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YWGSD vs SkedPal

SkedPal is the most configurable auto-scheduler of the lot: time maps, budgets, dependencies. YWGSD asks two questions per task and gets out of the way.

Every SkedPal fact here was read on their own site on 22 September 2026. Prices move — check theirs too.

Pick YWGSD if

  • you want to start on your phone, in a few minutes
  • you plan things further out than a couple of months
  • you don’t want another calendar appearing in Google
  • you want a refund you can take yourself

Pick SkedPal if

  • you want time maps, budgets and dependencies
  • you want it cheaper
  • you want a trial with no card
  • you keep your tasks in Asana

At a glance

  • Price

    YWGSD

    $24 a month, or $192 a year — $16 a month. Everything’s included on every plan.

    SkedPal

    Core $9.95 a month billed yearly ($119.40 a year), $14.95 monthly. Pro $14.95 billed yearly ($179.40), $21.95 monthly. No free plan.

  • Free trial

    YWGSD

    14 days. A card up front, and we email you 3 days before the first charge.

    SkedPal

    14 days, no card, and no charge at the end of it.

  • Refunds

    YWGSD

    Your first payment back within 7 days, taken yourself from Settings. No asking.

    SkedPal

    Their terms say fees are non-refundable, including for a cancellation you forgot to make.

  • How it schedules

    YWGSD

    Every task gets a real block in the gaps between your meetings, inside the hours you allow. The day rebuilds itself whenever something changes.

    SkedPal

    One-click auto-scheduling into a model of your time. Core re-plans when you press Update Schedule; Pro re-plans after each change. Core looks 21 days ahead, Pro 60.

  • A task you didn’t get to

    YWGSD

    Moves to your next opening and stays in front of you until you finish it or cancel it. Past its deadline it turns amber. A missed repeat never expires.

    SkedPal

    Rescheduled inside the plan’s time frame, with missed deadlines flagged.

  • AI

    YWGSD

    None. The same calendar and the same lengths give the same plan every time.

    SkedPal

    The scheduler itself is what they call AI, plus natural-language entry and a help bot. No chat assistant.

  • Your calendars

    YWGSD

    Reads Google, Outlook and iCloud. Never writes to any of them.

    SkedPal

    Google, Office 365 and iCloud. It writes a separate SkedPal calendar — they say your own calendars are never altered — and syncing to your main calendar is optional.

  • Getting thoughts in

    YWGSD

    An Inbox that asks for nothing — no length, no priority, no deadline — then the once-over turns the pile into scheduled work in about a minute.

    SkedPal

    Quick add, email-to-task, Zapier, and two-way Asana sync.

  • Phones

    YWGSD

    The web app works in any phone browser. The iPhone app is built and waiting on the App Store. No Android app.

    SkedPal

    Web first. The iOS and Android apps need you to sign up on a desktop and finish a guided tour before they work.

  • Teams

    YWGSD

    No. One person, one plan, nothing shared.

    SkedPal

    Individuals only, apart from syncing your own Asana.

The three differences that matter

Set up on the thing in your hand

SkedPal asks you to sign up on a desktop and finish a guided tour before its phone app will work. YWGSD is a web app you can set up on a phone in a few minutes: connect a calendar, say when you work, done.

It plans 18 months out, not 3 weeks

SkedPal looks 21 days ahead on Core and 60 on Pro. YWGSD plans 18 months: things further out get a day rather than a time, so a course in March or a passport renewal in June sits in the plan instead of in your head.

Tasks on iPhone: a task past its deadline under Past due in amber, then today’s scheduled work.
Past its deadline, not past saving.

Nothing new appears in your calendar

SkedPal creates a SkedPal calendar to write its blocks into. YWGSD reads your calendars and writes nothing at all — no new calendar, no events, nothing for anyone else to see.

Connected calendars in YWGSD on iPhone: Google Calendar, Outlook and iCloud.
Read, never written to. Google, Outlook and iCloud.

Where SkedPal is better

Written plainly, because you’re going to find out anyway.

  • a richer planning model: time maps, time budgets, dependencies, habits
  • price — their Core plan is cheaper than YWGSD
  • a 14-day trial with no card
  • two-way Asana sync
  • Android

Switching takes about ten minutes

  1. 1

    Connect your calendars

    Google, Outlook and iCloud. We read them so work lands around your meetings, and we never write to them.

  2. 2

    Say when you work

    One set of hours to start with. Add more later if the evenings belong to something else.

  3. 3

    Type your list into the Inbox

    One line, Enter, next — the field keeps focus, so a whole list goes in as fast as you can type it. No lengths or deadlines yet.

  4. 4

    Give it the once-over

    How long, how important, and it’s scheduled. Keep SkedPal running alongside for a week if you like; nothing here writes to your calendar, so the two can’t fight.

The four rules behind itCompared with the others

Let your week plan itself.

14 days free. We email you before we charge, and you can cancel in one click.

Sources, all read on 22 September 2026

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