DoPlan connects your goals to your daily work — and gives you AI assistance not just before you start, but mid-session when you hit a wall.
Free tier available at launch · No credit card needed
Sound familiar?
You plan 14 hours into an 8-hour day. The list looks achievable until 2pm, then everything collapses. No one warns you until it's too late.
Mid-session, you're stuck. You switch to email, then Twitter, then it's 5pm and the task is exactly where you left it. There was no one to help you break through.
You set goals in January. By March, your daily tasks have nothing to do with them. There's no thread connecting what you do each day to what you said you'd build.
How it works
Tell the AI your tasks, your time budget, and your goals. It builds a time-blocked schedule that respects your work hours — and warns you before the day is impossible, not after.
When you hit a wall mid-session, open the blocker chat. Describe what's stopping you. The AI knows your task, your goal, and your session history — and gives you a specific path forward, not generic advice.
Define what success looks like when you create a goal. Every completed task records a Breakthrough against those criteria. Achieved goals close with a Win — a narrative of what you built and what you promised.
At the end of each session, record what you did, what blocked you, and what's next. Weekly and daily AI reviews analyze your actual time log and surface patterns you'd never notice manually.
You spent 40% of your week on API work but only 10% on the landing page — which is on the critical path for launch. Wednesday had 3 blocker events, all on auth-related tasks. Consider pairing or time-boxing those sessions next week.
Why DoPlan is different
AI stops at the door. When you sit down to work, you're alone. When you get stuck, there's nobody there.
AI stays with you through the whole arc — planning, execution, blockers, reflection, and closing the goal loop.
Local-first
DoPlan is a desktop app. Your tasks, goals, time logs, and session notes are stored in a local database on your computer — never uploaded to any server unless you choose to enable optional sync.
Install and run. No sign-up, no subscription to start, no email verification.
AI features use your own OpenAI API key. You pay OpenAI directly — no AI markup from us, and your conversations never pass through our servers.
Your time log is automatically exported as a CSV file every day. Your data is fully portable and human-readable without the app.
Pricing
No subscription. No AI usage fees from us. One price for the full app.
Requires OpenAI API key for AI features (~$0.01–0.05/session)
We'll send you a one-time email when DoPlan is available. No spam, no newsletters — just the launch notification.
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FAQ
Yes. All core features — task management, timer, time log, scheduling, conflict detection, Gantt chart, routines, and archive — work without any API key. AI features (day planner, blocker resolution, goal agent, weekly review, habit analysis) require an OpenAI key, which you configure in Settings. You can get a key at OpenAI's website; typical usage costs $0.01–0.05 per planning session.
DoPlan is an Electron desktop application available for macOS (DMG), Windows (NSIS installer), and Linux (AppImage). It runs fully offline — no internet connection required except when AI features make calls to OpenAI.
Not yet. The app includes a LAN REST API that lets you control timers and view tasks from your local network — an Android companion app uses this today. A proper mobile companion is on the roadmap. For now, DoPlan is a desktop-first tool — designed for the moments when you're sitting down to do focused work.
All data is stored locally in Electron's userData directory on your machine: tasks, goals, time entries, session notes, and archives are stored as SQLite and JSON files. Your time log is also exported as a daily CSV file. Nothing is uploaded to our servers. If you use AI features, only the specific request context (task title, session info) is sent to OpenAI using your own API key.
Because your AI usage is paid directly to OpenAI — there's no ongoing AI cost on our side that needs a subscription to cover. DoPlan itself is a desktop app with no servers to run, no sync infrastructure to maintain. A one-time price is honest for what you're actually getting: software that runs on your machine, forever.
It's a commitment tracking loop. When you create a goal, you define what success looks like (vision + success criteria). When you create a task, you attach it to a goal and write a specific success criterion for that task. When you mark the task done, the app asks: did you meet that criterion? Your answer is the Breakthrough record. When all tasks for a goal are complete, the AI drafts a Win narrative — a record of what you built vs. what you promised. It's designed to make you honest about whether you delivered, not just whether you showed up.