If you’re looking for the best iPad apps to embark on your digital journaling journey, we have all the must-try apps right here!
These digital planning apps are highly rated and loved by all types of digital planner users.
Whether you’re looking to streamline your daily tasks, reflect on your personal growth, or track your books in a reading journal, these apps offer a versatile and intuitive platform to elevate your routine.
How Do You Use Digital Planning App?
A digital planning app is a tool designed to help iPad and tablet users organize their schedules, tasks, and goals using electronic devices.
These apps provide features such as customizable calendars, to-do lists, and note-taking capabilities, allowing users to efficiently manage their time and projects. On iPads, digital planning apps leverage touch interfaces and Apple Pencil compatibility, offering a user-friendly and interactive experience for creating and maintaining detailed plans.
You can copy/paste images, hyperlink pages, handwrite tasks, create documents with text, use aesthetic stickers…the options really are endless when it comes to digital planning.
Digital planning apps also help to streamline the process – without the need for purchasing and storing lots of scrapbooking materials and stationary.
The world of creativity is literally at your fingertips!
iPad Digital Planner Apps
These apps are the home for your planners and digital journals – they host the documents and are the apps in which you can use to draw, write, insert images and stickers, and create your personalized planner experience!
You can sync these apps to your devices so you have access to anything you need on the go.
Goodnotes 6 – One of the most popular iPad apps for digital journaling for a good reason! There is a free version available (with limitations). We recommend the one-time purchase of $29.99 for iPad which offers unlimited notebooks, upload sizes and more.
Notably – Similar to Goodnotes, Notably offers lots of customization and handwriting options, and has a free plan with limitations. For unlimited edits, we definitely recommend the premium version, although this one doesn’t offer a one-time purchase. You’ll have to fork out $25-35 per month for this one, but it’s top features may be worth it for more serious planners!
Notion – Notion isn’t quite a notebook app, but it combines some of the best features of every type of planner and organization app out there. If you’re looking for a mix of aesthetics and databases (spreadsheets lovers, rejoice) then Notion is an amazing (AND FREE!) choice for project management, brainstorming and journaling.
Zinnia – Similar to Goodnotes & Notably, Zinnia allows you to have multiple places to plan, scrapbook, journal and organize your life! Zinnia stands out by also including a wide library of washi tape and stickers for you to use, and has a similar free trial (but better with a paid service) pricing model.
More iPad Aesthetic Apps
These creative apps will help you on your digital planning aesthetics journey! These are where you can create stickers and artwork to use in various ways with your planner app.
Canva – Canva is one of the most versatile and user-friendly design apps out there. The free plan absolutely offers everything you need to create graphics, videos and more! However, with the paid version ($120 per year) you can easily save images with transparent backgrounds, a crucial element of creating your own digital planner stickers.
Procreate – Arguably the best and most popular creative app for the iPad, the best part about this one (other than its endless design possibilities) is the value for money. No subscriptions – just a $12.99 price tag to unlock this ultra powerful illustration and design app. You can create text images, stickers, customized images and more with Procreate.
Adobe Fresco – If you’re looking for a true illustration and artistic app, Adobe Fresco is a powerful option. Less of graphic design and more of a design studio, this app seamlessly uses the Apple Pencil and offers tons of brush options, animations and more.
Freeform – Freeform is a free app that comes with the Apple iPad. Truly a blank slate, you can use this app to draw, practice calligraphy and create images or scrapbook spreads to personalize and create aesthetic digital planner spreads.
Affinity Photo – A super powerful image editing app, available for free! As usual, with additional and premium features at an additional price. This app is widely regarded by creatives as one of the best free editing apps for iPad.
