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Planify vs Hive
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Planify and Hive — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Planify vs Hive: at a glance
What is Planify?
A GNOME task app that has turned CalDAV interoperability into the product.
Planify is a GTK task manager for GNOME on a fast release train — six releases in the window shown, most of them sync work. The 4.19 line spent nearly all its effort making CalDAV survive real servers: Mailbox.org, Open-Xchange, Posteo, Nextcloud Deck, and DAVx5 on Android each got a named fix. Feature work still lands, but alongside the sync repairs rather than instead of them.
What is Hive?
Hive's assistant now splits its own work: Buzz decomposes multi-part requests into sub-tasks.
Releases arrive in small daily batches across three areas: Resourcing, which gained a 13-week resource estimates grid with direct cell editing and a separation between confirmed and unconfirmed plans; Buzz, the assistant, which is being wired into Hive Mail and taught to break work apart; and steady client polish on mobile and desktop. The pattern is many narrow changes rather than periodic large releases, each tied to a specific screen and role.
Planify vs Hive: editorial side-by-side
Planify
2.5PM
A GNOME task app that has turned CalDAV interoperability into the product.
◆ Current state
Planify is a GTK task manager for GNOME on a fast release train — six releases in the window shown, most of them sync work. The 4.19 line spent nearly all its effort making CalDAV survive real servers: Mailbox.org, Open-Xchange, Posteo, Nextcloud Deck, and DAVx5 on Android each got a named fix. Feature work still lands, but alongside the sync repairs rather than instead of them.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction shows in what gets fixed. Planify is positioning as the GNOME client that works against whatever CalDAV server you already run, not a client for one service — sync-token fallbacks, ETag retries, and CDATA parsing are all compatibility debt paid down per-server. The second thread is pushing into the desktop itself: a Shell search provider, system accent color, a CLI. Both are the same bet, that the app's value is behaving well inside an existing setup.
◆ Prediction
Expect another CalDAV compatibility pass naming a specific server next, since four of the last six releases took that shape. Feature work will most likely extend the backup and section support added in 4.19.2 rather than open a new area.
Hive
10.0COLLABPM
Hive's assistant now splits its own work: Buzz decomposes multi-part requests into sub-tasks.
◆ Current state
Releases arrive in small daily batches across three areas: Resourcing, which gained a 13-week resource estimates grid with direct cell editing and a separation between confirmed and unconfirmed plans; Buzz, the assistant, which is being wired into Hive Mail and taught to break work apart; and steady client polish on mobile and desktop. The pattern is many narrow changes rather than periodic large releases, each tied to a specific screen and role.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads are running in parallel. Resourcing is being built out as a planning surface for capacity managers, with estimates deliberately kept apart from committed assignments — the workflow larger service teams need before scheduling. Buzz is moving from a chat box toward a delegate that plans its own execution, and its arrival inside email threads shows Hive placing it where the work actually lands rather than in a separate panel.
◆ Prediction
Expect Buzz to keep gaining autonomy on multi-step work while staying gated on consequential actions, and Resourcing to close the loop from estimates into committed scheduling.
Planify alternatives
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Tap any card for the full editorial trajectory or compare directly with Planify.
Kanri
An offline-first kanban app whose solo maintainer has been quiet for ten months.
GanttProject
A desktop Gantt tool on a multi-year cadence, tethering itself to its own cloud
Super Productivity
A solo-focused task manager grows a plugin layer and, quietly, a collaboration story
Notion
Notion is turning itself into the place other companies' agents come to work.
Akiflow
A time-blocking client spending its releases on calendar correctness and crash fixes
Hive alternatives
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Tap any card for the full editorial trajectory or compare directly with Hive.
Zettlr
A markdown editor grinding through polish, with custom shortcuts finally landing after years
Rocket.Chat
All the substance lands in rc.0 — this cycle it's phishing-resistant MFA
KACE
KACE's real news lands in two numbered releases a quarter; the rest of the feed is fix notices
GitHub
GitHub shut down its model catalog and shipped stacked pull requests on the same day.
Notion
Notion is turning itself into the place other companies' agents come to work.
Slack
Slack's app platform is being rebuilt around agents, with the SDKs clearing old ground behind it.
Recent activity from Planify and Hive
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoHiveAssign actions to sections on mobile
- 1d agoHiveBuzz breaks complex requests into sub-tasks automatically ⚡
- 1d agoHivePlan resource estimates in a 13-week grid
- 1d agoHiveOpen Buzz directly from a Hive Mail thread
- 3d agoHiveCleaner new-tab control in Hive Desktop
- 3d agoHiveResize the name panel in Resourcing
- 13d agoPlanifyStartup backup recovery and recurring-task notification fix
- 2mo agoPlanifyPlanify 4.19.4
- 2mo agoPlanifyPlanify 4.19.3
- 2mo agoPlanifyPlanify 4.19.2
- 3mo agoPlanifyPlanify 4.19.1
- 3mo agoPlanifyPlanify 4.19.0
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Planify and Hive?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 2.5), with 1 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 Planify better than Hive?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 2.5), with 1 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 Planify?
Top Planify alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Planify alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/planify for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Hive?
Top Hive alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hive alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hive for the full list with editorial commentary on each.