What Premium unlocks

The paid plan lifts the free limits — here is exactly which ones, what that changes day to day, and what it will cost.

TTM is free and fully unlocked during the beta, so nothing on this page applies yet. It describes the Free plan, and what Premium will lift once the beta ends. What happens to your server when the beta ends is on Free during the beta.

The limits, side by side

These are the planned limits and may be tuned before launch.

Above a Free limit you can’t add more, but nothing already there is deleted or hidden: see Free during the beta.

* A limit set by Discord, not by us. It is the same on every plan: Premium lets you reach it, never go past it. See Known limits.

What each one changes, in practice

Lists in use — 3 → unlimited. Three lists cover a small team: a to-do, a bug list, a checklist for the next event. You reach the limit when every project, squad or meeting wants its own list.

Tasks per list — 20 → 50 *. Twenty tasks make a working checklist, and fifty make a backlog. No plan goes above 50, because a Discord message can hold only a few menus: see Known limits.

Active reminders — 10 → unlimited. The limit counts reminders waiting at the same time, not reminders per day. A reminder stops counting after its last ping or when you remove it, and a repeating one counts once.

Repetitions per reminder — single only → up to 50. On the Free plan every reminder fires once. On Premium a reminder can arrive up to 50 times in total, the first included, if an admin turns on Recurring reminders in Configuration. Recurring reminders you already have keep firing on the Free plan: see Reminders.

People per owner — 1 → up to 25 *. On the Free plan a task’s owner is one person or one role. On Premium it can be up to 25 people, who share a role that TTM creates: see The roles TTM creates. It is Premium because each person costs a Discord request. Discord limits the requests a bot can send, and all its servers share that limit.

Webhooks — no new ones → up to 25 *. A webhook lets a completed task send an HTTP call to anything you run: a deploy, a spreadsheet, a ticket system. It is the main thing Premium adds. See Webhooks. On the Free plan you can’t create new webhooks, but the ones created during the beta stay: see What a beta list keeps.

How the three places work

On the Free plan a server has three places for lists. A list that holds one is in use, and /config lists marks it that way.

• A list takes a place the first time someone works on it, and keeps it. Working on a list means any of these:
  • ticking or unticking a task;
  • a bulk update, or editing or removing a single task;
  • Clean list or Reopen all;
  • setting an owner, a tag or a reminder;
  • linking a webhook.
• A new list takes a place when you create, clone or import it. Regenerating a list counts as working on it.
• A place doesn’t expire. Only sealing or deleting the list frees it.
• A list that isn’t in use stays in the channel as it is. You can still download it, seal it or delete it.

Lists created during the beta are the exception: their tasks can still be ticked without a place. See What a beta list keeps.

What happens to a fourth list

When all three places are taken, TTM refuses to create, clone or import another list. It also refuses to work on a list that isn’t in use. The bot tells you how to free a place:

• Seal list, in the More panel of a list you’re done with. The list stays in the channel as a record, without buttons.
• Delete list, in the same panel. It removes the list permanently.
• /config lists, which marks the lists in use and can seal or delete several at once.

Why there’s a paid plan

We’re a small independent team, and we want to share what we’ve built with as many communities as we can. That’s why the Free plan is hosted by us and stays free, forever. So here, plainly, is where the Premium money goes.

Running TTM has costs, and they grow with every server that uses it:

• the machines it runs on;
• the database and its backups;
• the share of every payment that Discord keeps for handling the subscriptions.

But the biggest cost never shows up on an invoice: it’s our time. It goes into new features and fixes, one update after another, and into answering your questions in the community.

Hosting your server, by itself, costs us very little: a single Premium server covers the hosting of many free ones. That’s why the Free plan can last, and why we will never switch the bot off to make you pay.

What Premium really pays for is the rest: our work. It’s for the servers that need more: unlimited lists and reminders, recurring reminders, webhooks, several people per owner. And everyone benefits: every fix and every update reaches the Free plan too.

On the Free plan or on Premium, the work of running TTM is ours. If you’d rather take it on yourself, you can, with every Premium feature unlocked: see Rather run it yourself? below.

What it will cost

One price for the whole server, with no cost per member. The annual plan is the same product: it costs less because you pay for a whole year up front, not because it gives you more.

Planned prices, not final until the beta ends.

When the beta ends, we’ll open a Founder offer for the servers that came early: a full year at roughly half price, as a thank-you.

Rather run it yourself?

You can, and this is the point: you’ll never be trapped. The executable and its configuration will be available on our Discord server shortly before the beta ends. You download them and run TTM on your own machine. It is free forever, with every Premium feature unlocked, and every update is published there.

What “free forever” covers. You can run TTM for as long as you like, at no cost, for yourself, your community or your own company. It doesn’t cover offering TTM to other people as a service, or passing the executable on to someone else. The terms are in the self-hosting licence, which you accept before you get the package: read it before you decide.

Questions?

Join the Discord and ask us anything about pricing, the limits or self-hosting.