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You are juggling it all solo
Freelancers and solo operators whose plan lives across a notes app, three browser tabs and a lot of hope.
One workspaceDaily focus
Planning for individuals and small businesses
Set a pace you can actually keep.
Near Pace connects your goals, the milestones under them and the handful of things that need doing today, then tells you honestly whether you are still near the pace you set. Recurring work, a weekly review, shared goals for a small team, and AI you can switch off completely.
- Free forever No card, no trial countdown
- Optional AI Off means off, enforced on our servers
- Your data Export or delete it any time
- Works as a team Share a goal, keep the rest private
Launch the consulting offer
40%2 of 5 milestones done. Every task hangs off one of these.
Tick one. Watch the ring and the score move.
68/100
Four parts, all visible. No single mystery number.
How it works
Five steps, and you are running your own week
No setup weekend, no template gallery to wade through. This is the whole loop, and most people are through it in an afternoon.
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Start with the thing you actually want
One goal, written in your own words, with a date on it. Not a project, not a board - the outcome. Everything below hangs off this.
Ship the new site by November
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Cut it into milestones you can finish
Four or five markers between here and done. Each one is a thing you could point at and say yes, that is finished. Vague halves are where plans quietly die.
3 of 5 done
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Only today is on today
Tasks, habits and recurring work roll up on their own. The day view shows the handful that belong to today and hides the rest, because a list of ninety is a list nobody reads.
4 tasks, 2 habits
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An honest read, not a number that only goes up
Four measures side by side - progress, recency, consistency, plan structure - so a score can never flatter you. If you are behind the pace you set, it says so early enough to fix.
On pace, 9 days of slack
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A weekly review that ends in a decision
Ten minutes at the end of the week: what moved, what did not, and what you are committing to next. Move the date, cut the scope, or carry on - all three are allowed.
Week 34 reviewed
Who it is for
Built for the person who is also the plan
No project managers, no sprint ceremonies. Just you, what you said you would do, and an honest read on whether it is happening.
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You run a small business
Owners who need this quarter to survive contact with next Tuesday, without hiring a project manager to make it happen.
Quarterly goalsFollow-through
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You are building on the side
An idea, limited evenings, and a real need to know whether any of it is actually moving.
MomentumHonest progress
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You want your own life planned too
Health, learning and money goals sit next to work ones, because they compete for the same week.
Personal goalsHabits
Inside Near Pace
Everything connected, nothing spare
Everything here works with everything else. What you finish moves the score, what slips shows up before it becomes a surprise, and nothing is bolted on for the sake of a longer feature list.
Goals that break down
Write the goal once, then split it into milestones and the actions beneath them. Progress is counted from what you have ticked, never typed in. Label anything with your own tags, and one search reaches across goals, tasks, habits and notes.
A today list you believe
Everything due, overdue or already started, pulled from every goal into one short list. Tasks can repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, and your calendar sits beside them read-only, so four hours of calls and three deep-work tasks stop looking like the same day.
Habits, measured honestly
Consistency against your own weekly target, not a streak counter that wipes out a month because you missed a Tuesday.
A weekly review that works
What moved, what slipped, what is due next, and three things for next week. Built without AI, so it works whether or not you use any.
The Near Pace Score
One number from four things you can influence, with every component shown rather than hidden behind the total.
Shared goals for a small team
Share a goal with your workspace and assign the work. Notes, journal and every goal you have not shared stay private, always. Bring a plan in from another tool or a spreadsheet, take all of it out whenever you like, and anything you delete waits thirty days in the archive first.
AI, on your terms
Helpful when you want it. Absent when you do not.
Every feature has its own switch, plus a master switch that overrides them all. They suggest. None of them writes to your data on its own.
Milestone suggestions Opt-in
Proposes a set of milestones that would break a goal you have written into achievable checkpoints.
Suggestions appear as a list you choose from. Nothing is added to your plan until you accept it.
Task suggestions Opt-in
Proposes concrete next actions for a goal or milestone.
Suggestions appear as a list you choose from. Nothing is added to your plan until you accept it.
Weekly recommendations Opt-in
Looks at what moved and what stalled this week, and recommends where to focus next.
Presented as advice on your dashboard. It never changes your data.
Journal reflection Opt-in
Reads a journal entry you select and reflects patterns back to you.
Runs only on the specific entry you choose, one at a time.
The short version
- Turn AI off and the rest of Near Pace works exactly the same.
- Nothing is sent in the background, only when you press the button.
- You can read everything it remembers about you, and delete any of it.
- Your content is never used to train a model.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade only if it earns it.
Prices in USD. Paying yearly saves 20%. Cancel whenever you like and keep access to the end of the period you paid for.
Free
Free
No card required, no time limit
Enough to plan properly, for as long as you like.
- Up to 3 active goals with milestones and tasks
- Up to 5 habits
- Notes and private journal
- Your Near Pace Score
- Two-factor authentication and a list of every signed-in device
- Full data export and one-click deletion
Plus
$ 9 / month
or $86 a year, saving 20%
The whole system for one person, with AI helping where you want it.
- Unlimited goals, milestones, tasks and habits
- Recurring tasks, tags and search across everything
- The weekly review, which works with or without AI
- AI suggestions, weekly recommendations and journal reflection
- Everything the AI remembers, visible and erasable
- Earn a free month for every person you refer
Pro
$ 19 / month
or $182 a year, saving 20%
For people whose planning is the job, AI or no AI.
- Everything in Plus
- Read-only calendar sync, so the plan reckons with your meetings
- Import from Todoist, Asana or a spreadsheet
- Trends: throughput, habit consistency and how goals actually move
- Five times the daily AI allowance
- Priority support with a same-working-day reply
Business
$ 49 / month
or $470 a year, saving 20%
A small team planning against the same goals. Five seats included.
- Everything in Pro, for five people
- Shared goals the whole team can see and work on
- Assign tasks, and see what is assigned to you
- An owner console for seats, roles and invitations
- Private stays private: notes, journal and unshared goals are never shared
Every plan includes full export and one-click deletion. Refer someone and you get a free month, with no cap on how many you can earn.
FAQ
Questions, answered
What makes Near Pace different from a to-do app?
A to-do list tells you what is next. It cannot tell you whether any of it adds up to the thing you said mattered. Here every task traces back to a milestone and a goal, and the score measures whether that line is holding.
Do I have to use the AI?
No. There is a master switch and a switch per feature, and both are enforced on our servers rather than hidden in the interface. With AI off, nothing you write is ever sent to a model provider, and every other feature works exactly the same.
Can I see what the AI knows about me?
Yes, all of it, written in plain sentences rather than an opaque profile. You can read every item it has kept and delete any of them, and deleting one removes it outright rather than hiding it.
Is my journal private?
Yes. Journal reflection is the one AI feature that is off by default. You have to turn it on deliberately, and even then it only ever runs on the single entry you pick.
What happens if I cancel?
You keep everything until your renewal date, then the account moves to the free plan. Nothing is deleted, and you can resume at any point. Deleting your account is a separate, deliberate choice.
Can my team see my goals?
Only the ones you deliberately share into a workspace, and their milestones and tasks. Your notes, your journal, your habits and every goal you have not shared are never visible to anybody else, under any setting.
Does it replace my calendar?
No. It reads your calendar so the day view reckons with the meetings you already have, and it never writes to it. Connecting one is a separate permission you grant deliberately.
Where is my data held?
In Canada, encrypted in transit and where it is stored. The Privacy Policy lists every category we hold and exactly why.
Still wondering about something?
Ask usStart today
Pick one goal. Give it a date. See where you stand by Friday.
The free plan has no card, no trial countdown and no expiry. If Near Pace is not earning its place after a month, export everything and delete the account in one click.
- Free forever, not free for fourteen days
- AI off by default on the features that need a choice
- Export or delete everything, without asking us