Frequently asked questions

Running eight or nine projects at once where everything is started and nothing ships. That is rarely a memory problem, so DevDeck is not another todo list. It caps how much can be active, compares the time you planned against the work that actually landed, and treats a shipped version as the definition of done.

No. Projects, tasks, time blocks and reminders all work on the device with no account and no connection. Signing in is what adds sync across your devices, GitHub repository connection and team features.

Yes. Local planning is the primary mode, not a degraded one. When you are signed in, changes made offline are synced the next time the app can reach the server.

Only so many projects can be active at once. Anything beyond the cap is explicitly parked rather than quietly neglected — parking keeps every task, note and version exactly as it is and stops the project competing for your attention.

Neither. Nothing is removed. Parking is a statement about attention, not about data — unpark it and everything is where you left it.

Yes, and a subtask never ships later than the task it belongs to: closing the parent accounts for the work underneath it rather than leaving orphaned children behind a shipped version.

Blocking out time against a project ahead of the week. The block is the plan — a claim about where your attention is going, made before the week starts rather than reconstructed after it.

The time you blocked out against the evidence that work happened. Tracked work is the first evidence; commits become the strongest evidence once a repository is connected. The gap between the two is the point of the screen — it is meant to be uncomfortable when the plan was fiction.

No. Notification permissions, battery optimization, device restarts, time-zone changes or operating-system behaviour can delay or drop a local notification. Treat reminders as a prompt, not as a guarantee.

Through a GitHub App you install on the specific repositories you choose — per repository, never across a whole account. You pick what it can see, and you can remove it from GitHub at any time.

No. The integration is read-only. It reads pushes to map commits onto tasks; it does not commit, branch, open pull requests or change anything in your repository.

Name the task id in the commit message. DevDeck records the link and closes the task that commit finished, which is also what gives release notes and plan-vs-actual their evidence. An id left out of the message is a task that does not close.

Because a project is not done until something ships. Scopes, phases and versions exist to give tasks a destination to be pulled toward, rather than a backlog to accumulate in.

From the work that actually shipped — the commits that closed the tasks in that version. They are drafted for you to edit, not generated and filed away unread.

A chain of sign-offs recorded against a version before it ships, for teams that want one. It is a team feature; solo use needs nothing of the sort.

Projects, tasks, time blocks and versions sync to your account so a second device continues where the first stopped. Attachments are deliberately not synced.

You choose whether to keep the local copy or clear it. Signing out also forgets the entitlement held on the device, because a phone that has ever been signed into a paid account should not stay paid for whoever picks it up next. Signing back in returns it immediately.

No — none, on any plan. A tool people open to concentrate is the wrong place to interrupt them, and the free tier is limited by project and repository count instead.

Two projects and one connected repository — synced, like everything else. Sync is not what the free tier withholds; the ceilings are.

Everything. No purchase is offered in this build, so every feature and every ceiling is open.

Unlimited projects and repositories, calendar sync, plan-vs-actual analytics and release-notes export. Plans, prices, renewals and cancellation are shown by the app and by Google Play.

Sign in with the same account and it arrives on its own. If the purchase completed but the account did not pick it up, use "Restore purchase" in Settings, which asks the store to replay what you own.

Email [email protected]. Including what you tried and which device you are on gets a useful answer considerably faster.