MonkeyPlaner

A planner you write in.

MonkeyPlaner is made for the pen — S Pen, Apple Pencil or any other active
stylus. You write straight onto the page, the way you would in a paper book,
with palm rejection: once the app has seen the pen, it ignores your hand. Your
writing stays sharp as you zoom, and it sits in the same place after you switch
devices.

EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE

No account, no sign-in, no cloud running in the background. MonkeyPlaner keeps
everything locally and works without an internet connection. There are no ads,
no analytics, and nothing is passed on to the developer. A network connection is
only made if you switch on school holidays or pair a second device of your own —
each case explained where it happens. Your planner content never goes to a
server run by the developer.

You make backups yourself, into a folder the Android system dialog offers on
your device. The app signs in to no cloud provider. It can encrypt them with a
password only you know. On request it backs up daily or weekly by itself and
keeps seven generations.

Two devices you have deliberately paired — a tablet and a phone, say — sync
directly over the same local Wi-Fi, AES-GCM encrypted, without an account and
without a server of ours. Both apps need to be in the foreground for it. There
is a second route as well: encrypted sync through a folder both devices can
reach.

WHAT IS IN IT

• Day, week, month and year pages, plus free note pages
• A day page with tasks, a timeline and trackers for water, fruit and your day
• Notebooks with four kinds of paper and as many pages as you like
• Sticky notes that stay put on any page
• Links between pages, backlinks included
• Search across everything you have written — handwriting included
• Direct encrypted sync between two paired devices on the local Wi-Fi

SIX AREAS

• Productivity: overview, routines, task planner, Eisenhower matrix, meetings,
reminders
• Organisation: birthdays, household and weekly plan, recipes, contacts
• Wellbeing: challenges, fitness with a diary and charts, body measurements,
vitamins
• Lifestyle: travel, events, films and series, books, wish list
• Notes: a library of notebooks and loose pages
• Goals: your own goals and projects with a time frame and tasks

TOOLS AND LOOK

• Pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso and shape recognition
• Over 4900 stickers in 46 packs — sticky notes, tapes, markers, arrows,
hearts, plants and a reference set of pictograms
• Ten notebook cover templates — and you can keep decorating the cover
afterwards with the pen, stickers and your own pictures
• Add your own stickers from single images or a whole folder
• Four paper moods: parchment, linen, terracotta, night — or follow your
system setting
• Export single pages as PDF, and bring pages from other PDFs in as a template
• Reminders as notifications on your device
• Appointments from the calendars on your device can be shown — read-only,
only after you have explicitly allowed it, and they are not copied into
MonkeyPlaner

The app is available in German and English.

Questions and bug reports: [email protected]