Jamaal is a calm planner that works out what fits in your day, puts it in the right order, and plans tomorrow with you before bed.
Most of us already have a list app, a calendar and a habit tracker. Remembering things isn't the hard part. The hard part is that none of them tells you what fits in today.
A list app: Shows everything you've ever added.
Jamaal: Shows today, and only what fits.
A list app: Leaves the order up to you.
Jamaal: Orders by what matters and what's due.
A list app: Tasks here, habits there, the school run in a calendar.
Jamaal: Tasks, habits and fixed-time things in one list.
A list app: Overdue in red. Streaks to keep alive.
Jamaal: No red. No streaks. Nothing to break.
A list app: Nothing happens in the evening.
Jamaal: Five minutes at night shapes tomorrow.
When you add something, you tell Jamaal two things: how much it matters, and when it's due. Behind the list, it uses the oldest trick in planning to place each task on a grid of what matters and what's urgent. You never see the grid. You just get one line, in the right order.
Urgency also grows. Put something off three times and Jamaal asks for a date. Put it off five times and it asks whether it still belongs.
Open Jamaal and Today is one list: what matters, what's due, and the few fixed things you can't move. A bar shows how much of your day it fills, so you know before nine whether it's too much.
Type it on your Mac, your iPad or your phone, and give it a rough size. If today is already full, Jamaal says so and offers tomorrow instead of squeezing it in.
One task and one timer, counting up. There's no alarm when you pass the estimate, just a line that says so. Stand an iPhone Duo half-open on a table and it becomes a desk clock.
The school run, bin night, watering the plants, feeding the cat. Anchors have a window rather than a deadline. They sit at the top of Today, and everything else fits around them.
Water, a walk, reading before bed. Each habit fills a grid of days, so a missed Tuesday is one pale square, not a broken chain.
One gentle nudge in the evening. Look back at today, carry forward what's left, and shape tomorrow around what's already fixed. Then close the day.
The part no list app does. Each evening, Jamaal walks you through today and shapes tomorrow around what's already fixed. Skip a night and nothing is lost.
All five steps on one canvas, with tomorrow drawn to scale, so you can see the gaps between the fixed things before you fill them.
Mark something done on your phone and it's done on your Mac. Each device shows the list in the way that suits it, and they all share the same list underneath.
The whole day in one hand, with a running session always one tap away.
Folded, a phone. Opened, the list sits beside the task you're looking at. Half-open on a table, it's a focus clock.
A sidebar, the list and the open task side by side. Anchors get their own place.
A proper Mac app: ⌘N to add, menu-bar commands, and Settings where Mac apps keep them.
Today and Next Anchor on the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and the Mac desktop. In the evening, a way into tomorrow.
The next thing, large, with Done under your thumb. Habits by the crown, a focus timer and quiet complications.
A running session on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with Pause and Finish.
Most productivity apps run on guilt. Jamaal is built around a few things it will never do.
Miss a day and nothing breaks. Habits show up as a grid of days over weeks, not a number to protect.
Being late is said in words. Nothing flashes, and there are no overdue badges.
One flat list. Categories are labels, not folders to manage.
Rough effort estimates and how much energy you have set a budget for each day.
Jamaal suggests one move at a time, and "keep as planned" is always an answer.
For years I bounced between a reminders app, a calendar, a habit tracker and a to-do list. None of them stuck, because none of them knew how much day I actually had. Jamaal is the one I kept opening.
There's nothing to sign up for. Open the app and start.
Your list syncs across your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud, and it works offline.
Task titles in widgets are hidden while your device is locked.
Soon. Everyone on the waitlist gets a TestFlight invite the moment it does, without having to come back and sign up again.
Send you the beta invite and tell you when Jamaal launches. Nothing else, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Those apps hold everything and leave the deciding to you. Jamaal shows only today, puts it in order by what matters and what's due, checks it against how much time and energy you have, and plans tomorrow with you each evening.
No, and you never will. It's one flat list. Personal, Family and Work are simple labels you can rename or filter by. They aren't folders.
Something your day moves around that has a window rather than a deadline: the school run, bin night, watering the plants, a weekly class. You mark it attended, not done, and there's never a streak to keep.
Jamaal has a 14-day free trial, then costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 a year. If you don't subscribe, you can still tick things off, log habits, mark Anchors and run the timer. Adding, editing and Night Planning wait for a subscription, and nothing is deleted.
iPhone, iPad and Mac, including the iPhone Duo. The Apple Watch app and Live Activities arrive in version 1.1. An Android version may come later.
Yes, through your own iCloud. There is no Jamaal account, and it works offline.
No. There's one evening reminder, plus reminders for windows you've asked about. Nothing is red, nothing flashes, and there are no streaks to lose.
Join the waitlist. You'll be the first to get a TestFlight invite when the beta opens.
