Finalist vs Moleskine Planner

Finalist

• People who rely on Apple Calendar and Reminders and want one page per day
• Paper-planner users who want a journal and habit tracker beside their tasks
• Obsidian users who want dated tasks in Markdown files to show up in a planner

Moleskine Planner

• People who want a paper-planner look on iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Seeing calendar events and timed tasks on one daily timeline
• Sorting tasks into themed lists with icons and colors

Finalist

• Apple platforms only: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro. The site lists no web, Windows or Android version.
• The App Store listing says full functionality needs a subscription or the lifetime purchase, and does not say what works without one.
• The Apple Watch app requires watchOS 26, and the 4.1 release notes say Siri and Plan My Day need iOS 27.
• Prices are the US App Store in-app purchase amounts; the vendor's own site does not publish a price list.

Moleskine Planner

• Apple platforms only: the App Store listing covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro, and the vendor links no Android or web version.
• Neither the App Store listing nor the vendor's site says which features are free and which need a paid membership.
• The vendor's site publishes no prices; the figures here are in-app purchase amounts from the US App Store.
• The app requires iOS 17, iPadOS 17 or macOS 14 or later.

Finalist

Daily page

Tasks, calendar events, reminders, habits, weather and journal entries share one page per day, in two designs with a layout editor and saved presets.

Timeline time blocking

Drag untimed tasks onto an hourly grid as tentative blocks, resize or move them, then tap Accept to write the times into the tasks. Free time collapses into bands.

Apple Calendar and Reminders

Events and reminders appear in the day and can be managed from either app. A task can be converted into a reminder or an event and back.

Notes and Markdown folders

A Notes tab has notebooks, tags and search. A folder of Markdown files, including an Obsidian vault, becomes a notebook, and tasks in those files become Finalist tasks.

Habits and journal

Habits repeat automatically with streaks and a yearly heatmap. The journal takes photos and daily goals and reads activity data from Apple Health.

Capture and Plan My Day

Capture turns a photo, screenshot or pasted text into dated tasks, and Plan My Day drafts a schedule on the timeline. Both run on Apple's on-device models.

Moleskine Planner

Day view timeline

Each day's schedule and tasks are laid out visually, with a choice of Block View or Timeline View. A time slider moves a task or changes its duration.

Weekly overview

A week view shows all appointments and tasks for the week, and a long press on a day opens the task editor with that date already set.

Calendar integration

Calendars are chosen with checkboxes in the settings menu, and their events are displayed in the planner beside your tasks.

Customizable tasks

Tasks take icons, colors, subtasks and notes and can be marked complete. Subtasks can be shown and ticked off without opening the task.

Lists

Related tasks are grouped by topic into lists, which show how many days remain until future tasks are due and a completed count.

Rescheduling and duplicating

A long press moves a task to another date, and an activity can be copied and duplicated onto a different date and time.

Finalist

• Finalist Pro Weekly$2.99

  per week

  Full functionality billed weekly, as listed among the in-app purchases on the US App Store.

• Finalist Pro Monthly$4.99

  per month

  Full functionality on a monthly subscription. The vendor says one subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

• Finalist Pro Yearly$29.99

  per year

  The same subscription billed once a year, as listed on the US App Store.

• Finalist Pro Lifetime$59.99

  one-time purchase

  A single in-app purchase for lifetime access instead of a subscription.

Moleskine Planner

• Free$0

  Free download from the App Store. The vendor does not publish which features the free version includes.

• Planner Premium Monthly$3.99

  per month

  Monthly premium membership for the Planner app, as listed among the in-app purchases on the US App Store.

• Bundle - Monthly Plan$4.99

  per month

  A monthly bundle subscription. The listing does not say which Moleskine apps the bundle covers.

• Planner Premium Annual Add-On$19.99

  labelled Annual; what it is added to is not shown

  An annual add-on listed among the in-app purchases, with no description of what it requires or unlocks.

• Planner Annual Membership$29.99

  per year

  Annual membership for the Planner app alone, as listed on the US App Store.

• Bundle - Annual Plan$39.99

  per year

  The bundle billed yearly. A Bundle - Annual Welcome Plan is also listed at $29.99, without stated terms.

Finalist

• Annual discount

  About 50% less on the yearly plan

  The US App Store lists Finalist Pro Monthly at $4.99 and Finalist Pro Yearly at $29.99. Twelve monthly payments come to $59.88, so the yearly plan costs about 50% less.

• Lifetime license

  Lifetime access for $59.99

  Finalist Pro Lifetime is a one-time in-app purchase listed at $59.99 on the US App Store. The vendor says one license covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

• Other savings

  Apple Family Sharing supported

  The App Store listing states that Finalist supports Apple Family Sharing.

Moleskine Planner

• Annual discount

  About 37% less on the annual membership

  The US App Store lists Planner Premium Monthly at $3.99 and Planner Annual Membership at $29.99. Twelve monthly payments come to $47.88, so the annual membership costs about 37% less.

• Other savings

  Bundle annual welcome price of $29.99

  The US App Store lists a Bundle - Annual Welcome Plan at $29.99 beside the $39.99 Bundle - Annual Plan. The listing does not say who qualifies or for how long.