Product Features

Informant takes advantage of iOS technologies like Dynamic Text Sizes, Background Fetch, motion UX, Airdrop, and more. We’ve also designed our entire interface from the colors, layout, and imagery to match the iOS look and feel.

You choose: the dark side or the light side! Every superhero has their alter ego. Now Informant 5 has one to. We call it Dark Mode. Switch to dark mode to change all of your screens to a dark background. Why? It’s just cool.

Localized in Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, and Turkish.

Use TextExpander Touch? Informant integrates with TextExpander for macro support.

Informant Home view allows you to see your entire day at a glance. Customize the view to show weather, ETA, your future alarms, overdue tasks, and even Smart Filters. Use the ETA option to show how long it will take by car to get to your next meeting. Tap on the map option to show all your events’ locations on one map.

In Calendar Views choose from Month, Week, Day, or List Views. Month View is a rolling vertical view that’s unique to Informant 5. Customize your Week View from a 7 day box, split, or column views. Day View lets you show 1-7 days and using a vertical pinch show less or more of your day at once.

In Task View see your entire list of filters as well as due, overdue, and upcoming tasks. Drag and drop tasks into different groups. Group by nearly every field. Use Simple Tasks, Franklin Covey, or the standard GTD modes. Keep your task’s simple or create complex subtask/project groupings.

Informant 5 accesses the contacts from your device and displays them in an easy-to-read format. Swipe a contact to create a task or event with contact information included.

Search your events, tasks, and notes–all from your Informant Home screen. Search 15 years of your iOS events back – and all future iOS events.

Informant Sync, part of the Connect Bundle, supports Google Calendar and Tasks, Toodledo, iCloud Reminders, and our own Informant Sync.

Show the current weather and 10-day forecast in the Today, List, Week Box, and Month Views. Tap on the forecast or current conditions to get greater detail including radar and astronomy information. See the weather at your event location even if you’re traveling.

Simply select the light gray box at the right edge of a task to select it – and keep on selecting! Then use our batch editor to change anything you want, or use the Quick Edit button to quickly move tasks to next week or other options.

From the Today screen, show the driving ETA to your next event that has a location. Tap on the ETA to get driving directions.

Create complex task filters yourself! Setup a filter that shows your upcoming tasks with a specific context, project, or status. See the Smart Filter in the Tasks View or Today View.

A per-calendar setting, you can have Informant 5 show you what events conflict with new events that you create or reschedule.

Just starting typing and let Pocket Informant bring up your contacts or triggers. Tap on a contact and create meetings or phone calls. Automatically bring in phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and locations with just a couple taps! Building upon the powerful trigger function you can also now show often-used triggers in our New menu – creating new events or tasks off a trigger with one tap.

Informant has powerful project abilities including the ability to have a project completion date, a project type, and more. We support Parallel projects with the support of multiple Next Action tasks, Sequential Projects with automatic Next Action handling, and Single Action projects.

Simple Task mode gives you a simpler editor, fewer visuals, to just handle your simple tasks. Franklin Covey mode adds ABC/123 priorities. Standard mode offers full GTD® features.

Filters your events, tasks, or notes by calendar or tag. Save these filters for quick access – and even setup filters to automatically apply at certain locations.

With Google and Informant Sync accounts, you can send meeting invitations and accept them.

With Informant events and tasks (i.e. events and tasks not read from iOS’ calendar and reminders), you can attach a photo or a contact.

Share/Print an event or task. When you hit the share button, you can Airdrop to another iPhone or iPad!

When grouping tasks you get multiple sections that you can drag tasks between. For example, group tasks by Projects and drag tasks into a new project.

Checklists are simplified subtasks – you create a checklist (native Informant task only – Reminders won’t work) – and its items won’t show up to clutter your list. Quickly mark off your checklist!