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Finalist: Daily Planner

Schedule, Journal & Habits

Diversion Marketing Inc

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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/

Release Notes

Finalist 4.1 is ready for the latest iOS, here are the highlights. SIRI AND APPLE INTELLIGENCE (iOS 27) Siri can now manage Finalist directly. Create, update, complete and delete tasks, take notes, and manage calendar events, all conversationally. Say "Add a task in Finalist", or say the whole thing in one sentence and it goes right in. Use Finalist regularly and Siri learns it is your planner, so you can even drop the app name. Tasks and notes appear in Spotlight too, so Siri can find and open them by name. WEEKLY SPREAD A new Planner mode that lays out your week like a paper planner spread: Monday to Wednesday on the left page, Thursday to Sunday on the right. iPad and Mac show the open spread and flip whole weeks, iPhone turns one page at a time. A new visual layout picker lets you show or hide any kind of content (tasks, reminders, habits, events, weather) in every Planner mode. SCORE An opt-in Daily section that turns a week of scattered effort into one number. Give your tags point values, set a weekly target, and earn points by completing tasks, habits and reminders, or simply journaling. A new History view shows half a year of week-by-week results, with streaks and your best week. Turn it on in Customize Layout. DAY NOTES AND SKETCHES Daily's Notes section now has a permanent spot to jot things down. Start typing and it becomes today's note. Tap the pencil tab to sketch instead, with Apple Pencil or a finger, right inside Daily. Drawings use Apple's modern Pencil engine with shapes, text boxes and stickers, and sketches now show up on the Mac. MULTI-SELECTION Pick a bunch of tasks in Daily and complete, move, tag or delete them in one go, with Undo. Cmd-click on Mac and iPad, two-finger tap on iPhone. The Timeline gets multi-select too: group blocks and move them together, gaps preserved. ALSO IN 4.1 - A new full-page Day Page widget, built for iOS 27's extra-large widget size. - Tags: a two-page workspace with usage details, Time Spent reports, twenty new ink colors and a custom color picker. - Habits open a proper summary page with streak stats and calendars. - Journal: workouts logged from Health bring their GPS route, with mini maps of your runs and walks. - Text size control in Settings, reaching most of the app. - Mac: Capture arrives in the View menu, and Cmd+E / Cmd+Delete work wherever you hover. - Show in Note / List / Daily jumps from any task to where it lives. - Photos and sketches move to new synced storage with much higher quality and size limits. - Apple Watch: reschedule reminders from the wrist, and a cleaner tap model on rows. - Much faster iCloud sync, quicker cold launch, smoother scrolling. - Hundreds of fixes and refinements. Full changelog at finalist.works/changelog-4-1

September 10, 2026 • v4.1All release notes

App Details

Size	87.4 MB
Initial release	August 15, 2023
Price
Platforms	Mac, Apple Watch, iPhone, Apple Vision, and iPad
Languages	English
Category	Productivity
Website	finalist.works

Compatibility
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.

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Last update: September 14, 2026

September 10, 2026 • v4.1All release notes