Two Design products. Different launch trajectories. Different engagement profiles. The side-by-side below covers the metrics that matter.
Side-by-side comparison of Amie and Layers based on community engagement data.
The joyful productivity app
A home for designers
Two Design products. Different launch trajectories. Different engagement profiles. The side-by-side below covers the metrics that matter.
| Category | Amie | Layers |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar | Yes | - |
| Community | - | Yes |
| Design | Yes | Yes |
| Design Tools | - | Yes |
| Productivity | Yes | - |
Great product. Congrats on the launch team!
Woww. great to see. www.thericepuritytest.org
Been hyping this app that has loads of promises but still lacks features for a total switch. Fantastical is still my to-go, even though Amie looks and feels nicer. Mainly because doesn't have support for multi accounts, and have plenty on Fantastical 😅
I'm super excited to finally be launching Layers on Product Hunt! 🚀 Layers started out as a passion project of mine after seeing so many designers dissatisfied with existing design platforms. Realising that I too had given up on these platforms I decided to build my own. It's a dream working on Laye...
Congratulations to @liampmccabe i loved it
Congrats, the website looks amazing @liampmccabe
Amie leads on raw interest score. Amie leads on engagement ratio. Amie leads on both metrics. That doesn't happen often.
These products share 1 categories: Design. Moderate overlap suggests they target related but distinct use cases.
Amie is also tagged in Calendar, Productivity, which Layers isn't. That suggests Amie positions itself more broadly or targets an adjacent audience.
Layers has unique category tags in Community, Design Tools. Different positioning can mean a different buyer profile, even within the same space.
Amie launched Mar 2022. Layers launched Feb 2024. Amie has had more time to iterate and build a user base. Layers had the advantage of launching into a more defined market with clearer user expectations.
Amie has a 0.25 engagement ratio (average), based on 306 discussion threads across 1,230 interest points. Middle of the pack for Design. Enough discussion to suggest real usage, but not the kind of buzz that indicates a category-defining product.
Layers has a 0.18 engagement ratio (average), based on 214 discussions across 1,168 interest points. Average engagement for the category. Solid but not exceptional.
Within the Design category (274 total products), Amie ranks #1 and Layers ranks #2 by interest score. Amie sits in the top 10 for the category.
Amie is in the top 0% of Design by interest. Layers is in the top 1%.
Pick Amie if you want the product with the larger community behind it; sustained discussion and active users are your priority; you value stability and a longer track record; you need something that also covers Calendar.
Pick Layers if community size matters less to you than engagement depth; you prefer newer tools with fresher tech; you need something that also covers Design Tools.
Amie: The joyful productivity app. Schedule time for todos, events, and contacts.
Layers: Layers is a design community platform built by designers for designers ❤️ Share your work, connect with other designers and build your portfolio.
These products also compete in the Design category:
AnyoneCanAI — A simpler & faster way of creating valuable products with AI (Interest: 643, Engagement: 0.19)
10x Designers — Expand your skillset (Interest: 607, Engagement: 0.25)
html.to.design — Convert any website into fully editable Figma designs (Interest: 506, Engagement: 0.31)
Routine Calendar — The calendar of the 21st century professionals (Interest: 444, Engagement: 0.17)
Fey 2.0 — Make better investments (Interest: 391, Engagement: 0.21)
Figura — Hire vetted designers on demand without breaking your bank (Interest: 337, Engagement: 0.45)
No. Interest is launch-day attention. Engagement ratio is a better quality signal. The product with more discussions per interest point usually has stronger product-market fit.
How directly these products compete. Three or more shared categories means they're going after the same user. One shared category means they approach the space from different angles. Zero overlap and they probably shouldn't be compared.
Comparisons are generated automatically when two products have enough data overlap. If the pair you want isn't here, the products might be in different categories or too far apart in engagement.
Either the product didn't meet our engagement threshold, or it doesn't share enough category tags with the other product to generate a meaningful comparison. We'd rather show no comparison than a misleading one.
Each product's data reflects its launch period. The comparison shows both products' engagement metrics from when they launched. The build date at the bottom of the page shows when the index was last refreshed.
Not yet. Current comparisons use launch-period data only. Post-launch tracking is on our roadmap.