Finalist: Daily Planner

Time Blocking & Habit Tracker

Free · In-App Purchases

Inspired by paper planners, Finalist shows your calendar, tasks, notes, reminders and weather forecast in one beautiful timeline. It even pulls in your Journal Suggestions and Activity Rings to keep you inspired. Gorgeous themes make planning a joy, not a chore. Finalist is built for people who finish things, no complex workflows or productivity theater. NOTES, IN YOUR PLANNER Your planner remembers what you wrote. A dedicated Notes tab gives you notebooks, tags and search. Keep native notes that sync over iCloud, or connect a folder of plain markdown files, including your Obsidian vault, and edit them in place. Tasks inside your markdown files become real Finalist tasks: dated, tagged and checkable anywhere in the app. YOUR DAY, ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app puts your whole day one glance away: events, tasks, reminders and habits in one scrollable view, topped by a Now card that always knows what matters next. Check off pinned lists from the wrist, grocery list included, and add tasks by keyboard, scribble or dictation. Complications and a Smart Stack widget round it out. (Requires watchOS 26.) DESIGN YOUR DAY Choose between two Daily designs: Daybook, the classic stacked layout, or Broadsheet, a newsprint-inspired look that shines on iPad and Mac. Rearrange sections with the layout editor and save your own presets. On the rebuilt Timeline, drag tasks onto the grid to sketch your day in pencil, then commit when it's real. "I've tried dozens of planning apps, this is the one that finally works." - Beta user "The integration of Reminders and Lists reduces the apps I need daily and makes planning actually fun." - Beta user Built with native Apple technologies: no accounts to create, syncs over iCloud, supports Family Sharing, and runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and Mac. Full database backup, export and import via JSON and OPML. Finalist is a love letter to paper planners. Give it a try, it feels great :) Purchasing information To get the full functionality in Finalist you will need to either purchase a subscription or a one time In-App Purchase for Lifetime access. The purchase amount will be applied to your iTunes account. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. Lifetime purchase is a one-time fee. For more information, see our Terms of Use at https://finalist.works/eula/ and our Privacy Policy at https://finalist.works/privacy-policy/

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Finalist 4.2 grew out of a month of designing for iPhone Duo, and it makes every iPhone, iPad and Mac better too. iPhone now turns to landscape, Daily gets a Desk Clock, Lens replaces the Assistant button, and Day Review helps you decide what each day holds. Plus a new theme that follows the sun. WORKSPACES AND DESK CLOCK - Each screen setup (iPhone and iPad orientations, Mac, each iPhone Duo pose) keeps its own Daily layout. - Desk Clock shows what's on now and the time left in it, or the countdown to what's next. - Turn iPhone sideways for the Desk Clock and Timeline beside your Agenda. FOLLOW THE DAY - A new landscape theme that tracks your real sunrise, sunset and moon phase. Select a World Clock city and it follows that city instead. - Paper grain textures for Daily, and a new app icon (the old one is still in Settings). LENS - The Assistant button is now Lens: which calendars are on today and how busy each one is, in Daily and the Planner. - Toggle calendars and tags, plus Solo, Tasks and Habits modes. Hold a calendar to see what's next. - The Planner follows Lens, so the separate Planner Filter is retired. DAY REVIEW - Overdue, undated and set-aside tasks in one place. Swipe right to take one on today, left to send it to Someday. - Choose from Outstanding, Undated, Someday, Markdown Tasks and Lists, with optional Apple Intelligence priorities. - The evening notification opens Review Tomorrow. DAILY AND TIMELINE - The Timeline is now part of Daily. Flip to it by tapping the day's title, or Cmd+2 on Mac. - Drag tasks between the Timeline and Agenda, with Undo. - The day pill now browses days on Mac, iPad and iOS 18 too, and drives the Planner's weeks and months. - Penciled times sync between devices. Hold the hour rail for a New Task at that time. - Snooze is now "Later today", with better times to pick. - Hide past events, and show event end as a duration ("1hr") or time ("until 10p"). - Swipe left on any task to select it. - Forecast on future days, and the now-ribbon on Broadsheet. PLANNER - Weekly Timeline: one week per page, hours on top, tasks below. Drag up to give a task time, or across to move it. - Continuous Yearly: weeks run together with month names down the margin. NOTIFICATIONS - Complete and Remind buttons on task and habit notifications. - Remind until done (Settings > Notifications) nudges you until you check it off. TASKS, REMINDERS AND HABITS - Compact New Task row (Layout > New Task options). - Drag and drop across Daily, Broadsheet and subtasks. Select several tasks and Group as Subtasks. - Reschedule to any day, with a summary of what's already there. - Reminders keep their alarm when moved. Repeating reminders: Duplicate As copies just the occurrence. - Drag a reminder into Morning, Afternoon or Evening to give it a time. - Weekly habits can target a number of days, monthly ones repeat every N months, and durations are editable. ALSO IN 4.2 - The Countdown Live Activity counts to the end of whatever is running. - Six handwriting fonts in Settings > Journal. - Subtasks, Later / Someday and Blocked-by in your markdown tasks. - Apple Watch: add today's note from your wrist. - Faster saving and sync, and lots of fixes.

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Seller
Diversion Marketing Inc
Size
192.4 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Finalist Pro Yearly USD 29.99
  • Finalist Yearly USD 29.99
  • Finalist Pro Lifetime USD 59.99
  • Finalist Pro Monthly USD 4.99
  • Finalist Pro Weekly USD 2.99
  • Finalist Lifetime USD 59.99
  • Finalist Monthly USD 4.99
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