Digital Planner vs Google Tasks
Google Tasks is the better choice for a free, simple, and reliable task manager, while Digital Planner is only suitable for those willing to pay a subscription for its aesthetic features.
Digital Planner offers aesthetic planning features but is heavily paywalled, limiting free users to very basic functionality. Google Tasks provides a simple, integrated, and mostly reliable task management experience for free, though it lacks advanced features and has some reported bugs.
Head to head
you are willing to pay for a subscription to access a wide range of aesthetic planning tools and templates, and prioritize a visually appealing digital planner over a free, basic task manager R2R8.
you need a free, simple, and integrated task management solution, especially if you already use other Google services like Google Calendar .
Evidence note: Digital Planner's reviews are heavily skewed by complaints about its aggressive paywall and limited free features, which impacts its lifetime rating significantly. Google Tasks, being free, has a higher lifetime rating but still receives criticism for missing advanced features and occasional bugs.
Frequently asked
Is Digital Planner truly free to use?
Can Google Tasks share lists with others?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R2] Digital Planner Top 1000: This app is insane works so well let’s go people this app is so easy and I get everything I need done I’m a new person download now!👌🏻💕
- [R5] Digital Planner Ok but like…: I really like the concept and idea and I thinks it’s really cute, but basically EVERYTHING is in the subscription. And I know you need to make money, but like come on, Only ONE template per category. Only THREE plain not books out of all of them. Only ONE sticker per sticker section. AND THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY COLORS. I really like this app and I want to keep it, but could you please
- [R7] Digital Planner Bad: It’s been horrible, absolutely horrible three brushes three covers three 3 templates two brushes everything’s limited if anything else you have to pay for VIP and every single time you open the app you have to always ask you to pay the subscription
- [R8] Digital Planner Merlina: I love it because you get like keep track of the day❤️
- [R9] Digital Planner Not the best…: It wouldn’t let me write, move the screen, and zoom on the screen and it would randomly won’t write when I need it to, and it WILL write when I don’t need it to.
- [R16] Digital Planner Unimpressed: Maybe I’m just not familiar with how to use these kind of apps but this particular one was really hard to use. I couldn’t change the size of the font and whenever I wanted to move a text box to the left-hand side, it would be covered by the text box editor. I also expected there to be way more templates to use for $70 a year. My biggest pet peeve though was that there was actually no
- [R46] Digital Planner Need to fix this error: I’m mad at this app can’t even make the text bigger.
- [R49] Digital Planner Not great: You can’t add a customer cover, custom page designs, and the app is glitchy. You can’t move images between layers and even when you scrap it and start over with the first picture as the base layer, if you try to resize everything it switches the layers. When you leave and come back the images aren’t aligned to where they were, even if you “lock” the layer. Very limited functionality.
- [R61] Google Tasks App keeps crashing: The app keeps crashing without any warnings. I’ve uninstalled, installed and updated the app but I am still unable to open it on my iPhone 11.
- [R1] Digital Planner I hate this app: Within 10 minutes of having this app I deleted it without ANY hesitation. First of all, all the things cost money!! I feel like to actually enjoy this app you have to spend SO much money on it!!
- [R4] Digital Planner No free option: I wasn’t given any option other than to pay. If it’s going to be a paid app just make it one, that sucked and I was really excited
- [R10] Digital Planner Didnt like: I fidnt realize that you had to have a subscriptionto get in cause my phone didnt sya it and when ever i downloaded the app aftr having so much trouble to download it i read that yoh had to pay and it wouldnt lwg me go on without pying so did not like app other aps are free and plus i just wanted a appl the viuld help me plan thinc sbut mo for this app
- [R75] Google Tasks It's ok: Give the ability to share
- [R76] Google Tasks Needs to be able to share tasks with other accounts.: I like that this is integrated with Google suite but unlike calendars and docs etc ya see is are only for you. No shared home grocery lists no project management in your team. This could be so much better instead it’s just irritating.
- [R83] Google Tasks Sharing: Great app. Want to share task as or with others or “family”
- [R104] Google Tasks Useful: First good app for task tracking that keeps it simple. Sharing allowed only Throught joint email account Reordering task list impossible Otherwise great!
- [R69] Google Tasks No search function: The application would be much more useful if there was the ability to search within the app. The only way to search is to do it in the Google calendar application. If you lose the search capability in Google calendar (which is a known problem that I have not been able to fix), both Google Calendar and Google Tasks lose a major function that I depend upon. I am looking for oth
- [R73] Google Tasks Missing a search function: The Google Tasks mobile app for iPhone does not currently have a built-in search feature for finding specific tasks. To locate items, you must manually scroll through your lists. My lists are long and this is a PITA. Google, please add this simple feature ASAP!
- [R81] Google Tasks Generally good and def helps me keep track of things i need to do (with caveats): Generally good and helps me keep track of things i need to do with a simple interface ! Three things would make it sooo much better- 1) Ability to Search for a task in Google Tasks, 2) Ability to see an aggregate list of tasks in addition to by category (all by sorted by due date for example), 3) More reliable
- [R92] Google Tasks Đề xuất bổ sung tính năng tìm kiếm (Search): Tôi rất hài lòng với ứng dụng vì giao diện đơn giản và dễ sử dụng. Tuy nhiên, hiện tại ứng dụng đang thiếu một tính năng rất quan trọng là tìm kiếm (search). Khi số lượng công việc tăng lên (ví dụ 200+ task), việc tìm lại một công việc cụ thể trở nên rất khó khăn và mất nhiều thời gian. Trong khi đó, các ứng dụng tương tự như “Lời nhắc” trên iPhone đã
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store