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
| Topic | YWGSD | SkedPal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24 a month, or $192 a year — $16 a month. Everything’s included on every plan. | 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 | 14 days. A card up front, and we email you 3 days before the first charge. | 14 days, no card, and no charge at the end of it. |
| Refunds | Your first payment back within 7 days, taken yourself from Settings. No asking. | Their terms say fees are non-refundable, including for a cancellation you forgot to make. |
| How it schedules | Every task gets a real block in the gaps between your meetings, inside the hours you allow. The day rebuilds itself whenever something changes. | 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 | 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. | Rescheduled inside the plan’s time frame, with missed deadlines flagged. |
| AI | None. The same calendar and the same lengths give the same plan every time. | The scheduler itself is what they call AI, plus natural-language entry and a help bot. No chat assistant. |
| Your calendars | Reads Google, Outlook and iCloud. Never writes to any of them. | 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 | 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. | Quick add, email-to-task, Zapier, and two-way Asana sync. |
| Phones | The web app works in any phone browser. The iPhone app is built and waiting on the App Store. No Android app. | Web first. The iOS and Android apps need you to sign up on a desktop and finish a guided tour before they work. |
| Teams | No. One person, one plan, nothing shared. | Individuals only, apart from syncing your own Asana. |
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.

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.

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
Connect your calendars
Google, Outlook and iCloud. We read them so work lands around your meetings, and we never write to them.
- 2
Say when you work
One set of hours to start with. Add more later if the evenings belong to something else.
- 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
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
- SkedPal pricing
- SkedPal policies and terms
- SkedPal docs: planning
- SkedPal docs: mobile and desktop apps
- SkedPal docs: connecting your Google Calendar
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