Meet Plannie Assistant

Plannie Assistant is the sparkle button in the corner of the app. On a tablet it opens as a compact chat popover; on a phone it opens as a full-screen chat, with the tab bar still in reach. Ask it in plain language and it does the busywork, with no forms and no tapping through menus. It's part of Plannie Premium. On the free plan the same button opens the chat view with a short note about what the Assistant does, plus an Upgrade to Premium button in the browser. In the iPhone, iPad, and Android apps the Assistant is open to every family while we launch, and there's nothing to buy in the app.

What it can do

• Calendar: "Add soccer practice on Tuesday at 5pm". It picks the right member too.
• Lists: "Put milk and eggs on the groceries list". It creates the list if it doesn't exist. Name a deadline or a person (“add ‘return the form’ to the to-do list, due Friday, for Marcus”) and the to-do arrives with a due date and an assignee.
• Habits: "Add a task for Liam to feed the cat". It asks who, if it can't tell.
• Meals & recipes: "Plan tacos for dinner on Friday", create a recipe, or import one from a link.
• Groceries: build a shopping list from the week's planned meals.

You can attach up to four photos (a party invitation, a schedule) and up to four PDFs (10 MB each at most) with the photo and PDF buttons beside the message box, and it reads them. Sharing text to Plannie from another app opens this chat with that text already in the message box. Edit it or just send it as-is; a link you share goes to Magic Import instead, and so does a photo or PDF on Plannie Premium (on the free plan it's saved to Files). The conversation carries across follow-ups ("actually make it 6pm"), and the compose icon starts fresh.

Ask Plannie

Plannie Assistant also answers questions about your family's own things: the calendar, to-dos and lists, habits, stars or tickets and rewards, the family goal, the meal plan and recipes. For example:

• "What's on tomorrow?"
• "Which day this week is busiest?"
• "What's on Saturday for Alva?"

It sees what you'd see in the app. Events on a busy-only calendar are just "busy", personal lists stay with their owner, and a shared screen sees only what a shared screen sees.

The example questions in an empty chat are picked for your family, from your own names, calendar, lists, habits, stars and meal plan, and they change from day to day. Tap one to put it in the message box. A new family sees general examples. The chat plays soft message sounds, which you can mute with the speaker button in the header.

Safe by design

Every action shows a summary with its own Undo button, everything it does is attributed in the Activity log, and it won't add the same thing twice. Thumbs up/down on any reply helps it improve.

Fair use

Every household shares a generous monthly AI allowance. Plannie never cuts you off. With unusually heavy use it switches to a lighter model for the rest of the month and shows a one-time notice.