Ellie Planner
Ellie Planner is a daily planner app for time blocking tasks and calendar events.
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Things we like
Brain Dumps
Easy to Get Started
Great for Time Blocking
As a Lightweight Sunsama Alternative
Things we don't like
Limited Free Plan
Expensive Pricing Per Month
What we think about the Design of Ellie Planner?
Ellie Planner is simple in design, but works well with easy to follow designs and tabs for time-boxing. Many people will find it not too overwhelming and easy to use.
Design
Ellie Planner is simple in design,...More
Features
Ellie isn't massive on features...More
Performance
We had no issues with performance...More
Practicality
Lacks an Android app and only...More
Value
Reasonable value if you're looking...More
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What is Ellie Planner?
Ellie Planner is a simple daily planning app to help organize calendars, tasks & time. This comes on web.
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How Ellie Planner works?
Ellie Planner wants to help you better organize the week with a calendar and tasks, so it uses time-blocking and time-boxing techniques to help you focus on a set task in a block of time.
Many people find apps like this helpful in allocating set tasks to get done based on the time they spend on them. This helps them reduce multitasking and associate time with the task at hand, a growing technique many people use.
With that in mind, Ellie helps you create tasks, sub-tasks, lists, a backlog of tasks (in an area called Brain Dump), add events, connect Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, and Apple Calendar, and even connect with apps like Todoist, Slack, and Notion to bring in tasks for task consolidation.
How much does Ellie Planner cost per month?
Ellie Planner comes with free and premium pricings:
Plans | Pricing |
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Basic | Free |
Pro | $9.99 per month |
One-off Lifetime | $299.99 one-off |
Who is Ellie Planner best for?
Ellie Planner wants to be a cross between Sunsama (a high-end productivity planning app) and Todoist (a to-do list app).
Ellie Planner itself offers a clean experience with the ability to manage tasks, calendar, and block your week ahead, which is great, but a lot of the features are locked under the Ellie Pro pricing, which is $9.99 per month - and comparing that with Todoist's offering comes in almost 33% more expensive per month.
If you're in the hunt for a weekly planning application and open to new concepts like more focus on time-boxing, brain dump areas, and integrations to bring in tasks, we'd recommend looking at Ellie Planner - also it supports a solo developer.
The app moves fast and is impressive at adding features & fixing bugs.
The Bento Methodology
The Bento Methodology is a framework to help you better focus on priorities, not tasks. Used by over 500+ students, the system and method has been featured in Ness Labs, Fast Company & TechRadar.
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