Planny 5 – Daily To Do Planner, Filmage Converter – ConvertVideo
An all-new look for organising life £14.99 Premium FROM Kevin Reutter, kevinreutter.de NEEDS macOS 11 or later
Planny combines notes, calendar, reminders and to-do lists in a single app. Version 5 has been rewritten, and it has a new interface too.
Although Planny is free, the £14.99 annual Premium subscription unlocks features like the ability to set priorities and pin items, create subtasks and unlimited lists. It also allows you to create and search by tags.
The interface has a colour-coded sidebar with Favorites – categories such as Overdue, Upcoming and Pinned – and Lists, where you can organise different kinds of content such as groceries or project items. There are game-style awards and graphs to show productivity.
This version is visually identical to the iPad version, and pre-populated items refer to tapping icons rather than clicking on them. That’s good in terms of cross-device consistency but means a lot of empty white space on Mac and some jarring font sizes.
Planny can be frustrating. Anything involving changing dates uses a menu with tiny arrows rather than a more efficient calendar control, and you can’t set a task as a repeating task or event from the Calendar view, so you need to set it up as a new item in Routines. We also encountered the occasional crash.
Planny is not a bad app, but it’s competing with better options. Carrie Marshall