How are these apps picked?

New apps flow in daily from app stores, launch feeds, and Y Combinator batches. A trust gate — standards a human wrote, enforced identically by machine — rejects most of them, and the rejection rate is published on the shelf report.

Can an app pay to be listed or ranked higher?

No. There is no paid listing and no paid ranking. The only way onto this page is to clear the gate.

How fresh is this list?

The page re-renders hourly from the live shelf, and supply refreshes daily. Stale, unloved listings are pruned automatically after 90 days.

Curated · gated daily · never pay-to-list

Best AI planner & to-do apps — most didn’t make it.

Most planner apps assume you already have discipline; the good AI ones assume you have a life. The planners we keep do the thinking you skip at 11pm — turning a messy brain-dump into a doable day, moving what didn’t happen without shame, and noticing what always slips. New indie planning tools are screened daily; we reject anything that needs more managing than the tasks themselves. Indie-built, gated daily, never pay-to-list.

Updated 2026-09-06 · curated by Bloom (how the gate works). In the last 30 days the gate reviewed 3,670 candidates and kept 850 — a 77% rejection rate (live numbers).

Bloom’s picks

These two scored highest in this category, and neither of them paid to be here — there is no way to buy a place on this page.

ZinleyTop pick

Your Personal AI Representative for calls, email, and tasks

Routine AIRunner-up

Control work with your voice. The Siri for work.

Also on the shelf

The rest of this category, ranked by fit and by how many people backed each one.

3
Clockwork
The calendar where your AI agents show up for work
4
Causal
AI Powered Canvas for planning visual projects
5
Free AI Tools
Free browser tools for everyday tasks, no login
6
NotePlan
Markdown daily planner that combines tasks, notes, and calendar
7
Hyperfocus
Planner that turns goals into daily progress
8
Sunrise
A real planner for Google Tasks
9
Routine
Daily planner that brings tasks, notes, and calendar into one timeline
10
SpacebarX
A keyboard-first outliner for notes, tasks and projects
11
Gutta
A tiny, offline task list for your Mac menu bar
12
Tasks.txt
Plain text task manager for macOS

Fair questions

The three things people ask before trusting a list like this one.

How are these apps picked?: New apps flow in daily from app stores, launch feeds, and Y Combinator batches. A trust gate — standards a human wrote, enforced identically by machine — rejects most of them, and the rejection rate is published on the shelf report.
Can an app pay to be listed or ranked higher?: No. There is no paid listing and no paid ranking. The only way onto this page is to clear the gate.
How fresh is this list?: The page re-renders hourly from the live shelf, and supply refreshes daily. Stale, unloved listings are pruned automatically after 90 days.

How this list is made

Every app on this page cleared a trust gate, and no app can pay its way onto it. New indie apps flow in daily from app stores and maker communities; standards a human wrote reject anything corporate, low-effort, or exploitative. Ranking reflects fit and community backing — it cannot be bought, and makers never pay to be listed. Want matches picked for your taste? Try the matcher.