off again. So does the unsubscribe link at the foot of any one of them, which never expires.
Read moreSomebody who wants one app for the whole of their life: the plan, the habits, the mood, the money and the journal on the same page, rather than five apps that never meet. Usually somebody who has bought a paper planner before and stopped using it in March, and who does not want an app keeping score of that.
It suits people planning a life rather than a sprint, starting on whatever day they open it and keeping only the pages they want: a week with work, a budget, a habit or two, a cycle, a shelf of books and a page to write on at night. If you need shared boards, assignees and deadlines for a team, Planye is not that and doesn't try to be.
Yes. The planner on your device is the real one. Every read and every write happens there first. A connection is only needed to sync with your other devices, and it catches up automatically once you are back online.
That's the point of signing in. Everything you write on one device shows up on the other; what differs is what each is good at. See the styling and journaling guides for what carries over, and Getting started for the rest.
Read moreNothing happens. A missed day draws quieter than a kept one, never louder, and a broken habit chain shows as a gap rather than a red mark. There is nothing here to reset and nothing keeping score against you.
One day tells you about that day. A month of them laid out together tends to tell you something you couldn't see one at a time.
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