Akiflow - Manage tasks and calendars from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
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Akiflow is a digital planner and calendar for centralising tasks, unifying schedules, and optimising productivity., built for busy professionals! Experience the world's #1 Time Blocking app.
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its paid or free
Chipolo
@mudaser_rahman Akiflow is a paid product, but you can try it for free. MCP isn’t a separate product, it’s included once you have an Akiflow account and connect it from your AI tool.
I really struggled with this app, mostly around pricing and the lack of API/MCP and had ultimately given up on it a few months back. In this environment, the pricing will need to come down, too many great alternatives.
Chipolo
@noeltock Fair feedback. If you tried Akiflow a few months ago, MCP was exactly one of the missing pieces, and that has changed now.
the MCP approach to task management makes a lot more sense than building another standalone AI feature. if i'm already in claude working through a problem, being able to say "block 2 hours for this tomorrow" without leaving the conversation removes a real friction point. curious how it handles conflicts though. if i ask claude to schedule something and there's already a meeting in that slot, does it suggest alternatives or just flag the overlap?
Chipolo
@tina_chhabra Exactly the kind of friction we wanted to remove.
It lets Claude check your schedule before it creates a block, so it can see that you already have a meeting there and suggest another open time instead.
It won’t silently move meetings around on its own. The best flow is: Claude checks your Akiflow schedule, says "that slot is busy, 3-5pm is open instead," and then creates the time block once you approve it.
Chipolo
Awesome to hear this@prachi_nagwan
One thing in mind is that I think I would be watching closely what people would do after they start using this. Are they opening ChatGPT less because everything lives in Akiflow now, or are they just using it as another shortcut? I feel like the answer to that says a lot about whether this becomes part of someone's daily routine or just a nice feature.
Chipolo
@reda_roqai_chaoui Good point. I don’t think the goal is for people to open ChatGPT or Claude less. The goal is that when the planning context is already there, Akiflow becomes the place where the decision turns into an actual task, event, or time block. So the behavior we care about is not "did someone try the shortcut once" but "do they keep using it to move real work into their planner without copy-pasting or switching tabs."
If that becomes part of the daily planning loop, then MCP is doing its job.
ModuleX
Love that you went MCP-first instead of bolting a chatbot into the app, but I'm curious about the time-block sync edge case, if I have calendar locking off and Claude creates a block through MCP, does Akiflow still treat that as the source of truth even though Google Calendar never sees it?
Chipolo
@sezerufukyavuz Yes, that’s the right read.
If calendar locking is off and Claude creates a time block through MCP, that block still lives in Akiflow and is part of your Akiflow plan. Claude/ChatGPT/Cursor can see it again through MCP because they read from Akiflow.
The only difference is that Google Calendar won’t get a native calendar event for that block unless you lock/sync it there. So Akiflow remains the planning source of truth; Google only mirrors the blocks you choose to sync.
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The evolution this product has had is amazing! I can usually use Trello as a one stop shop for just about everything, but Akiflow gives me all the control I need and integrates with Trello so i have the best of all the worlds. It's one of the few productivity tools that I've used for years and actually stick with because it is easy to use, always adding more useful features, and it saves me time and keeps me sane. I love being able to quickly capture what i need to work on and giving some structure to view my days across my meetings and events and tasks. They just launched their MCP and im excited to do even more with it!
Chipolo
@britt_joiner Thank you, this means a lot, especially coming from someone who has stuck with Akiflow for years.
That "best of all worlds" workflow is exactly what we care about. MCP should make that even smoother.
I can tell that Akiflow is, by far, the best calendar, planner, and task manager I've ever used. It has so many options to personalize your own flow that you will be delighted every time you use it. I love the Pomodoro option that allows you to track the actual task with the timer always on display. It really helps me to focus on what I'm doing at that moment.
Also, to set a specific task as my main task for the day or the week is incredible. I can't wait to see how AI will potentiate all its strengths. The only thing that is missing is a monthly review, because I always use the weekly review. Sometimes I go further and I like to do a monthly, a quarterly, and an annual review, but maybe this will be solved with the AI integration.
Congrats for everything, and thanks for creating such a great app. 💪🏼
the MCP integration is the part that clicks for me - being able to say "move my 3pm to tomorrow" from inside a Claude chat instead of tabbing back to the app is a real workflow change, not just a nice-to-have. does the MCP server run locally or do you have to route through your cloud, curious about latency when you're just asking it to check today's schedule
Chipolo
@omri_ben_shoham1 The MCP server is hosted by Akiflow, not something you have to run locally.
So Claude/ChatGPT/Cursor connects to Akiflow through MCP, with your permission, and can call all tools available. For a schedule check, it’s basically reading your Akiflow tasks, events, and time blocks from the cloud, so the app doesn’t need to be open locally.
Latency still depends on the AI client and network, but we designed this as a direct planner action, not a heavy local sync flow.
@tadej_jevsevar cloud-hosted makes sense for this, one less thing to keep running on my machine. gonna hook it up to my calendar and see if it actually saves me the daily replanning tab-switch
Chipolo
@omri_ben_shoham1 Amazing, let us know how it goes.
Just tested the MCP Server, works great on ChatGPT! But can't make it work in the Codex macOS app
Chipolo
@francisrafal Thanks for testing it, and great to hear it worked in ChatGPT. If you can share the exact error or where it gets stuck in codex, we’d love to debug it.