Ellie
A daily planner built by one developer, focused on timeboxing
About
Ellie is an indie daily-planning app built by a solo developer around a simple workflow: brain-dump everything on your mind, drag tasks across a weekly kanban view, then timebox them onto your calendar. It integrates with Google, Apple, and Outlook calendars, and unfinished tasks roll over automatically so each day starts fresh. Ellie Pro adds an AI Assistant alongside timebox, calendar integrations, labels, recurring tasks, and subtasks, with a one-time lifetime purchase option instead of subscription. It is deliberately not an AI autopilot — there is no auto-scheduling like Motion — and there is currently no native Android app. Most of the detailed public coverage comes from the developer's own comparison blog, so take feature framing with that in mind.
What it can do
- Brain dump inbox for quick task capture
- Weekly kanban view with drag-between-days planning
- Timebox view for scheduling tasks on the calendar
- Google, Apple, and Outlook calendar integration
- AI Assistant on Pro; automatic task rollover
Setup
- Sign up at ellieplanner.com or install the iPhone/iPad app.
- Brain-dump tasks into the inbox.
- Drag tasks to days on the kanban board.
- Timebox tasks onto the calendar; upgrade to Pro for AI Assistant and integrations.
Prerequisites
A web browser, iPhone, or iPad; no Android app available.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Brain dump, kanban, timebox, calendar integrations, $9.99/mo Pro with $299.99 lifetime option confirmed.; Deliberately no AI auto-scheduling — it is a manual planning tool, not an autopilot.; No native Android app.; Most detailed coverage is the developer's own comparison blog; third-party verification is thin — metrics tier.. License: Proprietary indie app..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 5.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · Brain dump, kanban, timebox, calendar integrations, $9.99/mo Pro with $299.99 lifetime option confirmed.
- · Deliberately no AI auto-scheduling — it is a manual planning tool, not an autopilot.
- · No native Android app.
- · Most detailed coverage is the developer's own comparison blog; third-party verification is thin — metrics tier.
Sources
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