DoneThat vs Littlebird

The short answer

Littlebird is an assistant that happens to have memory. DoneThat is a work record that happens to have an assistant.

Both watch your screen. Littlebird uses what it sees to answer questions, take your meeting notes and brief you on a schedule. DoneThat uses it to reconstruct where your time went and coach you against your goals. If your problem is "I need help with the work", Littlebird. If it is "I do not know where my week went", DoneThat.

What Littlebird does well

Meeting notes. Automatic, and it is the most requested capability in this category. DoneThat has audio understanding but does not compete with a purpose-built meeting notetaker.

Platform coverage. macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon, Windows, iOS and Android. That is the widest in the AI-memory category, and mobile is something DoneThat does not have at all.

The Hummingbird overlay. The assistant sits on top of whatever application you are in rather than in a separate window. It sounds small; in practice, whether an assistant is one keystroke away or one context-switch away changes how much you use it.

Scheduled routines and briefings. It surfaces things on a cadence rather than waiting to be asked, which is a genuinely proactive behaviour and rarer than the marketing in this space suggests.

A serious compliance posture. SOC 2 certified, GDPR and CCPA compliant, with explicit commitments that data is not used for model training or sold, and user-controlled access and deletion. For anyone who has to clear a tool with a security team, that is not a footnote.

Where the models differ

What the memory is for. Littlebird's memory serves the assistant — it exists so the chat has context and the briefings are relevant. DoneThat's record serves you directly: it is a reconstruction of your work that you read, correct, and set goals against. One is infrastructure for a chatbot; the other is the product.

Time. Littlebird will not tell you that you spent nine hours in recurring meetings this week, because it is not reconstructing your time. That is the question DoneThat is built to answer.

Coaching versus assisting. Don nudges you onto goals, blocks calendar time for them, flags low-value work while you can still fix it, checks your mood, reminds you of meetings and suggests breaks. Littlebird's proactivity is informational — briefings and notes — rather than corrective.

Data location

A real difference worth weighing rather than sloganeering about.

Littlebird is cloud-based: encrypted data stored on AWS servers, with no fully local or offline mode. Against that: SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, no training on your data, deletion on request.

DoneThat's position: screenshots are never stored — processed in real time, deleted immediately, only derived structured activity persists. Apps you exclude are redacted on your machine before anything is sent. With your own Gemini or OpenAI-compatible model, raw activity never reaches our servers at all. The desktop app is open source.

If your requirement is a formal compliance certification, Littlebird has one and we should not pretend otherwise. If it is minimising what leaves your machine in the first place, the BYO-model path is the stronger answer.

Pricing

Littlebird has a free tier, and lists Plus at $15 per month for verified students with the first two months free. Standard paid pricing is not published on the site, so you will need to go through signup to see it. Verified 11 August 2026.

DoneThat is subscription-based with a 14-day free trial; current prices are on the DoneThat download page.

Platform support

Note the Apple Silicon requirement — Intel Macs are out.

Where Littlebird is the better choice

• Meeting notes are the job. Purpose-built, and better at it than we are.
• You need mobile. iOS and Android; DoneThat has neither.
• You want an assistant overlay available inside whatever app you are in.
• Your security team needs a certification. SOC 2 is a real answer to a real question.
• You want briefings on a schedule rather than a coach with opinions.

Where DoneThat is the better choice

• You are on Linux, or an Intel Mac.
• You want to know where your time went. Littlebird is not reconstructing it.
• You want goals and coaching, not information delivery.
• You want other AI tools to query your history. MCP and an API expose it as long-term memory; Littlebird keeps its memory for its own assistant.
• You want no screenshot archive and the option to keep raw activity off vendor servers entirely.
• You want peer accountability. Follow others, share summaries, Slack and Discord, accountability groups — all opt-in.

Can you run both?

Yes, and the overlap is smaller than it first appears. Littlebird for meetings and in-the-moment assistance, DoneThat for the record of the work and the coaching on top of it. Both run background capture, though, so it is worth deciding whether you want two products watching the same screen before committing.

How we compared these

Everything stated about Littlebird comes from its public site, read on 11 August 2026 and linked below. Standard pricing is not quoted because it is not published; the student figure is.

Claims about DoneThat are first-hand: we build it. Littlebird's meeting notes, mobile apps and SOC 2 certification are all things we do not have, and they are stated plainly above.

Questions people ask about Littlebird

What does Littlebird actually do?

It is a personal AI assistant that learns from watching your screen, sitting in your meetings and connecting to your tools. You get an AI chat with context about your work, automatic meeting notes, scheduled briefings, and an overlay called Hummingbird that works across applications.

Where does Littlebird store my data?

Encrypted on AWS servers. The company is SOC 2 certified and GDPR and CCPA compliant, states that data is never used for model training or sold, and lets you control access and delete data at any time. There is no fully local or offline mode.

Does Littlebird track my time?

Not in the sense a time tracker does. It builds memory and context for an assistant rather than reconstructing where your hours went. If the question you want answered is 'what did I spend this week on', that is a different product.

Littlebird vs DoneThat?

Littlebird if you want an assistant with meeting notes and cross-device coverage including mobile. DoneThat if you want work reconstruction, coaching against goals, and history that other AI tools can query through MCP. Littlebird has the broader platform support; DoneThat has Linux and the coaching layer.