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Sunny planner app

Sunny User Guide

Updated 15 November 2026

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Get started

Welcome to Sunny

Sunny is a digital planner you build yourself and write in with Apple Pencil, your finger or the keyboard.

  1. 1Open Sunny. The short tour shows the main parts of the app; swipe through it or tap Skip.
  2. 2Your planners live on the home screen under My Planners. The StudioX tab holds ready-made planners and covers, and the Marketplace sells more planners.
  3. 3Tap + New at the top right whenever you want to make something new.

Tips

  • You don't need an account. Signing in is optional and only keeps your name and picture on this device.
The welcome tour on first launch
Your planners on the home screen

Make your first planner

Build a dated planner with the pages, layouts, tabs and colours you want, and see every page before you create it.

  1. 1Tap + New, then New planner.
  2. 2In Setup, give it a name, choose the start and end month (up to 24 months), and whether weeks start on Monday or Sunday. Page shape starts as the device in your hand, such as Made for this iPhone. On iPad it follows how you're holding it. Tap Change to make it landscape or portrait, or for another device.
  3. 3In Pages, pick a layout for the month, week and day pages, and add templates such as budgets, habit trackers or meal plans.
  4. 4In Tabs, choose what sits on each edge of the page: months, your own tabs, templates and note paper. Turn on Left-handed to put the side tabs on the left edge. On iPad, take the spine off in Design first.
  5. 5In Design, choose a theme and a cover.
  6. 6Use the buttons above the preview (Cover, Index, Year, Quarter, Month, Week, Day) to see each page as it will look.
  7. 7Tap Create.

Tips

  • Everything except the name can be changed later from the + menu inside the planner: add months or a year, templates and note paper.
Setup: name, dates and page shape
Pages: choose your layouts
Design: themes and covers

Let Sunny build your planner

Describe who the planner is for and Sunny picks the theme, cover, layouts and templates for you, then explains how to use it. Premium.

  1. 1Tap + New, then New planner. Ask Sunny is the first step.
  2. 2Type or tap the microphone and say who it's for and what you need, for example "a nursing student who works night shifts and wants to save money". Mention colours you love.
  3. 3Tap the button to ask. Sunny suggests a name, cover, theme, layouts and templates, with tips on how to use them.
  4. 4Look through the pages in the preview, change anything you like in the other steps, then tap Create.

Tips

  • Sunny's answers come from Anthropic's Claude AI. Only the words you type are sent, and they aren't kept.
Describe your planner and Sunny sets it up

Notebooks, template books and imported PDFs

Not every book needs dates. Make a notebook of note paper, a book of templates, or bring in your own PDFs.

  1. 1Tap + New and choose: Template only (a book of the templates you pick), Note paper (lined, dot, grid, Cornell and more), or Import PDFs.
  2. 2Bring notes from another app shows how to export notebooks from other note apps as PDF and bring them all in at once. Each PDF becomes its own book.

Tips

  • Imported pages keep their look, and you can write on top of them.
Everything you can make from + New

Bring notes from another app

Bring in notebooks and planners you already use, with their pages, tabs, links and pen writing.

  1. 1In your other note app, open the notebook and tap Share or Export. Save it as the app's own notebook file, or as a PDF.
  2. 2Save it to the Files app. You can save several and bring them all at once.
  3. 3In Sunny, tap + New, then Import PDFs or notebooks, and choose the files. Each one becomes its own book on your shelf, marked Imported notebook or Imported PDF.

Tips

  • A notebook file keeps a planner's tabs and links working and brings your pen writing as Sunny ink, so you can erase it or write over it.
  • Text boxes, pictures and stickers added in the other app only come across in a PDF, where they become part of the page.

Planner pages in your language

Make planner pages in 14 languages. Sunny's menus follow your device's language.

  1. 1When you make a planner, choose Page language in the first step.
  2. 2Day names, months and headings are printed in that language.
  3. 3Calendar sync and Ask Sunny read pages in any of these languages.

Tips

  • Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Thai planners download their fonts the first time, so the first one takes a little longer.

Home and organising

Your planner shelf

My Planners shows every book with its cover, dates and when you last edited it.

  1. 1Tap a cover to open it.
  2. 2Tap ⋯ on a cover to rename it, use your own cover picture, remove a year, move it to a folder, or move it to the Trash.
  3. 3Use the grid/list button to switch views and sort by Date Added, Last Edited, Name or Type.

Tips

  • Covers show the writing on the first page, so you can tell your books apart at a glance.
Your shelf

News and updates

New planners, covers, sticker packs and what's new in Sunny, all in one place.

  1. 1Tap the bell at the top of Home. A pink dot means there's something new.
  2. 2Tap an update to read it. Learn more opens the full story.
  3. 3Tap Select to mark several as read or delete them, or Mark all as read.

Tips

  • Times show in your own time zone. Deleted updates won't come back.

Folders

Group books into folders such as Work or Study.

  1. 1Tap New folder at the top of the shelf and name it.
  2. 2To move a book, tap ⋯ on its cover, then Move to folder.
  3. 3Press and hold a folder to rename or delete it. Deleting a folder keeps its books.
  4. 4Drag a planner onto a folder to move it.

Tips

  • Folders show at the top of Home. All shows everything.

Trash

Deleted books wait in the Trash so you can change your mind.

  1. 1Open the profile menu (your picture at the top right) and tap Trash.
  2. 2Restore a book, or delete it for good.

Tips

  • Items stay in the Trash for 30 days, then they are deleted for good.

Write and draw

Pen or hand

The switch at the top of a planner decides what touches do.

  1. 1Pen (the nib): the Apple Pencil writes, and links on the page are ignored so you never jump away by accident.
  2. 2Hand: taps follow links and tabs, and nothing writes.
  3. 3On iPhone, your finger writes in Pen. Use two fingers to scroll and zoom.

Tips

  • Double-tap the Apple Pencil (if your Pencil supports it) to swap between your pen and the eraser.
The pen toolbar

Pens, pencil, highlighter and brush

Pick a tool from the toolbar, then a colour and size.

  1. 1Tap Pen, Fountain pen, Pencil, Highlighter or Brush.
  2. 2Tap a colour, or + to add a colour of your own.
  3. 3Pick one of the three sizes.
  4. 4Press and hold a tool for its settings: size, opacity, smoothing, and the brush it uses. Save a setup as your own brush.

Tips

  • Smoothing evens out wobbly strokes once you lift the pen.
Size, opacity, smoothing and brushes

Eraser, lasso and undo

Fix mistakes and move things around.

  1. 1Eraser removes strokes you touch. Lasso: draw around writing to select it, then move it or copy it.
  2. 2Undo and Redo are in the toolbar.
  3. 3Choose the lasso and draw a circle around writing to select it. Then drag it to move it, pull a corner to resize it, or tap Copy.

Zoom and ruler

Zoom in for detail and draw straight lines.

  1. 1Pinch with two fingers to zoom. Your zoom stays while you write, until you change page.
  2. 2Tap the ruler to place it on the page. Turn it with two fingers and draw along its edge.

Idea Boards

An endless board for brainstorming, mood boards and mind maps.

  1. 1Tap + New, then Idea Board.
  2. 2Write or draw anywhere. Drag with two fingers to move around, and pinch to zoom.
  3. 3Add sticky notes, pictures, shapes and stickers from the bar.
  4. 4Ask Sunny can suggest ideas for the board's topic. Tap Ask Sunny and say what the board is for.

Tips

  • Boards sit on your shelf with your planners and can go in folders.

Docs

Typed documents for notes, lists and plans, with handwriting when you want it.

  1. 1Tap + New, then Doc.
  2. 2Type with the keyboard, or switch to the pen to write and draw on the page.
  3. 3Use the text bar for headings, lists and checkboxes.

Tips

  • Docs can be shared as a PDF from the share button.

Add to your pages

Text boxes

Type on any page. On lined paper and in printed boxes, text sits on the lines.

  1. 1Tap the text tool (the A in a box), then tap the page where you want to type.
  2. 2On lined paper the box stretches along the line by itself. Elsewhere it takes the width you last used.
  3. 3Choose the size, font, colour and alignment from the text bar. Tap Speak to talk instead of typing.
  4. 4Drag the arrows to move a box, the corner arrow to make it wider, and ✕ to remove it. Tap Done when you finish.

Tips

  • Fit sections keeps the text inside the box it's in, making it smaller if it would spill out.
Text on the lines

Typing with a keyboard

On iPhone, or on iPad and Mac with a keyboard, type straight onto planner pages.

  1. 1On iPhone, the Pen, Tap and Text switch is at the top. On iPad and Mac it shows Text when a keyboard is attached.
  2. 2Choose Text, then tap a line on the page. The text box fits itself to the line you tapped.
  3. 3Keep typing, or tap the next line to start a new box.
  4. 4Drag the arrows at the top right to move a box, and the corner to resize it. The x at the top left removes it.

Stickers

Decorate with the starter stickers or your own.

  1. 1Tap the sticker button. Tap a sticker to add it, or press and drag it onto the page.
  2. 2Use the corner handle on a sticker to resize and turn it.
  3. 3Tap + New group or Add my own PNGs to bring in your own sticker packs (PNG files with see-through backgrounds), even many at once.
The sticker box

Washi tape

Lay tape across a page like real washi tape.

  1. 1Choose Tape in the toolbar and drag across the page.
  2. 2Press and hold Tape to pick a pattern or colour.

Tips

  • Long-press the tape pen for patterns and widths.

Shapes and grids

Add squares, circles, stars, arrows, lines, connectors and grids.

  1. 1Tap the shapes button and choose a shape. It appears on the page.
  2. 2Drag to move it, use the handles to resize, and open Style to change its line and fill colours.
  3. 3Elbow and Curve lines join two shapes and follow them when you move them.
Shapes

Photos, camera and scanning

Put photos on a page, or turn photos and scans into new pages.

  1. 1Tap the photo button to open your photos. Tap one to add it, or drag it onto the page.
  2. 2From the ⋯ menu, Add page lets you make a new page from a photo, from the camera, or by scanning a document (Premium).

Tips

  • Drop pictures in from Safari, Photos or Files by dragging them onto the page.

Recordings and speech to text

Record a lecture or meeting on a page, and turn it into text. Premium.

  1. 1Tap the microphone in the toolbar, then record.
  2. 2Play it back any time from the same page.
  3. 3Tap To text to turn a recording into a text box you can move and edit.
Recordings stay with their page

Paste from websites and documents

Paste text and pictures neatly onto your page's lines.

  1. 1Copy text (and pictures) in Safari or another app.
  2. 2In Sunny, press and hold the page and choose Paste, or use ⋯ → Paste onto lines. The words flow onto the page's lines, with pictures in between.
  3. 3Paste as it looks keeps the original fonts and layout as a picture.
  4. 4If there's more than fits, choose to carry on onto a new page or squeeze it onto this one.

Solve written sums

Write a sum ending in =, and the answer appears in your pen colour.

  1. 1In ⋯, make sure Solve written sums is on.
  2. 2Write a sum such as 24 × 3 =, or write numbers under each other with a line underneath.
  3. 3The answer appears after a moment. Erase the sum and its answer goes too.

Tips

  • It works without the internet.
Math on the page

Calendar and reminders

See your calendar on your pages

Events and reminders from your device's Calendar and Reminders apps are written onto your planner's own days.

  1. 1Open a dated planner and tap the round calendar button at the bottom right of a page. On iPhone, tap the calendar icon in the top bar.
  2. 2Allow access to Calendar and Reminders when asked, and choose which calendars to show.
  3. 3Events appear on the matching day, week and month pages. Tap one to see its details.
  4. 4Anything you add from the calendar card is added to your Calendar too.

Tips

  • Outlook, Google, Exchange, Yahoo and other calendars show up in Sunny once their account is on your device. On iPhone or iPad: Settings › Apps › Calendar › Calendar Accounts › Add Account. On Mac: System Settings › Internet Accounts. Then, in Sunny, tap the calendar button › Choose calendars and switch them on.
  • Having only the Outlook app isn’t enough: its calendar shows in Sunny once the Outlook account is also added in Settings as above.
  • On Android, Sunny shows the calendars in your phone’s calendar. For Outlook, turn on Sync calendars in the Outlook app’s settings, or add the account to your phone.
Your calendar on the page

Planner reminders

Gentle nudges to use your planner, at times you choose.

  1. 1Open the profile menu and tap Planner reminders.
  2. 2Turn on Daily check-in, Plan your week, Review your notes or New month, and set their times.
  3. 3Tapping a reminder opens the right page of your planner.
  4. 4Send a test reminder checks that notifications work on this device.

Tips

  • Reminders use Sunny's own soft chime. They never advertise.
Planner reminders

Your own reminders and alarms

Set reminders of your own, as a notification or a real alarm.

  1. 1In Planner reminders, tap + Add a reminder under My reminders.
  2. 2Type what to remind you, set the time, and tap a day to turn it on or off; all seven lit means every day.
  3. 3Choose Notification or Alarm. Alarm rings like your alarm clock, even on silent, and the first time you'll be asked to allow alarms.
  4. 4Swipe left on a reminder to delete it.
Your own reminders

Notifications from Sunny

What Sunny may remind you about, and how to turn it off.

  1. 1Planner reminders: the ones you switch on in your profile, under Planner reminders.
  2. 2Free trial: on day 1 a welcome, and two days before the trial ends a reminder, so you can keep the plan or cancel.
  3. 3If you haven't opened Sunny for a few days, one gentle reminder, then nothing more until you come back. These don't come if the daily check-in is on.
  4. 4To turn them off on iPhone, iPad or Mac, open Settings, then Notifications, then Sunny Planner. On Android, open Settings, then Apps, then Sunny Planner, then Notifications.

Ask Sunny

What Sunny can do

Sunny plans with you and fills in your planner, so you spend less time setting up and more time doing.

  1. 1Tap the sparkle button on a page (or ⋯ → Ask Sunny). On iPhone, ✨ is in the top bar next to the home button.
  2. 2Choose what you want: Plan my day, Plan my week, Plan my year, Goal to steps, Study helper or Find a template.
  3. 3Type or tap the microphone and say what you need, then tap the button.
  4. 4Check what Sunny suggests, change anything, then add it to your planner.

Tips

  • Answers are by Anthropic's Claude AI. Only the words you choose are sent, and Sunny doesn't keep them. Premium includes 200 requests a month.
  • The Ask Sunny button setting in the profile menu puts the button on the left or right, shows it only where it helps (Auto), or hides it.
Ask Sunny

Plan my day

On a day page, tell Sunny what's on and get a timed schedule, a checklist, meal ideas and reminders.

  1. 1Open a day page and tap Plan my day.
  2. 2Say what's on today. Add any foods you avoid, and keep Suggest meals and recipes on if you'd like meal ideas.
  3. 3Check the schedule, meals and reminders. Change any reminder's words or time, or switch it off. Choose Remind me with: Sunny app only, Apple Reminders, or none.
  4. 4Tap Add to my day. The schedule goes into the page's hours, and the rest is saved as today's checklist.

Tips

  • Open Plan my day on that page again to tick off your checklist, Edit the schedule, put it back on the page, or delete the plan.
  • Meal ideas are suggestions only. Always check ingredients yourself for allergies.
  • Each recipe can go onto a recipe page, a notes page, or the Notes app.
Plan my day
Tick off your day

Plan my week

On a week page, Sunny plans your week around what's already booked.

  1. 1Open a week page and tap Plan my week.
  2. 2Say what's coming up this week.
  3. 3Check the plan and tap to add it. It's written onto each day, in pink.

Plan my year

Fill Year at a glance with your goals and each month's key dates.

  1. 1Open Year at a glance and tap Plan my year.
  2. 2Say your goals and the dates you know (birthdays, exams, trips).
  3. 3Switch off anything you don't want, then add it. Dated items can go on their month and day pages too.

Tips

  • Sunny never makes up personal dates you didn't give it.
Plan my year

Goal to steps, Study helper and Find a template

Three more ways Sunny helps.

  1. 1Goal to steps turns one goal into monthly milestones and weekly steps across your planner.
  2. 2Study helper reads your notes on a page and makes flashcards and a quiz.
  3. 3Find a template: describe what you need, and Sunny picks templates and adds them to your planner.

Remove what Sunny added

Take Sunny's plans off one day or the whole planner.

  1. 1One day: open Plan my day on that page and tap Delete this plan.
  2. 2The whole planner: ⋯ → Clear Sunny's plans. Your own writing always stays.

Share, print and back up

Share and print

Share a page as PDF or PNG, or the whole planner as a PDF.

  1. 1Tap the share button at the top of a planner.
  2. 2Choose This page (PDF, PNG or Print) or Whole planner (PDF or Print).

Tips

  • Sharing a whole planner is part of Essential and Premium.

iCloud sync

Keep your planners the same on all your devices. Premium.

  1. 1Make sure you're signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud Drive on each device.
  2. 2Open the profile menu and turn on iCloud sync.
  3. 3Changes are sent and fetched automatically. The cloud button on the shelf shows its state.

Tips

  • iCloud sync is for iPhone, iPad and Mac. On Android, Sunny keeps your planners in your own Google Drive instead. The two don't sync with each other.

Marketplace

Browse and buy

Find a planner, see inside, and buy it once to keep.

  1. 1Tap Marketplace at the top of the home screen.
  2. 2Tap a product to see its photos and what's inside. Tap the heart to save it for later.
  3. 3Tap Buy to pay with your Apple Account, then Add to My Planners.
  4. 4Already bought it? It shows Add to My Planners instead, at no charge.
The Marketplace

Plans and your account

Free, Essential and Premium

Start free, and upgrade when you need more.

  1. 1Free: 3 books, all the writing tools, starter stickers, photos and tabs, Math, and sharing a page at a time.
  2. 2Free: use every step of the planner builder. A plain planner of up to 12 months is free. Keep one you've made your own, or one longer than 12 months, for a one-time $3.99, or add templates for $1.99 each.
  3. 3Essential: unlimited books, unlimited planners from the builder, starter StudioX planners and templates (other templates $1.99 each), themes, saved brushes, and sharing whole planners.
  4. 4Premium: everything in Essential plus Ask Sunny, calendar and reminders on your pages, all StudioX planners, templates and themes, your own theme colour, recordings, speech to text, scanning and iCloud sync.
  5. 5Open the profile menu and tap Plans to see prices and start a free trial.

Tips

  • Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel them in Settings → your name → Subscriptions.
  • Tap Restore Purchases on the Plans screen if you've subscribed before.
Plans

Account, privacy and deleting your account

Signing in is optional. Your pages stay on your devices.

  1. 1Open the profile menu and tap your name to sign in with Apple, Google or Microsoft, add a picture, or sign out.
  2. 2Delete my account removes your account details from this device.

Tips

  • Sunny doesn't collect your pages, show ads or track you. See printmagicstudiox.com/privacy.
Account

iPhone, iPhone Duo and Mac

Using Sunny on iPhone

The same planners, laid out for a smaller screen.

  1. 1Switch between My Planners, StudioX and Marketplace with the bar at the bottom.
  2. 2In StudioX, Planners opens on the ones made for your iPhone. Use Show for to see the planners for iPad, iPhone Duo or Mac.
  3. 3In a planner, your finger writes in Pen. Tap the colour dot at the end of the toolbar for colours and sizes.
  4. 4Turn your iPhone sideways for landscape planners.
On iPhone

Using Sunny on iPhone Duo

Folded, it works like an iPhone. Open, you get the bigger layout with room for your pages and tools.

  1. 1Folded, Sunny works as it does on iPhone: the bar at the bottom, the compact toolbar, and your finger writes in Pen.
  2. 2Open your iPhone Duo and Sunny switches to the bigger layout, with more room for your pages and tools.
  3. 3Planners made for iPhone Duo open like a notebook. Folded, or open and upright, you see one page large; swipe for the facing page. Open it sideways to see both pages side by side.
  4. 4In StudioX, Planners opens on the ones made for iPhone Duo. Use Show for to see the planners for iPad, iPhone or Mac.

Tips

  • Folded, with a planner open, the page stays upright to the top of your phone, so it doesn't turn as you move.
  • A planner keeps the shape it was made for. Planners made on another device still open on your iPhone Duo.
Sunny on iPhone Duo
Folded: Sunny works like on iPhone
Open and upright: one page, like on iPad
Open and sideways: the whole notebook spread

Using Sunny on Mac

On a Mac with Apple silicon, Sunny runs from the Mac App Store as an iPad app.

  1. 1Use your trackpad or mouse to write and draw, and the keyboard to type.
  2. 2Type straight onto pages with the keyboard: choose Text, then click a line.
  3. 3Scroll with two fingers on the trackpad, and pinch to zoom.
  4. 4With Premium, your planners sync with your iPad and iPhone through iCloud.

Help

Troubleshooting

Quick fixes for common questions.

  1. 1No reminders arriving: check Settings → Notifications → Sunny is on, then use Send a test reminder in Planner reminders. Plans for future dates only remind on those dates.
  2. 2Alarms don't ring: check Settings → Sunny → Alarms is allowed.
  3. 3Calendar events missing: check Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars and Reminders allow Sunny full access.
  4. 4Ask Sunny says it isn't available: check you're online and on Premium.

Tips

  • Notifications don't arrive: check Settings, then Notifications, then Sunny Planner, and that a Focus mode isn't holding them.

Contact us

We'd love to hear from you.

  1. 1Open the profile menu and tap Contact us, or visit printmagicstudiox.com/contact.