DIGITAL PLANNER FOR 2027
A digital planner that’s connected to your real calendar.
The look of a planner you’d buy for its pages, with your Google Calendar inside it. Your routines, your Top 3 and your protected evenings sit on the same page as your meetings.
No credit card required. Works in your browser on Mac, iPad and iPhone; add it to your Home Screen.
THE PROBLEM
Pretty pages. Last week’s plans.
PDF planners are lovely to look at, but they’re static. The meeting that moved on Tuesday is still in its old slot, and the dentist your partner booked isn’t there. You copy the same routines out by hand every week. So you keep two planners: the pretty one, and the calendar that’s actually right.
If you love writing by hand with a pencil, a PDF planner still does that better. Anser is typed.
| PDF PLANNER | ANSER | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday’s meeting moves | Still in its old slot | Already moved: it’s your Google Calendar |
| Weekly routines | Copied out by hand | On your calendar, with streaks |
| Your evenings | Free until someone books them | Protected; you hear when something lands |
| Planners you keep | Two | One |
HOW ANSER IS DIFFERENT
A planner that knows what’s actually on.
Your real Google Calendar
Events you already have show up in Anser, and what you add in Anser saves to the Google calendar you choose.
Protected time
Mark the time you want to keep: evenings, lunch, sleep, a slow Saturday. When something lands in protected time, Anser tells you and helps you decline, or you allow it once.
Routines
A morning walk or ten pages of reading sits on your calendar with the rest of your morning routine. Tick it there and keep a streak.
Today’s Top 3
Three things that would make today feel done. Everything else can wait.
A look back
Notes shows where your planned time went.
The look and feel
Choose a style (Summer Picnic, Classic, Hand-drawn or Ruled), light or dark, a font, a colour palette and an accent. Add a companion: a goose, hedgehog, puppy or kitty.
Make it yours →Schedule templates
11 ready-made weeks and routines, like The Sunday Reset. See one on your own week before anything is added, and one tap undoes it.
See the schedule templates →A vision board
Photos and words for the year, beside goals broken into small steps. Put a month’s steps on your calendar, with one undo.
See the vision boards →
SCHEDULE TEMPLATES
Not sure where to start? Use a week that already works.
- WorkdaysThe 9–5 with Boundaries
- WorkdaysThe Low-Overwhelm Day
- SundaysThe Sunday Reset
- Your weekSide Project, No Burnout
- Every dayThe 75 Soft Routine
- School daysThe Student Week
- WorkdaysThe Work-From-Home Day
- MorningsThe Gentle Morning Routine
- WeekdaysThe Parent’s Week
- WorkdaysThe Deep Work Week
Each one previews on your own week first. Nothing is added until you say so.
PRICING
Try it free for 7 days.
No credit card. Cancel any time. Friends you plan with join free.
YearlyAbout $7.92 a month · save $25
$95
MonthlyBilled every month. Cancel anytime.
$10
Questions, answered
You get 7 days free. No card needed. Anser reminds you in the app before the trial ends, and by email three days before and on the day it ends.
While our founding price is open, $5 a month or $45 a year, and it stays that for as long as you’re subscribed, even if you switch between them. After that, it’s $10 a month, or $95 a year (about $7.92 a month). Prices are in US dollars, plus tax where it applies.
Yes. Connect it when you sign up with Google, or any time in Settings › Calendars. Anser shows the events already there, checks them against your boundaries, and saves new events you add in Anser to the Google calendar you choose.
In Settings › Calendars you pick which calendars to Show in Anser and which Count as busy. Changes you make in Google usually show up in Anser within a few minutes, and Sync now checks straight away. If an event changed in both places, Anser asks which version to keep. Anser only changes your Google Calendar when you ask it to. When you save, move or delete an event with guests, Anser asks whether Google should email them; nobody is emailed unless you choose it, and the email is Google’s own, not Anser’s.
Anser keeps only what it needs: an event’s title, times, place or meeting link, and the names of the people on it (not their email addresses), or just when you’re busy for a calendar that only counts as busy. Event descriptions aren’t copied, and notes you add to an event in Anser stay in Anser: they’re never sent to Google. Its checklist isn’t either, and routines stay in Anser unless you switch one on for Google Calendar. When you open an event that came from Google, its description is read from Google at that moment to show you, and Anser keeps none of it. A description you write for an event’s guests is the one text that is sent: it’s saved to the Google event, where your guests read it. If you change it in Google afterwards, Anser doesn’t see the change. Turn a calendar off and its events are removed from Anser, apart from the ones you made in Anser; they stay in Google.
The part of your week you want to keep: your working hours, evenings, sleep, or anything else you set up in Settings › Boundaries. When something lands inside it, Anser tells you, and you decide whether to allow it once or decline.
Anser works in your phone’s browser. Add it to your Home Screen to open it like an app and get notifications. On iPhone and iPad: Share, then Add to Home Screen.
On a Mac, you can put Anser in your Dock. There’s nothing to download: it opens in its own window, like an app, and usually you’re already signed in.
Safari: Open anserplanner.com, click Share in the toolbar, then choose Add to Dock and Add. Chrome: Open anserplanner.com, then the ⋮ menu › Cast, save, and share › Install page as app. Safari’s Add to Dock needs macOS Sonoma or later.
Yes, Anser for Chrome, from the Chrome Web Store. Click the Anser icon in Chrome’s toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+D, to see what’s next today, tick off or add to your Top 3, tick routines, add to a tracker, start a focus session, play Anser’s background sounds, or quick-add an event, without opening Anser. Click an event to change it in Anser. While you focus, the icon counts down the minutes.
It uses your normal Anser sign-in, so there’s nothing to set up. It saves what you tick straight to your account. So it opens instantly, it keeps a copy of today on your computer, read again when Chrome starts and just after midnight (and, while you focus, when the session ends), deleted once you sign out of Anser. It doesn’t read your browsing, and it doesn’t change your new tab.
To remove it, open Chrome’s Extensions menu (the puzzle piece), find Anser, and choose Remove from Chrome.
Yes, in Settings › Appearance. Pick a style (Summer Picnic, Classic, Hand-drawn or Ruled), light or dark, a font, a colour palette and an accent. Choose the goose, the hedgehog, the puppy or the kitty as your companion, or turn it off and simple icons take its place. There’s also a monogram for your sidebar, cozy backgrounds, the weather beside the date, and five looks for categories.
Hand-drawn looks like a paper planner, with handwriting and marker colours, in your own palette.
Your companion breathes gently, and a tap gives it a little heart. Nothing is counted and nothing is earned. It stays still with reduced motion on, and in the Classic style.
Only you. Today’s page and your notes, with their tags, your trackers, your to-dos, your moods, gratitude notes and reflections, and your vision board are private to you. Photos and files you attach are kept in private storage that only your account can open. None of it is shared with Shared Life.
If you share a calendar, the people you add can see that calendar’s events, notes included.
Yes, any time: Settings › Profile & account › Download my data. You get one ZIP with your day pages and notes (and their tags), calendar, routines, trackers, to-dos, moods, reflections, goals, boundaries and vision board photos, in files that open without Anser.