5 Best Amie Alternatives in 2026
Amie is a beautifully designed calendar and to-do app that started life as a joyful Mac and iOS scheduler and has since leaned hard into AI meeting notes — botless recording, summaries, action items, and a context-aware chat assistant that can draft emails and reschedule meetings. It’s polished, fast, and a pleasure to use if you live on Apple hardware.
That last part is the catch. Amie is built for the Mac and iOS world, so if your work runs through Windows, Outlook, or a browser, it’s a tough fit. It’s also a calendar you live inside, which means you’re still the one doing the scheduling and the inbox triage. If you want something cross-platform, or something that does the work rather than just displaying it, here are five alternatives. (Curious how Amie got here? See what happened to Amie.)
1. Carly
Carly takes the opposite approach to a calendar app. Instead of opening an app to manage your day, you reach Carly over email or text — and it manages calendar, inbox, scheduling, contacts, tasks, and meeting notes for you. Forward a thread that needs scheduling and Carly handles the back-and-forth; ask it to block focus time and it time-blocks your to-dos; have it record a meeting and it summarizes and acts on the follow-ups.
What makes it different from Amie: Amie is a gorgeous app you operate. Carly is an assistant you delegate to, with no app to live in. It works on both Outlook and Gmail (Amie is Apple-first), and it does the full executive-assistant job — not just calendar and notes. For group scheduling, Carly offers a free no-signup availability grid where everyone marks when they’re free.
Best for: People who want AI to do the calendar and email work, on any platform, instead of giving them a prettier place to do it themselves.
Pricing: Starts at $35/month
2. Fantastical
The longtime favorite for Apple-ecosystem calendaring. Natural-language event entry, beautiful views, calendar sets, weather, and tight integration with iCloud, Google, and Exchange. It’s the most refined traditional calendar on Mac and iOS.
What makes it different from Amie: Fantastical is a pure calendar — no meeting recording or AI chat assistant — but it’s more mature and reliable as a day-to-day scheduler. Like Amie, it’s strongest inside the Apple world. See Fantastical alternatives for more.
Best for: Apple users who want a polished, dependable calendar without the AI notes layer.
Pricing: Free tier; Premium via subscription
3. Vimcal
A keyboard-driven, speed-obsessed calendar built for people who schedule constantly. One-click time-zone handling, fast slot-picking, booking links, and a mobile app with an AI scheduling assistant. Popular with founders and investors.
What makes it different from Amie: Vimcal is about scheduling velocity rather than meeting notes — it wants you booking and rescheduling in seconds. It supports Google and Outlook calendars, so it travels better outside Apple than Amie does. More in Vimcal alternatives.
Best for: Heavy schedulers who want the fastest possible calendar.
Pricing: Paid, with a trial
4. Notion Calendar
Notion’s free calendar (formerly Cron), tightly linked to Notion docs and databases. Clean design, natural-language event creation, time-zone tools, and the ability to surface Notion tasks alongside events.
What makes it different from Amie: Notion Calendar is free and cross-platform (Mac, Windows, web, iOS), and its main draw is the Notion connection rather than AI meeting notes. If your work already lives in Notion, it’s the obvious pick. See Notion Calendar alternatives.
Best for: Notion users who want a free, well-designed calendar across platforms.
Pricing: Free
5. Akiflow
A task-and-calendar command center that pulls to-dos from many sources into one place, then lets you time-block them onto your calendar with keyboard shortcuts. Available on Mac, Windows, and mobile.
What makes it different from Amie: Akiflow’s center of gravity is task consolidation and time-blocking rather than meeting recording. It’s cross-platform and built for people drowning in tasks across tools. See Akiflow alternatives.
Best for: People who want to corral tasks from everywhere and block them into the day.
Pricing: Paid, with a trial
How to choose
If you’re staying inside Apple and mostly want beautiful calendaring, Fantastical or Vimcal will feel closest to Amie. If you want a free cross-platform calendar tied to your docs, Notion Calendar fits. If task time-blocking is the real need, Akiflow. And if the appeal of Amie was really “I want AI to handle my calendar and meetings for me” — then the honest answer is that an app still leaves the work with you. Carly does it over email and text, on Outlook or Gmail, without asking you to adopt a new app.
FAQ
Does Amie work on Windows? Amie has macOS, Windows, and iOS apps, but it’s designed Apple-first and pairs most naturally with Apple Calendar and the Mac/iOS experience. Windows-first or Outlook-heavy users often look elsewhere.
Which Amie alternative does AI meeting notes? Carly records and summarizes meetings and then acts on the follow-ups (drafting emails, scheduling, updating contacts). Amie itself is strong on notes; the others on this list are calendars first.
What’s the closest free Amie alternative? Notion Calendar — free, cross-platform, and well-designed, though without meeting recording.
More on calendars: Notion Calendar alternatives · Fantastical alternatives · Vimcal alternatives · What happened to Amie
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