Planful App vs Timestripe (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Planful App if

• Fits if you want goals, habits and tasks in one iPhone app
• Works for people who like a weekly review ritual

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you use Android or Windows, as only iOS is listed
• Watch out: the price is not stated, even though the buttons say free
• Watch out: the App Store button leads to the general store, so we could not find a store listing or rating
• Too light for teams, since no sharing or integrations are named

Pick Timestripe if

• Fits if you want daily tasks tied to quarterly, yearly and life goals
• Works for small teams planning shared goals with assignees and comments

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you pay monthly, at $19 a month against $9 a month on the yearly plan
• Tight if you're staying free, with 5 goals per horizon, 3 custom boards and 1 Climb at a time
• Not for you if you want a native Mac or Windows app, as none is listed
• Watch out: the $7 rate means paying for five years at once, and the App Store charges $19.99 a month or $99.99 a year
• Too light for calendar work beyond Apple and Google, the only two it connects to

Planful App

• No pricing page or store listing could be read, so the cost is unconfirmed; the site's buttons say Start Planning Free.
• Only iOS is listed as available; the App Store button on the site points to the general App Store, not to a listing.
• No integrations are named on the pages read.

Timestripe

• The free Basic plan stops at 5 goals per horizon, 10 per board list, 3 custom boards and 1 Climb at a time.
• Monthly billing costs $19 a month, more than double the $9 a month charged on the yearly plan.
• No native desktop app is listed. Timestripe runs on the web, iOS and Android, plus a Chrome extension.
• The US App Store lists Pro at $19.99 monthly and $99.99 annually, so in-app prices differ slightly from the website.

Planful App

Time blocking

Drag and drop tasks and events onto the day to block time.

Action-linked goals

Pick a goal and link it to daily or weekly actions so progress shows up as those actions are done.

Daily and weekly reviews

Guided reflections for the end of a day and a week.

Several views

Day, month, year and board views for zooming in or out.

Focus hours

Set ideal work hours; the vendor says the app learns when you work best.

90-day framework

A Dream it, Plan it, Do it structure that breaks a vision into milestones and daily actions.

Timestripe

Horizons

Connected planning views for days, weeks, months, quarters, years and beyond. Big goals sit on longer horizons and are broken into milestones that reach the daily view.

Goals with notes and subgoals

A task, event, project or note is the same kind of object. Each can take a date, an owner, subgoals, tags, files and rich-text notes with embedded content.

Boards

Kanban-style boards hold anything without a date yet, such as backlogs and ideas. Board items can be linked to the planner or scheduled onto Horizons.

Calendar and time blocking

The day's to-do list can be laid out in calendar form to estimate the time each goal needs. The pricing page lists Apple and Google calendar integration.

Climbs

Ready-made step-by-step sequences of goals, with more than 100 guides on topics such as health, fitness and productivity. Basic allows one Climb at a time.

Team spaces, API and CLI

Spaces, a team view, assignees, mentions and comments are on both plans. A public API and a command-line client let scripts and AI agents read and write the plan.

Planful App

Pricing could not be confirmed. See planful.app.

Timestripe

• Basic$0

  The whole product with limits: 5 goals per horizon, 10 per board list, 3 custom boards, 1 Climb at a time and 100 MB of files.

• Pro (Strategists' plan)$7

  per month, sold as a 5-year deal

  Pro bought for five years at once. The pricing page shows it as a saving of $150 a year against monthly billing.

• Pro (Yearly)$9

  per month, billed yearly

  Unlimited goals, boards, lists and Climbs, with files up to 100 MB each and no account storage limit.

• Pro (Monthly)$19

  per month, billed monthly

  The same Pro features on month-to-month billing.

Planful App

No public discounts listed.

Timestripe

• Annual discount

  Save $120 a year with yearly billing

  Pro costs $9 a month on the yearly plan against $19 on the monthly plan. The pricing page states the saving as $120 a year.

• Other savings

  5-year Strategists' plan

  Paying for five years at once brings Pro down to $7 a month, which the pricing page shows as a saving of $150 a year.

• Lifetime license

  One-time payment for unlimited access

  The pricing FAQ says unlimited access is available for a one-time payment, activated by emailing the receipt to Timestripe. It does not list the price.

• Other savings

  Referral link: 30% off for friends

  Friends who subscribe through your personal link get 30% off, and you receive 30 extra days of Pro for each one.