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iPhone · iPad · Mac
A to-do list that decides with you.
Orderly keeps everything you have to do in one place, then helps you work out what actually deserves today.
Free to use
No ads, no tracking
Syncs over iCloud
Your tasks stay yours
iOS 17 · macOS 14
iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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Morning mobility routine
Team standup prep
Pick up groceries
Urgent +
Important 2
Important 2
Not Urgent +
Important 1
Important 1
Urgent + Not
Important 1
Important 1
Not Urgent + Not
Important 1
Important 1
The same five tasks, read two ways. Try the tabs — and tick something off.
Your list
Everything, in one tidy list.
Add a task from the row at the bottom or the + button. Give it a category, a due date, and let the list keep itself sorted.
Categories that stay out of the way
Name them, colour them, reorder them. A filter row across the top narrows the list to one without hiding anything permanently.
Repeats that read like English
Daily, weekly on the days you pick, or a one-off date. Each occurrence ticks off on its own, so last Tuesday staying undone is still visible.
Priorities
Urgent isn't the same as important.
The matrix splits your open tasks by urgency and importance, so the things that quietly matter stop losing to the things that are merely loud.
- Drag between quadrants to change a task's priority — the stripe on the row updates everywhere at once.
- Colour is the shorthand. Red is do it now, blue is worth protecting time for, amber can be handed off, grey deserves a second look.
- Nothing is hidden. The matrix is a second reading of the same list, not a separate place things go to be forgotten.
Urgent + important
Do these first. Time-sensitive work that also moves something important forward.
Not urgent + important
Schedule these deliberately. Meaningful work that needs protected time before it becomes urgent.
Urgent + not important
Handle quickly or hand off. These need attention, but they should not own your day.
Not urgent + not important
Reconsider or clear out. If it does not matter and it is not timely, it may not belong here.
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Calendar
See the week before it arrives.
Anything with a due date shows up on the calendar, coloured by category, so a heavy Thursday is obvious while you can still do something about it.
- A dot per category under each date — enough to read the shape of a week at a glance, without turning the month into a wall of text.
- Tap a day and the same task cards from your list appear underneath it, ready to tick off.
- Push it to Apple Calendar and your tasks travel with you across the ecosystem. Orderly writes; it never imports your events.
Smart Schedule
Turn a mess into a plan.
Paste a syllabus, a screenshot of a whiteboard, or a rambling note. Smart Schedule reads it and drafts tasks with dates and priorities for you to approve.
- Every suggestion arrives finished — a due date and a place in the matrix, so there is nothing left to fill in.
- You approve, edit, or throw it out. Nothing is added to your list until you say so.
- It knows your term. Connect a course feed and you can ask for three days of study before every exam.
- Three free drafts to try it. Sign in with Apple and the first three are on us — no card, nothing to cancel.
Plan my week around my classes
Images
Files
Create Tasks
Outline the essay draft
Study block for the midterm
Connections
Bring in the rest of your schedule.
Link your learning environment to pull coursework in as tasks, or just to give Smart Schedule context. Connect Apple Calendar to carry your tasks across the ecosystem.
Coursework, mirrored
Paste the calendar feed from Canvas, Brightspace, or any school system that publishes one. Assignments appear with their course code and their own colour, so they never read as one of your categories. Turning the mirror off hides the rows; it never deletes anything.
Apple Calendar
Orderly writes your dated tasks into a calendar of its own, so they show up on your Mac, your watch, and anywhere else you already look. It does not import your events.
Home Screen widgets
Today's tasks on the Home Screen, with the same checkbox you tap in the app. Tick one off without opening anything.
A real Mac app
Not a stretched phone screen — a sidebar, a split view, and a native add-task popover. Your list syncs through your own iCloud account, so both machines already agree.
Pricing
The list is free. The drafting is the upgrade.
Everything that keeps your tasks in order costs nothing and always will — no account needed. Orderly Plus pays for the model that reads your syllabus.
Orderly
Everything below, on every device you own. Sign-in is only for Smart Schedule.
Free
- Unlimited tasks, categories, and repeats
- List, Priorities, and Calendar
- Home Screen widgets and iCloud sync
- View your list on the web, with an account
- Coursework mirroring and Apple Calendar
- 3 free Smart Schedule drafts, with an account
- iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Orderly Plus
Save 30%Unlimited Smart Schedule after your 3 free drafts. Cancel anytime.
$24.99
per year · or $2.99 monthly
- Unlimited Smart Schedule plans
- Dates and priorities filled in for you
- Reads the coursework you've connected
- Drafts from images, PDFs, and files
- Add and edit from any browser
- Everything in the free app
7 days free, then $24.99 per year. Renews automatically until cancelled. Purchased in the app.
Start with today.
Add the three things you already know about. Orderly will help you work out the rest.
Requires iOS 17 or later, or macOS 14 or later. Free to download.