Plan7 vs Routine
Routine is an extensible work operating system: a fast console, a unified calendar, tasks, notes and custom databases you wire together to run your work. Plan7 is a narrower iPhone app. It asks about one 30-day goal, your fixed hours and your sleep, builds seven days around them and then runs each day. The app called Routine gives you the parts to build a system; Plan7 is the one that builds a personal routine for you.
Last verified 2026-07-30
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| Dimension | plan7 | Routine |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | An iPhone app that plans and runs your week around one 30-day goal | All-in-one work OS you assemble yourself |
| Planning starting point | One goal, your fixed hours, what you protect and your sleep | A blank workspace: your tasks, calendar and pages |
| Personal assessment | StrongShort onboarding that counts your 168 hours | Not offeredNo life diagnostic; you set everything up |
| Goals | StrongOne 30-day goal, made measurable | LimitedGoals live as tasks, pages or database records |
| Responsibilities | StrongFixed hours stay put; protected time is never cut | Not a core featureWork tasks, not modeled life responsibilities |
| Sleep | StrongSleep set first; Lights Out at bedtime | Not offered |
| Energy | AvailableYou say when you're at your best; no device data | Not offered |
| Constraints | StrongFixed commitments placed first | LimitedRespects calendar events; no personal constraint model |
| Weekly routine generation | StrongSeven days of time blocks with day intensities | Not a core featureYou build the routine; it isn't generated |
| Daily planning | StrongToday view, Live Activity, Edit day by message | AvailableManual time blocking on a unified calendar |
| Automatic rescheduling | LimitedYou ask in Edit day; nothing moves on its own | Not offeredNo automatic rescheduling; you move blocks |
| Calendar integrations | LimitedReads your iPhone calendar; never writes | AvailableUnified view with Google Calendar and Outlook |
| Task integrations | Not offeredNo task-tool integrations | StrongNative tasks plus import from Asana, ClickUp, Notion and more |
| Focus tools | StrongScreen Time app and website blocking; focus timer | LimitedTime-blocked focus; no app or site blocking |
| Progress tracking | AvailableTune my week reviews 7 days; wake-up streaks | AvailableTime tracking on blocks; database views |
| Team features | Not offered | AvailableWorkspaces and access control on Business |
| Platforms | iPhone only (iOS 16.4+) | Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android |
| Pricing model | Monthly or annual subscription; no free plan | Free plan + subscription tiers |
| Best for | Fitting one goal into a real week and following it day to day | Running work in one configurable app |
plan7
Plan7 starts from the question most tools skip: does what you want to do this month fit your week? You name one 30-day goal, mark what can't move and what you protect, and set your sleep. Plan7 takes all of that out of the 168 hours in a week and tells you, before building anything, whether the goal fits and by how many hours it falls short. Then it builds seven days of time blocks. There are no pages, databases or integrations to design and keep current.
Routine
Routine takes the opposite stance: give people powerful, flexible parts and let them build the system that fits their work. A CTRL+SPACE console captures and navigates everything, a unified calendar holds time blocks, and tasks, notes, pages and custom databases connect however you decide. AI adds meeting notes, voice capture, agents and automations on top. It's a capable work OS, but the structure is yours to design and keep current — it won't tell you what a realistic week looks like.
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You download Plan7 on your iPhone, sign in with Apple or Google and answer questions: the goal, the days and hours you can give it, what's fixed, what's protected, your sleep and when you're at your best. Reading your calendar is optional. After the 168-hour count you subscribe, and the week is ready within five minutes.
Routine
Routine opens as a flexible workspace. You connect a calendar, bring in tasks, and start capturing through the console; the more you shape pages, databases and integrations, the more it does for you. That flexibility is the appeal, but the useful setup rewards people who enjoy configuring a system and will keep it tidy.
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Sleep, fixed commitments and protected time go in first; the goal gets the hours that remain. Each of the seven days has its own intensity, so a demanding day can be followed by a lighter one, and every block can tell you why it's where it is. Workouts arrive as steps for where and how you train. At the end of the week, Tune my week reads what happened and rebuilds the next one.
Routine
In Routine you plan the week by hand: drag tasks onto the unified calendar and block time where you want it, across the days you can see. It's a clean, fast way to lay out work, but it plans the work in front of you, not the life around it — sleep, energy and recovery only appear if you add them as blocks yourself.
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Today shows the block you're in with a live countdown and what's next, and a Live Activity puts it in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. Apps you picked in Screen Time are paused during focus blocks, fixed commitments and bedtime. When the day shifts, you type or say it in Edit day: small changes apply right away with Undo, bigger ones are previewed first. Blocks of an hour or more get a focus timer. Nothing reschedules unless you ask.
Routine
Routine's daily view is where its breadth pays off. The console captures a thought without leaving what you're doing, today's blocks sit next to your calendar, meeting notes and pages are a keystroke away, and AI can summarize a call or run an automation. Nothing reschedules on its own — you move blocks as the day shifts — but everything you need to work is in one window.
Concrete cases, with the honest pick for each. Sometimes that is the other tool.
The solo founder
Wants one app for notes, tasks, calendar and a couple of custom databases, and genuinely enjoys tuning their own setup.
This is what Routine is for. Consolidating notes, tasks, calendar and databases into one configurable console removes app-switching, and someone who likes building their own system will get real leverage from it. Plan7 doesn't do notes or databases and isn't trying to be that hub.
The overloaded professional
Already tried a few productivity apps, doesn't want to build another system, and mostly needs a sustainable week that includes sleep and training.
This person needs a week that fits, and a way to stick to it. Plan7 counts the 168 hours with sleep and training placed first, builds the week from a few answers, and keeps it running with app blocking and a Lock Screen countdown. A blank, flexible workspace like Routine would be one more system to set up and keep alive.
The small team lead
Wants a shared workspace with access control where the team keeps tasks, docs and meeting notes together.
Routine's Business tier is built for this: workspaces, access control and AI meeting notes for a group. Plan7 plans one person's week on one iPhone and has no team features, so it doesn't fit shared workflows.
plan7
You cancel from your Apple account, like any other App Store subscription.
Routine
Routine is a subscription with a real free plan; the pricing page shows monthly rates only. Free is $0 with 250 AI credits, three integrations and three databases. Personal is $5/month and adds time blocking, ten integrations and 500 credits. Professional is $10/month and adds AI meeting notes, agents and automations with 7,000 credits. Business is $15/seat/month with workspaces, access control and 10,000 credits per seat, and Enterprise is by quote. AI runs on metered credits, so heavy use pushes you up a tier.
As of 2026-07-30
Pick Routine if you want one configurable app for tasks, calendar, notes and databases and you enjoy shaping your own system. It's a broad work OS with a free plan, real team features and apps on every platform. Pick Plan7 if you have an iPhone and the problem comes before tooling: you don't have a week that fits work, sleep, training and responsibilities, or you can't stay on the plan once it exists. The honest test is whether you want parts to assemble, or a week built from your answers and an app that keeps you on it.
No. They're different products, and the shared word is a coincidence. Routine (routine.co) is an all-in-one work OS with tasks, a calendar, notes and databases. Plan7 is an iPhone app that builds a seven-day plan around one 30-day goal and helps you follow it. Routine gives you parts to build a system; Plan7 builds the routine.
No. Plan7 has no notes, pages or databases and isn't a place to store documents. If those matter to you, Routine (or a dedicated notes app) is the right tool, and Plan7 sits alongside it as the thing that shapes your week.
Only for one need. If you use Routine mainly to work out a sustainable week, Plan7 does that more directly on your iPhone, with no setup. If you rely on Routine's notes, databases, integrations, AI meeting notes, team workspaces or desktop apps, Plan7 covers none of those.
It reads it, and it doesn't schedule tasks on its own. Plan7 can read four weeks of the calendar on your iPhone and turn repeating events into fixed hours, but it never writes to your calendar. Routine unifies Google Calendar and Outlook and lets you time-block by hand. In Plan7 you change today with one message in Edit day, and Tune my week rebuilds the next week from what you did.
Routine has a free plan and paid tiers from $5 to $15/seat a month (as of 2026-07-30), with AI on metered credits. Plan7 has no free plan: it's a monthly or annual subscription, and the App Store shows the price in your currency before you pay. If a free tier matters, Routine has one and Plan7 doesn't.
Product and pricing claims about Routine come from its official pages, verified on 2026-07-30. Plan7 claims are limited to what ships today.
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Download Plan7 on your iPhone, answer the questions, and see whether the goal fits your 168 hours before the week is built.