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ByDesign vs Morgen

Morgen unifies your calendars. ByDesign plans your life.

Morgen brings your Google, Outlook, iCloud and other calendars and your task tools into one view and suggests a time-blocked day you approve. ByDesign starts further back: goals, habits, notes and a year canvas, with AI that builds the plan from a goal, schedules it, and shows you before anything saves.

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What you get with ByDesign that Morgen doesn’t offer

  • AI that starts from the goal

    Say a goal and get tasks, subtasks, courses and deadlines on your calendar, with a goal page that tracks progress. Morgen’s AI Planner time-blocks the tasks you already have, one to seven days at a time.

  • An assistant inside the app

    ByDesign’s planning chat sees your calendar, goals, habits and notes, takes voice, and comes with the AI plans. Morgen’s chat assistant, Kai, is a separate product; Morgen itself has a natural-language command bar.

  • Habits, goals, notes and courses built in

    A habit tracker with streaks and friends, goal pages with progress, nested pages, and Hub courses. Morgen has routines you check off on the calendar, notes on tasks, and no goals, pages or courses.

  • Your whole year on one canvas

    Year, quarter, month, week and day on one zoomable surface, with sticky notes, images and pinned pages. Morgen plans days and weeks; Frames template your ideal ordinary week.

ByDesign vs Morgen, 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

    Morgen

    Limited: AI PlannerTime-blocks tasks you already have, one to seven days at a time; no goal plans or courses

  • 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

    Morgen

    Limited: Kai, a separate productMorgen itself has a natural-language command bar that creates tasks and navigates

  • Voice control

    ByDesign

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

    Morgen

    Not available: No

Planning views

  • Year-to-day planning canvas

    ByDesign

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

    Morgen

    Limited: Day, week, month and agendaFrames template your ideal week; no year view

  • Kanban boards

    ByDesign

    Included: Custom columnsMain board plus boards per page

    Morgen

    Not available: No

  • Sticky notes, images and pinned pages on the calendar

    ByDesign

    Included: Yes

    Morgen

    Not available: No

  • Customisable dashboard

    ByDesign

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

    Morgen

    Limited: Scheduled-task statisticsTime spent versus time still needed

Notes, habits and goals

  • Notes and pages

    ByDesign

    Included: Nested pagesTables, code, embeds, sub-pages, backlinks; publish to the web

    Morgen

    Limited: Notes on tasksNo pages

  • Habit tracker

    ByDesign

    Included: Check-ins and streaksSkip a day, stats, habits with friends

    Morgen

    Limited: RoutinesTime-blocked activities checked off on the calendar; no streaks or stats

  • Goals with progress

    ByDesign

    Included: Goal pagesTasks, resources, percent complete, shareable

    Morgen

    Not available: No

  • Courses and roadmaps from the Hub

    ByDesign

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

    Morgen

    Not available: Guides, videos and an in-app education hub

  • Pomodoro timer

    ByDesign

    Included: Built in25/5/15 cycles with a floating timer

    Morgen

    Limited: Free web timerSeparate from the app

  • Time tracking on tasks

    ByDesign

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

    Morgen

    Limited: Completed versus remaining timeTime tracking is “not yet” supported, per Morgen’s FAQ

Integrations and collaboration

  • MCP for Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants

    ByDesign

    Included: YesClaude Desktop, Claude Code and ChatGPT guides

    Morgen

    Not available: Kai has one; Morgen offers a REST API and Zapier

  • Share pages and assign tasks

    ByDesign

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

    Morgen

    Limited: Team availabilitySee teammates’ availability and time blocks; co-host scheduling links

  • Built-in chat

    ByDesign

    Included: Direct and groupThreads, reactions, polls

    Morgen

    Not available: No

Morgen column based on guides, FAQ, AI Planner, routines, Kai and pricing on October 26, 2026. If something has changed, email info@bydesign.io.

Both apps cover the basics

  • AI day planning with a preview you approve
  • Time blocking with buffers
  • Tasks with subtasks, priorities, durations, deadlines and tags
  • Recurring tasks
  • Google, Apple and Outlook calendar sync
  • Team workspaces billed per seat
  • Web, Mac, Windows, iOS and Android apps
  • Keyboard shortcuts
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Why people switch from Morgen 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.

Morgen: Morgen’s AI Planner proposes time blocks for the tasks already on your list, by priority and capacity, and waits for your approval. It doesn’t turn a goal into a plan.

ByDesign AI goal plan with tasks, tags and durations

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.

Morgen: Morgen’s calendar shows a day, week, month or agenda, and its AI Planner plans one to seven days at a time. There is no year view.

ByDesign planning canvas showing a full year of plans

Habits, goals and focus, built in

Track habits with streaks and stats, keep goal pages with progress, run a Pomodoro and track time on any task. Open ByDesign in the morning and it already works.

Morgen: Morgen’s routines are time-blocked activities you check off on the calendar. There are no streaks, no goal pages, and its Pomodoro timer is a free web page outside the app.

ByDesign reminders, habits and deadlines on iOS

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.

Morgen: Morgen for Teams shares availability and time blocks and lets teammates co-host scheduling links. Assigning tasks and commenting aren’t part of it, and there is no chat.

ByDesign team workspace

Don’t take our word for it.

  • From Petey M.

    I used to keep a calendar, a to-do list, and a project app. ByDesign replaced all of them. It’s clean, it works, and I haven’t needed anything else.

  • 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 TuneOutlyson003

    I just wanna say that I have FINALLY found a to-do list app where I can have recurring tasks and habit/org systems in one place. This is awesome because I keep wondering if one day my autonomous self will break....this is awesome so far!

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