ByDesign
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ByDesign, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ByDesign's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | — | — |
| Annual | — | — |
| Lifetime | — | — |
| Pro | $69 a year | 500 MCP requests / mo · standard storage · $69/yr |
| AI | $119 a year | 1,000 MCP requests / mo · 500 monthly AI credits · standard AI models · standard storage · $119/yr |
| AI Plus | $199 a year | 1,500 MCP requests / mo · 1,500 monthly AI credits · best available AI models · expanded storage · $199/yr |
The facts
Each one read from ByDesign's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI assistant
- The assistant accepts voice or text and can use calendar, goals, habits, and notes as context to help schedule or adjust plans.checked 12 Oct 2026
- AI credits
- The AI plans include monthly AI credits that reset monthly, with 500 on AI and 1,500 on AI Plus.checked 12 Oct 2026
- AI optional
- AI is optional, voice features are off by default, and core planning works without AI.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Calendar integrations
- The pricing page lists calendar sync with Google, Apple, and Outlook; the features page describes real-time syncing of tasks and events.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Calendar sync
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Focus sessions
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Privacy
- ByDesign states that it does not sell user data to advertisers and that users can export or delete their data anytime.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- ByDesign describes itself as a digital planner for tasks, goals, habits, routines, calendar, and AI.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site links a Help Center and lists [email protected] as its contact email.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Who it is for
- The site names students, creators, founders, parents, and freelancers as individual users, and startups, agencies, remote teams, studios, and small businesses as team users.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Year canvas
- The year canvas connects views from five-year goals to months, weeks, and days, with goals, notes, and milestones.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Company location
- ByDesign says its team is based in Boston and that its journey began at Dartmouth College before participating in Techstars.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2022checked 19 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Boston, Massachusetts, United Stateschecked 19 Oct 2026
- Teams
- ByDesign says teams can align on launches, sprints, and deadlines, and the pricing page says extra seats can be bought in the app at the same per-seat price.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Goal planning
- ByDesign says it can turn a goal or course into a step-by-step plan with tasks, habits, and deadlines, then schedule around existing commitments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Planning features
- Paid plans list tasks, habits, pages, Kanban, Pomodoro, AI goal plans, AI scheduling, and a planning canvas.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Planning method
- hybridchecked 22 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile platforms
- bothchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Platforms
- The download page links desktop downloads for Mac and Windows, an iPad app, and mobile apps in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.checked 12 Oct 2026
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