ByDesign vs Forums@Work
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ByDesign
This app combines tasks, calendars, and notes with an AI assistant to help you plan your day. It allows for seamless scheduling, powerful note-taking with attachments, and collaborative features for teams. Syncs across devices for comprehensive organization.
- AI-powered task scheduling
- Integrated calendar and notes
- Attachment support for notes
- Collaborative page editing
- Cross-device syncing
- Search functionality
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Plan your day with an AI assistant that turns your to-do list into a schedule. ByDesign brings your tasks, daily planner, calendar, and notes together — synced across all your devices. AI assistant - Just type or say what you need: "Clear my Friday", "When am I free tomorrow?", "Add gym every Mon, Wed and Fri at 7am". - Create, reschedule, and complete tasks and events, including repeating ones and many at once. - Find free time, push work forward, lock items in place, and undo any change. - Add subtasks, notes, and details, answer invitations, and manage pages right from chat. Calendar - Connect as many calendars as you want - personal, work or school. - Manage and time box the tasks from ByDesign in the same calendar. - Use colors to organize your calendar. - Create all-day events and tasks and drag them to a specific time to plan efficiently. Powerful note-taking - Add attachments - PDFs, photos, audio, web links, and more. - Create checklists. Make a grocery list, a wish list, or a to-do list, then tap to check off items as you go. - Apply different text styles, such as heading or body, bulleted lists, and more. - Add tables to quickly organize information. Organize and search - Search for text in notes, your tasks, and tables. - Link from one page to another to connect ideas, content, or any information. Try typing "/" for a shortcut to add links and pages while writing in your pages. - Keep your notes in pages and folders, and sort them in the order you prefer. - Use drag and drop as a fast and flexible way to categorize and organize your pages. Collaborate - Collaborate on entire pages or sub pages. - Mention friends to notify them of important updates. - Select and add comments on a particular text and have a full conversation in the thread. - Use page comments to discuss anything related to that page. - See what others updated in a shared page while you were away with alerts. Download ByDesign and plan your first day in 2 minutes.
Forums@Work
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Used by tens of thousands of CEOs globally, P2P Learning Groups (also known as “Forums”) are carefully curated peer groups that meet regularly for shared learning and personal development. No longer an exclusive perk for CEOs, forums@work has developed a framework and process map for companies to bring this valuable benefit to its employees. Without fail teams come out vigorized and ready to take on any challenge!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Forums@Work at none against ByDesign's 6. Forums@Work also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ByDesign sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Forums@Work asks for nothing beyond the download.
ByDesign ships an update every 2 weeks, Forums@Work weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ByDesign | Forums@Work |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (111 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 111 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 341 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WHITEBOARD Limited Liability Company | Core Work Capital LLC |
Bugs and requests
ByDesign
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot edit notes on iPhone (end of page not visible, no spaces, does not save)
- Bugs when signing in with school account
- Setapp subscription sign-up not working
Requested features
3 requests- Display days until an event/project due
- Customize notifications
- Import and export from other apps
Forums@Work
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ByDesign
- Month$2.991 Month
- Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- ByDesign Pro (Month)$8.001 Month
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- Year$23.991 Year
- Yearly7 Days trial$47.991 Year
- ByDesign Pro (Year)$69.001 Year
Forums@Work
No in-app purchases









