Routine vs Timestripe

Routine

• People who want tasks, calendar and notes in a single app
• Capturing tasks quickly from the keyboard on desktop
• Trying a planner on a free plan before paying

Timestripe

• People who want daily tasks tied to quarterly, yearly and life goals
• Small teams planning shared goals with assignees and comments
• Anyone who likes guided step-by-step programs for a new goal

Routine

• The Free plan is capped at 3 integrations, 3 custom databases and 250 AI credits.
• Time blocking and time boxing are not part of the Free plan; they start with Personal.
• AI meeting notes, AI agents, automations and time tracking require Professional or higher.
• Routine's download page says the web app is 30% slower than the desktop apps and lacks some functionality.

Timestripe

• The free Basic plan stops at 5 goals per horizon, 10 per board list, 3 custom boards and 1 Climb at a time.
• Monthly billing costs $19 a month, more than double the $9 a month charged on the yearly plan.
• No native desktop app is listed. Timestripe runs on the web, iOS and Android, plus a Chrome extension.
• The US App Store lists Pro at $19.99 monthly and $99.99 annually, so in-app prices differ slightly from the website.

Routine

Planner and calendar

Plan the day in a view that combines tasks with events from connected calendars such as Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Time blocking starts on the Personal plan.

Dashboard hotkey

A desktop hotkey opens a dashboard for creating tasks quickly and adding context to them without switching apps.

Universal inbox

Imports tasks, messages and notifications from connected apps and services into one inbox.

Notes and custom databases

Notes, a journal and pages sit alongside tasks. Custom databases model your own object types: 3 on Free, 10 on Personal and unlimited from Professional.

AI meeting notes

Records meetings without a meeting bot and generates a summary with the transcript and original audio. Requires the Professional plan.

AI assistant, agents and MCP

An AI assistant and voice commands are in every plan. AI agents and automations need Professional, and MCP connects Routine to assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude.

Timestripe

Horizons

Connected planning views for days, weeks, months, quarters, years and beyond. Big goals sit on longer horizons and are broken into milestones that reach the daily view.

Goals with notes and subgoals

A task, event, project or note is the same kind of object. Each can take a date, an owner, subgoals, tags, files and rich-text notes with embedded content.

Boards

Kanban-style boards hold anything without a date yet, such as backlogs and ideas. Board items can be linked to the planner or scheduled onto Horizons.

Calendar and time blocking

The day's to-do list can be laid out in calendar form to estimate the time each goal needs. The pricing page lists Apple and Google calendar integration.

Climbs

Ready-made step-by-step sequences of goals, with more than 100 guides on topics such as health, fitness and productivity. Basic allows one Climb at a time.

Team spaces, API and CLI

Spaces, a team view, assignees, mentions and comments are on both plans. A public API and a command-line client let scripts and AI agents read and write the plan.

Routine

• Free$0

  Tasks, calendars and notes, AI assistant, voice commands, offline mode, 3 integrations, 3 custom databases and 250 AI credits.

• Personal$5

  per month, billed yearly

  Adds time blocking, time boxing, event coloring, exporting, unlimited file uploads, 10 integrations, 10 custom databases and 500 AI credits.

• Professional$10

  per month, billed yearly

  Adds AI meeting notes, AI agents and automations, time tracking, a menu bar widget, unlimited integrations and databases, and 7,000 AI credits.

• Business$15

  per seat / month, billed yearly

  Adds an organization with workspaces, access control, versioning, consolidated billing, priority support and 10,000 AI credits per seat.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds unlimited history, compliance, audit logs, analytics, user provisioning and a success manager.

Timestripe

• Basic$0

  The whole product with limits: 5 goals per horizon, 10 per board list, 3 custom boards, 1 Climb at a time and 100 MB of files.

• Pro (Strategists' plan)$7

  per month, sold as a 5-year deal

  Pro bought for five years at once. The pricing page shows it as a saving of $150 a year against monthly billing.

• Pro (Yearly)$9

  per month, billed yearly

  Unlimited goals, boards, lists and Climbs, with files up to 100 MB each and no account storage limit.

• Pro (Monthly)$19

  per month, billed monthly

  The same Pro features on month-to-month billing.

Routine

• Annual discount

  Up to 38% off on yearly plans

  Routine's pricing page marks its yearly prices as 38% off for Personal and 17% off for Professional and Business.

• Startups

  Startup program: Business plan free for a year

  Startups with under $2 million in funding and fewer than 20 employees can apply for the Business plan free for one year, worth up to $2,500.

Timestripe

• Annual discount

  Save $120 a year with yearly billing

  Pro costs $9 a month on the yearly plan against $19 on the monthly plan. The pricing page states the saving as $120 a year.

• Other savings

  5-year Strategists' plan

  Paying for five years at once brings Pro down to $7 a month, which the pricing page shows as a saving of $150 a year.

• Lifetime license

  One-time payment for unlimited access

  The pricing FAQ says unlimited access is available for a one-time payment, activated by emailing the receipt to Timestripe. It does not list the price.

• Other savings

  Referral link: 30% off for friends

  Friends who subscribe through your personal link get 30% off, and you receive 30 extra days of Pro for each one.