iPad App - Coming Soon

Design your planner. Then enjoy it.

Tired of searching for a digital planner that doesn't have everything you want? Once you get it you have to import it into a separate app, at an additional cost to actually use it. The Polite Fish Planner lets you design exactly the planner you want. The colors, the pages, labels, the categories can all be personalized so you get exaclty the planner that suits you. When you're done with the design it generates in a few seconds. Then write, draw, and journal right inside the app with Apple Pencil.

Free to start — no account required.

The Polite Fish Planner app on iPad showing a finished custom planner

Two creative activities in one place.

No template hunting. No importing. No juggling a store, a designer, and a notes app. You design a planner built only for you — and use it in the very same place.

Design it your way

Any color, your cover text, 1–12 month planners, and the exact pages you want — pulled from every planner style we make.

Built in about a minute

Tap Refresh Preview and watch your planner generate in just a few seconds. No waiting on a delivery email.

Write right in it

Apple Pencil pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso, and stickers — all built in. No separate app, no importing.

Safe and synced

Everything backs up and syncs across your iPad and iPhone through iCloud.

A design studio built into the app

See your planner before you commit to it. Change a setting, tap Refresh Preview, and a real planner is generated for you in seconds.

  • Any color — enter the exact shade you want, not a preset
  • Your cover text, start month, and length from 1 to 12 months
  • Choose from varios page modules — ADHD, finance, content creator, faith, sobriety & recovery, wellness, solopreneur, and more
  • A live preview that builds in seconds
The Polite Fish Planner Studio on iPad showing the color picker, layout settings, and module options

Your dates, already in it

Stop spending the first week setting up. Add the dates that matter and they’re built into your planner before you write a thing.

  • Birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones embedded into the pages
  • Add your own key dates — paydays, bill dates, appointments, special occasions — and they’re built right into your planner
The Polite Fish Planner Studio on iPad showing the monthly overview page with important dates embedded in the planner page.

Mix any pages. Set the depth.

Your planner isn’t locked to one planner type. Pull pages from any style, leave out the ones you don’t want, and decide how deep each section goes.

  • Combine pages across needs — ADHD, finance, content creator, faith, sobriety & recovery, fitness, wellness, solopreneur, and more — in one planner
  • Exclude pages you won’t use
  • Adjustable page counts — give the sections you live in more room
The Polite Fish Planner Studio on iPad showing the controls for configuring page quantity and habit tracker names.

Then write on it like paper

Your planner is ready to use the moment it’s built — no exporting, no second app.

  • Apple Pencil — pen, pencil, highlighter, and eraser
  • Lasso to move, recolor, duplicate, cut, or delete your writing
  • Stickers — import your own packs, then place, resize, and rotate them
  • Export any page as a PDF to share or print (Pro)

The thin-grid daily layout you'll love

A clean, techo-inspired planner aesthetic — a thin daily grid, time-blocking, and intentional space — generated to your exact specifications.

  • Daily layout with time-blocking
  • Dot-grid notes and clean lines, never busy
  • Rendered in your color throughout
The Polite Fish Planner with techo-inspired thin-grid daily spread

From idea to writing in it — in minutes

No order to place, no email to wait for. Design it and start using it.

Open the Studio

Pick your color, pages, daily schedule and dates. Defaults are ready if you’d rather keep it simple.

Preview & build

Tap Refresh Preview and watch your planner generate in just a few seconds.

Write & sync

Start writing with Apple Pencil. Everything backs up and syncs across your devices through iCloud.

Travel journals, built the same way

Plan a weekend or a year of travel. Each trip gets up to 20 destinations, identified by name, with their own pages.

  • Named trips, each with multiple named destinations
  • Per-destination pages — itinerary, accommodation, daily routes, spending, photo pages and more
  • A world-map page and a post-trip memoir to document the memories
Travel journal showing named trip, multiple named destinations, world map and daily routes pages.

Free to start. Pro when you’re ready.

Try the full experience free. Upgrade when you want more.

Free $0 No account required
  • One planner
  • One travel journal
  • One-week planner length
  • One travel destination
  • PDF page export
Download free

Pro is an annual auto-renewable subscription, billed through your Apple ID. Cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Your pages export to PDF — your work is never locked in.

Questions, answered

Do I need another app to write in my planner?
No. You design your planner and write in it right inside the Polite Fish Planner, with Apple Pencil support for pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso, and stickers. No separate note-taking app and no importing. No paying for a planner and an app to use it.
How is the app different from your Etsy PDF planners?
Same craft, two doors. Our Etsy planners are made-to-order PDFs you open in any PDF app — perfect if you already have a workflow you love. The app builds your planner and lets you write in it, with iCloud sync across your devices, all in one place. The app uses a subscription; the PDFs are a one-time purchase.
What’s free and what’s Pro?
Free includes one 1-week planner and one travel journal with a single destination so you can try the full experience. Pro unlocks unlimited planners, lengths up to 12 months, travel journals with up to 20 destinations each, and single-page PDF export. Pro is an annual auto-renewable subscription.
Can I make a planner in my own colors with my own dates?
Yes. Choose any color, set your cover text and length, pick your pages, and add your birthdays, holidays, and key dates so they’re already in your planner before you start.
Do I need an Apple Pencil?
An Apple Pencil gives the best writing and drawing experience. Your planner is navigated by touch.
Does it work on iPhone, or just iPad?
The Polite Fish Planner is designed for iPad. Your planners sync between your devices through iCloud.
How long does it take to build a planner?
The time it takes to design your planner depends on how much fun you're having. Once you've decided on a design, generating the full planner takes just a few seconds. Once it's ready you can open it and immediately start using it — no email delivery to wait for.
How does the subscription work — can I cancel?
Pro is an annual auto-renewable subscription managed through your Apple ID. You can cancel anytime in your App Store account settings and keep Pro features until the end of your current period.

Your planner. Built and used in one app.

Design it your way, generate it in seconds, and start writing today.