Balane Plan works backwards from your deadlines, knows the dependencies in between, and measures how long work actually takes you. Out of that comes an order every morning — with the reason next to every task. For macOS, Windows, iPhone and Android.
The free plan stays free. It is not a trial that runs out.
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Queued after this
The Now view: one suggestion, and the reason behind it.
The problem
Your list is not too long. It is too flat.
A five-minute question that blocks fourteen hours of follow-up work sits there exactly like the idea that has been waiting half a year: one line, one checkbox, the same font size. So in the end what shouts loudest wins — not what moves most.
How it works
Tasks hang on each other, projects hang on deadlines. Balane Plan walks backwards through the chain from the deadline and therefore knows what has to start today so nothing falls over at the end — and what can sit for two weeks without anyone noticing.
Calculated backwards from delivery, 14 Oct
A clock runs while you work and separates active work from waiting on other people. After a few weeks the app knows a support email takes you five minutes, not eight. From then on it plans with your numbers instead of your optimism.
A deadline slips, a client goes quiet. You see the consequences before you decide them: which projects move with it, which one could start earlier, and whether the delivery date still holds.
Move delivery by 3 days
Moves with it
Could now start earlier
Day to day
Drag instead of type. The status changes, the order recalculates.
Important against urgent, sorted from real deadlines rather than gut feel.
Client work beats nice-to-have, without you deciding it again every time.
Two weeks on one topic. Everything else moves back until then.
One sentence in, and the project, duration and deadline are already there.
Files and links sit on the task, not in your downloads folder.
Write down once how a release goes. After that it is seven tasks in one click.
What lands in which week, before it surprises you.
Pricing
The difference is volume, not features. Planner, clock, board, matrix and schedule are complete on the free plan too.
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not a trial
Price not fixed yet
We will set it before launch. The free plan is unaffected.
In preparation, not included today
Buy once, use on every device.
A purchase belongs to your account, not to a device. On iPhone, iPad and Mac billing runs through the App Store, on Android through Google Play, and for Windows and the Mac direct download through Lemon Squeezy. You still pay only once.
Platforms
The plan is the same everywhere. The clock keeps running when you switch device.
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Questions
A to-do app stores what needs doing. Balane Plan decides what to do now and writes the reason next to it: which follow-up work the task releases, and when it has to start at the latest. The difference shows on the day thirty tasks are open and none of them looks urgent.
Because it does not need tending to keep working. A board is worthless the moment nobody moves a card for two weeks. Here it is enough that deadlines and durations are right — the order recalculates from those every morning, even after two weeks of silence.
From your own measurements. At the start it plans with your estimate. Once you have finished a task a few times with the clock running, the measured value replaces the estimate — split into active work and waiting on other people, because only the first one costs you a day.
It recalculates instead of nagging. What is left over does not simply roll to tomorrow; it goes back into the arithmetic. Whatever gets tight because of it is at the top the next morning, and whatever has slack moves back.
No. Without them Balane Plan schedules by deadlines and measured durations, and that already carries an ordinary week. Dependencies are the surcharge for the critical path: only once you enter them does the app know that a five-minute question unlocks fourteen hours of follow-up work.
The AI prepares, it does not decide. Deciding is arithmetic: the order comes from your deadlines, dependencies and measured durations, with the reason next to it. Preparing happens at capture, where a sentence becomes tasks, durations and dates. Rules do that today. A model is being built for exactly the point where rules give up: when one sentence carries two tasks and a dependency at once. It will not touch the order either.
No, but appointments that affect the plan have to be in Balane Plan. It only calculates with what it can see. Reading and writing Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar is in preparation; it is not there today, and we are not going to pretend otherwise here.
For one to ten people planning their own work it is enough: share tasks, several assignees, shared projects. What it cannot do is balance capacity across a whole team — who carries how much is still your call. For resource planning in a large department it is the wrong tool.
Not today. It is planned for Pro: sign-in keeps running through us, the database sits with you. Until that is finished we are not going to claim otherwise here.
Three active projects and thirty days of history. That is the whole catch. Free does not expire, and the planner, clock, board, matrix and schedule are included in full — the thirty days only limit how far back you can page.
Create an account, enter three projects, let the clock run once. The first day needs nothing more.