Joyful productivity

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Calendar apps are having a moment in 2024. Just last week, Notion launched Notion Calendar, a stand-alone, integrated calendar app that replaced Cron, the wildly popular app that was acquired by Notion in 2022. 

Now, another company is vying for the opportunity to inject some joy into your productivity stack. After four years in development and a few months in beta-testing, Amie has launched to the masses with a refreshed take on how a calendar app should operate. 

Rather than just being another app to view and manage your schedule, the new Amie wants to be more of a timeline of your life. Alongside the more productivity-oriented features like integrating with email providers and adding customizable to-do lists, Amie also works with some of your favorite lifestyle apps like Spotify and Apple Health, so you can track songs that you’ve listened to and build healthy habits. 

“our tagline has always been 'the joyful productivity app,' and we think the way to get there is to have the calendar reflect all of your life, not just your work life and appointments,” said CEO, Denis Müller. 

Already have a plethora of productivity tools? You can connect some of them, like TickTick and Linear to build your own productivity hub within the app. 

The new Amie retains the same joyful and intentional design that won it a Golden Kitty for Best Designed App in 2022. It’s clean and simple and does away with a lot of the noisy metadata that usually ships by default with calendars. 

Amie is open now to the public, and it comes with two pricing plans: a free tier that gives you access to the calendar and three integrations, and a paid tier that starts at $10 and gives you unlimited integrations, email, and AI features. 

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