Amie is a native Mac application that merges your calendar and to-do list into a single, beautifully designed workspace — so your schedule and your intentions live side by side, not in separate apps fighting for your attention.
What is Amie?
Amie is an all-in-one productivity app for Mac that unifies time-blocking, event scheduling, and task management into one coherent interface. Where most people bounce between a calendar app and a separate task manager — Google Calendar in one tab, Things 3 or Todoist in another — Amie collapses that context-switch entirely. Tasks slot directly into your day as time-blocked events, and your calendar reflects not just where you need to be, but what you need to accomplish.
The design ethos is unmistakably modern: clean typography, generous whitespace, and subtle animations that feel at home on macOS without feeling derivative of Apple's own Calendar app.
What does Amie do best?
Amie's standout strength is the seamless marriage of tasks and time. Drag a to-do onto a calendar slot and it becomes a committed block; complete it and your schedule updates instantly. This sounds simple, but I've found it quietly rewires how you plan — you stop collecting tasks and start committing to when you'll do them.
- Time-blocking made tactile: tasks are first-class calendar citizens, not afterthoughts bolted to a sidebar.
- Google Calendar sync: Amie reads and writes your existing GCal events, so you don't abandon your current calendar infrastructure.
- Daily planning view: a focused, single-day layout that shows tasks alongside meetings without visual clutter.
- Keyboard-driven flow: quick-add, navigation, and task completion all have keyboard shortcuts that reward power users.
- Contacts integration: event attendees surface with context — a small touch that makes back-to-back meeting days feel more human.
The natural comparison is Fantastical, which also bridges calendar and tasks. But where Fantastical feels like a mature Swiss Army knife, Amie feels like a considered opinion about how modern knowledge workers should spend their days. It is more opinionated, which is either a strength or a limitation depending on your workflow.
How much does Amie cost?
Amie offers a free tier that covers personal use with core calendar and task features — more than enough to evaluate whether the workflow clicks for you. A paid plan unlocks additional integrations, team features, and priority support. Pricing is subscription-based; check amie.so for the current rate, as it has evolved during the app's active development cycle.
Compared to paying separately for Fantastical (a premium subscription) plus Things 3 (a one-time purchase), Amie can be a cost-efficient consolidation if you lean into its unified model rather than fighting it.
Who should use Amie?
Amie is built for the knowledge worker whose day is a constant negotiation between meetings and deep-work tasks. If you already practice time-blocking — intentionally scheduling focused work, not just reacting to calendar invites — Amie formalises that habit with an interface designed around it from the ground up.
It is not the right tool if you need heavy project management (OmniFocus handles complex dependency trees far better), if your team lives in a shared Microsoft Exchange environment with complex permissions, or if you want a task manager with offline-first reliability and no cloud dependency. For solo operators and small teams who run on Google Workspace, though, the fit is natural.
What are the best Amie alternatives?
The most direct alternatives depend on which half of Amie you value more. For calendar power: Fantastical has the widest integration surface and a mature natural-language parser. Apple Calendar is free, fast, and privacy-respecting. For tasks: Things 3 remains the gold standard for Mac-native feel and offline reliability; Todoist wins on cross-platform reach; OmniFocus dominates complex project hierarchies. The only app that meaningfully overlaps Amie's unified thesis is Structured, which time-blocks tasks visually on a timeline — though it lacks Amie's calendar sync depth.
How does Amie compare to Fantastical?
Fantastical is broader — it supports Exchange, iCloud, Office 365, CalDAV, and more calendar backends, and its natural-language input is best-in-class. Amie is narrower but more intentional: it treats your task list as equally important to your calendar rather than as a widget alongside it. Fantastical users who already keep a separate task manager and find themselves tab-switching all day are the most likely converts to Amie's philosophy.
