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Amie blends a beautiful calendar with tasks, email, and bot-free AI meeting notes in one Mac and iOS app. We rate it 72/100 — gorgeous and joyful, but premium-priced and missing Android.
Amie is an all-in-one calendar, tasks, and AI meeting notes app for Mac and iOS, built in Berlin by Dennis Müller and the team behind one of Product Hunt's most-anticipated 2024 launches. We rate it 72/100 — for Apple-only knowledge workers who care deeply about design and want a single beautiful surface for time, todos, and meeting follow-ups, Amie is the closest thing to a joyful productivity app on the market today.
Amie is a desktop and mobile productivity app that combines a calendar, a to-do list, an AI note taker, and email (rolling out) in one tightly integrated workspace. The company was founded in by Dennis Müller, a then-23-year-old former N26 product manager, alongside co-founder Marcel Schmidt. Amie spent nearly four years in private invite-only beta before opening to everyone on .
Backed by a $1.3M pre-seed led by Creandum (early Spotify investor) with participation from Tiny.VC, Laura Grimmelmann (ex-Accel), Nicolas Kopp (CEO, N26 U.S.), and Roland Grenke (Dubsmash co-founder), Amie's bet is simple: events, tasks and habits all consume time, so they belong in the same canvas. In the team leaned harder into AI and rebranded the homepage tagline as "AI Note Taker" — meeting summaries that record locally on your Mac without bots joining your Zoom calls.
Sentiment skews positive but qualified. On Product Hunt the launch drew thousands of upvotes and effusive praise for craftsmanship, with reviewers calling it the most beautiful calendar they've used. Reviews on Efficient App, ToolGuide, and ClickUp's blog consistently single out the drag-to-schedule interaction and the calendar-meets-tasks model as genuinely productivity-improving rather than just decorative.
The recurring complaints are real, though. App Store reviewers and threads on Reddit's r/productivity report sync hiccups across devices, the occasional disappearing task, and slow cold-starts. The largest structural gap is platform: there is still no Android app in , which makes Amie a non-starter for households or teams that aren't 100% Apple. Some long-time fans have also pushed back on the pivot toward AI meeting notes, feeling the original calendar-first vision is being diluted.
Amie is free to try for 7 days; after that you pick a plan. Annual billing typically saves 15–20%.
| Plan | Price | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | Free for 7 days | Kicking the tires |
| Pro | $10/month | Solo professionals who live in their calendar |
| Business | $30/month (~$21/mo annual) | Teams that want shared scheduling + AI notes |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Larger orgs needing SSO + admin controls |
Best for: Solo founders, designers, PMs and creators who already own a Mac plus an iPhone, dislike calendar bloat, and would happily pay $10/month for an interface that makes planning the day feel less like a chore. Anyone who runs back-to-back meetings and wants notes without a third-party bot in the room.
Not ideal for: Android users, Linux users, Windows-first teams, or anyone who needs heavyweight project management (Gantt charts, roadmaps, dependencies). If you live in Notion or Linear for tasks, Amie's todo layer will feel thin.
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If Amie isn't a fit, the closest contenders are Fantastical (mature Apple-native calendar, weaker tasks, no AI notes), Cron / Notion Calendar (free, beautiful, but no built-in tasks or notes), Vimcal (keyboard-driven for power users; macOS, web, iOS), and Akiflow for cross-platform calendar+tasks workflows including Windows. For pure AI meeting notes without the calendar, Granola and Fireflies cover the same job at lower prices.
If you spend most of your day inside a calendar, you live on Apple hardware, and design quality matters to you, Amie is one of the most enjoyable productivity tools you can buy in 2026 — and the local AI note taker is a real differentiator. If you've ever installed Bartender, Things, or Raycast and felt those small daily moments of joy, Amie is for you.
If you need Android, multi-OS team coverage, or rock-solid sync above all, look elsewhere. We rate Amie 72/100 — very good with real rough edges, anchored by genuinely original ideas about how time and tasks should live together.
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