# Looking for a Tiimo alternative

> An honest Tiimo alternative, from someone who built one. Where Tiimo wins, where a 24-hour circular planner wins, and how to tell which failure mode is yours.

Published: 2026-07-30. Updated: 2026-08-19. Canonical: https://reassign.ai/resources/tiimo-alternative

First, the bias. Reassign is mine. I built it because my own day kept vanishing into a list, so read everything below with that declared. Everything I say about Tiimo comes from their own site, product pages, resource hub and store listings, checked on 30 July 2026 and re-checked on 1 August and 19 August 2026, and I have tried to be accurate rather than flattering to myself. Both sides of this page were brought up to date on 19 August 2026, and every Tiimo claim still held on that date; where this page and their store listing disagree, the listing wins.

Second, the thing most comparison pages will not tell you: **Tiimo is good.** It is the best-known visual planner in the ADHD space and it earns that. It was designed for neurodivergent users from the start rather than retrofitted, it has native iOS and Android apps plus watch support, and its store listing counts more than twenty languages. If you are looking for an alternative because you assume there must be something better, there might not be. The useful question is narrower.

## The only question that matters

Which failure mode is yours?

Tiimo's shape is a vertical timeline: your day as a friendly strip of blocks with icons, colours and timers. That shape is very good at one job and, on its own, structurally weak at another.

It is good at **the next thing**. What is now, what is after now, did I do the morning routine. If your day falls apart because a routine collapses or a transition gets missed, a timeline with gentle prompts is exactly the right tool, and you should probably stay.

It is weak at **the whole thing**. A line has to scroll, and whatever is off-screen stops existing. You are inside the morning and the evening is abstract. The three-hour gap between two meetings is a subtraction you have to perform rather than a shape you can see. If your day falls apart because you lose the *whole day*, because six o'clock arrives as a surprise, then a longer or prettier line is not the fix. That is [time blindness](https://reassign.ai/resources/what-is-time-blindness), and it needs the day to be one object.

## What a circular planner does differently

Reassign draws all 24 hours as a single ring. Midnight at the top, noon at the bottom, every block a wedge sized to its real length, and a now indicator sweeping round it.

Nothing scrolls out of view, so the evening cannot quietly stop existing while you are busy with the morning. The gap before your next meeting is a visible wedge. The afternoon you have already lost is a shape, not a number you have to work out. This is the whole argument, and it is the [reason a day is drawn round](https://reassign.ai/resources/why-a-day-is-round) rather than long: a closed ring has no off-screen.

It is not a new idea. Paper planners have done this for years, and the analogue ancestor is [the chronodex](https://reassign.ai/resources/what-is-a-chronodex).

The honest cost of a ring: it shows the whole day at lower detail than a timeline shows a slice of it. If you want big icons and a lot of per-block decoration, a line has more room for that.

## Four real differences

### 1. The shape

Covered above, and it is the one that actually matters. Everything else is preference.

### 2. Streaks and trophies

Tiimo ships a Streaks feature. Their own product page describes earning trophies for every session and every task, and calls it "gentle nudges that keep you going". It is currently iOS only.

Reassign deliberately ships none of this. No streaks, no badges, no trophies, no "you broke your run" notification. This is a design position, not a missing feature, and it is worth being explicit about why: a streak turns a bad week into a debt. For a brain that already carries shame about executive function, the streak is the thing that makes reopening the app harder than never opening it. That mechanic is one of the [three reasons planners get abandoned](https://reassign.ai/resources/why-adhd-planners-get-abandoned) around week three.

Reasonable people disagree here. Plenty of people find a trophy genuinely motivating, and if that is you, this difference is a point *for* Tiimo, not against it. But you should know it is a choice each of us made on purpose.

### 3. An agent that can edit the day

Tiimo has AI planning that helps you break tasks down and build a plan.

Reassign is also an MCP server, which is a different thing. It means [Claude](https://reassign.ai/resources/planning-your-day-with-claude) or [ChatGPT](https://reassign.ai/resources/planning-your-day-with-chatgpt) can read and rewrite your actual schedule from inside a chat. When the day breaks at 2pm, "push everything after lunch back an hour" is one sentence rather than ten drags, and the change lands on the real dial for you to keep or undo. Rebuilding a broken afternoon by hand costs executive function you may not have at 2pm, which is exactly when it is needed.

Since August 2026 the same operations are also a public REST API (Pro), with an OpenAPI spec, for the scripts and automations an assistant is the wrong tool for. It is the same set of handlers MCP uses, so a script and Claude cannot disagree about your day.

### 4. How each of us thinks about energy

Both apps take energy seriously. We answer different halves of the question.

Tiimo's energy thinking is a **quantity** model. Their resource hub covers spoon theory and a brain-battery energy audit, and the app carries a mood tracker, iOS only. The question that answers is *how much have I got, and how do I avoid spending it all by Tuesday*. It is genuinely useful, it is the half most ADHD writing covers, and it works without any setup because you supply the rating yourself.

Reassign's is a **timing** model. The Energy layer, which is Pro, draws a per-hour curve around the dial from a two-process circadian and sleep-pressure model, anchored to your habitual sleep midpoint and bent by the caffeine, naps, and sleep already on your day. The question that answers is *when will I have it*. It needs no wearable and draws from a single logged night, but it does need you to log sleep, and it is modelled rather than measured, so it can be wrong. Since August 2026 the curve can also carry the menstrual cycle, opt-in and off by default, and it is hedged on purpose: the measured effect of cycle day on energy is small and person-to-person differences are large, so it suggests rather than instructs, and [the evidence is set out here](https://reassign.ai/resources/cycle-syncing-schedule).

Neither replaces the other, and the honest version of this comparison is that a quantity model is better for pacing while a timing model is better for placing. If you want the longer argument for why timing is the half that usually goes missing, [it is here](https://reassign.ai/resources/adhd-energy-management).

## Where Tiimo is straightforwardly better

Not a rhetorical section. These are real.

- **Native apps.** Tiimo has proper iOS and Android builds. Reassign is a web app you can install and use offline, but there is no App Store version.
- **Watch.** Tiimo has watch support and widgets. Reassign has neither. The nearest thing on our side is a Chrome extension that frames today's dial on every new tab, which answers the desk and not the wrist.
- **Languages.** Tiimo ships in more than twenty. Reassign is English only.
- **Maturity.** Tiimo has been at this for years with a large community behind it. Reassign is young.
- **Routine prompts.** Icon-heavy, repeatable routines with nudges are Tiimo's home ground. If a guided step-by-step routine runner is the whole reason you are shopping, [the Routinery comparison](https://reassign.ai/resources/routinery-alternative) is the closer read.

If two or more of those are load-bearing for you, stay where you are. That is a real answer and I would rather give it than win badly.

## Where it is a wash

Three things people ask about are on both sides now, so neither of us gets a point for them.

- **A focus timer.** Tiimo has built-in focus timers. Reassign has focus intervals drawn on the ring and a focus mode screen for the one block in front of you, both Pro, and there is no pause button by design.
- **A checklist inside a task.** Tiimo has checklists. Reassign has [microtasks](https://reassign.ai/features/microtasks), the steps a block carries: free to write by hand, Pro if you want the AI to draft them.
- **AI that breaks a task down.** Tiimo's co-planner does it. Reassign's "Break this down" does it inside focus mode, on Pro.

## Where this one is better

- **The whole day at once**, which is the entire point.
- **Two-way calendar sync** (Pro), with [Google Calendar](https://reassign.ai/resources/google-calendar-sync), [Outlook](https://reassign.ai/resources/outlook-calendar-sync) and [Todoist](https://reassign.ai/resources/todoist-time-blocking), so the planner fills itself instead of charging you daily data entry.
- **An agent surface** over MCP (Pro), as above, and the same operations as a public REST API for the things you script rather than say.
- **Your day on every new tab.** The [Chrome extension](https://reassign.ai/extension) frames the live dial in every new tab and sends the page you are reading to your plan from a popup, a right-click, or the address bar. Installing it and the new-tab dial are free and need no account; adding a page connects your account.
- **No guilt mechanics**, as above.
- **Reflection**, so you can see [the day you planned against the day you lived](https://reassign.ai/resources/daily-review-planned-vs-lived) rather than only ever planning forward.

The Pro ones are marked. The dial itself, the new-tab dial, reflecting on yesterday and the absence of guilt mechanics are on the free tier; Pro reaches further back through your history.

## On price

Reassign is free to start with no card. Pro is $8 a month or $72 a year.

Tiimo does not print a headline number on its own site; it shows your local price at checkout, and that price varies by region. [The roundup](https://reassign.ai/resources/best-apps-for-time-blindness) prints no Tiimo figure for the same reason, so treat any number on any comparison page as second-hand and check the App Store or Google Play listing for yours. Both apps have a free tier, and the free tier is the only honest way to answer the question this page is really about.

## If you were also looking at Structured

Different comparison, same shape question. [The Structured comparison](https://reassign.ai/resources/structured-alternative) covers the other big vertical timeline, and it is the one to read if price and free tiers are what you are weighing. Both of them plan on the line, so choosing between them is mostly about how much gentle guidance you want along the way. For that decision, [the Tiimo versus Structured comparison](https://reassign.ai/resources/tiimo-vs-structured) puts the two side by side, feature by feature.

## How to decide in one evening

Do not read more comparisons. Do this instead.

Put tomorrow into both, the whole day including the boring parts, and then look at each at 3pm when something has already gone wrong. One of them will show you a day you recognise and the other will not. That is the answer, and it takes an evening rather than a fortnight.

If the line works, keep the line. Tiimo is a good app and a good line. If you keep losing the shape of the day, the problem was never the app's polish, and a round one is worth an evening of your time.

## FAQ

### What is the best Tiimo alternative?

It depends which part of Tiimo stopped working for you. If you want the same vertical timeline with a much larger free tier, Structured is the closest match, and there is a longer Structured comparison on this site. If the timeline itself was the problem, because you keep losing the shape of the whole day, a 24-hour circular planner like Reassign shows all 24 hours at once, and that dial is free. Pro adds a list and a timeline for reading the days ahead, and neither of those lets you drag a block, because drawing a day stays on the ring. If you mainly wanted the visual timer, a standalone timer app or a physical Time Timer is cheaper than any subscription.

### Why do people look for a Tiimo alternative?

The three reasons that come up most are platform, price and shape. Tiimo is mobile-first; there is a web planner, but it is a premium feature, so people who work at a desk all day sometimes want something that opens in a browser tab without a subscription. Some people want a cheaper option. And some find that a vertical timeline still hides the day: you see the next stretch of hours, not the whole thing, so the evening stays abstract while you are inside the morning.

### Is Tiimo worth it?

For a lot of people, yes. It was designed for neurodivergent users from the start, it has native iOS and Android apps and watch support, and it ships in several languages. If your failure mode is routines falling apart, it is a genuinely good pick and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.

### Does Reassign have an app?

Not a native one. Reassign is a web app you can install to your home screen and it works offline, but there is no App Store build and no watch face. There is a Chrome extension that puts today's dial on every new tab and adds the page you are reading to your plan, which is a desk answer rather than a phone one. If a watch complication matters to you, that is a real reason to stay with Tiimo, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.

### Can Reassign show me the days ahead, not just today?

Yes, on Pro. The dial itself is one day by design, and it is free. Pro adds two ways to read forward: a list view that runs day by day, thirty days at a time and up to a year out, and a timeline view that lays the same stretch flat with a lane for each area of life. Neither of them lets you drag, resize or draw a block, because making a day stays on the dial. Free plans the next 5 days, so there is not much ahead to read on it.

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