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Ellie Planner vs RentRedi
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Ellie Planner and RentRedi — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Ellie Planner vs RentRedi: at a glance
What is Ellie Planner?
Ellie opens its task data to outside agents, eight months after its last changelog.
Ellie is a solo-built task and calendar planner spanning web, desktop, iPhone and iPad. After an eight-month gap, the catch-up release lands a real Week Calendar on iPad, Pomodoro sessions started from a task and restored across reloads, Quick Capture as a standalone window on a global shortcut, rich-text task notes with Markdown shortcuts, and MCP/API access in beta. Beneath the headline items sits the unglamorous work: recurring tasks, timezones, rollover, and calendar sync behaviour.
What is RentRedi?
RentRedi opens tenant chats to teammates, part of a run of fixes for landlords with staff.
RentRedi ships a substantive landlord feature roughly weekly. The recent run adds Maintenance Coordination routed to a landlord's own vendors first, Maintenance Projects for every account, one-click PDF rent receipts and a Manual/Online payment filter. On October 16 landlords gained a Company Chats permission that lets chosen teammates read every tenant conversation, portfolio-wide or per property.
Ellie Planner vs RentRedi: editorial side-by-side
Ellie opens its task data to outside agents, eight months after its last changelog.
◆ Current state
Ellie is a solo-built task and calendar planner spanning web, desktop, iPhone and iPad. After an eight-month gap, the catch-up release lands a real Week Calendar on iPad, Pomodoro sessions started from a task and restored across reloads, Quick Capture as a standalone window on a global shortcut, rich-text task notes with Markdown shortcuts, and MCP/API access in beta. Beneath the headline items sits the unglamorous work: recurring tasks, timezones, rollover, and calendar sync behaviour.
◆ Where it's heading
The consistent pattern across four years of releases is reach - Outlook and Google calendars, Slack, Notion, Todoist, iOS widgets - all aimed at making Ellie available wherever work originates. MCP applies that instinct to agents rather than apps, and the release frames it exactly that way. The in-app AI assistant from a year ago put a model inside Ellie; MCP inverts the arrangement and lets an agent the user picks hold the task data instead.
◆ Prediction
MCP access is explicitly beta and gated behind Power Features, so the open questions are whether it graduates and how it is priced. The entries do not say which clients have been tested against the endpoint.
RentRedi
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RentRedi opens tenant chats to teammates, part of a run of fixes for landlords with staff.
◆ Current state
RentRedi ships a substantive landlord feature roughly weekly. The recent run adds Maintenance Coordination routed to a landlord's own vendors first, Maintenance Projects for every account, one-click PDF rent receipts and a Manual/Online payment filter. On October 16 landlords gained a Company Chats permission that lets chosen teammates read every tenant conversation, portfolio-wide or per property.
◆ Where it's heading
Maintenance has grown from a vendor roster into projects and outsourced coordination, while payment records get cleaner and more auditable. Company Chats adds a third thread: tooling for landlords who run their portfolio with a team, with per-property permissions rather than all-or-nothing access.
◆ Prediction
Expect more per-property team permissions and payment reporting built on statement imports and source-tagged payments; nothing yet shows a new product line.
Alternatives to Ellie Planner and RentRedi
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Ellie Planner or RentRedi.
Tracecat
Tracecat 1.2.0 goes stable in under two days: sub-cases, workflow forms and on-prem tunnels.
Float
Float is moving from who's-free scheduling toward staffing on experience and pricing on rate cards.
SmartSuite
SmartSuite's dashboard filters learn to exclude, as admin undo reaches deleted teams.
Hive
Hive makes its AI proofer a named approver and lets workflow buttons open prefilled Forms.
Fibery
Fibery hands integrations to AI: describe any HTTP API and it builds, tests and hosts the connector.
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Recent activity from Ellie Planner and RentRedi
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoRentRediGive Teammates Access to All Company Chats
- 2d agoRentRedi🔍 Filter Manual vs. Online Payments
- 3d agoRentRediDownload & Print Rent Receipts in One Click
- 8d agoRentRediMaintenance Projects Is Now Available to Everyone
- 11d agoRentRediTenants Can Now Bundle Payments on the Web
- 12d agoRentRediUpload Credit Card & Bank Statements for Expense Tracking
- 1mo agoEllie PlanneriPad Week Calendar, Pomodoro, Quick Capture, rich notes, and MCP ⚡
- 9mo agoEllie Planner🧹 Todoist integration, improved Slack/Notion integrations and more
- 1y agoEllie PlannerEllie AI, Task templates, "Add task" from calendar events and more ✨ ⚡
- 1y agoEllie PlannerNotion integration, Analytics, Rituals, Notifications and a ton more
- 2y agoEllie Planner🐹 Outlook Calendar Integration, iOS Widgets, Slack integration and more
- 3y agoEllie Planner📆 Mac menu bar, improved auto sync and more
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Ellie Planner and RentRedi?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. RentRedi is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Ellie Planner better than RentRedi?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. RentRedi is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Ellie Planner?
Top Ellie Planner alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Ellie Planner alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ellie for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to RentRedi?
Top RentRedi alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "RentRedi alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/rentredi for the full list with editorial commentary on each.