A free Akiflow alternative

Side by side

Price

Plainer: Free to use. No card or personal AI key. The optional assistant has usage limits.
Akiflow: $34 a month billed monthly, or $19 a month billed yearly ($228 a year). 7-day trial with a card, no free plan.

Capture

Plainer: Add tasks to a day, a project or the backlog; files and notes live in one Files area.
Akiflow: An inbox that gathers tasks from 10+ native integrations, plus thousands more through Zapier and IFTTT.

Daily planning

Plainer: A day list with flexible “No time yet” tasks above a full-day calendar.
Akiflow: A daily planning ritual and automatic time-block suggestions.

Timeboxing

Plainer: Drag a task into a time block, or reserve a work block and keep its tasks in a separate work list.
Akiflow: Time blocking on the calendar, and availability you can share.

Projects

Plainer: Nested tasks and subtasks on a Gantt timeline, plus weekly goals.
Akiflow: Tasks, subtasks, lists, labels and priorities.

Calendar

Plainer: Google Calendar, read-only: Plainer shows your events and never edits them.
Akiflow: Two-way sync with Google and Outlook calendars.

Assistant

Plainer: Plan my day, Roll over, Weekly review and your own saved commands. Changes can be undone.
Akiflow: Aki, an AI assistant with voice commands and daily briefings, included in Pro; a meeting recorder is a $19 a month add-on.

Apps

Plainer: Runs in your browser.
Akiflow: Desktop, iOS, Android and Apple Watch apps, with offline mode.

Choose Plainer if

• You want a daily planner without a monthly bill or a card up front.
• Your work is projects with steps and dates, and you want the timeline and today’s list in one view.
• You don’t want every task to become an appointment. Keep a task on a day with no time, and timebox only what needs it.
• You want to shape the tool yourself: open a file as a table, board, calendar or timeline, write your own commands, or install templates from the Marketplace.

Choose Akiflow if

• Your tasks start in many other tools and you want them gathered into one inbox automatically.
• You need two-way calendar sync, or you plan in Outlook.
• You want native phone, watch and desktop apps that work offline.
• You want an AI assistant you can talk to, or meeting recordings and summaries.

Switching from Akiflow

Open Plainer and connect Google Calendar if you use it. Add this week’s tasks to the days you planned them for, and leave them without a time until they need one. Then ask the assistant to plan your day. You can export your workspace at any time.

Start planning in Plainer. Also comparing other planners? See Plainer and Sunsama or Plainer and Motion. Questions: contact us.