About

Why this exists

It started with a measurement. Sixteen free weekly planner PDFs were downloaded from the sites that rank for these searches and inspected at the byte level, and every single one had a page box of 612 by 792 points: US Letter. Several of the pages serving them mention A4 or A5 in their print instructions. The file underneath was Letter in every case.

That means every A4 market, which is the UK, Ireland, most of Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, is being told to rescale in the print dialog and lose their margins. It also means every A5 and Half Letter user is scaling a Letter file down by about 35%, which takes a 7.5 mm writing line to 4.9 mm, below the minimum for legible adult handwriting.

None of that is difficult to fix. It just requires laying each size out separately rather than shipping one master and hoping.

How the planners are made

They are drawn by code from geometry, not designed in a graphics application and exported. Every layout is a function that takes a page size, a week start, an hour range and a set of options, and returns a display list of lines, rules and labels positioned in PDF points.

Saying that plainly matters: Google now asks publishers whether the use of automation is self-evident to visitors. It is, and this is where it is stated.

What the code buys is consistency and refusal. Every file gets the same 12.7 mm margins, the same 20% grey rules, the same 7.5 mm writing rows, and the same absolute floors. When a combination will not fit legibly, the build fails rather than shipping something cramped, which is why some sizes are not offered for some layouts.

Who writes it

One person designs the layouts, writes the guides and runs the print tests. The measurements on this site are either taken from published manufacturer specifications, which are cited where they are used, or measured directly.

Where something could not be verified, it says so. The guides do not claim precision that the sources do not support.

What this site does not do

There is no account, no email capture, no watermark, no download limit and no paid tier that removes any of those. Nothing is uploaded when you use the generator: it builds the PDF in your browser and the file never leaves your device.

There is no analytics script tracking you across the web, no advertising network at the time of writing, and no third-party fonts or scripts loaded from anyone else. Every indexable page on this site ships zero bytes of JavaScript.

On advertising specifically, an honest statement rather than a promise: the site does not carry ads today, and the layout reserves space in case that changes. We are not claiming to be ad-free forever, because that is a promise we might break. The clauses we will keep are the ones on every page: no signup, no email, no watermark, no limits.