A good iPad planner should not cost you a subscription, and it should not be a pretty PDF where half the tabs go nowhere. We put together four free digital planners that work properly in GoodNotes, Notability and any other PDF annotation app: every tab and date is a real link, the writing space is sized for an Apple Pencil, and every download costs $0.
Disclosure: all four planners are made by Friday Pages, the planner shop run by the team behind BeastCompare. We are not taking a commission on anything here, because there is nothing to buy: you type $0 on Gumroad and download the PDF.
Quick comparison
| Planner | Pages | Dated? | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coquette All-in-One Planner 2027 | 869 | Dated 2027, Monday start | Planning your whole year in one notebook | |
| Calm Brain ADHD Planner | 86 | Undated | ADHD brains, low-energy days, no overwhelm | Free |
| Cozy Study Planner | 14 | Undated | Students, semesters and exam prep | Free |
| Ramadan Planner | 65 | Undated | Salah, Quran and meals through Ramadan | Free |
1. Coquette All-in-One Planner 2027 (best overall)
Regular price $16, free for a limited time as a launch gift.
This is the big one: a complete 2027 planner in a soft blush, lavender and cream palette, laid out as a two-page notebook spread with a coil binder down the middle so it fills a landscape iPad screen.
- Yearly: 2027 calendar, year at a glance, important dates, vision board, yearly review
- Monthly (12): monthly plan with holidays and week numbers, overview, budget, review
- Weekly (53): weekly spread with top 3, habit grid and to-do, meal plan, weekly review
- Daily (365): focus, to-do, 6am to 10pm schedule, meals and water, self-care, gratitude, mood and sleep
- 230+ templates across Fitness, Finance, Wellness, Study, Goals, Projects, Chores and Meals
- 48 note papers and 12 separate notebooks
Navigation is where it earns its place: section tabs on top, month tabs on the right and notebook tabs on the left appear on every page, and tapping any date on a calendar opens that day. The file has over 41,000 links and every one is checked.
Good to know: it is dated for 2027 with a Monday start, made for tablets (not phones or printing), and is one 70 MB vector PDF.
👉 Download the Coquette Planner 2027 free on Gumroad
2. Calm Brain ADHD Planner (best for ADHD and busy brains)
Most "mega" planners give you hundreds of repeated pages you never open. This one has 86 calm pages where every page has one job, with menus and links so you reach any page in two taps.
- Today: a "How's your energy?" page, day pages, time blocks and a to-do list
- Full, Low and Survival day modes, plus a no-guilt Restart page for hard weeks
- Focus tools: brain dump and sort, priority matrix, task breakdown, distraction parking lot, dopamine menu, reward chart
- Routines and self-care: morning and evening routines, habit tracker, meds and water, mood and energy
- Home and money: meal planner, chores, cleaning schedule, bills, simple budget, a 48-hour impulse-buy pause and a subscription audit
It is undated, so you can start any day of any month and duplicate pages as often as you like.
👉 Download the Calm Brain ADHD Planner free on Gumroad
3. Cozy Study Planner (best for students)
A short, focused planner to plan the semester, keep up with assignments and get through exam week without panicking. It is the only one of the four that also prints well.
- Semester overview and a Monday to Saturday class schedule
- Assignment tracker and grade tracker (target vs current GPA)
- Monthly, weekly and daily study pages with focus-session timers
- Exam prep: a 14-day countdown with topic confidence and review checkboxes
- Cornell notes, reading log and a habit and focus tracker
You get two PDFs, A4 and US Letter. Print as many daily or Cornell pages as you need, or duplicate them in GoodNotes.
👉 Download the Cozy Study Planner free on Gumroad
4. Ramadan Planner (best for Ramadan)
A calm, hyperlinked planner for the blessed month, in portrait iPad size.
- Prepare: intentions, pre-Ramadan checklist, Quran reading plan, dua list, Ramadan budget
- 30 daily pages: five salah plus Taraweeh and Tahajjud, Quran juz and pages, suhoor and iftar, good deeds, dua of the day, reflection
- Trackers: Quran khatam (30 juz), last 10 nights, sadaqah log, qada fasts
- Meals and Eid: suhoor and iftar meal plan, grocery list, Eid preparation and gift list
It is undated, so it works for Ramadan 2027 and every year after.
👉 Download the Ramadan Planner free on Gumroad
How to use any of these planners on your iPad
- Open the Gumroad link on your iPad, type $0 in the price box and tap I want this!
- Download the PDF and open it with GoodNotes or Notability (Share → Open in, or Import from inside the app).
- Tap the tabs and dates to move around, and write with your Apple Pencil.
They also work in CollaNote, Noteshelf, Xodo, Samsung Notes and other PDF annotation apps on Android tablets and Surface.
Which one should you download?
- You want one planner for the whole year: the Coquette All-in-One Planner 2027.
- Big planners make you anxious, or your energy changes day to day: the Calm Brain ADHD Planner.
- You are in school or university: the Cozy Study Planner.
- Ramadan is coming up: the Ramadan Planner.
They are all free, so there is no harm in grabbing more than one. If you enjoy them, sharing the link with a friend helps a new shop more than anything else.
