ANSER VS GOODNOTES PLANNERS
The planner look, with your calendar built in.
Goodnotes is a lovely notes app, and the PDF planners made for it are beautiful. The hard part is keeping them in step with your real week.
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Where Goodnotes is better
- Handwriting. Write and draw with a stylus. Anser is typed.
- Stationery choice. Endless PDF planners to download or buy.
- Price. Goodnotes has a free plan, and Essential is $11.99 a year.
Where Anser is better
- Both ways with Google Calendar. Events show up on their own, and what you add or move in Anser saves to Google. PDF planners don’t sync. Goodnotes’ own planner can show your main Google calendar, read-only, on Pro on Apple devices, and it’s still rolling out.
- Your evenings are protected. When something lands in protected time, Anser tells you and helps you decline.
- Routines with streaks. Tick off a morning walk or ten pages of reading, and keep a streak.
- Start from a week that works. Preview a schedule template on your own week, and undo it in one tap.
Side by side
| Goodnotes | Anser | |
|---|---|---|
| Writing | Handwriting and typing | Typed |
| Google Calendar | Goodnotes Planner: main calendar only, read-only, Pro plan, Apple devices, rolling out | Both ways; pick which calendars |
| Where it runs | Apple, Android and Windows apps | Your browser, on any computer, phone or tablet |
| Price | Free; Essential $11.99 a year; Pro $35.99 a year | $10 a month or $95 a year, 14 days free |
Checked 27 September 2026 on their own pages. Prices and features change: Goodnotes pricing, Goodnotes Support: Sync your calendar with the Goodnotes Planner.
Everything else in Anser
Make it yours
- StickersOn your days and events, a monthly pack for members, and your own stickers made from a photo.
- Vision boardA year of photos and words beside your goals, with steps you can put on your calendar.
- Your look3 styles, 18 palettes, 6 fonts, light or dark, cozy backgrounds and a monogram.
- A companionA goose, hedgehog, puppy or kitty, or none at all.
Protect your time
- Protected timeEvenings, sleep, lunch or any time you want to keep, with alerts when something lands in it.
- Declines in your wordsWarm, Friendly, Direct or your own words.
Plan
- Today’s Top 3Three things that would make today feel done.
- RoutinesIn your sidebar, with streaks and optional reminders.
- Schedule templates10 ready-made weeks and routines, previewed on your own week first.
- CountdownsA day count to the things you’re looking forward to.
- WeatherBeside your greeting, if you turn it on.
Reflect
- Today’s pageA private journal for each day, with photos.
- Evening reviewYour mood, one thing you’re grateful for, and a few words.
- Weekly check-inA gentle look back at how the week went.
- Your daysSearch past days, and see where your planned time went.
Plan with people
- Shared LifeSee when you and someone are both free, and suggest plans. Friends join free.
- Friends & FamilyUp to 5 people on one bill, each with their own private Anser.
Your data
- No ads, never soldNo advertising, and no advertising or analytics cookies.
- Take it with youDownload everything as one ZIP, in files that open without Anser.
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