Routine
Calendar, tasks, and notes unified around time blocking
About
Routine is an all-in-one productivity app that puts tasks, calendar, and notes in one interface built for time blocking. Natural-language input makes capture fast, a global hotkey feeds a universal inbox, and the AI layer summarizes meetings into action items that land as tasks. It syncs with Google Calendar and other providers, works offline, and runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, web, iOS, and Android. The generous free plan covers the core planner, which is part of the appeal at this price. The caveat is youth: reviewers note a smaller community and ecosystem than Notion or Asana, and some advanced features have historically shipped slowly.
What it can do
- Unified tasks, calendar, notes, and contacts in one interface
- AI meeting notes that convert action items into tasks
- Quick capture with universal inbox and natural-language input
- Time blocking and agenda planning views
- Offline mode and broad platform support
Setup
- Create a free account at routine.co.
- Connect Google Calendar and your task sources (Google Tasks and others).
- Use the global hotkey to quick-capture thoughts, URLs, and tasks.
- Drag tasks onto the calendar to time-block your day.
Prerequisites
A device running macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, or a modern web browser.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Unified tasks/calendar/notes, AI meeting notes, quick capture with hotkey, time blocking confirmed across sources.; Free plan genuinely feature-complete for personal use; Personal ~$5/mo, Professional ~$10/mo, Business ~$15/seat per 2026 coverage.; Pricing shifted across the year; figures should be verified on routine.co.; Smaller community and some slow-shipped features noted by reviewers as the honest risk.. License: Proprietary SaaS..
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · Unified tasks/calendar/notes, AI meeting notes, quick capture with hotkey, time blocking confirmed across sources.
- · Free plan genuinely feature-complete for personal use; Personal ~$5/mo, Professional ~$10/mo, Business ~$15/seat per 2026 coverage.
- · Pricing shifted across the year; figures should be verified on routine.co.
- · Smaller community and some slow-shipped features noted by reviewers as the honest risk.
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.