How do I know if I actually need PlanJour Plus or if the free plan is enough?

It's a fair question, and the honest answer is that plenty of people are genuinely well served by the free plan, upgrading only makes sense if you actually hit specific limitations in how you use the app, not just because a paid tier exists.

The free plan covers the core experience

Creating events, keeping a daily journal, mood and gratitude tracking, categories and personalization, these are all available for free. If your use is mostly single, non-repeating events and a daily journaling habit, the free plan may genuinely be all you ever need, and there's no inherent reason to upgrade just because a paid tier is available.

Plus is worth it if you specifically need recurring events

If you find yourself manually re-adding the same weekly or monthly commitment over and over, a class, a bill, a recurring appointment, that's a concrete, specific sign Plus would save you real, repeated effort. This is usually the single clearest signal: if you're recreating the same event by hand more than once or twice, recurring events alone are worth the upgrade.

Plus is worth it if you want reminders

If you're relying purely on remembering to check your calendar and have missed things as a result, email reminders are a concrete fix, and a good sign the free plan's limitation is actually costing you something in practice, not just a theoretical missing feature.

Plus is worth it if you want to share your calendar with someone

If you've found yourself wanting a partner, family member, or collaborator to see your calendar, whole-calendar sharing is a Plus feature, and it's a fairly clear practical need rather than a nice-to-have if coordinating with someone else is a real, recurring part of your planning.

A genuinely honest way to decide

Rather than guessing, use the free plan for a few weeks first and pay attention to what specifically frustrates you, recreating the same event repeatedly, missing something you wish you'd been reminded about, wanting someone else to see your calendar. If none of that comes up, there's no reason to pay for features you're not missing. If one or more of those specific frustrations shows up repeatedly, that's a much better basis for upgrading than a general sense that "paid is probably better."