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ByDesign vs Lunatask

Lunatask keeps your life private. ByDesign plans it with you, and with your team.

Lunatask is an encrypted personal system: tasks in areas with goals, habits with streaks, a mood tracker (energy and stress on Premium), a journal, Markdown notes, a relationships tracker and Pomodoro-style timers, with calendars flowing in one way. ByDesign keeps the habits, goals and notes and adds what Lunatask leaves out: AI that turns a goal into scheduled tasks you approve, two-way calendar sync, week, month and year views, sharing and chat, a web app and 12 languages.

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What you get with ByDesign that Lunatask doesn’t offer

  • AI that builds the plan

    Say a goal and get tasks, subtasks, courses and deadlines on your calendar, with a preview you approve. Lunatask has no AI features; you set priorities and estimates and plan each day by hand.

  • A calendar that syncs both ways, with a week, month and year

    Edit events in ByDesign or in Google and Apple Calendar, and see your plan by day, week, month, quarter or year. Lunatask shows today and tomorrow, and its calendar integrations are “one-way only”, flowing into Lunatask on Premium.

  • Share it, assign it, talk about it

    Share pages, assign tasks, @mention in comments and chat in the app on a team plan. Lunatask can share a note; its FAQ says end-to-end encryption makes broader sharing “difficult”, and there are no assignments, chat or team plans.

  • On the web, in your language

    ByDesign runs in the browser and in 12 languages. Lunatask has no web app yet (the Lunatask 3 rewrite is meant to enable one) and no localisations, per its documentation.

ByDesign vs Lunatask, feature by feature

Only the differences. What both apps do the same is listed underneath.

  • Included
  • Limited
  • Not available

AI planning

  • AI goal plans

    ByDesign

    Included: Built and scheduledTasks, subtasks, courses and deadlines land on your calendar; AI and AI Plus plans

    Lunatask

    Not available: No AI features

  • AI scheduling with a preview you approve

    ByDesign

    Included: Preview, then acceptConflicts shown; nothing saves until you say so; AI and AI Plus plans

    Lunatask

    Not available: No

  • Auto-schedule around your hours

    ByDesign

    Included: Rules you setWork hours, breaks, buffers, max hours a day, split long tasks

    Lunatask

    Not available: Time blocking by handDrag planned tasks onto today’s calendar; habits with a set time appear automatically

  • Planning assistant chat

    ByDesign

    Included: In the app, full contextSees your calendar, goals, habits and notes; moves and reschedules items; AI and AI Plus plans

    Lunatask

    Not available: No

  • Voice control

    ByDesign

    Included: Mic and hands-freeOptional wake phrase; AI and AI Plus plans

    Lunatask

    Limited: Siri through ShortcutsCapture tasks on iPhone, Apple Watch and HomePod

Calendar and views

  • Two-way calendar sync

    ByDesign

    Included: Google and AppleEdit events in either place; Outlook and ICS subscriptions too

    Lunatask

    Limited: One-way, inboundGoogle, Outlook, iCloud and CalDAV flow into Lunatask on Premium; “one-way only”, per its docs

  • Year-to-day planning canvas

    ByDesign

    Included: Year to dayYear, quarter, month, week and day on one zoomable surface; AI and AI Plus plans

    Lunatask

    Limited: Today and tomorrowNo week, month or year view

  • Kanban boards

    ByDesign

    Included: Custom columnsMain board plus boards per page

    Lunatask

    Limited: Kanban workflowStatus sections stacked vertically rather than columns

  • Sticky notes, images and pinned pages on the calendar

    ByDesign

    Included: Yes

    Lunatask

    Limited: Quick NoteOne scratchpad note always visible beside your tasks; nothing on a calendar

  • Customisable dashboard

    ByDesign

    Included: Drag-and-drop widgetsScore board, tasks, habits, inbox, pinned pages, Kanban

    Lunatask

    Not available: No

Learning, focus and languages

  • Courses and roadmaps from the Hub

    ByDesign

    Included: The HubCourses, roadmaps and a habit library; schedule a roadmap straight onto your calendar

    Lunatask

    Not available: No

  • Time tracking on tasks

    ByDesign

    Included: Start and pause on any taskTotals per task; “most tracked” filter

    Lunatask

    Not available: Timers without logged-time reports

  • Languages

    ByDesign

    Included: 12 languagesThe assistant answers in your language

    Lunatask

    Not available: English only“We don’t provide localizations in our apps at the moment”

Collaboration and platforms

  • MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants

    ByDesign

    Included: YesClaude Desktop, Claude Code and ChatGPT guides

    Lunatask

    Not available: Public API and ZapierNo official MCP server

  • Share pages and assign tasks

    ByDesign

    Included: View, comment or editAssign tasks; @mention in comments

    Lunatask

    Limited: Note sharingShare a note; end-to-end encryption makes broader sharing “difficult”, per its FAQ; no assignments

  • Built-in chat

    ByDesign

    Included: Direct and groupThreads, reactions, polls

    Lunatask

    Not available: No

  • Team plans

    ByDesign

    Included: Per seatAdd or remove members in settings

    Lunatask

    Not available: No

  • Apps

    ByDesign

    Included: Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, iPad and Android

    Lunatask

    Limited: Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and AndroidNo web app yet; the Lunatask 3 rewrite is meant to enable one

Lunatask column based on pricing, tasks, calendar, habits, timers, workflows, common questions, voice assistants, API and releases on October 26, 2026. If something has changed, email info@bydesign.io.

Both apps cover the basics

  • Habit tracker with streaks
  • Goals with progress
  • Tasks with priorities, estimates and recurring schedules
  • Notes with Markdown
  • Pomodoro-style timers
  • Time blocking
  • Sync across devices
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Why people switch from Lunatask to ByDesign

Say the goal. Get a scheduled plan.

Tell ByDesign what you want to achieve. It asks a few questions, then builds the tasks, subtasks, courses and deadlines and schedules them around the life you already have. Replan in one message.

Lunatask: Lunatask sorts tasks by age, status, priority and urgency, and you drag planned tasks onto today’s calendar. There is no AI, so the plan, the estimates and the schedule are yours to build.

ByDesign AI goal plan with tasks, tags and durations

Your calendar, both ways

Connect Google or Apple Calendar and edit an event in either place, with Outlook and ICS subscriptions too. Auto-scheduling fills the real gaps around the meetings already there.

Lunatask: Lunatask’s calendar integrations bring Google, Outlook, iCloud and CalDAV events in, one way, on Premium. Time blocking works on the built-in today calendar; there is no week or month view and nothing schedules tasks for you.

Google, Microsoft and Apple calendars syncing with ByDesign

Your whole year on one surface

The planning canvas zooms from the full year down to a single day. Pin goals, notes and milestones where they belong, drag anything, and the plan keeps up.

Lunatask: Lunatask shows today, and tomorrow when the sidebar is wide. Its calendar docs say the team lacks the capacity for week or month views for now, and there is no year view or canvas.

ByDesign planning canvas showing a full year of plans

A workspace your team can live in

Share pages with view, comment or edit access, assign tasks, @mention people in comments and chat without leaving the app. Add seats from the app on a team plan.

Lunatask: Lunatask is built for one person with end-to-end encryption; it can share a note, and its FAQ says broader sharing is difficult for that reason. There are no assignments, chat or team plans.

ByDesign team workspace

Don’t take our word for it.

  • From E

    I really like ByDesign - a lot. I was looking for something that works for me but is also simple and intuitive enough to work for my 12 yr old daughter who needs to start planning out her homework and chores around her other calendar events. I think this is it - and I have looked at a lot of your competitors - Notion, Motion, Tick Tick, To-Do, Todoist. None have the simplicity of user interface combined with the rich features (but not overly complex). love it😍

  • From Daniel

    Honestly, Notion was really exhausting for me... Your product works in the simplest way. I’m a product designer, and I’d love to share my feedback with you after using it more :)

  • App Store Review

    I have tried pretty much every calendar app and this one is the best I’ve tried.

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