Olena: calendar & GTD tasks
Fran Julian Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchMacApple Watch
Olena: calendar & GTD tasks is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Fran Julian. Requires iOS 18.0. Updated October 29, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 26 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 29
- 2026 · v1.3.1
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About Olena: calendar & GTD tasks
Olena merges your real calendar with a full GTD system in a single screen. Not a task list with its own dates: your actual iPhone events, living alongside Inbox, projects, areas, contexts, daily routines, and a weekly review. FREE AND OLENA PRO Free forever: capture, the Inbox and clarifying, Today and Next Actions, contexts and areas, up to three active projects, the weekly review, the Agenda widget and importing from Reminders. Olena Pro adds Focus and Pomodoro with their stats, routines, the calendar inside Olena, planning your day, your class schedule, custom perspectives, Apple Watch and your data on all your devices with iCloud. A full year of free trial. YOU LEARN THE METHOD BY DOING IT Olena doesn't teach you the app, it teaches you the system. On first launch you capture one of your own tasks, clarify it, and watch it land in your day among your real appointments. You name each GTD step as you perform it. By the end, your system is already started. THE MERGE, FOR REAL · Drag a dateless task straight onto a calendar slot. · Or let Plan Your Day propose where it fits, looking at your real free gaps and the duration you estimated. You review the proposal before confirming it: Olena never schedules behind your back. ROUTINES WHAT GTD DOESN'T COVER GTD organises what happens once. Routines are what you do every day, and until now that meant a second app. Yes/no, quantity, duration, or avoidance, with streaks, a completion chart, an interactive widget, Siri shortcuts, and a timer. FOCUS AND POMODORO Chained work and break blocks, with the countdown on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Statistics keep your focused minutes per day and your streak of consecutive days. NATURAL LANGUAGE CAPTURE Type "lunch with Ana tomorrow 2pm @calls" and Olena detects the date, the context, and the project on its own. No separate fields. BUILT FOR iPAD, NOT RESIZED A sidebar with a mini-calendar, two panes, keyboard shortcuts, and Apple Pencil to handwrite on any task. REAL PRIVACY Your data lives on your device with SwiftData and syncs through your own private iCloud container. There is no Olena server: none exists. No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs. TERMS Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://falkir.es/en/apps/olena/privacidad/
What’s new
Version 1.3.1 · Updated October 29, 2026
What’s new in 1.3.1 • Routines on iPad: the “+” button to create a routine works again. • Routines that aren’t due today now show under “Other days”, and when you create one you see right away which days it’s due. What’s new in 1.3 • Free to start. Capturing, clarifying, doing and the weekly review are free forever, with up to three active projects. Olena Pro adds Focus, routines, the calendar, your class schedule, the watch and sync, with a one-year trial. • Capture from any app. “Olena” in the share sheet sends a page, an email or some text to your Inbox. • From Control Center. Two new controls, “Capture to Inbox” and “Start Pomodoro”, also on the Lock Screen and the Action button. • Bring your Reminders. Each list becomes a project, with no duplicates even if you import twice. • Your tasks in the Calendar. In Day, Week and Month, everything shown once. • Today tells you the next step when there’s nothing planned, and the morning digest no longer arrives empty.
App privacy
The developer, Fran Julian, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Purchases: Purchase History
Used for: App Functionality
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